plague day!
Jan. 8th, 2005 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mylittleredgirlI get a call from my supervisor this morning, all "where ARE you!??" I am all: *blink blink* "Huh?"
There was a whole lot of miscommunication about shift-switching that made my supervisor think that I knew to come in to work for someone else... while I didn't even know this other person's schedule. Oops.
So, I get up and get ready to go to work, full of general unwarranted indignance at the universe. Except ICE IS FALLING FROM THE SKY in large quantities, and a good old-fashioned nor'easter blizzard is just starting, and our road isn't plowed and I don't have four-wheel-drive, etc, raa.
My mother is all "Bring your pajamas in case you have to sleep at the shop!"
Me: dramatic scene of "RETAIL IS NOT WORTH THIS!!" (I specify, because I just spent last night watching the OMG AWESOME Atlantis marathon, and they didn't stop working just because of some inclement weather)
I make plans to post a "If you never hear from me again, I died valiantly on the road and/or am sleeping at Kripalu FOREVER" note to livejournal to share my righteous indignance with everyone. Then my dad comes upstairs and says there's no way in hell he's going to try and make it to the post office, and when my dad refuses to drive somewhere for new NetFlix, you KNOW the weather is bad. And then he tells me all sorts of stuff about how I am doing VEHICULAR SUICIDE, etc.
So I call Sara to tell her about the ICE FALLING FROM THE SKY, and she is all "I AM SO SCREWED! I AM ALL BY MYSELF IN THE SHOP!" since a bunch of people called in sick, too. Meep for Sara. And then she goes "... actually, YOU shouldn't come in to work, because this is highly contagious and you could die with your immune system of uselessnessbecause you have been JAFFA'd." (last part added in homage to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mystic_isles000)
Me: "Meep?" (I checked the weather.com FLU WARNING site, too, and there's a big evil red spot of doom in my region. I will now hide in my room and LIVE IN FEAR, because, omg, I am not going to get an eval virus that will make me have mono again for months and months, NO.)
Apparently, asrpgmaniac666 said and my mother just corroborated, they issued a building-wide EPIDEMIC WARNING that anyone falling sick with this thing has to report it to the security office immediately. All these people in my mom's office got hospitalized for ridiculously high fevers and dehydration, etc., blah, ew. It may be the same plague that amilyn's friends and relations have been keeling over from, or at least an East Coast strain of it... not sure.
So I am on aSnow Plague Day from work.
-- Little Red, who is sure this is more amusingand terrifying eeeeeeeek to her than it is to any of you.
p.s. Atlantis marathon o.m.f.g. so good.
p.p.s. And therefore it is a BIG DILEMMA whether to watch more 'lantis (I really want to see "Suspicion" again now that I am SUCH A TEYLA FANGIRL tm) or to watch new Sex and the City that was acquired from NetFlix before the storm.
p.s.s. I am now all afeared every time I eat something and feel sick. When did I become such a hypochondriac? I always feel sick after eating food. *smacks brain* Clearly, I need new Atlantis fic to distract me.
There was a whole lot of miscommunication about shift-switching that made my supervisor think that I knew to come in to work for someone else... while I didn't even know this other person's schedule. Oops.
So, I get up and get ready to go to work, full of general unwarranted indignance at the universe. Except ICE IS FALLING FROM THE SKY in large quantities, and a good old-fashioned nor'easter blizzard is just starting, and our road isn't plowed and I don't have four-wheel-drive, etc, raa.
My mother is all "Bring your pajamas in case you have to sleep at the shop!"
Me: dramatic scene of "RETAIL IS NOT WORTH THIS!!" (I specify, because I just spent last night watching the OMG AWESOME Atlantis marathon, and they didn't stop working just because of some inclement weather)
I make plans to post a "If you never hear from me again, I died valiantly on the road and/or am sleeping at Kripalu FOREVER" note to livejournal to share my righteous indignance with everyone. Then my dad comes upstairs and says there's no way in hell he's going to try and make it to the post office, and when my dad refuses to drive somewhere for new NetFlix, you KNOW the weather is bad. And then he tells me all sorts of stuff about how I am doing VEHICULAR SUICIDE, etc.
