The Overlook Hotel

user116848

12:00 AM

I'm a bit stressed out these days.

user174558

What happened? You need to see Dr Loy.

user116848

Thanks. hehe.

user174558

Is it a girl issue?

user116848

I have exams in Dec but my preparation kinda sucks.

user174558

If you fail, what happens?

user116848

12:01 AM

@JasperLoy I wish. Well that's a part of stress too, haha.

user116848

I better shut my mouth.

user174558

No need to shut your mouth.

user116848

@JasperLoy Nothing. I get depressed.

user174558

@Arrowfar Well, it's OK to fail, fail all you want!

user116848

Yeah I know.

user174558

12:04 AM

@Metamaterialgirl must be busy installing LO now, lol.

Metamaterial girl

Thinking of hitting the grocery store soon. Slow on writing today.

user174558

@Metamaterialgirl Get some bananas!

Metamaterial girl

Little bit o' potassium never hurt anyone, true.

user116848

I like bananas.

Kit Z. Fox

@MattE.Эллен What? That's weird.

user116848

12:16 AM

Thanks for the edit Kit.

Kit Z. Fox

Sure thing.

@Metamaterialgirl Did you go out?

Metamaterial girl

Eh, not quite yet. Procrastinating.

Kit Z. Fox

Well then you should write some.

:D

Metamaterial girl

Fighting the 'it's night time therefore i should be done with my day' winter thing.

Yes, you are right...

Is that a 'let's sprint'?

Kit Z. Fox

it's nighttime so I should be playing video games.

Yes. Let's sprint.

Metamaterial girl

12:27 AM

Okay. gimme a sec to get my tea.

user116848

@KitZ.Fox Here:

user116848

> he Isis is the name given to the part of the River Thames above Iffley Lock which flows through the university city of Oxford, England, past Christ Church Meadow

user116848

The Isis

The Isis is the name given to the part of the River Thames above Iffley Lock which flows through the university city of Oxford, England, past Christ Church Meadow and the focal point of rowing for Oxford University. == History == Historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and cartographers insisted that the river Thames was correctly named the River Isis from its source until Dorchester-on-Thames, where the river meets the River Thame and becomes the "Thame-isis" (from which the Latin, or pre-Roman Celtic, name Tamesis is derived), subsequently abbreviated to Thames; curr...

Kit Z. Fox

Confusing. Thought it was Thames all the way down.

Well. TIL

user116848

Me too.

Metamaterial girl

12:29 AM

Ditto.

Back, have tea.

@KitZ.Fox Ready to sprint?

Kit Z. Fox

I guess it's a good thing when my own writing sucks me down a rabbit hole.

Yes, I'm ready. 413

Metamaterial girl

Steady

5:32. GO

(15 mins)

Metamaterial girl

12:47 AM

@KitZ.Fox aaaaan ding.

352.

Kit Z. Fox

362

Metamaterial girl

I'm gonna end up with like 6 versions of 5 different scenes here.

Oh, nice!

You're consistently beating me, you know.

Kit Z. Fox

really?

Metamaterial girl

I think so. It usually seems like you beat me on word count except when I have a flow episode.

Kit Z. Fox

It's close though. Probably just because you have to type ding! and stuff.

Metamaterial girl

12:48 AM

Eh, still counts.

Kit Z. Fox

OK I gotta pee then go again?

user174558

Pee? Yay!

user116848

lol

Metamaterial girl

Yarrr.

...I didn't know that peeing was a subject of celebration, except maybe to someone who was just cured of a UTI...

user116848

Here it is 5:49 AM.

user116848

12:51 AM

I'm still awake.

user174558

@Metamaterialgirl I have a weird joy in me, a joy that surpasses all understanding.

Metamaterial girl

Oof, I've had a few of those days. Melatonin is your friend @Arrowfar.

user116848

@Metamaterialgirl Heh thanks. I love your knowledge about different subjects. It is kinda awesome.

user174558

@Arrowfar I would say exercise is your friend.

Metamaterial girl

Heh, thanks, though I don't think Melatonin is that unknown. I just started using it a few weeks ago because I have a tendency to stay up later and later each night.

user174558

12:54 AM

@Metamaterialgirl I loved talking about pee and poo in the English room.

user116848

@JasperLoy I do that sometimes. I like to run.

user174558

@Arrowfar Well, if you do something naughty, you might be able to sleep too, hehe.

user116848

But these days I'm not running. I dunno why.

user116848

@JasperLoy Lol!

Metamaterial girl

@Arrowfar is it something like insomnia, where you just have a hard time sleeping?

A hard time STARTING to sleep, I should say.

user174558

12:55 AM

@Arrowfar I am not sure if it works for the other sex though.

Kit Z. Fox

@JasperLoy Pretty sure you and arrowfar are the same sex.

user116848

Yeah I am a guy.

user116848

And straight.

user116848

:)

user174558

@KitZ.Fox I mean what I meant, hehe. Yes, I know he is.

user116848

12:56 AM

So where is this conversation going? ;-)

BESW

@Metamaterialgirl Sounds like it works for you? Glad to hear it; I wish melatonin worked for my dad.

user174558

@Arrowfar It ends.

