Revenge of the Stingy Thing, plus a Poll

[ship_go_boom]

You know how yesterday I said that a particular yellowjacket was cute?  Well, I think that some little wasp-type thing (only a little bigger than a sweat bee, but wasp-shaped and with a stinger to match) heard abut it and got offended.  The little bastard managed to land on the inside of my pants without me noticing when I put them on, and stung me at least four times before I could get them off again.  Ouch.  At least I'm not allergic.  Yet.  Between family history and the number of times I've gotten stung, it's pretty much a given that I'll start to react someday.

On the upside, my financial aid check showed up.  ::happy dance::  There are two ways to look at it: either I have paid for my laptop and come out fifty bucks richer, or I ignore the whole computer-expense thing and pretend I have easily enough money for gas, next semester's books, and to spare.  Either way, it's very difficult to resist the urge to celebrate by way of an item of JM (to readers at the Wood: if you need to ask, you may not be geeky enough for me to tell you) audio-visual goodness.  They're (as some may know) very expensive ($30 for DVD, $20 for CD,  either $45 or $30 for the first Dresden Files audio, plus shipping and handling - eek!).  I wish I was better at resisting, but everyone is squeeing so...  Somebody stop me?


[Poll #822750]

There are a couple other things I want to ask, but I either can't put my finger on exactly what they are or they fall into the category of My Own Problem (like what the frilly heck do I do with Xander?  The bunny hasn't told me).

Comments

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Bad yellowjacket!!

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

Share my lunch with it, and what does it do? Sics it's friends on me.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Xander - I think either shoot him or save him!

Nasty flying beastie! Swatting is not good enough for it!

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

*g* Xander always does seem to need saving of some sort. Shooting may be an option, as well. Whatever I do, the real trick is going to be doing it without anyone noticing that he's being played by a cardboard cutout in an eyepatch. :/

[moss6886.livejournal.com]

like what the frilly heck do I do with Xander?


Ummm. In what sense do you mean??????

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

Do you try to be gutterbrained?

I can tell you what I won't do with him, though. His time in Africa will not have made him in any way more ruggedly handsome and buffed out than before (in fact, he will have become skinny). Nor will he be desperately bereft of everyone and in need of snuggles (he's had enough contact to send a mbuna fish to Andrew, for crying out loud). I also plan to avoid most other Post-NFA Spander cliches, as well. And no, he will at no point engage in any illicit activities with Spike. Just in case you were still hoping. ;)

Unfortunately, without relying on cliches I have nothing for Xander to do. I can't even get him to quip properly, let alone move a scene forward. :/

And why do we post comments at each other when we're at most fifteen feet apart? 4-10 at the time of the original post.

[moss6886.livejournal.com]

No. It's a gift...


More ropy than skinny, I suspect. And those cliches are not limited to Spander! So there!

No illicit behavior? Well, poop. Where's the fun in that? ;)


Because we're easily amused.

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

Okay, "ropey" just means skinny with muscles.

And maybe I haven't waded through enough crapfic, but poor widdle Xander running away to Africa and not talking to anybody from Sunnydale because he's too impossibly sad is pretty much a Spander thing (I'll admit that the buffing up is more general).

Well, if you ask really nicely, I may include some butt-patting.

Translation: boredboredboredbored