So I call Sara to tell her about the ICE FALLING FROM THE SKY, and she is all "I AM SO SCREWED! I AM ALL BY MYSELF IN THE SHOP!" since a bunch of people called in sick, too. Meep for Sara. And then she goes "... actually, YOU shouldn't come in to work, because this is highly contagious and you could die with your immune system of uselessness
mystic_isles000)Me: "Meep?" (I checked the weather.com FLU WARNING site, too, and there's a big evil red spot of doom in my region. I will now hide in my room and LIVE IN FEAR, because, omg, I am not going to get an eval virus that will make me have mono again for months and months, NO.)
Apparently, as
rpgmaniac666 said and my mother just corroborated, they issued a building-wide EPIDEMIC WARNING that anyone falling sick with this thing has to report it to the security office immediately. All these people in my mom's office got hospitalized for ridiculously high fevers and dehydration, etc., blah, ew. It may be the same plague that amilyn's friends and relations have been keeling over from, or at least an East Coast strain of it... not sure.So I am on a
-- Little Red, who is sure this is more amusing
p.s. Atlantis marathon o.m.f.g. so good.
p.p.s. And therefore it is a BIG DILEMMA whether to watch more 'lantis (I really want to see "Suspicion" again now that I am SUCH A TEYLA FANGIRL tm) or to watch new Sex and the City that was acquired from NetFlix before the storm.
p.s.s. I am now all afeared every time I eat something and feel sick. When did I become such a hypochondriac? I always feel sick after eating food. *smacks brain* Clearly, I need new Atlantis fic to distract me.
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Date: 2005-01-08 04:44 pm (UTC)Yay Atlantis! I vote for the watching of Atlantis. But I'm biased.
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:16 pm (UTC)However, I like the idea of switching back and forth and letting it jumble in my head. Sex and the Floating Ancient City!! *scroll down for episode summary*
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Date: 2005-01-08 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-08 08:17 pm (UTC)Yet another reason why she will blow Ford's mind. When he grows up and deserves it more. :)
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Date: 2005-01-08 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-08 05:07 pm (UTC)badmovie Unbreakable and OMG YOU HAVE COSMICALLY STOLEN MY IMMUNE SYSTEM!!!Or you're just too evil.
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Date: 2005-01-08 05:14 pm (UTC)Clearly, I need new Atlantis fic to distract me.
*hides new Atlantis fic*
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Date: 2005-01-08 05:15 pm (UTC)And... er... mebbe your eval sinus infections are your ONE WEAKNESS!
like teh kryptonite of teh nostrils?no subject
Date: 2005-01-08 05:20 pm (UTC)And I'm hiding the fic until it's done. Or at least until I figure out exactly what I want to do with the self defense scenario. It may turn out longer than I was expecting, and may also encompass the events of "Hot Zone".
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Date: 2005-01-08 05:29 pm (UTC)WRITE IT OMG! :-D :-D :-D
I have a whole myriad of Anna-comments to reply to (was unable to logically converse online while watching Atlantis marathon last night, you understand), in which I think that fic may have been discussed, but omg totally write it! Eeee! :)
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Date: 2005-01-08 05:11 pm (UTC)*sends our Killing Dogs after eval diseases, ofmg*
The marathon ROCKED despite the fact that I couldn't see it and I fell asleep during it...errr...
WATCH MORE 'LANTIS!!! ...AND SEX AND THE CITY! :is torn as well:
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:22 pm (UTC)Marathon soooooo coooooool... omfg. There is *so* much stuff in the early eps that I wasn't paying attention to at the time. Or, like, didn't even care about, like how poor Teyla is totally an afterthought in both the script and the direction in the first half of the season. *IS SUCH A FANGIRL EEEK*
TORN!! My mommy will watch Sex and the City with me, so I think I will be watching that sometime soon. (yes, she is why I put "please don't read this if you are my parents... and if you do... don't tell me..." warnings on my smutty fanfics) And I'm still riding the high from the marathon...
OMG. SO MANY UNFINISHED FICS. *FEARS*
boo for weather & plague, but yay for staying home!
Date: 2005-01-08 05:23 pm (UTC)Hahahahahaha!
I mean, watch Atlantis!
Sex and the <s>Floating</s> <s>Ancient</s> City!!1!
Date: 2005-01-08 05:41 pm (UTC)Re: Sex and the Floating Ancient City!!1!
Date: 2005-01-08 06:00 pm (UTC)Yes. Like that. OMG.
heeeee.
Date: 2005-01-08 06:11 pm (UTC)But that would be a totally wonderful and hilarious AU. "If Atlantis Was Produced By HBO."
Re: Sex and the <s>Floating</s> <s>Ancient</s> City!!1!
Date: 2005-01-08 08:10 pm (UTC)that's great!