Metamaterial girl

@Arrowfar Well, if you have access to melatonin, I recommend it. I use a brand that is chewable, so it gets into your system quickly; the drill is, let it dissolve under your tongue, go to bed and lie there in the dark, don't keep yourself up reading or playing games on your phone, and it'll kick in eventually.

@BESW Hmmm, I did hear of a person who had that same issue, but benefitted from taking it 5 to 6 hours before they were supposed to sleep, instead of just before.

BESW

Yup, tried that.

Metamaterial girl

Dunno if you've tried that already of course.

Kit Z. Fox

12:58 AM

I tend/tended to use benadryl, pseudoephedrine, and-or guaifenisen.

user174558

Any antihistamine would do.

Kit Z. Fox

And sometimes alcohol, to intensify the effect.

Metamaterial girl

Yow. That's some hardcore insomnia, Kit :(

user116848

@Metamaterialgirl I see, nice. Thanks!

Kit Z. Fox

Benadryl is best.

Metamaterial girl

12:59 AM

Sorry your dad has trouble getting down @BESW, that's rough for him AND for you I'll bet.

user174558

I used to drink benadryl almost every day as a child for cough.

Kit Z. Fox

@Metamaterialgirl I had it bad one time. Three months of alternating about 5 to 6 days of 2 hours of sleep maybe and one day of sleeping for 22 hours.

user174558

And now I just take my lunatic meds every night.

Metamaterial girl

GAH. That's worse than my mom's sleep patterns, and hers are fairly awful.

BESW

We're trying something a bit stronger now, and it has some effect but not much. Stepping things up slowly 'cause when he reacts badly to something, he reacts very badly.

Metamaterial girl

1:00 AM

The pattern is familiar though: deprive, deprive, deprive CRASH

Kit Z. Fox

@BESW Yeah, that's tricky. Is he taking serotonin?

user174558

@Metamaterialgirl It's nice to crash.

Metamaterial girl

Yeah, @BESW, I hope you find something that works and doesn't give untenable side effects.

BESW

@KitZ.Fox Yup.

Kit Z. Fox

So it makes him psychotic when you try new stuff?

user174558

1:03 AM

Last year I did not sleep for 27 hours @KitZ.Fox, after doing naughty things thrice, lol.

Kit Z. Fox

@JasperLoy Seriously, masturbation is not a "naughty thing".

user174558

@KitZ.Fox I know. Just to use a euphemism.

Kit Z. Fox

It's perfectly normal and most all sexually mature animals do it.

user116848

Lol! You guys are fun :D

user116848

Sorry I couldn't stop laughing. hehe!

Kit Z. Fox

1:05 AM

Not sleeping for 27 hours will make you pretty crazy though. That's not good for you.

Metamaterial girl

Yarrr.

user174558

But these days, when I take so much meds, my libido crashes.

Kit Z. Fox

Are you ready to sprint again, milady?

Metamaterial girl

Yarrrr!

Ready?

user116848

@Metamaterialgirl So "Yar" is a word in Urdu too and can be used in the exact same sense.

user116848

1:06 AM

Pretty much.

Metamaterial girl

Oh, that's...amazingly convenient, heh.

Kit Z. Fox

775 Ready

Metamaterial girl

Steady at 6:06

user116848

Like when we are frustrated with someone etc. we say "Yar!"

Metamaterial girl

GO

Metamaterial girl

1:22 AM

@KitZ.Fox Pingy pingy!

Kit Z. Fox

1142 - 775 = 367

Metamaterial girl

541.

Kit Z. Fox

you killed me.

nice

More?

Metamaterial girl

It's funny, the pattern seems to be you beating me most of the time by a decent bit, and once in awhile me blowing the word count out of the water.

Kit Z. Fox

I seem to be right around 360 no matter what I do.

Metamaterial girl

1:24 AM

Hm, Maybe a 5 minute brain break then another one?

Kit Z. Fox

OK. Let me know when you are ready.

Metamaterial girl

Yiss :)

Words I need to see become part of the lexicon:

viruscomix.com/abno31.html

@KitZ.Fox Okay. I think I have one more in me.

Kit Z. Fox

no you posted rabbit hole i must follow

Metamaterial girl

LOL, okay, ping me when YOU'RE ready.

And sorry about that, dem rabbit holes are tricky.

Kit Z. Fox

ok.

done.

let's do it.

Metamaterial girl

1:33 AM

Wow, you're a fast reader O.O

Kit Z. Fox

I'd already started.

Metamaterial girl

Ah, si si.

Okay, ready?

Kit Z. Fox

yis

Metamaterial girl

Steady at 6:35

GO

Metamaterial girl

1:50 AM

@KitZ.Fox Kadingle!

Kit Z. Fox

1772 - ... crap

It was maybe 400. Probably about 360.

Metamaterial girl

527 here.

You're nice and consistent.

I'm doing lots of words but honestly I don't know how many of them are even worth keeping.

Definitely will need a lot of tweaking.

Kit Z. Fox

One more, or are you done for now?

