I've been infected

It's a terrible virus, and I blame it entirely on Jane Austen, the age of 12 and sparkly dancing boys.

There is entirely too much bad slash out there. Like, really bad. Worse than romance novels on crack with a side of melodrama and a dash of soap opera. I'm protected from it for the most part, save when Lori decides to regale me with it in depth, just to see me twitch and squirm. Unfortunately, I still stumble across it from time to time.

My immediate reaction is to hide. Or twitch violently and stick my fingers in my ears and chant 'lalalala'. My secondary reaction is parody, however. I love a good parody. Even a bad one will have me smiling. So when I read Jane Austen's Love and Freindship (misspelling intentional) from her Juvenilia, and then stumble across an execrable Nsync slash story... well.

A Parody, wherein the members of the singing group Nsync become, not just girls, not just teenage girls, but teenage girls of the Regency period.

( Love and Freindship, Part the First )

More Parody

( Love and Freindship, Part the Second )

Home now! Now, I say!

Hah. I was late getting to lunch, and managed to wander into the quarterly campus computing support staff meeting. An entire afternoon of geek-speechifying. Thing is, my boss had known nothing about it, so I get to look all eager-beaver and dedicated, and show off my tiny, illegible notes and pages and pages of URLs to him. Major brownie points to distract him from the fact that I was completely useless at work yesterday.

But now I wanna walk home in the sunshine and maybe see if Lori's amenable to a Petco run this afternoon.

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Am cackling with glee. Glee, baby!

I think when I'm done with this, I'll go back and do a little critical interpretation: We were not in each other's company for a half an hour before we had exchanged boyhood secrets and other intimacies. We were the best of friends. They were doing it. They were so doing it. The servants had to rehang the drapes three times in two days.

Return of the Parody

( Love and Freindship, Part the Third )