Not like I could ever *stop* writing...

Actually, know what? I hate writing. It's so fucking hard. The stupid characters just sit there in a diner staring at each other over the table and I don't know what the hell they need to say to each other. And then finally one of them walks out just as the other one gets up the courage to follow him and kiss him, and then they go back to one's apartment and have sex, and does it even make SENSE?

Four and a half hours of writing tonight (Friday night - wheeee!), just barely over 1000 words, and my brain felt like cotton balls the whole time. I couldn't see what they should be doing; I couldn't hear what they should be saying. I fear I've pushed them into a situation that doesn't even make sense for them, but I can't back off now! Can't they just trust me and play along, and it'll all work out?

Hee!

Just noticed this exchange near the start of "The Initiative":

Riley: Not that way. Just a little less ready for takeoff all the time. There's definitely something off about her.

Graham: Maybe she's Canadian.

This pleases me and amuses me far more than it should.

Still watching "The Initiative"

This is my first time watching 4.7: "The Initiative" since seeing the rest of the series. So, as always when rewatching an episode for the first time, I thrill at all the foreshadowing.

So Riley goes to Willow to ask her for advice on how to get Buffy's attention. Willow says:

You like Buffy, she likes you. You spend time together, feelings grow deeper, and one day, without even realizing it, you find you're in love. Time stops, and it feels like the whole world's made for you two, and you two alone, until the day one of you leaves and rips the still-beating heart from the other, who's now a broken, hollow, mockery of the human condition.

Damn, girl. I'd say you have the gift of foretelling...but really I guess you've just figured out that you live in the Jossverse.

By the way, how come Spike's chip didn't go off when he was fighting with the scientists while escaping from the Initiative?