Blacklight * By Mich Allen and Kara Dennison






'TARDIS is in my pants lolz.' by Kara
Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 7:46 AM

I'm starting to think people don't understand that I really do worry about them. (And no, this isn't in response to rant below ... well, it kind of is, but at least I know where she is.)

It's not a possessiveness thing, either. If someone is several hours late getting somewhere, or has been missing for several days and I haven't heard anything, then yeah, I freak. Especially when I know something bad has happened, I double-freak.

I'm pretty sure no one gets this at all. The Co-Writer with the Longest Hair was coming down to see other people this weekend (and not even saying hi? blah), and late in the evening I was called and asked if he'd come in, seeing as it had been about three hours since he left home and yer average driving time from his place is about two. No, I'd heard nothing. We both checked around, but someone had turned their cell off (not Co-Writer, seeing as he won't get one), and so several hours went by -- with me getting steadily more freaked.

I've been in accidents, see. I've been the missing person on, literally, the side of the road -- albeit not dead, obviously. I've had other people being the people on the side of the road who, fortunately when all was said and done, were okay. When someone who lives five minutes up the road takes an hour and a half to get in (this happened not long ago) and I can't reach their cell, I freak. And when there's a big blank where someone's supposed to be for several hours ... I freak.

I mean, sure. I'll get made fun of for it. I'll get told I need to chill out. I'll get told nothing's wrong. But I realise that my friends and I are of an age where we drive, we travel, we do a lot of things alone, we live in an age of cell phones and e-mail and instant contact, and we're all adults, and therefore responsible for ourselves. In my mind I'm still about ten (which means by reference all my friends usually are, too), but when someone goes missing I suddenly realise what age bracket we're all in, and I realise that you can't call a parent, they don't have a curfew, and odds are they're alone, wherever they are.

Fortunately, only one of my fears re: an accident has been deserving of worry (see the lady below), but even there things were okay. You'd think at this point I would calm down ... but anything can happen at any time. I know. I've been there. And I've worried people.

And my family and close friends -- my Co-Writers, the college friends I got genuinely close to who haven't drifted away, scattered con folk who've gotten to be more than just occasional buddies -- they're tops on my Worry List, and I really don't think that'll ever change.

If you have been, thank God.


Where's that sniper rifle? by Mich
Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 3:18 AM

So apparently I'm a Bad person now. Nevermind that it's me who is most affected. Nevermind that my roommates pretty much lock themselves up in their rooms when they come home.

So my neighbours have had a habit of turning their music up as loud as they can, and I mean LOUD. Like I might as well be in the same room as the stereo, except I can't turn it off. And then they aren't even home - it's like this for at least FOUR hours. And this after a very stressful day. I ended up having to drive to Hampton that night so that I could even get any sleep.

The next night they were about to do the exact same thing. I get home at a little after 5 and I can hear the music outside. This is after I had called the police last night and had an officer tell me that he wanted to give them a warning so that if they did it again he could drag them into criminal court. I had also called the complex and made sure they had gotten my messages. Obviously they did nothing. I was on the phone with my dad, outside because I couldn't hear anything in my own apartment (bass throughout the whole apartment, and in my room, again I could hear the music clearly) - well first I called the police. I wasn't going to deal with it. These are complete strangers and at this point I don't fucking care.

So I asked them if they were going to be leaving, and yes, I was starting to yell. Neither of my other two roommates had to listen to it at the level I did, nor did they have to be up early in the morning. Yes, I was going to yellat them to turn off their music because it's really loud and yes, I did call the police on them because they just left it on that last night and they need to be more considerate of their neighbours.

So today they had a party (I was at work till 10p, have to be in at 6:30a). Well apparently they asked my roommates about the party, told them about it. Well neither one of them told me. They could have easily called me, nope. SO I get home. I want to take a shower and go to bed and I hear music very clearly. I look out my window and I see that there are lights on next door, so I figure that if I went over and asked nicely if they maybe closed the porch door things would be ok. They were wrapping up and I was trying to be nice about it. I really was.

I come out of the shower and my roommate rounds on me yelling at me for being so rude to them. Fine they've given you good impressions, but if you really wanted to make sure I knew about the party, why didn't you call me? No, you come in and shut your door, I get home, one roommate isn't home, the other has her door closed, I don't want to get into a long conversation, so I just slip the shoes on and try to be polite (and I really think I was) to the neighbours about their music. I wanted to do it then, because once in my pjs I didn't want to go back out.

So now I'm the villain, I'm the mean one. I'm only the one who got chased out of my own room, my own apartment even because of their noise.

The Mich hates everyone.











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