this is the meme that never ends - yes it goes on and on, my friends...

[vanitashaze]

1. And ah, the saga of the second dog continues with a great mess of crap on the rug, crap on the floor, and crate-training advice from my English teacher (was weird). What really kills me is that Tess is such an absolute darling, and you can see that it just kills her when she does something wrong. Only, she doesn't know a lot of things are wrong. And so, there is a lot of wrong stuff going on, and damn near nobody's happy.

2. Poe's "Haunted" seems like a very John Sheppardian song. I don't know. Give it a listen. That whole album is pretty brilliant, anyway.

3. You know, it's quite funny. I haven't watched the show since the second season or even given it much thought, lately; in fact, I'm definite in my certainty that Heroes has jumped the shark. Possibly several. Because, wow, bad. But looking back through what I've written - what I continue to write - it seems I'm mostly a Heroes writer. And when I say "mostly", I mean predominately in a big way. And it was my first real fandom, too, the one that actually got me writing and speculating and spinning their lives in my head. I suppose I just can't let go of that, even though these days, the canon bears no resemblance to those characters I loved. (In fact, I've gone so far in my denial as to pretty much create an alternate canon in my head - something that, if you look closely, strings all my stories together into some weird commune future.) And now there's the heroes_exchange, and I'm left thinking, didn't I used to really like these characters?

I don't know, you guys. It's weird to have such a big part of me belong to a fandom I don't even like anymore.

4. Meme time!

Anyway, let's start the new year off right; The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

More than one question is allowed. I'll answer happily :)

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

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[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

3. I agree with this completely. Heroes has been such a HUGE part of my life for a couple years, and I spent so much of my time writing so many fanfics for it, and now I don't even like the show anymore. It makes me sad. :(

4. What would you say is the most embarrassing thing to have ever happened to you?

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

It's strange, because this should be a ridiculously easy question to answer - I mean, it seems like I'm being embarrassed all the time - but I honestly cannot think of that archetypal "most embarrassing moment". There was this one time - I was about ten, attending some Girl Scout camp (humiliating in itself), and there was this other girl, very pretty and blonde and knowledgeable about sex and other grown-up stuff*. I had this huge raging crush on her, so I tried to show her I was mature, too, by swearing and slanging and being coolly dismissive to the counselors. Of course, she saw through the whole thing. Caught me swearing at a fire-ant that had bit me.

"You bastard,"I muttered, probably feeling very grown-up about it.

"Do you even know what that means?" she sneered. (The unspoken "you baby" was pretty clear.)

"Well, yes," I insisted, but it was pretty obvious I didn't, and couldn't look her in the eye for the rest of the encampment.



*Not that it was a good thing, as it turns out. She had been sexually assaulted by one of her friends, a severely disturbed older boy on the run from the police because of another girl he'd raped. She insisted he was "sweet", though, that he "couldn't help himself". It breaks my heart to think of it now, but back then, to the girls of Cabin 12, it was pretty sexy. God help us, I think we thought her devotion to him was romantic.