What's happened to me?

[hils]

As the recent fic rec posts may have indicated a strange thing happened to me a few weeks ago.

It all started when I read the Check Please comic because annundriel had been talking about it a lot. It was super cute and I enjoyed it a lot.

Then, because I have evil friends who are enablers, so_shhy said 'Ooh, if you liked Check Please you totally need to start reading hockey fic here's a bunch of links'. And because I am weak and cannot resist good fic I read them and they were great.

Somehow it then went from 'I'm just happy to read good fic' to following the score on Twitter and texting updates to so_shhy while she was working. Then somehow I was waking up at 4am to check the score after games.

Now I have a t-shirt and jersey, a couple of plushie penguins and a little hockey action figure and I'm fretting because it's the last game of this round of the playoffs and if the Pens lose they're out but if they win they're through to the final

Who am I? What has happened to me? Is there a cure for unexpected and sudden interest in sport?

Comments

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

There's no cure. Even if you manage to stop the symptoms for a while, something (such as some EVIL and TERRIBLE ENABLER PERSON) will trigger a relapse down the road. Alas, it seems hockey is a lifelong disease.

My sympathies.

:P

[hils.livejournal.com]

Wow, that EVIL and TERRIBLE ENABLER PERSON sounds awful. You should stop being friends with them :D

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

I really should. Unfortunately, in spite of this ATROCIOUS ABUSE, they're kind of cool sometimes and guess I'd probably miss having them around to flail at about hockey scores and Sidney Crosby's face. ;)

[hils.livejournal.com]

URGH HIS FACE!

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

Indeed...

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

There's a surprising number of hockey fans in the writercon crowd. I've been a hockey fan since 2001.

Every year I bankrupt myself spending 2 weeks in Vancouver so I can go to 5 or 6 Vancouver Canucks games. There's an 8 hour time difference but, for the rest of the season, I sleep with my iPad -- I have an App that announces the score at the end of each period, and I watch the Ice Tracker, which gives a play-by-play description of the game. I stayed up till stupid o'clock for the draft lottery, and I'll be staying up for the draft. And I'll be buying next year's game tickets in September :-)

I have a huge archive of programs and press clippings, books, souvenir pucks, cups, glasses, pens, action figures, hats, scarves. I've had a jersey for years but, this year, I tracked down a Build a Bear Workshop in Vancouver and bought jerseys for my teddy bears.

So, I'm afraid your future is pretty bleak!

(I don't read fics, though. I can't do RPF).