You Know You've Been Reading Too Much Mercedes
Lackey When...
1) You walk by a white horse and spend the next fifteen
minutes trying to get it to talk to you.
2) You tell people reflexively to call you by your Herald name, and answer
to it more readily than your mundane name.
3) You're checking out a cute guy when all of a sudden you realize he looks
a lot like Van. You then abrubtly lose interest, because, after all, Van
is/was shaych.
4) You're best friend says, "I'm only happy when I'm with him/her,
even if it's just as a friend. I want to spend the rest of my life with
him/her" You're first reaction is, as Medren says: "That's the
classic reaction of a lifebond!"
5) You hide under your bed just in case there are any Aztec gods floating
around.
6) You carry feathers around in you purse.
7) You talk to yourself, then explain it isn't you, it's your horse your
talking to.
8) You think angry thoughts at someone.
9) You start a three week old conversation from scratch because it just
came to mind.
10) You continue the conversation, because you just thought the same thing.
11) You and your lunch buddies discuss who they would rather wake up with,
Kris or Vanyel.
12) You use Tayledras or Shin'a'in words in normal conversation and people
look at you wondering what you are talking about. Or else you have to consciously
refrain from saying them when they are the first thing that comes to mind.
13) You get hurt and ask for a Healer instead of a doctor.
14) You go to San Fransisco and actually look for Eric, Kory, and Beth
while wandering around the city.
15) The weatherman says it's going to be misty tonight and you go out and
look for her.
16) Every action is preceeded by the thought, "What would Misty think
if she saw mw doing this."
17) One black dog, one white cat; bith named Skandranon.
18) You keep trying to mindspeak people, thinking that if Misty says so,
it must be true.
19) You look sidelong at all Miatas, thinking they might be Elvensteeds.
20) You say, "If nothing but raw meat is good enough for gryphons,
then it's good enough for me and my family."
21) You never, ever clean up the house. When people ask, you say, "Our
little friends the hertasi will do it for us."
22) You establish a Vale in your back yard, fill it with tropical plants
then wonder why they're all dead by mid-December.
23) There's a huge platform in yor back yard, and there's always a dead
antelope on it. When queried, you always say, "That there's mah gryphon
feeder."
24) Whenever someone asks you a question, you start looking for a page-reference.
25) You're watching TV late at night and catch yourself thinking that the
Lone Ranger has a nice Companion.
26) You catch yourself looking for colored ribbon-knots on the shoulders
of the street musicians.
27) You hear someone being derided as a "lackey" and take five
minutes to figure out that it was meant as an insult.
28) You're dealing with new users, and start telling yourself, "Ground
boy, ground and center."
29) You seriously consider buying one of those funky Companion models they
sell in Firebird catalogs.
30) You wear a Tempest t-shirt to work, and attempt to explain what exactly
Celtic Rock is.
31) You look at your CD selection and realize that most of your favorite
stuff is Misty related.
32) You look at your bookshelf and find that Misty has taken over an entire
shelf, doublestacked, and finally surpassed McCaffrey.
33) You desperately wish that Misty would come out with a series of Valdemar
related Computer games, like Ray Feist did with his Universe.
34)You think this whole list was stupid, because there is no such thing
as too much Misty. You then go immediately to your shrine to her and pray
that she will forgive these blasphemous fools.
35)Your favorite non-misty songs remind you of scenes from her books.
36)Misty's characters invade your dreams at night.
37)You wonder what the Bards at Haven would think of today's music.
38)You try to have an all-white wardrobe and tell the salesperson at the
clothes department "pure white, I want _pure_ white. Not ecru, not pinkish,
not tinted, but _pure_ white. Nothing that would give me away either..."
39)Your friends all call you " Mrs Tannim Drake" or "Lady Ashkevron", in
teasing.
40)At every mention of the words "Node", "Nexus", "Ash" and "Bard", you
turn dreamy and have a stupid grin on your face.
41)When you and all your friends
go by names of characters from the books, and when everybody looks at you
like you're crazy you don't care in the least.
42)If you see a great
thunder storm & wonder if someone's made a gate nearby.
43)You wonder if any of today's singers have the Bardic Gift.
That's it, but if you think of any more, send
them to me. Gyrfalcon started the first post, and everyone else joined
in. So this list was really written by most of the people on the Misty
Mailing List.
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