Oh ... bloody hell ...

[blamebrampton]

I just received a lovely review for my hd_holidays  story, and, touched, went to say thank you. 'Actually,' I said to myself, 'I think I am a little behind in thanking people for their generous comments to that story ...'

I had managed to reply to exactly 13 comments. I am the WORST fandom person ever, and apologise profusely, because I am more than aware that I do this all the time. Thank you so much to you kind people who bear with me.

In other Brammers the Barmy news, this happened today at work.

Nice colleague, holding picture of potted agave with long, fuzzy protuberance growing from the top of it: What's this thing?

Brammers' brain: Oooh! How exciting! It's an agave's sexual organ. They grow from four to 12 feet, and see all those fuzzy bits? They're movement sensitive, so they can feel the questing shift of other agave penes in the area, and attach and penetrate each other. It's one of the miracles of nature! The only thing you need to be wary of is that they aren't very good at telling plants from mammals, so make sure you're wearing realy strong trousers whenever you're around it as it's really very strong and it can be a nasty surprise if it gets behind you while you're walking past. If in doubt, two pairs of trous or undies should do it.

Brammers' mouth, for once benefitting from the brain's filter: It's a flower.

Brammers' brain to Brammers: You are NO FUN.

So, off to try and catch up with the 72,316 things I am behind on.

Comments

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

I didn't respond to most of my Worldcup comments for over 6 months - so I am worse than you. :)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You would be, if I had responded to all of mine! XXX

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

You are both awful people!!!!


Actually... when I comment on huge anon fests and it's a month or 6 later when I get a response, it's not so much a 'FINALLY!' as it is a 'oh, how nice! I remember loving that fic. I should read it again!'

I think the author's guilt of not responding is disproportional to the disappointment of the commenter in not getting a response.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

In that case, I hope to be providing a great deal of joy in the next guilt-ridden day.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

FINALLY!!!!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

:-P

(I am just as bad in real life. My friends are SAINTS, I tell you!)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

I am so much worse in rl than on lj!!!

Hmm... I wonder if I still have my friends...

*sends off a few very late emails*

[winterthunder.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. Though, in my case, I only comment on things that I enjoy and then usually proceed to forget to bookmark them for later reccage, so the reply to my comment goes into my "rec" tag on gmail for reccing at some later date.