low, flying planes

[sigerson]

I'm in the airport on my way to the AAR, with a few hours to kill before my flight to Chicago. It's a beautiful day, and the planes are taking off right in front of my window. I'm not quite yet ready, I think, to be saturated with nollij, but I'll be there by the first session tomorrow.

For a few reasons that don't bear explaining on Livejournal, I am pretty low. Therefore, I am making a blatant plea for internet sympathy and combining it with a distraction technique.

So here's my offer.
If you comment, I will reply to your comment with one of three things:
--a costume item that suits you
--a happy memory of you
--a haiku based on a topic you suggest.

Of course, replies may be delayed till I can find some available Chicago webbernets, but I promise a reply to all of them.

And now, I'm going to eat my damn Butterfinger.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

*hug* Have an awesome time at AAR! I think you are fabulous.

(And I would happily accept your suggestion of a costume item; a happy memory; or a haiku on the subject of cheese.)

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Ioka Valley Farm. I had maple on pancakes yesterday and thought of you, and Yao smuggling in the sugarfree syrup...

And here's a haiku "found" from a Very Bad Poem.

We have seen the Best
Of cheese, lying gently at its
ease, smelling like feet


wait, it didn't include that line...

[queenofhalves]

hee! i want a costume item!

say hi to AAR for me. ;>

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

You get the superfabulous one. Nettuno, in a Monteverdi Opera I did wardrobe for, had a giant circular cape--with its hem fully stretched, it covered a 10' radius, out of shimmering blue china silk. For you, I offer a version of the same, but in greens and greens and greens.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

BUTTERFINGER!!!!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Crispy, crunchy joy
The bar explodes in crumbles
All over my shirt

Long-distance sympathy from a local area code...

[anu3bis.livejournal.com]

*air hug!*

Here's a distraction I can offer: while you are flying, take the time to enjoy the clouds. They're freakin' _beautiful_ from the air.

Re: Long-distance sympathy from a local area code...

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Oo, good call.

Unreachable landscape
Billowing swells and mist plains
Who would not walk there?

[firynze.livejournal.com]

*commentcommentcomment*

Mmm, Butterfinger. Enjoy that.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Hats!
Hats are funny!


An elaborate jeweled turban, with a gem in the center like a hen's egg. Big swathes of gold and crimson silk, wrapped so much it looks like it's trying to eat your head.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

A costume, please. Or, you could write a haiku about frogs.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I think you need gloves.
I think you need elbow-length white gloves with white embroidery, tiny pearls all alng the hem and the edge. I think they need to have a design embroidered so subtly into the back that you can only tell it's there when the light slants just right. I think they need to have a tiny cutaway pattern in the palm of your hand.

[ppaladin.livejournal.com]

I want a costume item!

[ppaladin.livejournal.com]

Also, http://gizmodo.com/5072229/amazing-costume-is-either-a-kid-dressed-as-a-mech-or-a-mech-dressed-as-a-kid

[cute-fuzzy-evil.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're feeling down... *hugs*.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Leaving the home hug
into the hug of heartland
let it lift me up.

[cybersattva.livejournal.com]

Awww, sorry you're feeling down. If any of the Philly contingent can help, please let us know.

I always enjoy costume ideas or happy memories.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Just distract me or tell me it'll all be okay.

Remember being Lloyd the Bartender? I found a picture of that a little while ago. Beautifully creepy and elegant.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Happy memory!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I have a picture of you, Nate Dean, and someone whose name I've forgotten, doing the "Hi! My Name is Joe!" dance in the Academy dining hall. You're really rocking out.

Which also reminds me of chopstick day and finger food day at the dining hall...

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

:-( I am sorry that you are low. I will take a costume item for cheering-up purposes.

Mmmm, Butterfinger.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Wait, my boots didn't show up! I had written out a set of awesomeboots for you to wear! And for you to crush your enemies! Perhaps Logan's wifi is not what I might have hoped.


Instead of awesomeboots, I shall then outfit you with the special set of Sensible Mary Janes...designed by James Bond's Q. I wouldn't adjust that buckle while you're near anything flammable.

