Catching up on my correspondence

[katiefoolery]

Dear Jane (aka the pushy damn furniture-obsessed character of mine who now thinks she’s my muse),

OK, you win.  I’ll write the cursed fic, even if it wasn’t the one you wanted.

On the up side, huzzah for making Flit snort tea up her nose when I gave her the one line summary of said fic.  Who knew that mere ten words could result in tea-drowned sinuses of Flitness?  Knowing that the flippyfrog now has tea-clogged sinuses makes me feel much better about the whole ‘being ordered around by an imaginary character’ situation.

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Dear holidays,

Well, there you are at long last.  Thank-you for finally arriving!  For a while there, you were an hallucination, a mirage on the barren, holiday-less desert of my life.  Now, be a dear and try to last as long as you can.  There’s a twelve-week term on the horizon...

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Dear TV,

Well, it was nice while it lasted.  During our many years together, you entertained me well and I have a great big basket of fond memories of that time.  I know this is going to hurt you more than it hurts me, but I think it’s time to end this.  Don’t be sad – there are so many more fish in the sea people out there who will love you and treat you well.  I’ve simply come to realise that we’ve both changed and it’s time to move on.  I need more from a relationship and you just can’t give that to me.

I’m sorry.  I hope we can still be friends after this, but please don’t ask for anything more of me.

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Dear Internet,

Huzzah!  I finally dumped that poxy TV so now we can be with each other forever and take mushy long walks on the beach at sunset whilst calmly ignoring the mosquitoes and the broken shells stabbing into our feet!  We will be together forever, I know it!

*snuggles*

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Dear Microsoft Word,

Hey, guess what?  When I type three asterisks in a row, I actually don’t want you to turn it into some shoddy-looking line of dodgy black rectangles.  Amazingly, I simply want to have three asterisks in a row.  I guess this is just too much for you to comprehend.

I don’t care what they told you; you can’t read my mind, so please to stop trying.

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Dear Wireless Internet,

Welcome to our house! Now I’ll never get any writing done... but at least I can distract myself from this fate by being mesmerised by your prettily-blinking lights!

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Dear Jane (aka the pushy damn furniture-obsessed character of mine who now thinks she’s my muse),

*shakes fist*

Comments

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahahahahahah

Seriously

ahhahahahahahahaahahahhahahahaha

:)

[sirgallivant.livejournal.com]

Wireless internet indeed! How are you liking it? I hope your modem isn't as ridiculous as mine.

P.s. Sir Fergal was recently teasing me for having a blog and referred to 'that Sustainable Ridiculousness thing'. Ha ha.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Dear Gill's comment,

Careful, you'll wear out your "a" and "h" keys!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've mainly been making use of the router aspect of it. It's so nice to be able to get onto the internet without having to turn on another computer first! Our old network was handy but frustrating.

I hope the good Sir Fergal appreciates just how much work goes into sustaining ridiculousness for such a length of time. It's not easy, but it's definitely worth it. ;)

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

Dear Bunne's response to Gill's comment,

They're my keys and I'll use 'em if I want to!

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

Stupid MS Word!

It does that to me when I want to signal a chapter break or flashback in my LorF, and no matter how many times you reset the darn program and tell it you don't want that, it still does it!

breaks out 2 x 4

And I can't believe you broke up with your TV! Faithless wench! :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yes, I truly am faithless. I got what I wanted from TV and then I dumped it without a care! *insert evil laugh here*

I hate Word on so many levels that I get dizzy looking down at them. Cursed programme!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I dumped TV a few years ago when I moved to boarding school and just didn't ever watch it. The internet is very much my true love. And as for MShit Word.... words cannot quite encapsulate the stupidity and annoyance of that programme sometimes. Sadly, it's the best word processor out there.

[violetcreme.livejournal.com]

I gave the same Dear John message to my TV a few years ago, lasted about 9 months before I succummed. It's sneaky that way.

So, as thre's a muse about...any chance of a PG fanfic ? Huh ? Is there, is there, is there ?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

*covers WordPerfect's ears*

Don't listen to her! It's not true! I still love you the best.

;)

It's weird - I used to love WordPerfect but now I'm just as happy typing away in Wordpad. I have to use Word at work, though. Stupid programme.

I think the death knell for TV sounded when we were finally about to receive Season Two of Battlestar Galactica down here... two days before the DVD set was released. What was the point of even bothering with unpredictable television scheduling when you can just buy the DVDs and watch it when you like? On your computer, even?

The internet just has too much going for it! TV simply can't compete.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'll be on guard for that! Although that's pretty much why I wanted to remain distant-ish friends with TV - it might be handy to be able to drop by and watch something if I feel the need.

Press Gang fanfic! I hadn't even thought of that.

*ponders*

[violetcreme.livejournal.com]

Well there are always torrents, if you feel the urge to watch something but don't watch TV in general enough to warrant a set. There's a good Aussie torrent site I have somewhere in my bookmarks.

You hadn't thought of it ? For shame ! Oh well I shall poke you religiously then. PG fanfic is alwyas coveted as there's relativley so little of it. By the way, we haven't seen you around for ages, how've you been ?

[the-kaytinator.livejournal.com]

How can you use TV that way? Can't you see its better for you both to just cut it off entirely?

I think you're being very selfish, leading TV on with false hope, just so you can go back to it if you want a brief fling.

And I don't think internet will approve, knowing TV is lurking there in the background, and you've yet to cut it off entirely.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

*looks mildly reptentant*

I know. I'm awful. I'm not willing to commit to TV any more, but I still want the perks from time to time. But don't worry - the internet is fine with it. We have a very open relationship. ;)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, very well thanks. :) I haven't been terribly active in the PG community of late because it's been ages since I've watched any of the episodes. I'm such a bad fan!

*wails*

I shall hereby make an effort to get involved in the next episode discussion. It's always a pleasure to discuss things with PG fans - they have such good taste. :D

[violetcreme.livejournal.com]

Aha, but see that was the evil plan. You *have* to watch episodes in order to do the episode discussions. Mwahahahahaha !

We so do have good taste.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I can only imagine the kind of response you might get in return to that uhm...correspondense ^_~

Dear Buneater,
No, really, when you put three asterisks in a row, you really do want to get a line of dodgy black rectangles. I know you do, because I've been programmed to know. You just don't realize you want it. So, be a good little user and trust my faulty delusional good programming, and accept that your three asterisks will turn into the rectangles.

Yours sincerely
Microsoft Word

[naelany.livejournal.com]

repentant? ^_~ *pokes at your added T*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Egad, how did that get in there! I bet there's a vital T missing from a word I used yesterday now...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I still haven't heard from the TV, but the DVD player tells me it's OK. I was bit worried for a while there - we have been together for many years, after all. :)

*accidentally sets fire to the letter from Word*

[naelany.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I don't know. I'm just slightly amused that I'm the one that caught it ^_~

[naelany.livejournal.com]

It burns!!!! *fizzles*

*chuckles* Sorry, I couldn't resist ^_~

[sarsalot.livejournal.com]

Dear Jane,
Keep up the good work.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Is that an approval of the fic-writing or the tea-snorting? :P

[sarsalot.livejournal.com]

Both, naturally, but mainly the fic-writing. What's the planned fic about?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

All I'll say is that there's a big box and Elspeth, Rushton and Dameon are all trapped within.

[tryniamerin.livejournal.com]

I hate that shoddy line too! :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's so annoying! Every time Word tries to think for itself, it just does something stupid.