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[solafiamma]

I am having a ridiculously hard time posting in lj these days. I think it's sort of a combination of sudden acute shyness and, um. Well, maybe just the shyness thing. Which is pretty silly. It's not like I'm so very shy in real life. Except, you know, in the way that I kind of am. Except when I'm kind of not. Yes. Well.

On the other hand, there's always the possibility that I have a hard time posting because I'm afraid I'll sound like a blethering idiot. Case in point.

Leaping briskly to another topic, on an oh-how-the-world-must-hate-me note, this morning my eye makeup disappeared at almost the exact moment the hair dryer died, which was, sadly, the exact moment that I needed to style my hair. For years and years I've sported a handy dandy wash-and-wear do, because really, who has the time to futz about with blowing and drying and styling and fooling around with all manner of product when three minutes with a towel will do just as nicely? Several months ago, though, my hairdresser talked me into something that she tactfully described requiring "just a little bit more effort." It also, apparently, requires a functional blow dryer if a person doesn't want to arrive at work looking like she's styled her hair with a hockey stick and a weed wacker, but there you go. The sadness is not to be borne.

I console myself by counting the minutes to the seasone finale of Prison Break and Grey's Anatomy. Not that GA is actually a particular favourite, but my sister and daughter are both quite fond of it, so I've been sucked in AGAINST MY WILL!! It's NOT MY FAULT!!

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[callsigns.livejournal.com]

Don't be shy! You're smart and interesting, even when you think you're dumb and boring!


When is your MCR fic going to materialize, dammit? You know I saw them on Friday. You know I've been CONVERTED, right?

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

Not that GA is actually a particular favourite, but my sister and daughter are both quite fond of it, so I've been sucked in AGAINST MY WILL!! It's NOT MY FAULT!!

*clutches* I didn't care that much until they introduced DENNY! And now he's my whole world and if anything happens, I'll be forced to stop watching because I don't give a flying fuck about ANYONE on that show except for Denny! I'm feeling ridiculously over-manipulated!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

there's always the possibility that I have a hard time posting because I'm afraid I'll sound like a blethering idiot.

Sounding like an idiot has never stopped me from posting a LJ entry... okay, maybe once or twice (or a million times). I still sound like an idiot most of the time, though ;-).

[pensnest]

Yebbut... it'd be nice to get to know you a bit better. So, post!

Hairdressers are like that. I, too, was persuaded into a style which required actual input from me to make it look good. Needless to say, that doesn't happen very often.

[turlough]

my hairdresser talked me into something that she tactfully described requiring "just a little bit more effort."

Hairdressers are evil!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Isn't LJ made for posts where you sound like a blethering idiot? I know mine are ;)

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

It's not even so much that I think I'm dumb and boring, because mostly I don't. Well, not dumb, anyway. :) The shyness is kind of like hives; it just pops up and wreaks its unsightly havoc and then fades away. Eventually. While it's here, I don't post because, hello, shy and then when it's gone I don't post because OMG it's been SO LONG since I posted, WHAT DO I SAY??!!? And then I get shy again, so, yeah. More no posting. It's a vicious, vicious circle. Apparently, I'm neurotic as hell. It's a curse.

You SAW them? Oh, man. I've been away from lj (my self-flagellation for not posting is to also not read other people's posts -- which is stupid beyond stupid, of course, because reading other people's posts would no doubt inspire me to post, but whatev, there's just no accounting for some people's asininity -- so I did not know this. I will have to hie myself over and read your commentary. And as for when I am going to start writing MCR, yes, well. I have a story outlined in one of my two billion notebooks, and now I am panicking about how on earth I'm ever going to be able wade my way through all the existing MCR stories to make sure it hasn't already been written by someone else.

Or, I suppose I could always ask someone.

Sometimes it really hurts to live in my head.

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

Denny is pretty freaking awesome, as is Izzy (say that three times quickly). And George, too, is kind of adorable. I didn't watch it last night, because I was watching 24, but we've taped it for viewing tonight. The previous episode was a bit INSANE with the melodrama, but it hooked me in well and truly, so I have to see what happens now. Grrrr.

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA!! It's for sure a silly thing to worry about. Let's be idiots together! Idiots unite!!

Except that, for the record, you don't, in fact, ever actually sound like an idiot. :)

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

Yebbut... okay, fine. I'll try to suck it up and post more often, because I do love lj. Enormously.

Yeah. Hairdressers. Those silver-tongued devils. What are we to do? I'm thinking a buzz cut might alleviate some of the agony.

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

They are evil incarnate!!! Even when they're really nice and give you mmmmm-to-die-for scalp massages and loan you their books. EBIL!!

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

Hee! You know, I've obviously been missing the entire point of LJ! Quelle dummy! I will proceed forthwith to blether idiotically as frequently as possible.

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

My commentary is actually locked away in damnyouwentz, but I went to the show with clumsygyrl and sandwich_armada, and their recaps are public and better than mine ANYWAY, so you should read theirs. :)

The thing is, it doesn't MATTER if it's been written, because it's never been written by YOU. That story's never been told by you before. Oooh, I'm excited. What pairing is it?

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

I will definitely check out their recaps. I've resisted joining damnyouwentz because, OMG, can't even keep up with the communities I currently belong to, and really, one more fandom might do me right in.

I KNOW, but, dude, I live in terror of the great finger of plagiarism being pointed in my innocent direction! ::cringe::

However. There is quite patently WAYYYYY too much fiction for me to ever rummage my way through, and it would appear that a good 90% of it has been written by 13-year olds with no great love of grammar and a fetish for melodrama, so I'll just have to cope with the anxiety.

It's Frank/Gerard. They would be my MCR OTP, I guess, with the odd side of Mikey thrown in, just because. And you? Are you writing in the fandom? And what's your pairing of choice?

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'm not writing in it, I'm just barely beginning to read it! Like, JUST barely. I'm easing in with some nice angsty Gerard/Mikey, because I likes me those standards, but other than tacks' stuff, I can't really find much that's good, so I'm sure I'll be branching into the Frank pairings pretty quick. beatpropx sent me MCR footage discs up the wazoo, so I'm sure the Frank love will overtake me soon. At the moment though, it's all about the hermanos Way for me.

damnyouwentz is a lovely place to be, and we're just now gearing up to do the MCR primer. If you ever want in, say the word. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

Idiots unite!!

Yes! Or to use the title of my journal: Dorks R Us *g*

But I often feel like one ;-).