I Had an Anti-Midas Day!

[vulgarweed]

Ever have one of those? Where you feel like everything you touch turns to SHIT?

This too will pass, it's just a psychic vitamin deficiency or something, but I had to walk out of work early, I felt so hostile and crabby and sulky and tired. Both my jobs require a certain projection of charisma and cockiness (within certain artful limits to do well, and I'm usually pretty good at faking it til ya make it, but I was just UTTERLY lacking in the mojo of all kinds.

The news about Terry Pratchett didn't help. But you know, a big part of the reason why he's my ultimate "comfort writer" is that I suspect there's a great big loud voice in his head that says often, sternly, but affectionately, "Stop snivelling and get on with it." It sure comes through in his writing. It sounds like a harsh voice at first, but really, ultimately, there's no better way of coping with shit, is there? Sooner or later, you have to do just that or you'll get dust all over your bones and you still won't have gotten anything done. Being encouraged to wallow is the worst kind of compassion, because it doesn't actually improve anything.

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[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

*HUGS in a totally not-wallowing-encouraging way*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Hee. YAY! That's funny enough to be wallow-free. The holidayification of that icon has a similar effect. :D

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it. I like both my Christmassy icons. XD

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I read that as "a certain projection of charisma and cookies" which, you know, doesn't sound bad at all.

Maybe you need cookies!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Charisma cookies! I have no idea what would be in them, but they sound yummy! (Actually, that's kind of how charisma works, isn't it?)

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

I think I am going to have to learn to cross-stitch, just so I can make a big fancy sampler that says "Stop snivelling and get on with it." Then I will hang it on my wall in a prominent place.

I hadn't heard the news about Terry Pratchett--I wound up having to look it up. And now I am sad, but I am not snivelling. *hugs lots*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I used to cross-stitch as a kid. It's pretty idiot-proof. If I watched more TV I might take it up again, just so I could make samplers like that. :D

HE'S not snivelling. It's the least I can do to refrain. Kind of puts my tedious bullshit in perspective.

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

My brother made a cross-stitch sampler last year when he had constipation. It had a picture of a poop on it and said, "Your Goal". He hung it in the bathroom (where, incidentally, most of it was made...) Pretty effective use of time, I guess.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

A form of sympathetic magic?

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I never asked if it worked, though. In your case, I think some good wine and a bubble bath count as sympathetic magic. Those always help me stop sniveling and get on with things.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

HE'S not snivelling.

I know--and that increases my admiration for the man tenfold. I think I saw that he called it "an embuggerance," which is first of all a wonderful attitude to take and second of all a simply fantastic word.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

*hugs*

Well, with me a meal and sleep usually help at least a little. Most important thing, though is to get away from people. They only make things worse ... but then I generally don't do well in groups.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

He is like that - unsentimental, but warm and human.

They'll just have to find a cure. Nothing else is acceptable.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I have arrived far too early at the phase of my menstrual cycle where if I think about crying I cry, so I feel for you. It's times like this when I think it would be good for the world at large if I took up kickboxing. Usually this phase doesn't go away until I see blood; I'd like to try and see if it works if it's someone else's blood.

I suspect there's a great big loud voice in his head that says often, sternly, but affectionately, "Stop snivelling and get on with it."

Yes! It comes through most clearly when Granny Weatherwax talks to the four people on the planet for whom she feels some small degree of respect.

I gasped out loud when I read the news. Of all the minds to lose! When certain people in our government could have dementia and we'd never notice!

I was telling the spouse about Pterry, and my eight-year-old looked up and wailed, "Oh, no! Can I send him a get-well-soon card?" I knew she adored the Tiffany Aching books, but I hadn't realized she connected with him as an author.

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

Trust me to come at this a day late and from a skewed angle, but...

...according to Freud, in the unconscious, shit and gold are the same thing. So perhaps today's shit is tomorrow's gold (or yesterday's shit, if I were to be precise). In fact, I've found this to be true in my own life.

And actually, you've at times provided the "stop snivelling" voice when I've needed it myself, and I always heard it with love. I think you're right--sometimes you just have to nod to yourself, say "This sucks!", and keep moving.

*hugs n kisses*

p.s. Surrounding circumstances may be bad now. You are not. I know you know this, but I'm saying it anyway.

[ms-katonic.livejournal.com]

I was pretty shocked too. His reaction is just confirming what an awesome bloke he is, but of all the minds in our country to lose, why his??

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

After I finished bawling my head off, I realised "this far outweighs losing use of a hand". Cripes.