kismet, OTC, the pain of OTPs, saff momentarily loses her mind, the art of card writing....

I deleted my previous entry cos I realize, as I'm winding down my final exams, I can start to breathe, relax a little more, and use my brain for more interesting things than spam.

Okay, so I'm still an organizational wreck, but I can at least attempt to write something collected. *G*

I'm sitting here, writing out christmas cards, I mean, my non-denominational holiday cards, and in some of them, I sound like I'm writing a teacher type of evaluation: I have enjoyed seeing your artwork progress over the year, your writing continually astounds me, I think you are beautiful and talented and interesting and I would like to have your Sekrit Kittens...

Okay, so that's not going on a teacher evaluation anytime soon, and No, I didn't really write that on anybody's card. But yeah, I'm having a hard time writing some of my cards, because there's so much I want to say with some peoples' cards...but I don't want to come on too strong, you know? I mean, everyone one on my friends list is talented and attractive (shut up, you all are gorgeous) and I really appreciate and enjoy reading your little notes...or your long diatribes on LJ, and because we have this tenuous connection via this 'journal community,' for some of you, I think we're actually very close acquaintances who never speak to each other, but I get you...as much as you allow me to get you anyway, and for some others....you finish my sentences and my thoughts, and even when we're not talking to each other, I think of you in my real life existence, like I see a cd or a poster, and I think, "so and so would like that" or "Hey, so and so's crush is on a magazine, I'll tell them when I get home..."....you exist for me like my real-life, off-line friends. And I think LJ's a really cool place for that.

Thank you to sihaya09 and antigone921, I got your looooovely cards today, and for the kismetcoincidence part of the subject line - antigone921 "Run" is on my Get Recced 2003 CD as well! I actually did a little dance when I got your cds. Thanks so much for passing on the musical gold. ;)

Now....let's talk about that shipping meme that's spluttered around on some friendslists. I didn't fill it out, because I actually didn't have an OTP -not so much as I have an OTC. A One True Character, that I would go to the ends of the earth for, didn't matter what they did, I would love them forever and ever, and whoever they loved, I would generally accept with good grace - and if you didn't know me by now...Buffy's my OTC.

But then I discovered, possibly due to my reaction to some spoilers I read, that I did in fact have an OTP, a real one, not a joking one, because when I found out that well....I was genuinely distraught.

Ah, so that's why you shouldn't have OTPs....or read spoilers but I'm weak, I've never been anything but weak, but it's not the end of the world.

That's progress, people. *G*

Anyway, I just wanted to share. Have fun at RoTK tonight, to those on my friendslist who are going.....or are already there. *G*