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I am so cranky today. No, there is no reason for it. Or rather, there are many trivial reasons for it and no good ones. It is your responsibility to cheer me up in the comments. I DARE YOU.

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Date: 2007-02-20 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Ah, yes. I'd seen that, but it made me smile again. Nicely done! :-)

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] susansugarspun.livejournal.com
Marsupials are usually a safe bet for making people smile.

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Date: 2007-02-20 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jennreese.livejournal.com
I can't wait to read your book! If I had to choose between getting an advance copy of your book or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I would choose your book without hesitation. :)

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Wow, thanks! The only appropriate response to that would seem to be to look at my shoes and say "Aw shucks," so picture me doing so.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gregvaneekhout.livejournal.com
I just named my kid after you.

Well, okay, I don't have a kid, so I named someone else's kid after you.

It wasn't a kid I know. It was some stranger's kid.

I didn't actually tell the stranger or the kid that I'd named the kid after you.

Now there's some kid whose name is Dave and doesn't even know it.

Unless the kid is already named Dave. In that case, presumably, the kid would know his name is Dave, but he wouldn't know why.

Aw, you're welcome!

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Really, just knowing that the son of my heart is out there helps. Ha!

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
I love the construction dudes blokes prancing around and going "It's a lady's car! It's a lady's car!"

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com
There's just something abut crushing vehicles with heavy equipment that makes my heart sing.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com
Check yer email.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Awwwww Corgi!

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
I'm not understanding why I should help you be less cranky. I say, relish the crankiness. GLORY IN ITS AWESOMENESS.

Also, make sure you read Barth's post about Isaiah from yesterday. No one can be cranky after that.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
But being cranky sucks! I don't want it.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
Clearly you didn't read the Isaiah story, or it would have fixed that.

Alternately, kick things. preferably things which will make noise but not injure you.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
I read it, again. There's a law of diminishing returns.

I'm not going to kick anything while I'm not wearing shoes.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
Man, I'm starting to think you don't want to be happy. maybe you need some hurt/comfort manpain/manlove fic to fix you.

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Date: 2007-02-20 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
No really, I'll be fine.

Your fingers say no, but your heart says yes.

Date: 2007-02-20 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
I don't know...That doesn't sound sincere. i think maybe you're just saying that so you appear strong and manly, but sekritly, you want me to understand that you *do* need the fic.
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
See? This is how romance novels are destroying our culture!
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
You only say that because you didn't read Meg's book! Romance is nothing, it's machine porn that you need to fear.
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Megwha?

Machine porn. Check. [Adds machine porn to list of fears, right under "hospitals" and "them what love men in Speedos."]
From: [identity profile] megmccarron.livejournal.com
I didn't write the book but it belongs to me. Nick bought it for me. someone becomes "a raping machine." but we think "rape" stands in for "fuck" in this scifi world. sadly.
From: [identity profile] megmccarron.livejournal.com
to clarify, it stands in for "fuck" as its function as a curse word, not, you know, the activity. I hope.

Yeah, teh book was dedicated to his shrink first, then his wife...
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
So Hollywood! (The dedication, I mean. Not the raping. However it's defined. Yeesh!)
From: [identity profile] tanaise.livejournal.com
But he's got boy (machine) parts! So it could be true.
From: [identity profile] rudi.livejournal.com
I don't know.

When faced with seemingly intractable problems I often ask myself "what would a rugged-but-sensitive time-traveling Scotsman or vampire avatar of King Arthur from one of those books Celia reads do?"

And then I don't do that.

It's surprisingly helpful.

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Date: 2007-02-21 12:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/
I told J you were cranky and now I am turning over the keyboard to him:

---

hello dave

i wochd a kortoon kalld kandy montin

---

(That's all he wanted to tell you. Hope it helps. Jeremiah says, "It's sad when the unicorns take Charlie's kidney! But it's also funny.")

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Date: 2007-02-21 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] megmccarron.livejournal.com
let's see what he says when they take his kidney!

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Date: 2007-02-21 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Ha! Tell him thanks :-) I thought he was so tired of candy mountain! I guess he's come around. I'm sure there is no gloating going on there in your house, at all.

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Date: 2007-02-21 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/
When he decided Candy Mountain was funny after all, he actually went and whispered it to Par, because he didn't want me to know he'd switched allegiance. By now, though, the cat's out of the bag.

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Date: 2007-02-21 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/
(Cat is out of bag mainly because Par gloated, yeah)

things to cheer you up

Date: 2007-02-21 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] megmccarron.livejournal.com
I'll be your beard if you'll be mine?

Re: things to cheer you up

Date: 2007-02-21 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Say the word, I'll be there!

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Date: 2007-02-21 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bondgwendabond.livejournal.com
Keith is sheriff. Also, picking a random selection from Eduardo Galeano's Book of Embraces always cheers me up (in an odd way), so something toward the end, in case the need is dire:

FINGERPRINTS

I was born and raised under the stars of the Southern Cross.

Wherever I go, they follow me. Under the sparkling Southern Cross, I live out the stages of my fate.

I have no god. If I had one, I would beseech him not to let me meet death, not yet. I still have a long way to go. There are moons at which I have not yet howled and suns which have not yet set me alight. I have still not swum in all the seas of the world, of which they say there are seven, nor in all the rivers of Paradise, of which they say there are four.

In Montevideo a child explains:
"I never want to die, because I want to play forever."

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Date: 2007-02-21 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Yeah, he is, but damn. That was harsh. (Particularly having "I smell bread" be Lamb's last words. I'm seeing concussion stuff everywhere lately, it's weird.)

Thanks for the excerpt; I like that a lot.

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Date: 2007-02-21 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bondgwendabond.livejournal.com
Oh, good. I never know if that stuff is just depressing to everyone else. The thing I love about that book is how it's about all the bad shit AND all the marvelous things too.

It's sort of like the intended version of the unintended effect of Patsy Cline: No matter how sad I am when I listen to Patsy, I'm not as sad as Patsy. Plus, singing along is fun. (Except for anyone in earshot.)

(Funny and fun aren't the same thing in this particular scenario.)

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Date: 2007-02-21 04:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
I totally getcha. That is one of Xander's most relatable scenes. (Well, OK, he wasn't singing, but you know what I mean.)

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Date: 2007-02-21 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bondgwendabond.livejournal.com
Wow, I had totally forgotten about the Xander scene. I need to go back and rewatch.

if this doesn't cheer you up...

Date: 2007-02-21 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scribbler38.livejournal.com
No matter how often I've seen this, it kills me every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6BnxJd6-wo

Re: if this doesn't cheer you up...

Date: 2007-02-21 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Ha! That's awesome.

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Date: 2007-02-21 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haddayr.livejournal.com
I'll bet I'm crankier than you are, fucker!

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Date: 2007-02-21 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
Well, that was yesterday. So, no bet :-)

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Date: 2007-02-21 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haddayr.livejournal.com
I was pretty cranky yesterday, too.

I think I'm in IM withdrawal.

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Date: 2007-02-24 04:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] used_songs
I'm coming way late to this, but I thought I'd show you an elephant! :)

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Date: 2007-02-24 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
That's a sure-fire mood improver :-) Thanks!

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