Anyone who needs this one can borrow it:

[xiphias]

Over the weekend at Arisia, I developed a new mantra which helped me a number of times.

Feel free to use it.

It goes:
"I love other fen and have no need to kill them. I love other fen and have no need to kill them. I love other fen and have no need to kill them."

Chanting this mantra was very useful, and I think that I should maybe lead meditation groups for Ops and Security chanting this mantra -- I think they're the groups most likely to need it.

Comments

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

There's no reason not to kill the other fen if they are being really annoying.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It was the first time the convention was in a new hotel, you know how it is.

I don't know where their industrial garbage disposal is.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Nah, Ops already chants "The weapons policy also applies to us. The weapons policy also applies to us." repeatedly. :- )

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Mine flows better.

And I'm not convinced that yours is true.

Oh, wait -- I'm not convinced that mine is true either.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I am a unique little snowflake. He is a unique little snowflake. She is a unique little snowflake. Somewhere in the room, one or more of these unique little snowflakes needs a shower.

[brooksmoses]

I think that when my wife had a job working as a documentation editor for a chipmaking company, she had a discrete sign in her office that said "I love engineers. I love engineers. I love engineers. Repeat until [can put away the weaponry]". (I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something roughly along those lines.)

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

The one I was taught when I started working for Arisia was, "If you kill it, you take its job."

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

Security will never promise to not kill fen.

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

I was behind the guy who wore the long cloak onto the down escalator.

I know how you feel.