prison for jerks

Today on the bus I was concentrating so hard on the song on my iPod I almost missed my stop on the bus.

Look, it's not my fault, okay, you can't give me the first two or three minutes of "Famous Last Words" and expect me to remember things like "where I live" or "my immediate surroundings"! I have more important things to think about! Things like "GERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD" and "MIIIIIIIIIIKEY" and "GERARD AND MIKEY" and "MIKEYWAY D: D: D: D: D:" and "BOOOOOOYS."

So, yes. Not my fault at all.

The other day fox1013 told me there should be a bandom AU for Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. This is not surprising, because Fox thinks there should be a Rudolph AU for every fandom. We ended up casting Gerard = Rudolph, Mikey = Hermey, Frank = a misfit toy, Ray = Yukon Cornelius. I mention this not because it's that interesting on its own, but because the casting of Mikeyway as Hermey the Elf Who Wanted To Be a Dentist is brilliant in ways I cannot actually explain or make sense of. Like, Mikeyway makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE TO ME NOW, seriously. I feel like it has opened up new doors to him for me!

I was really happy at being scheduled to start at eleven all week, but today I agreed to come in at 8 tomorrow and Friday. SIGH. I will grin and bear it and imagine how lovely it will be to not die of starvation in January.

FIRST. I got a job! Seasonal support at Macy's. Only like ten hours a week through the first week of January, but some money is better than no money.

SECOND. Frankie Iero's birthday = friends list filled with glorious picspam!

THIRD. I always used to make faces at all the people who would complain about having too much fic to read and be like "yeah, I wish I had your problems!" And now I do. It's kind of awesome. So much stuff!

FOURTH. Still thinking about OTPs in bandom. My OTPs in former fandoms (Clark/Lex, Fraser/Kowalski, John/Aeryn) all kind of fit together in the way where they are MEANT TO BE OMG, they BELONG TOGETHER, these two people are SO OBVIOUSLY the most important people in each other's lives, the most important relationship they will EVER have. And you guys, if I look in bandom? The obvious candidates to take on that role for me is so Pete/Patrick. It just is. They fit my classic OTP profile perfectly.

And yet! I mean, I love them, I do, and I enjoy reading about them and all, and they belong together. So they're my OTP in that sense, but ... not so much in the sense of the pairing that eats my brain and fascinates me and I want to know MORE and read about it all the time and graaaaar. Because that does seem to be Pete/Mikey, even if I can't figure out why. PETE WENTZ! MIKEYWAY! SWEET LITTLE DUDES! Nawwwwww.

FIFTH. The thing I forgot about RPF fandoms is just how much there is out there. I don't know if I'll ever feel comfortable writing non-AU bandom fic, no matter what, just because even the more I learn, the more stuff there is that I can't get a hold of. Infinite canon = awesome for experiencing, stressful for writing.

SIXTH. That five things lists meme. Hit me. I'll see what I can do.

SEVENTH. It's Halloween. YAY CANDY.

First real day of work COMPLETED. I am not a sammich queen yet, but I am least a sammich apprentice?

I worked from 4am to 1pm, with a one hour lunch in the middle. You guys, I am not used to standing up continously for 8 hours, let alone doing so in nice (not sneaker) shoes. TRIAL BY FIRE, YO. I'm sure this week will be hell on my feet, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those things you just have to get used to; after a couple days it should be much easier.

Since I was at work, I missed the sign up for DS MATCH, but ignazwisdom agreed to sign me up and is thus my heeeeeeeeeeero. Yay! Team Angst 4 EVAH, you guys! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Did you SEE who we've got on our side? nos4a2no9 is captaining! We have Sprat and omphale23 and Aerye and Kat freaking Allison! And with me, that's just 6 out of the 18. That is only ONE THIRD of our awesome!

Team Romance, you are going DOWN. In your FACE!

*does dance of angst yay!*

See, even Fraser in my icon agrees. HE GIVES UP LOVE FOR DUTY YOU GUYS. "Did you ever get lonely?" "Every day, son. Every day." *SIGH*