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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] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Christ, girlfriend.

I'm so glad you're okay, and that most of the stuff is backed up, though I am of course, really sad about the Spangel crack.

Laptop soon, cause monkey feet stink like, uhm. Monkey feet.

Love to you.

[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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[personal profile] minim_calibre 2007-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you're fine, your car will be fine, and that your gyro was really, really better than fine, but...

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.


::weeps::

Man, that would've RULED.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Dude. That is sad.
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[identity profile] makd.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
damn!

I'm glad YOU'RE okay; that's the important. Fuck the fic.
And you know what? I can't wait to see the look on that fukker's face when he/she pops some cd's into their player and finds out it's not music but porn.

Hmmm. The buffy and angel 'verse may have a new fan... ;-)


::hugs::
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, yeah, I'm really really upset about it, but when it comes down to what I actually lost, it's money and mostly some crack fic. And that book. So, I can't be too upset, especially since I finally got a job last year. I'm going to go ahead and decide on a new laptop this weekend, as I don't really see any reason to wait, and I want to horde up my backed up stuff and see what I really lost and this computer is so difficult it'd be hard to do that on. I think a big part of my upsetness is I was stupid enough to leave it in my car. I can't believe I did that.

I once saw some monkeys giving each other oral sex. It was really interesting, Kita.

Thanks, and I like your duck!
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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] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Monkeys, apes and people are the only animals who masturbate, and have sex just for pleasure. The More You Know. Heh.

I'm really sorry about your laptop. It's a nightmare, true. But OTOH, they didn't take it out of your house, and it doesn't have like, the only copy of your novel or something. It could have been a lot worse.

I love my ducky because he looks so calm on top, but he is paddling like hell underneath. Welcome to my metaphor!

SMOOOCH YOU
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
HEE!!! I was really embarrassed about it, but man, it was fun to write. Because William was this young, like, idealist, and he wrote poetry, but Liam wanted to use him for his propaganda. So Liam completely corrupted him. But Liam was very young too, even younger than Liam actually, but everyone forgot that because he ACTED so tough, because he'd been through a lot. And Liam thought that like, that kind of violence was the only way. And Liam made William read him his poetry WHILE Liam sucked him off. WHILE William still wore his glasses because Liam really liked them.

And then years and years later Angel make Spike wear the glasses while Spike sucks *him* off because he wishes he hadn't corrupted Spike and that Spike was still innocent and Spike never reads any more because he has to wear the glasses and the glasses are a BYGONE ERA because Spike is NO LONGER INNOCENT.

Aww, hell, I'm probably going to rewrite the damn thing anyway. It tickles me so much.

Thanks for your sympathy, hon.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I agree.

[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 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, yeah, I'm glad I'm okay too! Thanks :o)

Well, I don't have any cds with porn on them. The disk that's actually in the laptop itself is all text files, and some pictures of Rome, and shit like that. There's porn on the computer, but it's all text, and somehow I don't see Mr. Theif Man actually reading it. But dude, it would be so funny if he did! I mean, okay, if I was the type to steal laptops? I'd probably check and see what that person was into. Why not? It's definitely amusing to think about, anyway.

Thanks again ;o)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
The thing about the monkeys was that one was eating the other out and a third was watching. So I was wondering, do monkeys get off on voyeurism? I mean because for me, one of the things that's sexy about voyeurism is, I dunno, there's something a little illicit about it. I mean, even if it's with full consent of both parties, it's like, shouldn't you be doing this *with* me? So yeah, the element of wrong. I mean, would a monkey get off on the element of wrong? DO YOU SEE WHY I HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING AT NIGHT?

It could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, exactly.

he looks so calm on top, but he is paddling like hell underneath

That is exactly why I loved him!
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[personal profile] rahirah 2007-03-09 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Jebus. I'd almost rather they steal my car than my computer. I hope the police recover it, though I know that's a long shot.
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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.

[identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Uhm. I can see why you have trouble sleeping if you worry about the morality plays of monkey sex, yes.

You should know that female chimps are now making tools. Not using things in nature for tools. Making new ones. For hunting. Only the females. This makes me happy.

OTOH, maybe next they'll make vibrators.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I guess I should report it. I wasn't going to because my car doesn't have that kind of insurance, but I guess if on the off chance of the laptop ever showing up...it'd probably be wiped, anyway.

Actually, the few times I've left my laptop in my car before, I thought: what if someone stole my car!!!!! And the concern was about my laptop, more than the car. But in the end, the car would be a *lot* more money to replace, and there's just not that much that was really important on my laptop that wasn't backed up. I mean, there's quite a bit, and I'm sad, but not the cost of a car quite a bit.

And thanks.

[identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Have you read Sex, Specs & Mrs. Smith and The Four Eyed Leprauchan on StA? If not, you should. They hit the glasses kink pretty hard. I <33's them.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know that! Awesome!

I think it'd be great if they made vibrators. See, now, this makes me wonder if monkeys use foreign objects. I guess the root of the issue for me is a curiosity about how much our psychology drives our sexual impulses/practices, and how much is more hormonal/physical.

Once, in Scottland, there were dispensors in the ladies' room where you could put in a pound or three and buy a vibrator, right there in the pub. Fabulous idea.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
No! Awesome! Thanks.

Yeah, huge glasses kink, here. Esp. when someone is self conscious about them, and their lover wants him/her to keep them on because he/she finds them sexy. I just find that so incredibly sweet, and I don't know *where* I got that one.

[identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well that's why I think it's fascinating that only chimps and great apes use sex for pleasure and not just procreation. I mean, there's no evolutionary reason for chimps to go down on one another.

As for people, for sure our biggest sexual organ is our noggins.

I wonder about things like shame. If we had no shame, what would we do differently?
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[personal profile] rahirah 2007-03-09 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's definitely worth reporting it - we used to have a lot of break-ins in this neighborhood back when the place down the street was some kind of shady drug den. We had three robberies in five years, I think, and on one occasion the police actually did get some of our stuff back.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder about things like shame. If we had no shame, what would we do differently?

Which is actually kind of like wondering about the morality play of monkey sex. No really.

Well, what I mean is, shame can turn you on. Without shame, some things wouldn't be as sexy.

But without shame, there'd be more sexual freedom, wouldn't there? Which I would like. But then if there was no shame then would there be no privacy?

And guilt is pretty much my most treasured emotion, ever. Without it, I think I'd be a much lesser person, because I firmly believe I am not naturally nice, honest, generous, anything (I also firmly believe some people *naturally* are. My mom, for instance). It's because of guilt I do most things I feel are really great.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's good to hear! I'm glad you got some stuff back. And also glad to note your implication that the place down the street from you is no longer a shady drug den. Yeah, that's scary.

I guess I will. I wasn't even thinking about how if the guy just randomly got arrested with it on him, which is yeah, unlikely, but totally possible, I could have it back. Thanks!

[identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, I got the morality play monkey thing was about shame. I was just teasing you about it. ;)

I agree that guilt is an important leash for a large portion of humanity. I believe that people like your mom are pretty fucking rare. I *don't* believe in the basic goodness of humanity, unfortunately. I have debates about this all the time with Fod, actually.

Shame and guilt are different though, IMO. Guilt is more between people, or a person and general society, whereas shame is internal, or between one person and their conscience or Higher Power, if you will. I have to work very hard to eliminate shame from my own brain, probably because of my history of sexual abuse. Guilt, OTOH, is in my blood, man. I'm a Jew. ;)

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