"Off to the Races, the Royal Races..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

So, let us say that you are starving to death, a slightly melodramatic term that can either refer to hyperbole and mean merely that you are extremely hungry, or else literalism and mean that you are truly going to die of hunger and lack of food.

Let us say that you are employing this term because you have not eaten in eight hours and everyone else is going to to a nice restaurant that you cannot go to because you are you and have your own situation; let us say also that you cannot eat anything at home, for some inconvenient reason, say, the power has gone out and all your dietary foodstuffs are rendered inedible when not cooked.

What, then, is your solution?

Apparently, hibernation.

You wake up three hours later and deduce, despite the darkness of your room, that the power is back on, due to the fact that your alarum clock is flashing a time roughly equivalent with 12:45 am.

What do you do now?

Come downstairs and have supper, for which you are about to die. Because you have slept all this time, you have fourteen points left, and thus treat yourself to an entire chicken breast, for the first time in a while, an apple you discover hidden somewhere, two slices of dietary bread hidden in the back of the refrigerator, an entire pot of frozen yellow beans, and, because you still have seven points left after all of this, a very small bag of dietary potato chips.

Thus, having eaten something at long last, and feeling rather as though you truly have been starving to death and cannot believe you've finally obtained food, you creep into the next room, log on to the computer, and proceed to make a post detailing the incident in the most pretentious terms, despite the fact that there is nothing even remotely remarkable about it.

Except that now you know how hibernation works. When there's no food, you go to sleep! Simple.

Also you have discovered that you are an idiot.

Comments

[mhari.livejournal.com]

*laughs delightedly*

Pretentious? You have just managed to make "took a nap, had dinner" into several entertaining paragraphs. Around here we call that "creative".

*loves on* Also, yay dinner.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*giggles and ducks head*

Well. I thank thee, milady, indeed I do, although I do fear thou dost too greatly praise my o'er-completelyridiculous word.

<3! ^__^ Yes. Dinner has officially improved my outlook on live exponentially.

[bewareofitalics]

And this would be why I usually sleep through most of Yom Kippur. *g* Which is so defeating the purpose of the fast, but... yeah.

And ack, don't let yourself go so long without food in the first place! *hugs*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yes, that seems eminently sensible. And it really does work...! *pounces* You're wonderful.

I didn't meeeean to. Work, you see, and then the loss of power.

[bewareofitalics]

*tsks* Work is no excuse for starving yourself! *is totally a hypocrite and hasn't been eating much because the dining halls are so bad and far away* *but at least has granola bars and Golfish and such, so there!*

(By the way, are you gonna be on AIM anytime soon? *puppy eyes*)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yesitis! One can't eat inna library! Well, one can, but not if one is working the desk... Hypocrite! Hypocrite! Hy--oooh, granola...!

(*wibbles* Perhaps to-morrow night? To-night I write.)

[bewareofitalics]

Well... okay. Maybe. But make sure you have food that doesn't need to be cooked! *granola bars with chocolate chips - is so healthy! :P* *also, Goldfish, not Golfish* *sheesh, Self!*

(Okeydokey! Writing is good. :) What time-ish?)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, that would have been sensible; but I fail at sensible, you know. *envies, ooooh* *:P*

(Yep! Oh, I'll get on nine to tennish.)

[bewareofitalics]

Lucky you've got your lj friends to keep you sensible, then! ;)

(Wait, start at nine to tennish, or be on from nine to tennish? Cause I'm gonna be watching a movie that goes till tennish, or maybe nine-thirtyish.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

And, what, indeed, should I do without you, pray? Starve to death, no doubt, or else find some other means to reach the same end, DEATH.

(Start at nine to tennish, no worries! What film? ^_^)

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: Speak not of such things, my lady!

(Yay! The movie is Alchemy - James Barbour, aka Rochester in the Jane Eyre musical, is in it. Hence me watching. *g*)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Soujin: Sir Knight! *cue eyes instantaneously filled with stars*

(Ooooooh...! Nifty.)

[bewareofitalics]

*whee, mental image of cartoon!Soujin with starry eyes!*

Sir Andrew: *kisses her hand* It hath been too long since we have spoke, sweet one. Art thou quite well?

(Indeed!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*so is!*

*blushes and curtsies* O, Sir Knight, it hath, it hath! I am well--I pray, art thou?

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: I am, though lonely without thee!

*needs a Sir Andrew icon* *off to the screencap collection!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I am here now! I have been so sad without thee, I tell thee! Wouldst care for a leaf? They're red...!

*bweeeee!*

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: Oh...! *blushes* 'Tis beautiful! I thank thee, my lady!

*icon, yay!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*beams* Thou'rt welcome indeed! --Oh, Sir Knight, how I love thee.

*awwww! we need an otp icon, really, I tell you :D*

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: *beams more!* And I thee! My lady... would'st allow me to... hug thee?

*look, another! and yes, we do - you wanna make it, as I have no skill with icons?*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

If thou shouldst, so should I be the happiest maid alive, indeed!

*oooh, prettyyyyy...! no, we fail at icons so badly you cannot even imagine the failiness of our failing XD Sorryyyyy*

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: And so should I be the happiest man, and so I shall not hesitate to make us happy both! *aaand, HUGS!*

*aw... what program do you use for icons, by the way? and also, you at least need to get a Sir Jon icon, teehee*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*HUGSback!* Oh! Thou dost make me happy certain sure!

*we use GIMP, which is not for icons, really, so it's not fond of bending to our will-- eee, a Sir Jon icon would rock; I shall see whether it's at all possible*

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: *hughughug* How else may I make thee happy? For I wish thee to be happy always!

*I tried GIMP once, and either it wouldn't download properly or I just couldn't figure out how to make it work - perhaps I shall try again*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^________^ Oh, thou makest me happy enough already, I swear to thee!

*well, don't bother, really--it's not very good*

[bewareofitalics]

Sir Andrew: Thou cans't never have enough happiness, my lady!

*okeydokey then*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*happyhappyblush* Thou art so good to me.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

...*hugs*

Silly Soujin. Naps are nice, but so is eating. *...hypocrite, but it is getting better! does not go days without eaying anymore, only 10-20 hour stretches or so*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*pounces*

I am. Ridiculously. But I can't eat when there's nothing available that I can eat. *flails* -_- Look, you...!

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

*snuggleloves*

Surely there was something! There are times when eating is more than important than what you eat...! ...how many hours is 9PM to 6PM?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

There probably was, but I'm prone to sudden hysteria and utter loss of reason where food is concerned, because: no. there's no such situation in Soujin's world. *glower*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

...But there is. *looks guilty and slinks out to buy food*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Not in Soujin's world! :D *approves!*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

*is back! and fed!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*approves even more. and tackles*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

*loves and is tackled, oof!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^________^ <333333333 Hiiii!

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiii. Miss you! Will there be AIM tomorrow?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*nodnodnod!*

...Am uploading Adirondack picspam now. Including in the infamous poison in the ear photograph.

[sansenmage.livejournal.com]

I enjoy pretentious writing, so I see no idiocy at all.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

She is kind indeed!