why am I even awake

[fahye]

Dear new Google Reader layout: GO DIE IN A FIRE, Jesus Christ, I am operating on a very small EeePC here and I desperately need the ability to minimise the bloody sidebar so that I can VIEW WEBCOMICS without ENDLESS HORIZONTAL SCROLLBARS.

My lack of ability to produce words, any words, is reaching crisis point. I have had both the secret X-Men project and a crossover ficlet I'm writing for neenie open in Word for like a WEEK, and every night I look at the documents and feel like sweating blood and my brain just goes 'pffffblbt' and insists that I watch Top Gear instead. I HATE IT. But I've never been any good at forcing myself to write through that kind of mental fog without actively despising the process, and I am trying to steer myself clear of hobbies that I actively despise, you know?

My latest trick has been rereading all eyai ever (wait, no, if you're unfamiliar: read Emma's awesome pimp post instead) in an attempt to psych myself up for the next story, which Ji and I are probably going to cowrite somehow. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FANTASTIC GUYS, THERE WILL BE COPS AND MURDER AND I AM FINALLY BRINGING ANNA BACK INTO NARRATIVE PLAY.

(Agatha Verey, Superspy, is still going to happen, but it would first require me to plot out the entire counter-revolution ie. the final arc of the whole damn thing. And that would suck out ALL MY BRAINPOWER.

Also on the cards at some point: the shameless importation of Kenneth and Vanessa from the Wasteland RP. That's right, the inevitable fourth estate story. Nobody is surprised.)

If you have any eyai-related enthusiasm or capslock or words of encouragement, drop them here, I will attempt to ~absorb~ them and use them to alchemise my creativity into fucking existing again.

Uh in other news the new Florence & the Machine album is so great I am having trouble processing it, call back in a few days when my ears are not weeping rainbows of heady joy.

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

But like omigosh what is your favorite track?? Also: yes. It is time to be excite!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I don't know yet because hilariously I keep being interrupted in my listening so I haven't reached the end of the album yet. But I like the opening track so much that I keep starting at the beginning instead of sensibly listening to the unlistened-to, so...maybe that one?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I also love the beginning track. And "All This And Heaven Too"!

We should have an eyai songfest maybe??

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

EYAI! HURRAY!

I also became rather despondent over the new Google reader. I found a greasemonkey script that lets you customize (but not minizmize) the sidebar and get rid of the excessive whitespace. See if that helps! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58577

[jothra]

I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT.

I am concerned that I might never listen to anything else again. I am skipping Aerosmith to get back to it as we...speak? type? WHATEVER.