LOL, me. "Hey guys I'm totally here and awake and responsive and everything!" And then I go to sleep for like four days. The problem with me is that I am constantly lurking and reading around LJ when I'm tired, but I never post, because that requires mental energy better expended on prose. Which I've been doing! Sticking people in elevators and doing Misery South Korea style! (I should note that, with DBSK Banjun Drama "Dangerous Love", South Korea beat me to it already. Oh well.) So here's stuff I've been up to:
Yesterday I had work adventures! A member came in and said, "There's a cat outside. It followed me to the door crying." I'd seen a stray around the building before, so I went outside to have a look and sure enough, young female white-and-tabby splotched kitty, crying with hunger and probably heat. Her ribs were evident when you touched her and she had very well fed ticks all over her poor tiny body. So, me being me, I of course abandoned the desk and sat with her in my lap outside the door while I waited for a member to fetch the old small animal carrier they had around the house. With only about half an hour left in my shift, I ended up just stuffing the carrier in the backseat of the car, and when work was done I drove her down to a local cat sanctuary. Where they cooed over her sweetness and promptly named her Laura* to thank me for caring. (The member she'd been following sent me off with a sizeable cash donation (!!!!) to the shelter because he felt like she'd asked him personally for help. AW.)
Sunday was hanging out with
maurheti day. It involved much shriek-flailing, cookies, and accidental hibachi lunch. A++ would play again.
The other day when me and
graymary went to our favorite Korean place again the owner ran out from behind the bar, crept up behind me when I wasn't paying attention, seized me by the elbow (I'm about 5'5, and she comes up to my shoulder) and pulled me into a bear hug. Then she held on to my arm and DRAGGED ME TOWARDS THE TABLE chattering happily about how good it was to see us. Em didn't even notice I was being lovingly assaulted until it was too late. I am so calling that lady Unni** next time I see her. I BELIEVE THE SOCIAL PROTOCOLS ARE ALIGNED FOR THIS.
My right eyelid has been twitching uncontrollably for about a week and a half. Mostly I'm complaining about it and using it to freak out Em and Favorite Massage Therapist.
Last night I bathed Maximum Stench; Kitten Detective because, I mean, okay, draw your own conclusions, his fake surname is "Stench." By this I mean I dragged him into a shower and gave him a good scrubbing, because he does not understand that Litterbox =/= playground. He was very sad about the entire affair, as you'd expect, but with more fight about him than Ozzy had when it was his turn.*** When it was done and I'd scrubbed him dry a bit he waddled away and looked around and then waddled back, clearly extremely concerned that whoever or whatever had caused him to get this wet was going to get me, too. He spent the next hour alternating between furious licking and checking on me to make sure I was still dry and okay. I'm torn between "awwww, baby Maxi" and "WHY ARE YOU STUPID, LITTLE THUMBS?"
And finally, there is not a broad difference, narratively, between Chekov's Gun and Chekov's Fangirl. Well okay, actually both scenarios are technically Chekov's Gun, but it's sort of... the gun is on the fangirl instead of on the mantle. YOU GUYS I AM REALLY SLEEPY, OKAY.
*Despite calling me that as much as all of you do, my parents did not, in fact, name me "Shoi".
**"Big Sister." You (if you're female) use it at other women/girls who're older than you but not MUCH older than you. Generally considered sort of adorable to use it at a woman who's twenty years or so older than you and would normally earn the title of ajumma.
***Ozzy's reaction was to sit dead still, giving me the biggest, most betrayed eyes in the world, with a general cat expression of, "You should know better. Why would you do this to me? Why? I thought we were friiiiends." Yeah, buddy, but you had a flea, and you're allergic. Suck it up.