perhaps i've been reading/writing too much fanfic?

[nouveau_monday]

1. I have far too many things I want to or am currently writing. And I love them all. but that means slow going. Fortunately one of them is delayed by waiting on a friend to send me something, so at least i don't have to prioritize that. and two of the others are ... complicated. but one of these things is an original idea, and it has a a deadline. I need to get on that as priority 1, possibly priorities 1 through 8.

2. I am reading Lord of the Flies with one of my groups of students. We are discussing sanity/insanity and who decides how those terms are defined. That would not be the point. The point would be that Ralph and Jack look at each other with a love and hate that they aren't quite sure how to handle. And in my head I'm laughing my fool head off because hello, how can you not slash Ralph and Jack. *puts head in hands* I'm going to hell. It doesn't help that my students are all, "Wait a minute, Miss. They're on an island with no bitches? How they gonna live?" So after we discuss appropriate language and finding a different word choice that isn't 'bitches', we come back to their real question of being 16 year old boys without females on the island. The obvious answer is slash! And my students, bless their little pervy hearts, kick at each others ankles and whisper to each other (thinking I won't hear them) it's like in lock up, you gotta be careful of when you drop the soap.

3. I'm getting all clingy for contact and find myself leaking separate bits of me into the wrong segments of my fractured life. That will only make sense to a handful of you, but that's okay. In the end it means that my family is leaking into my school, my school is leaking into my writing, my writing is leaking into my non-fic writing life, and then it all goes a bit cross-eyed and i get needy and need people to pet me and tell me it will all be okay even if they only know a part of me.

4. Okay, that's enough. I needed to document this moment, primarily, i think for the Lord of the Flies slash moment, because for real? i went there. and what's more? i'm positive i'm not the only one. it's not like i slashed thing1 and thing2 or something.

Comments

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

You're a teacher? =)

Uh. ::pets you and tells you it'll all be okay:: ♥

OMG, I love Good Eats.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

*laughs* i am a teacher. *points you to all those times i've referred to myself as an old woman @ 32 - fairly certain that's because i teach people not much younger than you*

i love Good Eats as well.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

::blushes:: I'm not sure I've ever mentioned my insane level of obliviousness. And since I feel the need to say this anytime anyone under 60 says they're old. . .You're not old! =D

Alton Brown is so FTW! I have like two of his cook books. I think one of them is signed. I'm such a dork, I love people on the Food Network and CNN anchors.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

i have a signed AB cookbook as well. i'm apparently a dork right along side you.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

Yay! =D

I feel more dorky about the CNN thing than the AB thing. I used to love CNN so much I wanted to work there. I still kind of do, but being on camera would freak me out so, I'll stick to what I want to do now.

I'll stop rambling now. =D

[ladysonsie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Prob. not the best time to tell you I finally had gathered the courage to see if you wanted to write together, huh? haha. :D

How 'bout you finish your deadline piece and the complicated one and whenever you have a break or are in the mood perhaps we can try. Or not. Whatever works for you babe - just let me know.

I love that you slashed Lord of the Flies. Totally makes sense in my head. hee.

*hugs your needy self super hard*

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

are you kidding? TOTALLY the time to tell me you want to write with me! the deadline piece is december 1st, i've got awhile on that. i love/hate everything i'm writing, so throw me something else. i write this for the interactive experience of it all. let's interact! (how's that for a cheesy pick up line?)

i will find more quotes from Lord of the Flies, but that love/hate one? yeah, almost a direct quote.

ps. where is that icon of yours from? i love it.

[ladysonsie.livejournal.com]

More Tori! It's from the song "Silent All These Years" -

Well, I love the way we communicate
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shape
Let's hear what you think of me now
But baby don't look up
The sky is falling

I have a bunch from that song including this one. *points*

Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?
My dog won't bite if you sit real still
I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again
Yeah, I can hear that

God, I could listen to her all day.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

I know some tori, but not a lot. i'm more likely to recognize it by hearing it, than i ever would the lyrics. i really do have icon envy for your icons, but i'd probably feel hypocritical because i like the sentiment but don't *KNOW* tori... if that makes sense?

[ladysonsie.livejournal.com]

It makes perfect sense but don't feel hypocritical. I meant to tell you that you can snag some if you want - I know you like the circus one. I mean, I know the songs they come from but for instance the reason I love the lip one is it makes me think of the boys and that thing Van does so it's not all about the seriousness of the lyrics. :D

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

Oh and I didn't see the end of your post, but someone so should slash thing1 and thing2. =D

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

ummm.... NO.















because they scare me.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

Really? I think I might have played one of them in a school play a long time ago.

I think the Cat is kind of creepy, but I think that's mostly because when my dad shaves off his mustache he kind of looks like him. (Don't ask, it only makes sense if you've met my dad, which. . .you probably haven't.)

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

probably not, unless he works in springfield or holyoke, MA.


the cat is SUPREMELY creepy. *shudders* but things !&2 always gave me the heebie jeebies.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

Nope. I've been to both of those places many times though! :D I used to be up in West Springfield every weekend or every other weekend. Springfield was less often, but still a lot.

Inorite? The whole book is kind of creepy, really.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

the book is seriously creepy, but like Little Red Riding Hood, it certainly warns kids about the dangers of strangers.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

I never thought of it that way. Hmm.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly passionate about fairy tales. that's where i become a geek.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

I like fairytales. =D

Have you ever read the original (er, I think it's the original) version of The Little Mermaid? Creepy!

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

i have. i took a whole course in college on fairy tales and gender. it was inccredible.

[forbiddenromanc.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome! =D

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

yep. Smith's money @ work. :)

[sweetiejelly.livejournal.com]

So I'm actually commenting on the comments to this :D But I totally love Good Eats too! I've really missed AB's GE show when they moved it from our dinner time spot. :p

And also? Totally internally squeeing that you and ladysonsie are gonna co-write! *bounces from the excitement* :D

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

i thinmk a lot of us love AB. he's so wonderfully nerdy.

[katomyte.livejournal.com]

1) alton brown is adorkable

2) I'm sorry for the fractured life. I hate that feeling.

[nouveau-monday.livejournal.com]

but thank you for understanding it.