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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2008-09-20 11:24 am

again: no, seriously, WTF?

I don't like being woken up at 4:10am as it is, but I really really really hate being woken up at 4:10am by some maniac firing a gun on the street right outside my window.

At first I thought it was a car backfiring, but cars don't backfire six times, one right after the other, or shout "Yeah, bitch!" at the end. Then, after roommate and I got up to call the police, I wondered if it's a sign of American desensitization to violence that I was mostly irritated about being woken up, instead of freaked out/upset at the fact that there was some seriously unstable person with a deadly weapon maybe fifty feet away from me (and that we were separated by the flimsy barrier of house siding, insulation, and drywall). At any rate, the police came by and found no one dead or bleeding in the street, just two sleepy and disoriented graduate students and two hysterical dogs.

The Second Amendment and some of its interpreters have a lot to answer for.


Will hopefully have something to post that is not whiny, bitchy, or about depression soon. It might even be SGA related. It might even have porn.

[identity profile] beadattitude.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
::snugs:: Been thinking about you, kiddo.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs you up* As soon as I can get past my Sheppardian awkwardness with talking about feelings and things, I am going to email you! It is allll sorts of stupid right now, Beads.

[identity profile] beadattitude.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Not stupid. Human. And I'd like to point out that I initially misspelled "stupid." Ahem.

[identity profile] elli.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
*bighugz*

porn=good :)

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, it is, and very much needed, I can tell you! *hugs*

[identity profile] villainny.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*squishes*

Apparently the guy who used to live in this apartment had a gun, and took potshots at pigeons in the middle of the night! I kind of like that over here that's rare enough to make me go D:!

I shall buy an airbed soon, and it's yours if you wanna come stay somewhere you're more likely to get woken by enormous bald men than guns.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I could handle enormous bald men--actually, I can sleep through many things, just not gunfire :|

[identity profile] thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yikes! That is very disturbing. ::hugs you::

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
/o\ The street I live on is usually quite sane... I'm not sure what was up last night!
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[identity profile] kashmir1.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs you tight*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
♥♥♥♥♥♥ *cuddles*

[identity profile] thisissirius.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
*squishes*

it should all be about the porn!

not the guns D:

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yis, I am a lover, not a fighter!

[identity profile] courtberger.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

Porn is good, gunfire at 4 in the morning is not. I really hope your day gets better!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortunately, I have eaten a lot of homemade ice cream, which has improved my day quite a bit :)

[identity profile] courtberger.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Rock on! I had beer. Two beers, but it's been awhile for this old woman, lol! Yeah, okay, so 28 is not old, but after the overtime I've worked for the past two weeks, two beers and I'm feeling pretty good :)

[identity profile] cathalin.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking about you, hoping things were stabilizing a little for you? I hope you're feeling a little better? Being woken up like that sounds horrific, yikes.

I've been so stressed and busy due to work/family, I haven't been around much, but I keep looking at your art for my story and just--being in awe. I'm working myself around to taking a stab at trying to articulate all I see in it. And I feel so stupid about visual/art stuff, but I'm going to try, anyway! I'll let you know when I get my thoughts together and post something. It's still one of the most amazing things I've ever gotten.:)

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs* I'm feeling... stable? Which is good, I think, and it's not such an effort to get things done, which is even better. I've found I tend to crash pretty heavily and dramatically, all at once... hopefully this realization about myself will lead to fewer hand-wringing posts in the future.

I've been so stressed and busy due to work/family, I haven't been around much

I hope you get a chance to breathe very soon! When you have been posting of late, things sound all crazy for you. (And seriously, don't worry about it! That you like it makes me very happy ♥)
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[personal profile] grammarwoman 2008-09-20 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
People are strange, scary, and stupid, and usually all at once!

Will hopefully have something to post that is not whiny, bitchy, or about depression soon.

May your happy curve be ever increasing!

It might even be SGA related.

*(metaphorical) ears perk up*

It might even have porn.

Yesssss!!!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
May your happy curve be ever increasing!

It has reached a sort of plateau of blah (a lot of it has to do with the strange, scary, and stupid aspects of the world all making themselves known at once), but I have to say, glasses!Rodney cheers me up immensely ♥

[identity profile] less-star.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, the real world can be sad and scary, sometimes! Have a hug: *hugs*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It all too often is :( *hugs*

[identity profile] pollitt.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs you*

Yay Porn!

Hugs you again.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Soon, I hope! If I am not interfered with by roommates or gun-toting psychos again :D

[identity profile] pollitt.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
If I am not interfered with by roommates or gun-toting psychos again :D

Hopefully not! I shall cross my fingers for you :)

[identity profile] dancink.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Eeek. See, this is why I'm glad I live in Australia, even if it does suck in other ways - the domestic that took place last night at 2 am in the driveway of the block of units next to ours didn't involve firearms. Just, you know, jealous ranting and quite a lot of door-slamming.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
We get that sort of thing too (and have gotten it, omg), but I wonder how different it would be to know that the likelihood of guns being brought into the dispute is minimal instead of quite likely.

[identity profile] perspi.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
*many hugs to you, even though they're rather late*

I totally fangirl you, you know--everything I've ever seen from you has made me all warm and fuzzy. And gleeful.

*sends you a Shep in bed to keep you company*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sheppards in beds are the best things! *hugs you up*