New Pet Peeve: people who eat things in the grocery store before actually purchasing them
Great Expectations
Let it be known – I want to meet a woman whose best story doesn’t go something like, “This one time I was sooooo drunk…blah blah blah…hit a tree…blah blah blah…fucking hilarious…blah blah-dy blah…surprised I can even remember any of it at all…ha ha ha! Why of course I’ll have another…”
Is that really too much to ask?!
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
[edited for personal content – see me if this thread concerned you…]
Reality TV
WTF?! Is American Idol ever NOT on anymore???
Online Madness
Whew, it’s late…but it sure feels good to be working online again! New stuff at Just Laugh coming in April – stay tuned!!! Just Laugh’s Joke of the Day is also up and running once again, on schedule now, for anyone who needs at least one more joke list to subscribe to.
Also, wow…
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
…truckin’…
My coffee table is about 40 miles north of Chattanooga, TN. It’s only a matter of time, now…
Note: Also excited about seeing friends bringing the table! I hope they remembered it’s protective covering, though…
*w00t!*
I bought more fish over the weekend…the fun just never ends here in Florida, now does it?
None of them have died since that one defective one about a month ago, and I’m rather proud of that.
I’ve spent much of the last several days writing, but it’s all still on various legal pads – I do hope to see some of it online soon, and hopefully not plagiarized by any of my friends.
And lastly, I’m getting a new coffee table this weekend, or actually, an old coffee table that didn’t exactly make it down here when I moved last year. It will go on my balcony, which I plan to use for more than just storage in the future. More as this exciting coverage continues…
inspiration
One of the guys that I work with shared an interesting bit of insight with me on Friday that has had a lot more affect on me than I would’ve originally thought. He had asked how my writing was going lately and I related that because of all of the half-done projects I’ve got spread out right now, I’ve been experiencing something like writer’s block and thus I’m not really making much progress with any of them. Upon hearing this, he shared something that another writer had once told him that I’ll probably never forget, and that was “You can’t just sit around waiting for the inspiration to find you. You have to get up and seek it out yourself because otherwise you may never actually see it again…” The idea is that by just sitting around, your environment to pull from is rather limited, but if you continue to write the entire time – week after week after week – then eventually things will have a much better chance of clicking once again.
And the more that I analyzed these words, the more that I realized that they can really apply to just about anything, from learning to play the guitar to dating to whatever your heart desires. Sure, there’s a good chance that you’ll write a lot of pure crap or go on some truly horrible dates along the way, but it’s a whole lot farther than you’ll get just by sitting around and waiting for that special flare to seek you out personally.
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That having been said, I’ve only got a few pieces left to finish up to bring my personal site back up to speed and I plan on hitting at least one a day until they’re finally done. Then I can work at organizing my thoughts for Leaving Miami and start making more progress than just a couple paragraphs for each chapter – I think this is what motivation feels like!
Life is good.