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Feb. 5th, 2001 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
viedmaHi ho, Mary the Schons here, reporting live from the Excel Intermediate classroom...
Yes, this definitely beats working in the lab, and i kinda sorta not really remember the class from when i was in it a couple of years ago. In case you were in that class with me, i was the annoying one that almost knew what she was talking about, but not really. I'm the living embodiment of the saying, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Even so, I am getting a perverse pleasure out of one of my pompous ass officers fucking up right and left. Call me petty.
Maybe i can work on The Sentinel script MST while i'm in here. Holy crap, will i be glad when that's done. I loved working on it yesterday, adding in random thoughts, hoping that this part was funny, hoping that part didn't suck rocks, that sort of thing. But man, trying to be funny is tough. I tried to imagine the guys MiSTing movies year after year, and the brain locks up. I'd be a very bitter person if i did it all the time. Every now and then it's fun, but all the time? No way.
(Having said that, i'm thinking of future MST projects and how to wreak havoc next)
Mostly, i keep doing it not because i think i'm goddess of comedy writers, but that 1. TS *must* be MiSTed, it's a moral imperative, and 2. I get an almighty high when i can make someone laugh.
when someone laughs, and not just a polite chuckle, but a real honest-to-God belly laugh that makes their stomach heave and their eyes water, that makes me feel great. it doesn't happen that often, but i try. Family members, friends, and girlfriend are all test subjects. I'm thinking about the evening Vali and I watched "Mitchell" and she completely lost it, and that was so great- i'd never heard her laugh quite like that before, and it was really wonderful. She has a nice laugh.
I love to see people let go and enjoy themselves, period, even if i'm the butt off the joke. as long as i can orchestrate it on purpose, that is. I don't know how to explain that exactly- maybe it's like it's ok to laugh at me as long as you have my permission. Ahh- see the weak spot in the ego?
To paraphrase that solid block of testosterone Henry Rollins, "I'm a funny guy-- I'm funny *all* time. I'm not *happy* all the time, but that's fine. If i have to be something all the time besides *alive,* i may as well be funny."
Yes, this definitely beats working in the lab, and i kinda sorta not really remember the class from when i was in it a couple of years ago. In case you were in that class with me, i was the annoying one that almost knew what she was talking about, but not really. I'm the living embodiment of the saying, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Even so, I am getting a perverse pleasure out of one of my pompous ass officers fucking up right and left. Call me petty.
Maybe i can work on The Sentinel script MST while i'm in here. Holy crap, will i be glad when that's done. I loved working on it yesterday, adding in random thoughts, hoping that this part was funny, hoping that part didn't suck rocks, that sort of thing. But man, trying to be funny is tough. I tried to imagine the guys MiSTing movies year after year, and the brain locks up. I'd be a very bitter person if i did it all the time. Every now and then it's fun, but all the time? No way.
(Having said that, i'm thinking of future MST projects and how to wreak havoc next)
Mostly, i keep doing it not because i think i'm goddess of comedy writers, but that 1. TS *must* be MiSTed, it's a moral imperative, and 2. I get an almighty high when i can make someone laugh.
when someone laughs, and not just a polite chuckle, but a real honest-to-God belly laugh that makes their stomach heave and their eyes water, that makes me feel great. it doesn't happen that often, but i try. Family members, friends, and girlfriend are all test subjects. I'm thinking about the evening Vali and I watched "Mitchell" and she completely lost it, and that was so great- i'd never heard her laugh quite like that before, and it was really wonderful. She has a nice laugh.
I love to see people let go and enjoy themselves, period, even if i'm the butt off the joke. as long as i can orchestrate it on purpose, that is. I don't know how to explain that exactly- maybe it's like it's ok to laugh at me as long as you have my permission. Ahh- see the weak spot in the ego?
To paraphrase that solid block of testosterone Henry Rollins, "I'm a funny guy-- I'm funny *all* time. I'm not *happy* all the time, but that's fine. If i have to be something all the time besides *alive,* i may as well be funny."