are you there god? it's me, your elevator.

[soundczechfic]

When I got into my lift this afternoon it was speaking to me. I'd already started staring into the mirror inside, like I always do, trying to fix my hair and make my ugly jeans more presentable, so hearing someone speak to me kind of scared the shit out of me.

Disembodied voice: Hello?
Me: ! ....
DV: Hello?
Me: ... Hello...

I didn't even know my lift had this kind of capability. It's the oldest lift ever and doesn't work about 40% of the time. The building is only five stories including the basement, so it's not as if it has a heavy work load.

DV: Is anyone there?
Me: Why is my lift speaking to me...
DV: Hello? Hello? Hello?
Me: HELLO?
DV: OH! Is this WestCorp management...?
Me: No...
DV: I'm from Telstra, I'm calling to review this account.
Me: I... I just live in this building, I got into my lift...
DV: Pardon?
Me: I'm a resident in this building. I got in my lift and it started speaking to me.
DV: I called a lift?
Me: Yes...
DV: ...
Me: Maybe you could call back later...

Apparently WestCorp is my body corporate. I am completely unaware of these things. At first when she said WestCorp management I thought she said LexCorp and wondered if Sam had somehow set up a seriously elaborate prank.

I met up with giantessmess today and dragged her around on various errands as usual. At one point this woman came up to me and put her hand on my arm and I shrieked aloud in surprise and terror and it turned out to be an old high school friend's mother. Why is my life so incredibly humiliating. She asked me questions about what I was doing and I had to admit the humiliating truth that I am doing absolutely nothing. Then she asked me questions about high school friends and I was like, "um..." because I barely ever speak to anyone and had only the most basic facts about their lives. I am a horrible friend. Her daughter is overseas right now but I'd barely spoken to her for a year before she left anyway. Lately I've been dreaming about old friends a lot though. I had this dream that my family had a holiday apartment on an island and I went there with these two friends I had when I was twelve, and couldn't find my keys. It wasn't a very exciting dream, but when I woke up I felt really weird about it.

We went to this shop in Chinatown where they sell a lot of, idk, standard Asian shit and stationary covered in anime characters and dvds and vcds. There were all these photocards, giantessmess seemed really intrigued by them.

GM: Who are they, anyway?
Me: Like I'd know... oh wait, that's F4. They were in this Taiwanese drama, Meteor Garden, based on a manga I've read, Hana Yori Dango.
GM: ...
Me: :(

Then one of the songs from One Litre of Tears started playing and I nearly shrieked aloud. This is the same store Sam and I dragged her high school BFF through that time I met her. I've had a lot of really embarrassing moments in that store.

The other day I had to use my old notebook for something. In the front is some seriously horrid poetry. I opened the notebook and just stared at it. I would like to pretend this shit is from when I was like fourteen, but I was 18. This is the notebook I took to Greece when I went there after finishing high school. I thought I was so deep.

Walls stretch high above me
endless
in their stone confidence.
Their unshakable trust
in their own timeless beauty
frightens me, the
short and transient girl.
Here for but a moment -
A gunshot, a violent flash
of high beam headlights -
before snapping away
to nothing.
I am there, I am
here, but I
am never still.
Kinetic, frenetic, I
am but a moment's breath.
I am a butterfly flapping its wings.
I am the beating heart of a hummingbird.
Next to the ageless stretch of this cave,
I am nothing but a memory.
-14/12/02

My hands are tied
Into your fantasy
Of the way life should be.

Words are words.
A picture says exactly what it should.
To you,

Life is always
Exactly as it seems.
Open

Your foolish, hopeful eyes
And see,
Life is what it's meant to be.

Behind every word is a motive
And a story of a journey
And every picture is a moment

Fraudulent in passing time
Showing something
That was never really there at all.

Or there for that single,
Fleeting, fluttering,
Futile instant,

And then gone,
Swept away to the thick
And heavy quicksand

Of passing months and
Days and minutes.
Years.

Time passes and changes everything.
Today my words are honest,
But tomorrow shall make me a liar.

I just want to go back in time and tell myself to lighten the fuck up. Or, if I was going to be angsty, to at least try and make sense. Those are possibly the least embarrassing examples in the book, if that tells you something. It's weird not to be a teenager anymore because for so long after I turned 20 I still felt like I was, but now it feels as though years have passed and I am old already, wrinkles spreading out beside my eyes and arthritis knotting my knuckles together. I mean that's total bullshit, I'm only 22, but you know. It's weird to look at teenagers and think about how young they are.