Re: Sex and the <s>Floating</s> <s>Ancient</s> City!!1!
Date: 2005-01-09 12:33 am (UTC)And what about the shoes, the shoes.. you need to have shoes!
Re: Sex and the <s>Floating</s> <s>Ancient</s> City!!1!
Date: 2005-01-09 04:30 am (UTC)I've only just finished watching the first season. I've seen some of the later episodes, but I wasn't recasting anyone in the *roles* on-screen, just the *style* of the show :)
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:09 pm (UTC)yes! that marathon was great! i only got to see the ending of rising and then 38min but i'm gonna watch all the eps from the begining this weekend! wheee! and my plan: write fic for each ep! :D
that big evil red spot of doom sounds like scary stuff!
hehee, you know, we go driving in hurricanes looking for gas to power our generators...you'd think we'd learn something after the first time we ran out of gas...obviously not!;)
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:25 pm (UTC)and my plan: write fic for each ep! :D
WOW!! I am so sucky at writing episode-related fics. I waaaaaant to. I have been playing with an episode-by-episode AU starting in "Underground" and just haven't been able to make myself wriiiite it. Arg. I think it's that I can't quite figure out how to involve dialogue and scenes from the episodes without it seeming redundant. There are a few authors who do this really well... I should study them :)
hehee, you know, we go driving in hurricanes looking for gas to power our generators...you'd think we'd learn something after the first time we ran out of gas...obviously not!;)
Well, now it's like a sport ;)
I am so afraid of things like hurricanes because we just don't get them here. Would have NO clue what to do. Here we get blizzards and ice storms a lot, and so I kind of know the routine (and yet, of course, still feel VALIANT for surviving).
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Date: 2005-01-08 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-09 12:09 am (UTC)It is entertaining me. I mean, the humor of the entire series seems based on mortification, but I am entertained. *shrugs* :)
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Date: 2005-01-08 11:38 pm (UTC)But that probably wasn't encouraging...
(((((huggles)))))
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Date: 2005-01-09 12:13 am (UTC)My mom has a cold, and so I am hiding in my room, and yes, very ashamed of that. I would go, like, work out and build body strength, but that would require going into the evil work building of germz and contagion. OH NO!
*FEARS TEH EVIL MONO*
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Date: 2005-01-09 02:54 am (UTC)WHA? Holy poop on a stick!! Man, I wouldn't leave the fricking HOUSE!
Hey, wait a minute. That means you're at home with nothing to do. Write me some prOn!!!
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Date: 2005-01-09 04:46 am (UTC)This is why I spent today locked up in my bedroom :) Even the REST OF THE HOUSE is not safe!! (My dad as a music school in the basement... lots and lots of school-age children with evil germz...)
That means you're at home with nothing to do. Write me some prOn!!!
Your totally selfless sympathy for my situation is touching. Really, it is. :-P
*love*
I tried to write stuff today and totally failed! I think I called my muse an evil wench once too often... :-/
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Date: 2005-01-09 07:08 am (UTC)*love*
*falls outta the chair laughing again, nearly squashing a cat*
Now you KNOW I care about you, you Sachi you! I don't want you to get any kind of mangy funk that will deprive the world of your brilliance in the glory of Sheppard/Weir porn. *sniff* It's a beautiful thing, I tell you. Breathtaking, in fact. *wipes away a tear*
*loves you back with a plague-less smooch on the cheek*
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*love*</i>
*falls outta the chair laughing again, nearly squashing a cat*
Now you KNOW I care about you, you Sachi you! I don't want you to get any kind of mangy funk that will deprive the world of your brilliance in the glory of Sheppard/Weir porn. *sniff* It's a beautiful thing, I tell you. Breathtaking, in fact. *wipes away a tear*
*loves you back with a plague-less smooch on the cheek*
<<I tried to write stuff today and totally failed! I think I called my muse an evil wench once too often... :-/</i>
Mine hates me. She sits in the corner and flips me off, mumbling obscenities. I think, only when she is drunk and feeling generous, does she give me any flash of insight or slight writing ability. I haven't written anything readable in AGES, if it really was readable at all. I'll just stick to icons and wallpaper. Heh.
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Date: 2005-01-10 01:09 am (UTC)... oh. Wait. I knew that already. As you were. :)
And I have no complaints about you making icons and wallpaper...
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Date: 2005-01-10 01:15 am (UTC)*remains under self-imposed quarrantine in bedroom*
*worries for own sanity*