androids dream of pink light

[kleenexwoman]

I'm not entirely sure what the word is for how I am feeling today. Not quite bummed, because I have too much energy to be merely bummed. Certainly not depressed, as I associate depression either with a deep cosmic nihilism or a preoccupation with one's own failings, and I don't feel cosmically nihilistic or self-flagellating today. Disgruntled, perhaps? Just not in a good mood and I feel like complaining loudly. (ETA: Aggravated, that's it. Thank you little hamster icon.)

For starters, my foot is injured. My poor poor foot. I can't walk on it and am hopping in a comical fashion around campus. Went to the CMU health center and was tapped on the face because I listed "Ear and throat problems" on the medical history list. I did discover that the only reason I had braces was because of my allergies, though.
Gah, my ickle metatarsals...they creak and grind in an alarming fashion when I put weight on them. I blame the six-mile walk I took last Thursday. Anyway, I've got painkillers which are giving me mild stomach cramps and aren't helping yet. If my foot is not happy by next week, I shall go in for X-rays from the grad students at the sports medicine center.

Also, I will not be going to see WHAT IS IT? and that is really pissing me off. I'm only TWO HOURS AWAY. TWO FREAKING HOURS. And nobody that I've talked to is going there and back on Saturday, it's either "I'll be there but I can't pick you up" or "I can bring you back on Sunday, get a place to sleep dood LOL". If it wasn't Ann Arbor, I wouldn't be so pissed about this. Instead, my tentative Saturday plans include (if not RPing), watching "Bartleby" beginning at 9:30, when WHAT IS IT? would be starting, then listening to "The Big Problem" and writing.

I've also just discovered another intensely amusing sockpuppet community. This one is called deadmentalking, and is for historical/dead realperson sockpuppets. I resolved to make one up for Philip K. Dick, the only dead person I feel I know well enough to pose as. I even checked out a couple of excellent fat biographies from the CMU library about him and spent last night alternating between working on a new time-travel story and reading about him.
So I get on today, ready to make up a new username. I was thinking something simple like phildick or horselover_fat (neither of which are registered) and making a shy, paranoid intro post. Something really PhilDickish.
Instead, I discover that between last night and 3 PM today, somebody has already taken him. _androids_dream. And I wouldn't mind so much if the player was better at him but they don't seem to be playing anything like him at all, just a random, slightly paranoid, slightly haughty sockpuppet with androids and pink light taped on.
I know it's probably very unreasonable of me to get upset over this, because I totally didn't announce my intention to take him or register a name, and I don't have a monopoly on PKD, and it's NOT a personal affront to me, and the player will probably get better as time goes on. But dammit, I was looking forward to joining with him.
ETA: Looked over his comments in other posts. ALL WRONG. ALL WRONG. ALL WRONG. _androids_dream, if you are reading this, or if someone who knows who they are is reading this, please E-mail me so that I can obsessively send you scans of photocopied interviews and be pedantic about things.
Anyway, I've still got sages_of_chaos that I can post on, and that should make me feel better, but it doesn't. By the way, drworm, feel like resurrecting (or re-animating) herbert_west and giving people in-character advice possibly involving zombies?

Comments

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

I have two words for you: BUS TICKET

C'mon. CRISPIN! Do you know how I am weeping with jealousy that he's come so close to you?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

No buses around Mt. Pleasant. No taxis. Nothing. I've checked multiple times. Nothing goes out of the city.
And even if there were, I have no money at all. I spent it all on the Matthea Harvey books.
:bangs head against desk:

[drworm.livejournal.com]

By the way, drworm, feel like resurrecting (or re-animating) herbert_west and giving people in-character advice possibly involving zombies?

I can't say that I don't, heheh. My main concern is just that I tend to do a rather poor job of keeping up character journals... though it would be pleasant to write as Herbert again. He always was so fun and, erm, 'easy' to play with.