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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2007-03-08 09:34 pm

Ate, got robbed, ate some more.

I have drama! Not whiny emo drama either, I have true, juicy drama!

So there I was, eating my gyro at this Greek place where once we dined with Destiny's Child, and while I was in the restaurant, someone bashed the back window of my car, and made off with Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon! This was a book my brother gave me for Christmas! The fourth worst thing about it is I write lots of notes in the margins. The third worst thing about it is I tend to keep cds in big thick books, and I think I had Mercy Brown in this one (eta: Mercy Brown was not in Pynchon, it was in Harry Potter! So YAY). The ironic thing about Bad Thing #3 is Mr. Whosit made off with Pynchon, but left my cds (2 notebooks full of more than 100 cds. They got whatever cds were in Pynchon). I'd say the guy had taste, but that suggests my taste in music is bad, which I don't think it is, because it's mine you know, and also, you have to wait for #1 for the full extent of his awesome discretion. The second worst thing about it is I have to replace my window, and that's going to cost a lot. Bummer.

The worst thing about it was Pynchon was in my bag with my laptop. This guy is now in full possession of a computer full of Buffy porn, Harry Potter porn, that random RPS porn . . . and the back up disk inside that contained back ups of everything I ever did in undergrad. It was in there so I could html my POTO fics to put up for [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga. In some ways, this is all [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga's fault. Kidding! But anyway, they got the POTO non-porn, too.

Luckily, my dad had a copy of that disk. Also luckily, I'm a great big old loser who hasn't done much original writing in the past year, and that's the main thing I'm always worried about losing when I lose stuff. Some of the little (and most important) I've done is backed up. The rest I can't really even remember, so I'm not too stressed about it.

There were some vids I dl'ed, and some bookmarks I should've put on del.ici.ous, but actually, things are not looking too bad.

The only other thing on there was fic. Lots and lost of unfinished fic! Like that total crack Angel/Spike all human AU where they met as young anarchist terrorists, and Liam taught William to blow things up, and then they meet years later and Liam is Angel, a much more legitimate revolutionary warlord, and Spike is so burned out by all the desertion and betrayals and that stint he spent in prison where Liam never came to save him, that he's a whore for the dark side in both the sexual and the metaphoric sense. Yeah, that fic is gone forever.

And a couple chapters of Best Souvenir (eta: only about two chapters, I think! YAY. I had more backed up than I thought). And whatever I had of the third fic in the War Stories series I'm still trying to do. Since Chrisleeoctaves sent me back all the bits I sent her of my big massive epic thing I still have most of that, so yay, and I still have some other chapters of Best Souvenir, so yay, and for some reason I was always freakishly scrupulous of backing up whatever I have of my Buffy/Connor novella, so yay.

Hopefully it won't be too long before I get a new laptop. Since I'm living at home, I definitely have the money for it, it's just a shame I have to spend it on this. And a shame I have to use this computer because it sucks monkey feet.

SUPER SPECIAL NOTE TO K and [livejournal.com profile] samsom: POTO fic won't be up at [livejournal.com profile] tkpfics for a while.

SUPER SPECIAL NOTE TO [livejournal.com profile] stoney321, [livejournal.com profile] redbrickrose or [livejournal.com profile] stultiloquentia: could one of you send me back that H/D fic I sent as an attachment, as I don't have that backed up anywhere? Thanks so much. I'd be sad to lose it, even if it *is* 100 pages of H/D with no H/D. I'm sad the 15 pages I wrote since I sent it to you is gone forever! eta: THANKS STONEY!

SUPER SPECIAL NOTE TO [livejournal.com profile] brandil: uh, I'll send you that fic when I one of the ladies I've already sent it to forwards me a copy.

I know there are things I will be missing over the next several months, but hey. They didn't steal my car, I'm alive, and it was a really good gyro.

[identity profile] hannasus.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Gah, that sucks! I think I'd freak if I lost all that unfinished writing lurking on my laptop that I swear I'll get back to one day even though I know I won't.

What restaurant was it so that I know not to go there?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'd had the laptop less than a year (around 8 mos), so it wasn't as bad as it could've been...stuff from old comps is backed up elsewhere, and some stuff from this one is too, so yeah, not as bad as it could've been.

It was at Yia Yia Mary's! OMG, honey, if you haven't been, TRY IT. Just you know, not with your laptop in your car. And if you have been, keep going. I mean, not just because I saw Destiny's CHild there, either. It's super fab. Also? I went LAST NIGHT and my laptop didn't get stolen! Then again, my laptop wasn't in my car last night ;o) Really though, this is my favorite Greek restaurant I've been to in Houston.

[identity profile] hannasus.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah I've been there! It's nice that the Pappas family got around to opening a Greek restaurant. My favorite Greek place is Niko Niko's, although I don't get into the Montrose area as much as I used to.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's so funny because I was about to say, "Most people's favorite Greek place is Niko Niko's, but I prefer this one..." Hahah. Yeah, Niko's, I dunno why, but the few times I was there I didn't enjoy it as much as Yia Yia's. The nice thing about Pappas restaurants for me is my bbf is a manager at one, and she gets this card full of money on it you can use at any pappa's resataurant, and she takes us out on it all the time.

I love your icon. Oh, Alton.