Two very serious things.

[mrissa]

1. My face did freeze that way.

2. You know that meme that's going around, with all the checkboxes? Nobody on my friendslist has admitted to having been the psycho ex in a past relationship. I wonder if it would be different if it was, "I have been the heartless jerk who broke his/her heart." Or maybe you're all model exes; who knows.

Is this useful? Not at all, but I'm in a very odd mood for getting things done. Where by "very odd," I mean "silly and not very useful." I should probably go away from the computer so that I still have decent shoulder-time left when I'm feeling less silly. On the other hand, if I don't corral the brain now, it may run screaming off and not return for weeks and then with beads and feathers it got heaven knows where. I will write longhand tonight. Yes. I will write the end of "In the Velvet Swamp" longhand, since the rest of the story is longhand anyway, and it's probably good for me not to get too hooked into one mode in case I need to be in another for some reason. But before then I will make two little things in MSS go more sensibly. Really. Truly.

Comments

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I haven't done the meme, but I will assume that I have been seen as the psycho ex in at least one or two relationships (one because all his exes were psycho, and I didn't catch on to the one thing all those relationships had in common; the other because after he'd humilated me in public, betrayed agreements, and demanded things of me that he knew he could not get, I refused to forgive him and make nice). It happens.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

one because all his exes were psycho, and I didn't catch on to the one thing all those relationships had in common

Hah. I dated someone like that too. The rest of your description does not apply because he was awful differently than that...but I do recall, at the beginning when everything was still rosy, thinking, "how wacky that all of his former girlfriends were so 'possessive!' I will never be like that to him..."

Uh-huh.

Interestingly enough, I've met most of his exes. Every one of his exes were lovely, pleasant women, who didn't seem like they could possibly have ever been psycho. Something about breaking up with this person magically restores a gal's sanity, somehow...