Metamaterial girl

Eh, I think I need to think and figure out what the hell I'm doing before doing more of it.

'think I need to think'

see, this is why I'm Meta.

Kit Z. Fox

haha ok

Metamaterial girl

1:55 AM

Maybe time to do some timeline exercises or something.

Kit Z. Fox

Here this is what your character needs.

Metamaterial girl

Rich, earthy organic emulsate.

Kit, you need to be writing romance novels.

Kit Z. Fox

I am really, really bad at erotica.

You've read the cake story. Seriously. It only get worse from there.

Although maybe I'll do it next year and get rich.

Metamaterial girl

No, see, this is WHY you need to do romance novels. It is a field ripe for parody. It has grown fat and complacent.

Kit Z. Fox

Romance parody. Hmm.

Metamaterial girl

1:58 AM

We need hard core preternatural goblin and kobold romance, where the goblin and the kobold are both fighting over the same middle-aged chartered accountant.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, I should probably finish this one first.

Metamaterial girl

Yes, yes you should.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, I had that one I started, about the demon possession.

Metamaterial girl

Refresh my memory?

Kit Z. Fox

Where the demon possesses a girl because it wants to get with some other girl.

I can't remember what my plan was with that one, except that of course possessing people means lots of sex options.

Metamaterial girl

2:00 AM

Yiss. The demon should actually be a total prude, and keeps possessing people with weird fetishes, and ends up horrified and disgusted by all this stuff it is forced to participate in.

'OMG YOU ARE EATING CHERRIES FROM BETWEEN HER TOES??? AAAAAARGH I'M OUT OF HERE'

'WHY ARE WE IN THE BATHROOM WHAT ARE THESE VIDEO CAMERAS DOING HERE--OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'

Kit Z. Fox

It was going to be more like "Wait, are you seducing me? Oh. OH! Oh. yeah, ok."

Like having to convince a demon to take your soul.

Metamaterial girl

Hah! Also good.

Kit Z. Fox

No, really! You want it!

Kinda full right now.

But! But!

Metamaterial girl

Ignore that one grungy patch, I swear this is a top-quality soul!

Kit Z. Fox

hahaha

ok I'm off to take a break.

bbl

Metamaterial girl

2:04 AM

Alrighty. Take care :)

I swear I'm gonna go to the grocery store soon.

Kit Z. Fox

3:47 AM

Did you go to the grocery store, @Metamaterialgirl?

Metamaterial girl

4:30 AM

Yep! Got my noms. :)

StackExchange

6:05 AM

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Q: What is the line between a nod to another book and plagurism?

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user174558

7:07 AM

@Metamaterialgirl Are you still awake?

user174558

If only this were a real hotel.

user174558

poof

StackExchange

9:45 AM

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Q: Present tense novel with past tense flashbacks

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BESW

12:03 PM

If something has been VULPECULATED then it has been stolen by a fox.

Tweeted by HaggardHawks on November 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM

For example: "Agent Scully's will to live was regularly vulpeculated." https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/669827192277221376

Tweeted by redfacts on November 26, 2015 at 10:44 AM

Metamaterial girl

7:40 PM

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAH

Also, happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it today :)

And happy Day day to everyone else :)

Kit Z. Fox

7:55 PM

Hi,

Metamaterial girl

Hey Kit! Happy T-day :)

Kit Z. Fox

Ditto.

How is yours?

Metamaterial girl

Quiet. Got invited to a friend's house for T but begged off due to all the snow happening. So doing lots of Skype chatting w/family and friends under a cozy blanket in a robe.

Kit Z. Fox

Oh sounds soooo nice.

Metamaterial girl

Yesh :3

You running around for yours?

Kit Z. Fox

8:04 PM

Not at the moment. Mostly done eating.

Metamaterial girl

Oh yeah, you're 2 hours later than I am.

Mmm, post-turkey sessile states.

Kit Z. Fox

I'm debating between napping and writing.

Metamaterial girl

Take a power nap while thinking about your story, then write.

StackExchange

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Q: Including text file name in footer of compiled Scrivener document?

I'm working on a short story collection using scrivener. Each story is one text file in the scrivener document. I'd like to include the story name in the footer, next to the page number. Is that possible? Any ideas? I've tried googling around, but I can't find anything. I assume it's in the Comp...

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Kit Z. Fox

8:23 PM

Hi @Matt.

Metamaterial girl

waves at @MattE.Эллен

Matt E. Эллен

8:44 PM

hi y'all

BESW

Seventh Bride got an NPR blog review! Goodness! http://www.npr.org/2015/11/26/456821825/the-seventh-bride-faces-horror-and-still-gets-the-biscuits-made?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books

Tweeted by UrsulaV on November 26, 2015 at 3:19 PM

Kit Z. Fox

11:37 PM

Hey @Metamaterialgirl. Want to sprint?

Metamaterial girl

oh hey @KitZ.Fox. I think I'll beg off for today; still doing family calls and whatnot, and I feel like I need to try and boost my quality on this next batch o' words.

Kit Z. Fox

OK

Happy T-day.

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