Not Good at Nice

My net exploded. AGAIN. I managed to deal with annoying-but-whatever access all weekend, but it just went out. Completely. I'm using a hijacked connection which isn't the best to get on, and am on the phone with Charter AGAIN. This morning it was 40 minutes holding, I called and spent 45 minutes on hold, called again and it was 30, only for them to disconnect me mid-rant. I might end up going to their offices tomorrow with a big stick.

So if I can't answer pings, that's why. Pages are loading slowly or not at all, or Gmail's not loading so I don't know where the pings are. I'm getting to things as fast as I can, but bear with me and hope I don't end up sitting in a corner eating my hair.

Numfar! Do the dance of wacky availability!

December continues its trend of stressing me out and this time it involves travel. Today I'm running around like a madwoman (shhh). Tomorrow I'll be running around like a madwoman with the added fun of having company over, and I'm pretty sure I'll be online very little, if at all tomorrow evening. However, considering I have to leave for the airport at freaking 4:00 in the morning, I'll probably be on all night as sleeping may be pointless. Not sure about the rest of the weekend yet, but assume I won't be around much and things will have to be SP'ed like woah.

And for the next two and a half weeks I will be staying at my parents' house. Which means I will be online during the day, but the tradeoff is that as people throw last-minute RL plans at me, I may have to disappear suddenly. I always give as much warning as possible, though, and again, SP is love.

*goes off to go crazier now, la*

So it's summer in the South and this means I have to play something out with my girl, and since this will affect how she interacts with people for the moment, you might need to know.

If you're not familiar with Farscape canon, Aeryn's not human. There aren't a ton of species differences, but the big one is that Sebaceans don't have the gland that regulates heat. This means when it gets too hot, they essentially go into a twitching coma death called heat delirium. Right now Aeryn has no idea everyone else won't get this way. (Braca doesn't count and please don't mention him to her.) I've been checking weather.com pretty much every day and it looks like this weekend will be when she finally figures it out.

Things like air conditioning mean that she's not going to get too bad. For the most part, people will just see her being irritable and a little sweaty. Aeryn's probably not going to be that forthcoming, either, so while she probably has nothing against your character, know that having your character talk to her in the next couple days will probably get them snapped at without explanation. Maybe a lot. Also, this is pretty much going to keep up as long as it's warm. I'll keep her indoors most of the time, but know that this is something you might run into in dealing with her.

So. Just FYI. =)

Typing this up mostly for newbies or people who aren't too scared to deal with my girl anymore. Just some general info, should you want to interact with Aeryn or should she try to talk you up.

( cut for the sakes of those who don't care )

Also, I have to say that I love each and every one of the newbies and all my characters and I have had a blast with you guys so far. =)

I have more OOC entires lately than IC. This will change. Later.

As of tomorrow I'm going to be a little unpredictable with my timing. Tomorrow I'll be on a plane (looking for snakes and/or Samuel L. Jackson) all afternoon, so unless there's something going on way early, I won't be around at all. Then until the 4th I'm going to be back home, which has its pros and cons. On the plus side, I'll be available during the day. On the minus side, as I only get to see my friends and family once or year or so, if they ask me to go out and do something, I'm going to have to ask to either slow-play a scene or get out of it quick. (And there may be added bonus fun of you saying "Hey, I thought you had to leave" and me answering "Yeah, they were spazzes and we're not going anywhere until 1 am now." It's happened.)

I will be reachable through E-mail and IM, though, so ping me if you need me and I'll be around.

Like you all don't know the drill by now. If you want a nice happy winter card (totally non-denominational, and usually with something completely inoffensive like penguins or something), drop a line in the nice happy screened comment post.

Can one of the bots open up the theater? I can't even log in under that account.

*puts out a hit on LJ*