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[cleolinda]

Sort of sad tonight. The book-writing is dragging on beyond everyone's patience and Valentine's Day is all too near and... I don't know. I'm twenty-six years old and what the hell am I doing? It's one of those nights.



Oh, look. Screen Actors Guild Awards on tomorrow night. I wish I had time to do a recap. Maybe if elves finish Titanic for me while I sleep.

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[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

It's definitely one of those nights. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/xx__justme/2005/02/04/)

[missbingley.livejournal.com]

Awww, honey! I wish you lived in New York, I'd have you over for cheesecake and find elves to do your work for you.

Don't let Valentine's Day get you down. For real, Valentine's Day is just...it is, to quote one Ms. Britney Spears Federline, a total ugh. Chin up, darling! You're doing quite a lot, including making thousands of people laugh:)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. I actually had a great Valentine's last year, even though the situation was the same--I was the Valentine Fairy, you may recall, and I'm doing it again this year. I just... probably shouldn't talk about it. : (

[girlalmighty]

Those nights, dear Lauren, seem to be going around. I've been having them for the last few nights.

On the bright side, as regards Valentine's Day . . . at least you've got someone, right? I've never been able to say that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I can say I do. It's a very long-distance, never-actually-met kind of thing. And before this, I'd never been able to say it either.

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

What the hell are you doing?
You're writing a book for your adoring fans to read and shove under their friends noses. You have somebody special for Valentine's day; and those nights will pass.
Go to bed. Thngs are always better in the morning.
And I'm sure elves don't write half as well as you do.

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

Oh...and for the record. The "what the hell are you doing" was meant to be a quote from you, not n actual question. It's damn hard to communicate without a tone of voice.

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

Come hang with me tonight. We'll do something fun to chase off the ugh. :/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Shoiiiii, where are you at?

[cinnamontwist.livejournal.com]

Those nights. I can sympathise as I'm in that awful 26 year old bracket too. What is it with our generation? I try to be cynical around Valentine's Day but I can't. I really do like the idea of celebrating love. It would just be nice not to be on the fringes yet another year.

All the best with your writing.

[more-dragoncelt.livejournal.com]

Yup, 26 and alone. It's a wild and crazy world. A good night's rest and a talk with a darling will help, don't you think?

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Want to start a blues band? It's my first Valentine's after breaking off a three year relationship, so I'm feeling that.

And when the book comes, it'll come. We're good. You staved off the cravings with Phantom, now we chew on that for awhile like a zwieback, and by the time we need more, it'll be ready.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

The book-writing is dragging on beyond everyone's patience and Valentine's Day is all too near and... I don't know. I'm twenty-six years old and what the hell am I doing? It's one of those nights.

Aww. I hate those nights. Here, have a Johnny (http://www.thefilmasylum.com/albums/Johnny-Depp/1_G.jpg).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude, they need to put you on suicide hotlines, stat. "You have so much to live for! Such as hot guys!"

(You think I'm kidding. I'm totally not.)

[museofswearing.livejournal.com]

It is totally one of those nights. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/museofswearing/70857.html)

However, they did show A Knight's Tale on TBS this evening, and there is very little that Paul Bettany's Naked Ass cannot fix. mmmmmmmmm, hot naked Geoffrey Chaucer.

[boarderbunny.livejournal.com]

Valentine's Day is a day invented by greeting card companies. I wouldn't read too much into it.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

lmao - that is almost exactly what I said... only I ranted about it about more. ;) Damn greeting card companies. Bitches. I think they want to make us feel bad. So we shouldn't let them!

[alisaselene.livejournal.com]

Hello, you don't know me and I have never posted on your journal..but I read this and can relate. I am 25, currently single, a struggling visual artist in graduate school. It's a strange time with a lot of possibilties, conflicting emotions and confusions, seems to me.

You are in my opinion a very talented and funny writer. You have many fans, me included. Just wanted to say that I think you have much success ahead of you :) Hope you feel better soon.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks. : )

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Aww, hon, you're doing a lot more than you think you are, don't let those shadows in your head get you down. Heaven knows I do it way too often, so you should let the light in instead! ;)

And Valentine's Day? Is way overrated. It's a useless, silly holiday fabricated by the greeting card companies so that they can sell tacky red hearts and cheap candy to the masses. This year, I'mma buy those tacky red hearts and the cheap candy for myself! Heh.

