Drive-By Post Before I Vanish To Do Laundry

[redbrunja]

Someone online mentioned a Beauty & The Beast Castle that I need to go see while I'm in France. Is this ringing anyone's bells?

Also...

-What does Gojyo's shampoo smell like? I assume, with his hair, he probably using something fairly quality, but I can't think of what. I'm tempted to go with Tea Tree Oil Shampoo, which smells minty and green and tingles pleasantly, but since that's what I use, I'm not sure it's allowed.

-During the summer pzb, my mother, possibly renegadekitsuneand I had a conversation about the ikkou's musical taste, which is notable for the way every single person said immediately, 'Gojyo listens to rock.' Which is kind of a gimme, but still, aren't we sympathico? So my question is, what are the ikkou's musical guilty pleasures? What is the music that Gojyo plays that Hakkai actually likes? For Gojyo himself, I think he wouldn't admit to liking Ray Lamontagne, but would because that artist  has this wonderful sense of romance combined with the doubt that love even exists. (Go listen to "Jolene" - it's gorgeous and totally on my 'Forget Me Not' playlist, and only smillaraaqis going to know what that means.) 

Also, I went to Giverny today, which is where Monet painted and it was utterly gorgeous and so, so peaceful, I just wanted to stay there listening to music and looking at the flowers, in this lovely, hazy misty morning, with a truly lovely dove-gray sky and the birds chirping.

What was less fun was that while I was walking to Monet's house I had my head turned and walked straight into the lamp post that was for some unfathomable reason in the middle of the sidewalk. Seriously, it was a total slap-stick moment; I expected to see Charlie Chaplan hanging around. Almost as painful as it was embarrassing.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, Sanzo is SO allergic to change it's not even funny. Cause to enjoy change, you have to a.) expect that life is going to get better and b.) be comfortable not being totally in control, both of which... Gojyo is not good at those.

And you have a really good point about Gojyo having internalized his mothers ideas about him being ugly. Like, that scene that multiple authors have written about rubbing mud into his hair as a kid to make it not red is totally canon in my head.

And "eating bitter" is the perfect way to describe Sanzo.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

"And "eating bitter" is the perfect way to describe Sanzo."

Doesn't it just? That's why I pegged him as being Shaolin Buddhist even though he has probably never been to the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province.

Heh. I don't blame him for being less than thrilled with change and not being in control of his life. It's been my experience than life does not improve or, in the rare instances it does improve, the improvement doesn't last long.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a control-freak who doesn't have total control over everything.

*nods*

And yeah, cause who doesn't love being Kannon's bitch? I mean, I love the girl dearly, but I would not want her to have a hand in MY life.

I have to admit, change for me is usually good - or at least, the awesome things stay, but change... even when it's good, it is by it's very nature stressful, which sucks.

And maybe you should start glueing the good changes with superglue to get them to stick? Because live is change, all change equal bad has just got to suck.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

It's hard not to be bitchy and depressed when the good things seem so small and far apart. I try to cling to the little joys that pop up, but letting them go hurts something aweful.


I think I'd blow a gasket if Kanzeon ever showed up. I love her too, but she'd drive me batty. Then again, I wonder if that what my gods are doing: Making my life hell to make me better. I just wish I knew what the plan is. Nothing like striving for a goal when you don't even know what the goal is.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I... have nothing helpful or comforting to say. You're making me super-grateful for my life, though, touch wood. (Does that sound aweful and bitchy? I don't mean to.)

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Not at all. You should be grateful you're doing all right. And there's no need to feel guilty for having good fortune. You deserve to have a good things as much as anybody else does. :)


TBH, I probably don't have a right to complain. Some of the things that happened to me are/were my own damn fault. My present poverty is due to my refusal to give up trying to make a living as an artist and go get a normal job (that I would loathe) like everyone else. =-P

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Everybody should have a good life, with only enough tradegy to appreciate what they have. Except for those people who deserve to live suffer.

Seriously? All regular jobs you hate that much? *raises eyebrows*

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Let's put it this way. The only jobs available to me are the kinds that I loathe. Low pay customer service type jobs. I am not a social animal, I do not like lying to or screwing over customers, and I don't like talking on the telephone. -_-

Trust me. It's not for lack of looking that I've rarely found and been hired for a job that I like.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Also:

Nobody pays to do the kinds of jobs I would like to do. Things like library technician aide, filing, data entry, etc. Things that don't require interaction with customers. The libraries here take only volunteers and work study students. The other kinds of jobs are always lumped in with receptionist/ secreterial positions which means I'd have to do telephone duties and talk to customers.


I don't expect you to understand why I don't like normal jobs.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That makes total sense, and I understand completely. I also lack the receptionist gene. I can do it for about 3 hours per week (part of my workstudy job) and then my brain becomes mush.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

:-D Okies. I worked for Choice Hotels for a year and a half. I was reasonably good at it I guess. I do have good people skills, but the concept of the job itself sucked. If we had been required to only look up information and make the reservations the customers wanted it wouldn't have been so bad. Still, being literally tied to a phone for 6 to 8 hours is not at all fun.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Nope.