They will never suspect anything, until the arrows fly!

[blamebrampton]

This morning I left the house roughly on time, and immediately ran into an old friend from 20 years ago right outside my gate. After a 10 minute chat, I left him and continued on.

The very next person I saw was wearing a traditional tin-foil hat.

I knew it was going to be one of those days, and it was.

My friends at work have a book running on how many days I can restrain myself before I bring my archery equipment in. Next Thursday is popular. This is, of course, nonsense. I will poison the teacups of those who exhaust my patience with carefully chosen botanicals that could easily be mistaken for perfectly safe herbs.

Also, for anyone who has ever held fic writers to account saying 'well, if you were a published writer ...', know that if they were published writers there is every chance under the sun they could not spell, count, be in touch with reality, stick to a style guide or commission brief. Fandom people have no idea how lucky they are!

Comments

[momebie.livejournal.com]

I just keep reminding myself that someone at Little Brown is responsible for the editing on Twilight. It makes me feel better about life in general, because it's not me.

[cinnatart.livejournal.com]

Fandom people have no idea how lucky they are!

Amen.

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

You had me at tin-foil hat.

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

Fandom totally would not accept the shit some published authors get away with. And that's a fact. I'd rather (much rather) edit Twilight than the book doc I have open in the other window right now. "Breathe" has been my mantra for those kind of situations.

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

Oh, go with the archery equipment. You can borrow SG, whose Uncle G has been teaching her the rudiments of firing an arrow, and claim that it was all a tragic mishap.

*ponders*

Is there something deeply flawed about my maternal instinct, that I let a drunk welshman hold the tiny baby and a mentally unstable (possibly recovering) drug addict teach the five year old archery, do you think?

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

*sends sympathy, scotch and tea*

♥

[kayoko.livejournal.com]

What an interesting day! Now I'm curious what that person was doing with a tin foil hat. Doesn't it get hot under there?

[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, one of *those* days.

Today I would like the ban the use of the word "media" in any university or vocational education course. I'm doing a project on interactive media, that includes a nation-wide curriculum review. I am so sick of having to filter out all the bloody communications degrees from the computer science and creative industries courses.

Though on an amusing note, I reminds me of a Creative Arts academic who wrote on a draft of a subject outline "The appropriate plural form of medium in this context is media. Mediums is a group of psychics."

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

If I were in your situation, I'd go back home, bury myself under a blanket and scream at the world at large from under it. I had one such day yesterday. Unfortunately, my car had already left the building and I couldn't go back home. So I avenged myself by not doing any work whatsoever for the whole day. It's only fair.