Rushing off in all directions at once

[kinzel]

We seem to be rushing off in all direction at once today. I expected to be putting up a post of more note but.. we have freezing rain on top of about 8 inches of snow and the lights are flickering so I'll just say hello, thanks for reading, hope you're comfortable, and hope to see you at Boskone. We'll get there, though if conditions are like this too long tomorrow we may have trouble making the train...

2 quick questions:

does your family have a member who ... everything happens to? The person most likely to buy the chocolate ice cream miss-marked as vanilla, most likely to have the wheel fall off the car after having new tires put on, most likely to be stuck in the 12 mile back-up in a snowstorm, most likely to be the one to arrive at the theatre after the doors are shut, or mislay the wedding ring?

If the answer above is "yes" ... are you that person?

One last note:The Friends of Liad party should be Saturday night at Boskone -- be there or .. .well... be elsewhere.

Comments

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. Not a helpful superpower when doing the rounds of job interviews, either.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

No one in my family seems so afflicted, but maybe it's me and I never noticed. I tend to pretty clueless at times. I hate to tempt fate this way, but I feel like we've got pretty good luck in my family. I married my husband because he seemed like the luckiest person I had ever met.

[lornastutz.livejournal.com]

since I got "down sized" from the phone company at age 55, it's seemed like very little goes right (thank God for good books and favorite writers) - gotten to the point where I do NOT ask "what next?'
lORNA

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Yes, we have that person. Yes, that person is me. Do you have a cure, a patch, a solution???? I sometimes claim to be Murphy's sister or cousin just to get a break from the Irish luck that follows me about.
"....gloom, despair, and agony on me!...."

Have fun at Boskone!

I'll be catching the train to NYC on Friday.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes and no. My late aunt had all sorts of soap operas in her immediate family. I thought of her as the eye of her personal hurricaine! Fortunately, we did NOT live close by!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I have no solution to the family lightning rod, but I do know that soefamlies seem to designate one. Given our characters ... it seemed a potential story idea down the road.

Happens to or happens around?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Joe ??? from Dogpatch - the little character with the permanent cloud over his head? However, as I recollect, while everything fell apart around him, he himself seemed to walk through the chaos without being affected (kind of a Ronald Reagan effect, maybe?). While there are other people who indeed seem to be lightning rods for all the bad luck around. (hum - didn't someone have a hereditary prince, bred for good luck, who had turned out to have bad luck - so bad that he ended up in a statis capsule through the collapse of the system? Drat, which book was that? Space skimmer? Something like that)

Re: Happens to or happens around?

[(Anonymous)]

There was something like that in a truncated series by Ann Maxwell. One of the rescued characters from an almost-dead planet was part of a family bred for luck - and his mother's luck was thought to be so bad that they exiled her and her children. I've always wanted to know what happened to that series...

B. O'Brien

Re: Happens to or happens around?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Fire Dancer? I think I had/have one or two of those, and wished the series had continued. Nice framework for a series, too, as I recollect - In the first book the heroine (and her companion?) had freed a shipload of slaves, and promised to return them to their homes. These are the stories of those attempts to go home again . . . I may have to dig that out and read it again.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

It seems like everything happens to my mother, but when you actually start looking at the things that happen, the reason she seems to have more than her share of things happening is that she makes every little thing into a big drama. Things that would be relatively unnoteworthy if they happened to other people become terrible events when she has to deal with them.