Comments

[giantessmess.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the craziest things happen to you. The lift call is hilarious! I want a lift to call me.

I'm lurking on a european Blythe board right now. I don't know why it's so fascinating. If I tried to explain it it would be a bit like you explaining F4 ;p - Pages and pages of people discussing how they got into dolly collecting/who their favourite doll is/blah blah blah.

I wish I had lots of money so I could buy a giant whateverthehellitscalled bread cartoon toy. Dad was impressed by the mushrooms, but said something dorky like 'should have told me earlier, you could have put it in
to my miso soup!' when I told him about the evil shiitake mushroom.

I hate bumping into people like that. so much. I just remembered a recent occurance. mum bumped into a friend's mother, and she was asking lots of arsehollic questions about me - about jobs. and boyfriends. Lack of subtlety. Sometimes wanker-ish people like trying to give mum shit/pity about having a dykey daughter, and expect her to be traumatised by it. Mum's responses are like whatserface on queer as folk. (debbie? Michael's mum)
God I wish I didn't live so close to my old school.

You'll never see any of my old poetry. or new poetry. never writing it again. stupid subject.

Long comment time.

Fanfic. Be afraid.
(god. my fanfic is so lame looking back. ugh. If you laugh, I'll kill you)

baby snark - http://community.livejournal.com/femslash100/134164.html#cutid1

Creepy possession/slight smut Olivia/Mariska. you were warned. - http://community.livejournal.com/ob_fangrrl/197094.html

Oliska snark - http://community.livejournal.com/ob_fangrrl/215411.html

There's more. and one is brilliant. But too smutty, and I'm shy, and it's Julie's fault (I wrote it to get her to notice me. I'm sad).

Alex/Olivia badfic - http://community.livejournal.com/ob_fangrrl/218708.html

The rest requires too much explaination of the fandom context, and you'll be aall WTF???
I'll share this one anyway - http://community.livejournal.com/lawandorderfic/95611.html
There's one where Alex comes back from Witness Protection angst hell to find Olivia died while she was gone. Then Olivia's ghost possesses Casey so she can sleep with Alex. Alex freaks out because it's sexual assault on Casey. And it gets more angsty and fucked up and badly-edited. I became slightly nototious because of it. *nerd pride*
God you're a bad influence on me, I haven't thought of fanfic in ages.

oh, and Casey is the crap new lawyer character they brought in to replace Alex. She is the object of much hatred by some fans (what? not me).

[samenashi.livejournal.com]

BREAD, DO YOU MEAN KOGEPAN? I LOVE HIM.

[giantessmess.livejournal.com]

oh my god. YES! him. Kogepan. haha. God, he is made of awesome. We saw the strawberry on in that shop yesterday, and I was sad, because I don't want the stupid girl one.

Drunk on milk. God. I want him always.

[soundczech.livejournal.com]

They seem to always happen right before I meet you, too. Coincidence?

Write pic fic.

She grew Olivia out, strand by re-touched strand.

Monster Mariska actively scares me. I think I've caught your Mariska rage. The possession fic is seriously disturbing. I love you.

I am trying to find weird drabbles I have written now. I know they are somewhere. All of my most retarded drabbles depend on stupid in jokes though.

girl on girl akihabara@deep showering.

happy feet drabble. yes about penguins.

prince of tennis amputation drabble.

prince of tennis drabble; necrophiliac sequel.

this question and answer drabble meme i did where sam kept asking stupid disturbing questions to be a brat.

a nana drabble i am including because i really want you to watch nana.

[giantessmess.livejournal.com]

I must be cursed.

Damn Mariska. She's a very very bad character-deliverer. Enemy of fandom! See how she inspired creepy fic? I'm usually so docile and nice...
Casey also obviously incurred my wrath at some point.

I need to write Blythe pic fic! When I get broadband, so images are no longer hurty.

AWWWWW. NANA IS LOVE! Me wantee. The collarbone bit was the bit I liked most too ;)

The fifth one - with the tumour and ewww- made me laugh so hard, and I don't know why. It utterly rocks and is so very wrong.

haha, Penguin!fic I think I need to watch Happy Feet to get it (though 'need' is a stronger word than what I'm looking for...) I kept thinking of that story about the two boy penguins who got together and tried to hatch a rock.

Also, there should always be shower fic.