[heef.livejournal.com]

Navel haiku plz kthx.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Look within, but start
Where you joined another once
Omphalos vision

[archaica.livejournal.com]

do eet.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Mr. Archaica. Sir. I believe you are in need of a zoot suit. A fiiiiine zoot suit with pinstripes, green pinstripes on black, with an appropriate fedora, violin case, and arch glare.

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

May Butterfingers and Chicago lift your spirits. Life is good, and soon that fact will re-apparate itself to you, Meanwhile, you should clearly write a haiku about pork.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Piglet, despair not:
Someday you shall prove to be
The best of the wurst.

[chezyl.livejournal.com]

Why is it that you come to Chicago when I leave for Pittsburgh? How long are you in town?

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I leave Monday evening--you around for lunch that day, maybe?

Alas, it is because the universe conspires against us. However, I am full of German right now. BRAUHAUS RULES.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sorry you're feeling down. Everything will be all right.
Have a good time at AAR.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

All will be well and
All shall be well and all kind
Of things shall be well.

A little unoriginal but it works, haikuwise.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

I would like a haiku...about SCIENCE!

Or, actually, what I'd like best is for you to get a big hug. It's hard to send those through the net, but be hugged.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I got a lot of happy Germans, does that count?

And I have a cat at the foot of my futon who's assiduously licking herself. That counts for a good .60 of hug.

Beadie is so cute. I'm sure after she sleeps on my face I'll be less happy, but right now she's so cute. She's half the size of Oob and extra cuddly!


My jetpack, you fools!
Its power is beyond your weak
comprehension!

For it is fueled not
by oil, gas, or such gauche things
but by pure SCIENCE!

[rissymonster.livejournal.com]

Love and hugs to you.

Happy memory, please!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Acapulcolypse.

Or watching Twin Peaks--
or the fourth season of Babylon 5 at your apartment! I remember we fastforwarded just too much and saw SHADOWS OMFG IN EARTH SHIPS WTF. (Hmm, internet speak actually describes my reactions well here.)

[ltlbird.livejournal.com]

Hey, aren't we supposed to give you things to cheer you up?

It's not exactly a memory of a specific event, but thanks to you, I will never be able to sing the little teapot song with a straight face, and that is a very happy thing.

*big hugs*

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I subscribe to the hobbit version of things, where we give away things to bring us joy!

I like making stuff, especially intellectual stuff, and I'm so happy to have the chance to do it online. It's cheering me greatly.

And I'll share the Uno visit after hte first designated shopper party...

[sexybadpnomamma.livejournal.com]

I too am very sorry you're not at your happiest. But you know what will cheer you up? Writing a haiku about Colonel Tigh!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Sad bald man! Your eye
looks upon a sad landscape
[SPOILER] [SPOILER] you.

[megastoat.livejournal.com]

I do not approve of unhappy sigersons -- I hope that your awesome self-prescribed medicine is doing the trick!

(a costume item would be awesome, but so would haiku about ninjas)

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I think you need some serious 1920s flapper action. I think that it involves a perfect cloche hat with a fabulous feather, in a blue/gold combination, with fringe and beads and a totally punkass cigarette holder.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

WOO WOO! WHICHEVER YOU PLEASE.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

CAPSLOCK MY PRIME JOY
WITHIN MY SANS SERIF WORLD
I HAVE SEEN IT ALL

[2h2o.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're not feeling well, but Chicago is fun! I highly recommend Gino's East.

And, um, I like this game. Haiku topic: the spleen.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice

It held our anger
in medical theories of bile
now where shall it vent?

[pantshead.livejournal.com]

I'm betting you deserve the damn Butterfinger! On account of exceeding awesomeness!

I welcome all forms of silliness...PoC suggests a haiku about teenagers wearing lame costumes ("no, my Yankees hat *is* my costume") trick-or-treating, but you may not find that to be very workable!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm serious.
This hat? It's my whole costume.
What, no more candy?

[shellaby.livejournal.com]

You don't have to do anything for me, but I hope you feel better soon.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I appreciate the thought.

I still think you need a thing...perhaps a costume thing...perhaps a lace mantilla, black, spanish-style, with carefully handmade work and a high comb to hold it in place.