in which I write about stuff
how I feel about writing exercises, quoted from an interview with Derek Powazek ({fray}):
I had this teacher at Claremont High. Madam Adam. She was this tidal wave of a woman, who really nurtured me. And she took no shit. When I came in empty-handed, she’d say, “Where’s your story?”
“Oh, I couldn’t finish it, I was overwhelmed. I had this horrible day, and…”
“Then write about that,” she’d say, handing me a pen.
It just resonated with things I’ve been thinking about lately.
okay, yeah, now I remember that blogging in opera is a dismal experience. (ev, if you’re out there…why is this so?!)
I know how it ends now. Which just means that I need to start writing it down. Thank you so much, Kat, as always, for your thoughtful insight. I’d so missed her input & our conversations about our stories. she said it felt like getting a letter from an old friend…I felt much the same about reading the latest revision of her dragon story (the beginning of it, anyway).
woo-hoo! I fixed the sound on our computer! (of course, what that meant was putting in an old sound card that was slated for use in the upcoming (actually, nearly completed) linux box, but hey, now we can listen to cd’s again. and kuow – can’t forget that.)
if I “applied myself” I might actually understand this shit. 😛
and what great stuff is there to write about tonight?
so yeah, a web log is cheep therapy, not good writing. what else is new? it’s the same sort of brain spillage that has always filled my various diaries – I’m just more self-consious…because I do know that it’s public. that’s actually a weird part of the appeal. I’m usually more of a voyeur than an exhibitionist. this is sort of a tease, because it’s not all of me, just these random bits.
feeling like my site sucks – not visually, but the content, and I don’t really know what I want to do with it.
(the hair coloring turned out fairly mediocre, by the way. I’m wishing I’d bought a brighter shade of red, something a little more Willow-like.)
sad & restless. tired of this rut my life is in. which means, of course, that I’ve been trolling thru the personal ads, and I’m pondering breaking out the bottle of hair dye. angst everywhere….
I started rearranging the house again and never quite finished. as usual. and now I’m procrastinating on getting back to it.
what else am I procrastinating on?
so…yeah. I’m sitting here writing, listening to k.d. lang (ingenue). Chad’s over at Keith’s. (things are tense with us…not horribly or impossibly so…but our various anxieties & melancholies are butting heads.)
<sigh>
I ought to go to bed, since, after all, it is nearly 10 pm, and tomorrow is a work day…. yay.
oh, I really want/need to work out the backstory plot. what are the details of the treaty between Alac and Haret? what is the “normal” protocol for the Unitad/Imperium in these cases – and why is that thrown aside in this instance? why are is the Imperium aligned with Noren’s overthrow of Alad? (what do they get out of it and how are they helping?) how well known is Imperium/Unitad involvement among the ordinary population out there?
hrm. in the meantime, I’m gonna listen to “wait wait don’t tell me” on KUOW. that, and make some curry.