MSA (Mrissa Service Announcement)

[mrissa]

I just wanted to let you all know that for the next two months or so, "You don't have to figure out which novel to write next right now," will be an adequate response to anything I say. Not perhaps an optimal one. But an adequate one.

Acceptable sample conversations:

"I'm going to Byerly's; do you want anything?"
"You don't have to figure out which novel to write next right now."

"I'm really concerned about [friend or family member]."
"You don't have to figure out which novel to write next right now."

"Which way do I turn at 44th?"
"You don't have to figure out which novel to write next right now."

"Are you thinking of coming to 4th St. next summer?"
"You don't have to figure out which novel to write next right now."

Etc.

You can talk about other things, and I hope you do. But when in doubt and all that...I probably will need to hear it that often. I have a metric buttload of revision to do, and short stories, and like that. So really, I don't, and I shouldn't. But -- well. I've said it to myself at least three times today. So I thought I would enlist the Greek chorus on this one.

Comments

[vahepeatus.livejournal.com]

"So I thought I would enlist the Greek chorus on this one."

What an useful device that would be, I wonder why have I not thought of something like that before! There could have so many misunderstandings avoided if only I had recorded my Greek chorus of the moment along with whatever else I had been telling on LJ! (the only addition should be that sometimes I want it to be SILENTLY THINKING OF Greek chorus).

And the issues that my Greek chorus keeps repeating to me can also be just silly obsessions. Like right now - Swedish war moose! (http://moosefarm.newmail.ru/why-en01.htm)


"Swedish army had moose troops, but only until real battles. Moose turned out to be wiser then their knights, they left battlefield to hide in the nearest forest if danger occured. After several hundreds of years this experience was unlearnt. When the USSR decided to become worldwide, in the 1930s, war-moose were expected to solve the problem of deep snow cross-country cavalry passability. Moose were trained to carry armed riders and not to be gun-shy."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is the most awesome thing a Greek chorus has ever repeated.