You know a name I really love? Romaline. It's so... pretty. :D

In other news:

I already know what I want for Christmas. I want Head. ... The Monkees movie. Yeah. XP

Head, The Kids Are All Right, Help!, and various assorted Who, Monkees, Zeppelin, and George Harrison albums.

More music to bury myself in, since it looks like it's gonna be awhile till I have my braces off (and then, freedom!)

I'm scribbling down various outlines for The Nightlife, the vampire bit-of-(un?)-life stories. So far, the ideas involve a lesbian vampire topless dancer who investigates the appearance of other dancers at night, a vampire who reflects on his current wife and children as he watches the moon rise, a bunch of vegetarian hippie vampires who hang out on a commune outside King City, and the Mary, Frank, and John bit.

I like the lesbian topless dancer vampire. She's cute, confident, and she's got a drag-king-bartender "boy"friend. Because, my friends, drag kings are hot. :P leiksrsly.

I figure, with all the vampire tales out there, there have to be some vampires who don't get into ANGSTY PASTS and VAMPIRE SLAYING and all that kind of stuff. I figure there are some vampires and other things-that-go-bump-in-the-night that simply live halfway-normal lives. You know, aside from the drinking-blood thing.

And I wonder what happens to a vampire when he makes mortal friends or meets a mortal significant other... what goes through his mind when they start getting older and he stays young forever. What a decision that must be! Either fang your friend into the same monotonous eternal life as you have, or let them go although you love with with all your heart... tough call.

Seth was originally a portrait of that. Lucy was a lot meeker than she is now, but she made friends with him anyway. He knew that she was mortal and he had to decide whether to turn her into a vampire to keep her around forever.

But now, Seth drinks blood from the nice little packets he steals from blood banks, and Lucy has no interest in being a blood-sucker ("I'm a vegetarian! What would a vegetarian vampire do!?")