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Things I do not like -
- Having to practically re-write a reporter's story from its unpublishable state
- Extreme spikes in psychosomatic pain
- The fact Alabama's budgetary system is hilariously illogical
- The Alabama grocery tax, which is rivaled only by Mississippi's in suckitude
- Being stuck in hentai rooms when the moderator likes hentai and feels the need to tell you about the time he had to leave a hentai room with a boner
Things I like -
- That the reporter whose story I re-wrote really appreciated my taking the effort to go through with her what was wrong with her story, something her previous editor never bothered to do with her (and it really showed). Yay for brownie points and fuzzy feelings.
- The side effect of purchasing my groceries from a store deep in Northport, where people do not eat fancy organic/foreign things. Which means aforementioned things are frequently on clearance, turning a $43 purchase into a $15 purchase.
- My fridge being filled with at least four different kinds of beer (this may be related to the previous point).
- Flaming Southern Comfort shots
I have discovered the one advantage to being on staff at an anime con: you legitimately and and do yell and at the teenagers who think screaming in a small hall is a great idea, so loud you cannot successfully continue to moderate your own panel. You are also then listened to.
Yet being on staff does nothing about the ten-year-olds who are dragged to your History of Anime panel and complain their way through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s about how they "don't understand it," want to know when they'll "see something they know," and let you know your topic is boring. However, this does have the positive side effect of forcing their father to leave the panel in embarrassment a decade before you get to the first hentai, which you didn't feel like explaining to them anyway.
Because I realize as I add people I do not actually have any kind of post which talks about me-as-person, as opposed to the various other things I talk about far too much, I am hijacking the Ten Things To Know About Me meme.
1. I am totally to used and consequently very patient when being the trans/queer/Buddhist/nice liberal education buddy. I have probably already answered a question about it, and you are not intruding on me if you want to know more about how I am a Freak of Nature.
2. If I get all long-winded and preachy pretentious in a comment, I'm almost assuredly being in my natural state of oblivious and not attempting to insult you or your intelligence. Unless you do something like insist sexual violence jokes are funny. Then I just want to make your genitals feel small.
3. I am terribly picky about what I read/see with the intention of actively uncritically enjoying. I do not like taking emotional investment risks.
3a. In the same vein: I don't make it a practice to read fanfic for pleasure (i.e. not as badfic) unless a) someone asks me to or b) the premise is so very intriguing I feel compelled to. It's not a mark against anyone, but I just don't. It may also be a side effect of the fact I can only read so much in a day, and it's enough of a trial keeping up with my Google Reader.
4. I am terrible at keeping up with people and staying in contact. I have a brain not made for little social details.
5. I am given to not noticing if objects of teasing take offense to said teasing (in part because I expect to get what I give). I encourage knocking on the head if obliviousness sets in.
6. I believe very firmly in talking one's way through problems. However, I despise Talking About Me, which can be counterproductive.
7. As a result of emotional abuse during my childhood, I have developed a complex about being listened to and treated as a voice of authority. Thus, I tend to put advancement, ambition, and future career above all else.
8. For some reason, it is merely not in my fannish DNA to like shows in English, especially American shows. I am occasionally distracted by British shows, but that mostly resulted in a brief fling with Dr. Who.
9. I fucking love synthesis analysis, interdisciplinary work, and postmodernism hardcore. I really fucking love talking about how I fucking love synthesis analysis, interdisciplinary work, and postmodernism hardcore. I am thus destined in six years to either be making $45,000 a year, minus a huge student loan debt, or be a very smart bookstore clerk.
10. Even though I want to be a comics scholar, I very rarely read comics anymore.
- Having to practically re-write a reporter's story from its unpublishable state
- Extreme spikes in psychosomatic pain
- The fact Alabama's budgetary system is hilariously illogical
- The Alabama grocery tax, which is rivaled only by Mississippi's in suckitude
- Being stuck in hentai rooms when the moderator likes hentai and feels the need to tell you about the time he had to leave a hentai room with a boner
Things I like -
- That the reporter whose story I re-wrote really appreciated my taking the effort to go through with her what was wrong with her story, something her previous editor never bothered to do with her (and it really showed). Yay for brownie points and fuzzy feelings.
- The side effect of purchasing my groceries from a store deep in Northport, where people do not eat fancy organic/foreign things. Which means aforementioned things are frequently on clearance, turning a $43 purchase into a $15 purchase.
- My fridge being filled with at least four different kinds of beer (this may be related to the previous point).
- Flaming Southern Comfort shots
I have discovered the one advantage to being on staff at an anime con: you legitimately and and do yell and at the teenagers who think screaming in a small hall is a great idea, so loud you cannot successfully continue to moderate your own panel. You are also then listened to.
Yet being on staff does nothing about the ten-year-olds who are dragged to your History of Anime panel and complain their way through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s about how they "don't understand it," want to know when they'll "see something they know," and let you know your topic is boring. However, this does have the positive side effect of forcing their father to leave the panel in embarrassment a decade before you get to the first hentai, which you didn't feel like explaining to them anyway.
Because I realize as I add people I do not actually have any kind of post which talks about me-as-person, as opposed to the various other things I talk about far too much, I am hijacking the Ten Things To Know About Me meme.
1. I am totally to used and consequently very patient when being the trans/queer/Buddhist/nice liberal education buddy. I have probably already answered a question about it, and you are not intruding on me if you want to know more about how I am a Freak of Nature.
2. If I get all long-winded and preachy pretentious in a comment, I'm almost assuredly being in my natural state of oblivious and not attempting to insult you or your intelligence. Unless you do something like insist sexual violence jokes are funny. Then I just want to make your genitals feel small.
3. I am terribly picky about what I read/see with the intention of actively uncritically enjoying. I do not like taking emotional investment risks.
3a. In the same vein: I don't make it a practice to read fanfic for pleasure (i.e. not as badfic) unless a) someone asks me to or b) the premise is so very intriguing I feel compelled to. It's not a mark against anyone, but I just don't. It may also be a side effect of the fact I can only read so much in a day, and it's enough of a trial keeping up with my Google Reader.
4. I am terrible at keeping up with people and staying in contact. I have a brain not made for little social details.
5. I am given to not noticing if objects of teasing take offense to said teasing (in part because I expect to get what I give). I encourage knocking on the head if obliviousness sets in.
6. I believe very firmly in talking one's way through problems. However, I despise Talking About Me, which can be counterproductive.
7. As a result of emotional abuse during my childhood, I have developed a complex about being listened to and treated as a voice of authority. Thus, I tend to put advancement, ambition, and future career above all else.
8. For some reason, it is merely not in my fannish DNA to like shows in English, especially American shows. I am occasionally distracted by British shows, but that mostly resulted in a brief fling with Dr. Who.
9. I fucking love synthesis analysis, interdisciplinary work, and postmodernism hardcore. I really fucking love talking about how I fucking love synthesis analysis, interdisciplinary work, and postmodernism hardcore. I am thus destined in six years to either be making $45,000 a year, minus a huge student loan debt, or be a very smart bookstore clerk.
10. Even though I want to be a comics scholar, I very rarely read comics anymore.