What the duck?
May. 1st, 2007 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteI think I must have slept something like 14+ hours last night. I got home from work shortly after 7:15pm, and because my shoulder (and stomach) were hurting, the first thing I did was take my Darvocet and Levsin. I sat in front of the computer doing a few more backdated entries for 2002 (oh, the nostalgia) and then decided to read my latest Newsweek. About 75% through the issue, I couldn't focus anymore, so I turned off my light and decided to "take a nap." I put that in quotes because, while I had every intention of waking up again at 10:15pm to have a late dinner and maybe get some other stuff done, instead I ignored said alarm clock and went right back to sleep.
I woke up again around 1am to go to the bathroom, and it occurred to me that while I'd taken my night pills, I forgot to wash my face. :P Bad, bad idea. But I was just SO exhausted, I couldn't even imagine standing in place for five minutes to do that, so I collapsed when I went right back to bed. And now I'm up now at 7:40am. Not exactly perky-awake, and I'm still a bit sore, but at least I have my physical therapy appointment at the Klotz center later. Maybe after that (since the appointment is at 10:30am and I have no class again until 2pm), I can either head home or go to WaMu and talk to them about a bank credit card, to see what they offer.
That said, I had a weird dream that (as some dreams do) may inspire fanfiction. Let me preface this by saying I don't believe I've ever written Disney fanfic. Not for Little Mermaid, not for Beauty and the Beast, etc. But I had this weird pair of ideas revolving around the latter, and maybe someone can slap me upside the head and either tell me they're junk, they've been done before, or what the hell am I still doing in Yu-Gi-Oh, write those fics!
So the first idea revolved around Gaston still being "alive" at the end of the movie, but the more I thought about it, the less I thought that was possible. So instead I came up with the idea of Gaston HAUNTING the castle after he died. But for some reason, the Beast was... well, still the Beast, even though the timing would have dictated he would be the Prince by then. Time-traveling ghostly Gaston?
In any case, Belle somehow gets roped into helping the ghost out in order to get him to leave her and the Beast alone, and Gaston ends up seeing different sides to Belle, the Beast, Belle's father (Maurice), and the "palace staff." Maybe he gets redeemed and gets a second shot at life? I think it's a bit crazy. I hated Gaston! But I remember seeing snippets of the beginning of the movie ("Little Town"/Intro) from different angles of sorts, maybe like Gaston and/or Belle had to re-do it from the beginning to try and "fix" things.
It's not even a fully-formulated idea, but I find it unusual because a) I haven't encountered anything B&B lately, including songs; b) the dream was mostly intact after I woke up; and c) I've never really tried to go into any Disney fandom; I'm more of an "outskirts" sort of fan (the kind that listens to music, mostly). But hee hee all the same!
Yesterday when I was helping someone at work I saw an article on Yahoo! (as in, the main Yahoo page, not search results or another page) about internships, but when I tried to find it myself, I couldn't! And trying to do a internships site: yahoo.com search produced plenty of results, none of which I think were the article I'd seen. Does anyone have suggestions on how to find things like that?
I also heard from Scott via email-- if he's reading this, dude, are you![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fountain_the? I'm dying to know here, since the birthday matches, but there's no user info, there are no entries... I wanted to help him get started with an LJ (so he doesn't have to be clicking CC: to a million emails), but I don't want to pay for an LJ if it's NOT someone I know! So come forward, yo! Say some sort of secret phrase to confirm your identity or something. :P
All that said, I think I'll try and get back to sleep and hope the pain in my shoulder wears off... I've been careful not to wear my laptop-loaded purse on that side, but still, even an "evenly-balanced" backpack causes it to hurt. Just what I need, pinched nerves AND Sciatica. I think if I save up, I can get a monthly massage at the Student Health Center so I can avoid all this! (Maybe.)
I'm almost done with my 2002 FreeOpenDiary entries, and I'm going to poke into my old Greymatter ones soon too, so if you ever wanted to know what I wrote like back when I was an emo high schooler... *laughs* Well, it's all there. I'll do a recap entry of my favorites when I finish, but until then, happy hunting (should you be so inclined)!
I woke up again around 1am to go to the bathroom, and it occurred to me that while I'd taken my night pills, I forgot to wash my face. :P Bad, bad idea. But I was just SO exhausted, I couldn't even imagine standing in place for five minutes to do that, so I collapsed when I went right back to bed. And now I'm up now at 7:40am. Not exactly perky-awake, and I'm still a bit sore, but at least I have my physical therapy appointment at the Klotz center later. Maybe after that (since the appointment is at 10:30am and I have no class again until 2pm), I can either head home or go to WaMu and talk to them about a bank credit card, to see what they offer.
That said, I had a weird dream that (as some dreams do) may inspire fanfiction. Let me preface this by saying I don't believe I've ever written Disney fanfic. Not for Little Mermaid, not for Beauty and the Beast, etc. But I had this weird pair of ideas revolving around the latter, and maybe someone can slap me upside the head and either tell me they're junk, they've been done before, or what the hell am I still doing in Yu-Gi-Oh, write those fics!
So the first idea revolved around Gaston still being "alive" at the end of the movie, but the more I thought about it, the less I thought that was possible. So instead I came up with the idea of Gaston HAUNTING the castle after he died. But for some reason, the Beast was... well, still the Beast, even though the timing would have dictated he would be the Prince by then. Time-traveling ghostly Gaston?
In any case, Belle somehow gets roped into helping the ghost out in order to get him to leave her and the Beast alone, and Gaston ends up seeing different sides to Belle, the Beast, Belle's father (Maurice), and the "palace staff." Maybe he gets redeemed and gets a second shot at life? I think it's a bit crazy. I hated Gaston! But I remember seeing snippets of the beginning of the movie ("Little Town"/Intro) from different angles of sorts, maybe like Gaston and/or Belle had to re-do it from the beginning to try and "fix" things.
It's not even a fully-formulated idea, but I find it unusual because a) I haven't encountered anything B&B lately, including songs; b) the dream was mostly intact after I woke up; and c) I've never really tried to go into any Disney fandom; I'm more of an "outskirts" sort of fan (the kind that listens to music, mostly). But hee hee all the same!
Yesterday when I was helping someone at work I saw an article on Yahoo! (as in, the main Yahoo page, not search results or another page) about internships, but when I tried to find it myself, I couldn't! And trying to do a internships site: yahoo.com search produced plenty of results, none of which I think were the article I'd seen. Does anyone have suggestions on how to find things like that?
I also heard from Scott via email-- if he's reading this, dude, are you
fountain_the? I'm dying to know here, since the birthday matches, but there's no user info, there are no entries... I wanted to help him get started with an LJ (so he doesn't have to be clicking CC: to a million emails), but I don't want to pay for an LJ if it's NOT someone I know! So come forward, yo! Say some sort of secret phrase to confirm your identity or something. :PAll that said, I think I'll try and get back to sleep and hope the pain in my shoulder wears off... I've been careful not to wear my laptop-loaded purse on that side, but still, even an "evenly-balanced" backpack causes it to hurt. Just what I need, pinched nerves AND Sciatica. I think if I save up, I can get a monthly massage at the Student Health Center so I can avoid all this! (Maybe.)
I'm almost done with my 2002 FreeOpenDiary entries, and I'm going to poke into my old Greymatter ones soon too, so if you ever wanted to know what I wrote like back when I was an emo high schooler... *laughs* Well, it's all there. I'll do a recap entry of my favorites when I finish, but until then, happy hunting (should you be so inclined)!
