nextian: Clubs Deuce from Homestuck gnawing on a can. (hungry hungry carapaces)Emma ([personal profile] nextian) wrote,
@ 2011-04-11 09:25 am UTC
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Entry tags:rl: all-nighter moonlighter, rl: bright college years
You know, I know that I used to be an innocent, charming young girl; fluttery white skirts, singing with birds, loving life's little pleasures. I just don't remember it. It's been a long slow nervous breakdown into my current state of curmudgeonly distaste for everything, but I didn't really realize how bad it had gotten until yesterday I was complaining to myself, "It's bad enough to be woken with the smell of freshly-cut grass, but do I actually have to touch all these cookies fresh out of the oven?!"

It's mostly thesis. I'm responding to everything with a beautiful irrationality. I woke up this morning laughing at myself for the fact that I seem to be literally writing all the imagination out of me, because the dream I'd just had consisted of a conversation about contexts in which it is insulting to be asked "Are you Jewish?" Hilariously boring! It took me a good ten more minutes to remember that that conversation had taken place in space in the aftermath of the first battle of the wars against the space whales, which I had sat out due to my secret Magical Girl heritage as the princess of, I am not kidding, Yale, interfering with the space drugs we were supposed to take to make us fight.


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anekdot: (do not block fire exit)

long comment is long


[personal profile] anekdot
2011-04-11 05:56 pm UTC (link)
First person to write the US colleges Magical Girl AU gets my internet babies. FIVE COLLEGE CONSORTIUM POWER, TRANSFORM!

You are my favorite horrifying curmudgeon, and I am at least relieved that I am not the only one who cringes at the sight of joy and happiness.

I've apparently become a person where it's totally normal in my mind to nod off in nationalism class, wake up at intervals to explain the reactionary nationalism of Meiji Japan, and then nod off again with my duty discharged. I am like the horrifying elder god of imperialism. IN THE DEEPS, DREAD SARES SLEEPS, WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT NATIONALISM THAT IS WRONG.

Also also, today my Fonetika class was canceled, so I went to sleep on the couch in the lounge, and apparently I am so compact when I curl up that this guy literally did not realize I was a human being and not a pile of sweatshirts and tried to throw his jacket onto me before Ana stopped him. \o/

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nextian: A Japanese woodcut of Commodore Perry, looking astonishingly hideous and making a "what?" face. (perry say whut)

Re: long comment is long


[personal profile] nextian
2011-04-11 07:38 pm UTC (link)
You kind of are a horrifying elder god of imperialism. The tiny, tiny elder god of imperialism. Can you come to my thesis defense and just devour my readers one by one as they question the theoretical underpinnings of Kramer's analysis of colonial racism?

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[personal profile] spintheiryarns
2011-04-11 07:29 pm UTC (link)
I haven't talked to you in a while but FYI YOU ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU, PLEASE DO NOT DIE OF THESIS OK

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nextian: A woman in a sari with her arms outstretched, plus a floating text heart. (hearts and bones)


[personal profile] nextian
2011-04-11 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Aww, I miss you, Yarns! I'LL DO MY BEST, THANK YOU FOR THIS ♥ ♥

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spintheiryarns: (this city is afraid of me)


[personal profile] spintheiryarns
2011-04-11 07:38 pm UTC (link)
FYI I HAVE WRITTEN ALL KINDS OF FUN LORD PETER FIC YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO READING WHEN YOU HAVE TIME AGAIN

NOT THAT I AM THE MOST EGOCENTRIC PERSON ON EARTH OR ANYTHING

♥ ♥ ♥

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[identity profile] demonic9yearold.livejournal.com
2011-04-11 09:30 pm UTC (link)
You know how I love your curmudgeonly distaste for everything. (Every now and again, it's like I wake up--not literally, but, you know, step into sense of a different reality, like--and realize that I miss you horribly. Horribly.)

From what I hear, this thesis shit is no fun. But it is also a temporary state of being, and shall pass. And then it will be back to springtime and roses again, or, even better, sleeping right on through all of that nonsense.

Fortitude, mon frére.

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nextian: Katara looking sheepish. (^^;;)


[personal profile] nextian
2011-04-12 02:59 am UTC (link)
Thanks, ma petite. I'll soldier through somehow. And I miss you like you wouldn't believe. I wake up days going "Oh I know I should call ... oh." and then it's RIGHT BACK INTO THE SLOUGH OF SADNESS.

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batyatoon: (mightier than the sword, tabula rasa)


[personal profile] batyatoon
2011-04-12 02:30 am UTC (link)
"It's bad enough to be woken with the smell of freshly-cut grass, but do I actually have to touch all these cookies fresh out of the oven?!"

*giggling* *sympathetically! for reals!*

This reminds me of the day I came home in the foulest mood ever and had the following conversation:

Me: I hate everything.
Alex: Everything?
Me: Everything.
Alex: Even kittens?
Me: YES. I HATE KITTENS. AND FREEDOM.

*hugs*

(Also that is a conversation I would be interested in!)

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nextian: Black Canary with a big grin. (canary grin)


[personal profile] nextian
2011-04-12 02:58 am UTC (link)
YEAH MAN, FUCK KITTENS AND FREEDOM. *hugs back*

(It was a dream conversation, so the opinions herein expressed are the property of my subconscious and not the people I imagined saying them, but it starred [personal profile] marina (played by Kelly from Misfits, IDEK) and an imaginary New Yorker acquaintance of mine. The New Yorker and I were sitting at one table and Marina and her friend at another. NYer expressed the opinion that being asked if you were Jewish was a) an invasion of privacy, and b) always seemed to be followed up with "I knew it! You just look Jewish!" which is obnoxious and exoticizing. Marina leaned over and said, "Excuse me, are you American?" NYer conceded as how she was. Marina said, "I'm sorry, it's just such an American idea that you might want people not to ask if you're Jewish. I wish people would ask if I was. It's not even that I'm not Jewish, because I am, but it's just that everyone assumes the default and you get really tired of that shit. My Jewishness is not your Jewishness."

The girl across from her, who was a Christian Israeli with a Cockney accent, agreed with that assessment, and we launched into a conversation about global versus local defaults and ethnicity and identification, and most of it didn't actually exist because I was waking up.)

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batyatoon: (mightier than the sword, tabula rasa)


[personal profile] batyatoon
2011-04-12 03:21 am UTC (link)
Wow, your subconscious is a LOT more coherent than mine.

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