pulling the wings off bunnies

[freckles_and_doubt]

The cruel universe randomly woke me up at 6.30am yesterday. On a Sunday! How rude! Miffed, I crawled out of bed, flung myself into the embrace of hot water for a while, and then with self-flagellatory zeal embarked upon book updates. An almost uninterrupted 8-hour burst of manic energy resulted in the death of the penultimate chapter (pop culture), which I have to say is a purer, higher, stronger version of its former slightly shoddy and badly under-researched self. As a reward, The Horror That Is The Bunny has received mitigation: I removed the wings and The Claw, so it sits here tweely clad only in a cheesy plastic crown. (With the full consent of the perpetrators, I might add, although I notice that motivational rewards only go so far: the bastards kicked my butt at Magic again last night. As usual).

Today I have been assailing the Disney chapter, which I am forced to admit is somewhat over-endowed in the frothing and unnecessary gnashing of teeth departments. Bits of it are indefensible and completely crap, although there are some moments of sense. Have been judiciously nurturing the latter while weeding out the former. I may end up with something which delicately suggests that Disney is a bit shamelessly manipulative at times, which is something of an improvement on the old version, which pretty much had DISNEY IS THE ANTICHRIST! up in giant flashing lights.

Come the dawn, i.e. the Giant Birthday Celebratory Party to which you lot should all have received e-mail invites by now, I was planning some appropriate celebration of the book completion. This should entail borrowing the Evil Landlord's second-biggest anvil and dropping it on the bunny, but it seems a bit ungrateful after Bunny has sat here all these months exuding Motivational Field. Not sure what to do. Advise me!

[Poll #1001178]

Obligatory Random Linkage: those of you who enjoy Girl Genius might like Othar's Twitter journal. Pleasingly silly.

Bunny Threat Level: amber, shading to red. Theoretically.

Comments

[tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com]

no. do not mash the bunny. rather find a new home for it, on the nice warm desk of someone else who needs extreme motivation... in a few years you will be selling movie rights to the story ;)

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

I still say use an infernal device! In an inferno!
Mwah hahahaha!

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

I'd say - attach to several He-filled balloons and let fly...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really like this idea, suggesting that in fact the bulk of witterers who think the Stockholm Syndrome is insuperable are actually right... Shall think up victims forthwith. Heh!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Fine, you bring the inferno...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like this too - the idea of it falling to earth, I know not where. Or simply going on up. If you bring the helium balloons, I may actually do this. It's probably kinder than giving it to libr_sa as a Masters motivator, which is my current evil plan ... ;>

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Don't tempt him. He'll do it. You know how we like fires.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Fires, pshaw. He said inferno. I want a real inferno, or nothing. Dante's one.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Hey, he's working hard right now. It should really go to someone who needs the encouragement. I can't think of anyone right now, though ...

I'm all for smashing it to smithereens.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

It's ceramic, right? I'm thinking stuffing it with homemade thermite, half-burying in charcoal and throughly dousing the charcoal with liquid oxygen. Apply flame. Cautiously.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Cautiously, using a 200m match.

Not personally being a fan of bunny-shrapnel, I'm happy for you to perform this incendiary experiment if you do it in your own garden. Preferably while I'm on another continent. In a bunker.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

and shouldn't that be "Master's"?

[starmadeshadow.livejournal.com]

Urk! With a 7-year old thesis waiting for completion, the mere thought of the Motivational Bunny of Doom being passed on is enough to set me to work. Immediately. Byeeeeee...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Opinion is divided on this one, although Google pulls in twice as many hits for "Masters" as it does for "Master's", and university sites also seem divided. While the contraction of "Master's degree" would require a possessive, I've always tended to see "Masters" as a more or less colloquial approximation of "Master of Arts." Unless it's "Marsters", in which case mmmm Spike.

I dunno.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

long matches unnecessary, just make a trail of petrol for a few meters....

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Of course, I should have thought! I was searching for local victims, but there's nothing to stop me from packing bunny + accessories into a box and sending them to you! He's very, very motivational. As you appear to have realised :>.

So, what was your postal address, again...?

[starmadeshadow.livejournal.com]

1 Focus Lane
Working Hard Village
Mustgetphdsoon

=>

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Hah! nice try. Even I know that a proper Brit address needs all those letters and numbers at the end.

Although props for the focus, with or without benefit of bunny.

Totally!

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

I was totally going to suggest a certain Greek librarian of known procrastinations. Actually, he is working hard at the moment (hard by Phleep standards).