Don't beat yourself up, you're amazing and talented and we all see that or we wouldn't be here. And I don't care if that sounds like a giant cliche, because I mean it! :) *hugs*

[blackdiamants.livejournal.com]

God, I know how that is. Those nights never seem to end. Go Midnight Emo Club. Hee.

Luna

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee. It's so true.

[gershwhen.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit older than 26, but totally in the boat with you on Valentine's Day.

But we all get those nights and I hope you get some sleep and feel better in the morning.

(If not, well, looking at the comments, lots of us will be in the boat and soon there will be murderous dolphins to attack us as it sinks! ;) )

ICON LOVE!

[lizzyrose89.livejournal.com]

<3 your icon. That is all.

Also, I am in the same boat as the entirety of Lauren's (hee!) 'Friend of' list. Except I am too... something... to care that much. My friends all do, though!

*woe*

[edda.livejournal.com]

I have a Valentine's Day rant frothing up through my head that will be loogied out shortly. Probably in the next week or so.

February is already the Month Of Ass without even dragging V-Day into it. They should just bump March up and have two Aprils instead.

[kittygopounce.livejournal.com]

Eee, but no! Then I'd miss my birthday! Although, I hear you on Feb being occasionally the Month Of Ass (most especially this year). And Valentine's Day has ... never lived up to my expectations. :|

*snugs Lauren-Cleolinda* Honey, I don't know that I have anything particularly cheering to say, and I wish I did ... :| but I'm glad to see other people have cheered you some in their comments.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

I know those nights. Sometimes I think that's all I know.

[queen-hermione.livejournal.com]

It's been one of those nights all week for me. I know you don't know me very well or anything, but I do care about you. To be honest, sometimes when I am thinking death sounds more and more appealing (and it has been lately) I go and read one of your Movies in 15 Minutes or a Lost recap. No matter how hard I'm crying, you can always make me laugh, and it makes me think that there is hope left in the world.

I don't think you know just how many people's lives you affect. Humour is one of the most powerful tools out there, and I can honestly say you are one of the funniest people I've had the fortune to encounter. This has been one of the hardest weeks of my life, and you are one of the big things that has gotten me through.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Here's something to soothe your battered ego: in "friends of"s you've overtaken cassieclaire and are closing in on her other journal epicyclical.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[ulicqel-droma.livejournal.com]

I'm twenty-six years old and what the hell am I doing?

I know that feeling all too well. *comfort*

[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

Ah! Buck up camper! You can do it! I have faith in you. Besides, it's those last minute writing sessions that are really the best sometimes. Nothing like a deadline for stress. You're brilliant! You could call the moon swiss cheese and I'd buy it!

[brenah.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry it's one of those nights, Cleo. I can understand em, though.

Then I got to thinking about Valentines Day...and that some of those little cards are kinda amusing, and immediately thought we must have some Lostrailian Island Smut! so this is what ensued. (I'm sorry, it's 2 am, and I've had a *bit* of caffine - hope this is coherent.):

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brenah/1727.html

[angelryka.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

Wish I had something profound and comforting to say beyond "I feel ya" and "You rock" but, alas, I do not.

[misshallelujah.livejournal.com]

Don't beat yourself up over the book-writing; genius takes time, is all. Look at it this way: you have a book deal and a huge posse of adoring fans, which isn't something that everyone can claim to. Things, generally speaking, are on the up and up!

Depressions are nasty little things which come and go; I've had them all too often myself and most of the times it was just me letting my inner worrywort get ahead of itself. Things weren't usually as dire as I felt them to be during those low points.

Don't despair! You're fabulous! *hugs*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord, all of 26 and not fulfilled your destiny yet? What were you thinking?!

Silly girl. You probably need some sleep. Or choklit. Then wake up, read comments, look back at previous works, think "Fuckit, I'm a genius!" and move right along.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Or choklit.

Wow. I never noticed the similarity between "chocolate" and "chick lit." Coincidence?