OOC: is that one syllable, or three?

[nadiathesaint]

If we haikus have
Offended, think you on this:
I didn't mean to!

It was just a joke,
One or two comments at most,
Asplodinated!

Thank you those who played,
Sorry those who hated it,
Won't haiku again.

No, really, I promise.


So, this morning in Foreign Lit, the class wrote haikus. I was bored at work, and thought, "gosh, wouldn't it be funny if I wrote in haiku for awhile?"

Awhile was supposed to mean a comment in the cafeteria and a post in the park (wait, now I'm alliterating! Ack!). Pippi and Kiki were kind enough to humor me and write in haiku as well.

So, I thought, I'll send her to Empire. If anything can get rid of haiku, it's Klingon Opera.

Then Marty started haikuing, too (that rhymed! stop the insanity!).

Well, this is a lark, thought I (mixed up syntax? my inner poet is going nuts), as Walter and Pip joined in in the cafeteria.

Then Giles went to Empire after Nadia left, and got haikued by Marty, and haikued back, and I started to get worried.

I sent her to All and Sundries. Where Edmund haikued. I sent her to see the wizard Veronica, who told her, in haiku, to go to the clinic.

By this time, Cafe Fina had been "infected" (via Walter, I can only assume). And I had determined that Nadia would stop haikuing as soon as someone didn't haiku back.

So she went to the Clinic to see the Belthadoctor Dr. Not-Bel Dr. Christian Troy. Who was kind enough to just sort of blink, think "weird", and point out that she was speaking in haiku without haikuing himself.

Though there was the threat of a dirty limerick or two.

So, seriously now, I'm done. No more haikus except maybe a capper or two on the threads that still dangle. If the others want to keep going, I have no problem with that. But I'm haikued out.

Thanks to Dream, Kiki, Pippi, Marty, Walter, Pip, Edmund, Giles, Veronica, Alfred (I think?) and Christian for jumping in on this, you kept my work day enjoyable.

And, yes, odds are pretty good I'll be making a Haiku Day icon. Eventually.

ETA And Victor, and Principal Washburn haikued as well. As far as I know, Principal Washburn didn't encounter any other haikuers, or Patient!Zero!Nadia, so I'm thinking she's just weird. ;D

ETA 2 It occurs to me, after rereading the lecture in Foreign Lit, that it has, in fact, been a Haikai day. Not a Haiku day, at all.

Comments

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Victor as well.

I thought the haikus were amusing and obviously purely voluntary. But I'm somewhat easily amused, perhaps. Hee.

Thanks for something to distract me from the fact that my head hurts like you wouldn't believe.

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

Awww...

*snuggles you*

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Ah well, new glasses tomorrow. Today I've Frankensteined my broken, but decent-prescription glasses enough to wear them without adding to the headache.

[nadiathesaint]

Awwwww. Poor Walter. If it makes you feel better, I think I have haiku leaking out my ears.

Okay, ew,

Link to Victor? I didn't catch that.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Here (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/706093.html?thread=33816621#t33816621).

And I found myself thinking IRL in short choppy sentences, so it was contagious in a real way, too.

[nadiathesaint]

As did I. Made it real interesting at work, trying to figure out how to tell someone that they're wireless device was too brokinated to buy from them without being in haiku. . . .

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

http://bigdamndean.livejournal.com/8159.html

Musn't forget the Big Damn Principal.

[bigdamnprincipal]

Mwahahaha! It was too much fun to not join in.

[nadiathesaint]

Mwa!

and we love you for it.

even if, IC, you creep Nadia out. O.o

[nadiathesaint]

Got her, no worries. Thanks!

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

*hugs* it was such fun! And it made having to whip out Kiki's homework for Poetry terribly destracting to write. :) I kept wanting to ignore rhyme scheme and just haiku instead!!

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/696299.html?thread=27242219#t27242219

The Baron did it as well. He even had sushi while he did it.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Note to self:

The Baron is awesome.

Jay and Silent Bob got involved in their own special way (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/696641.html).

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I was tempted. Only Jay's haiku probably would have been along the lines of

Beer beer fuck fuck chicks
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Chicks fuck fuck beer beer

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I think I want to have your babies.

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

*waggles eyebrows*

[nadiathesaint]

Wow.

I love you, so much.