[i should not be awake right now]
I am convinced there will be no such thing as a normal week this semester. Or maybe I should say that a "normal week" will now mean a completely irregular week, what with all the days off and snow days and shit. I feel bad enough for these poor kids - they have absolutely everything against them, and then their school schedule is this disrupted on top of that? Gah. I really don't know how anyone around here learns anything. (The short answer is that they don't, which is what I'm here for. *g*)
Obama was here last Friday. I sadly did not get to go because the line was a mile long and there was no way I was getting into that tiny gym, but hurrah for Super Tuesday! Which...I cannot vote in, because I'm not registered in New Mexico. Heh. But I am keeping up to date on all the issues, and have been on a political/wartime movie/TV kick (lots of West Wing, plus I have about a half a million war movies to watch on top of that), and have been enjoying putting a bunch of issues into the stuff I'm writing.
Do you guys do that? Like, if you have some real-world issue you're interested in, whether it's the world at large or something you're facing on your own, do you insert it into your fics/art/whatever to get it out on paper? I know a lot of people write because it's cathartic and a good way to get emotional and psychological issues to unwind in language, and I feel that way a lot too. Anyone who's ever read any of my artistic writing will know that the way I think is very, very erratic and makes little sense to most people, which is odd since I'm such an analytical kind of person. But writing things down helps me put it in some kind of logical order, and something that makes no sense in my brain now makes perfect sense because I have forced myself to put it into complete sentences. I know I did it a lot in Sasuga Tezuka, and I am doing it a tonne again over at mirandised, but I think all of my fics have some element of that.
In fact, I uh. Heh. I have a tendency to repress and repress and repress until everything kind of explodes all at once, which happened to me yesterday, and I called my mother in tears and cried at her for a half an hour. (I'm fine now, so no worries.) There are so many things I am always thinking about, and so much frustration and anger (I have serious issues with repressed anger, haha), and all I could think about when I got off the phone with her was that I needed to write. I didn't, unfortunately, because breakdowns always exhaust me, but I think I am going to have to today. So I guess I was just curious if you guys felt the same way, especially since I've seen a lot of people say they're feeling down at the moment.
ANYway. That's enough from me for today. *goes back to her writing stuff* Oh, and P.S.: teamtheme! ♥
Obama was here last Friday. I sadly did not get to go because the line was a mile long and there was no way I was getting into that tiny gym, but hurrah for Super Tuesday! Which...I cannot vote in, because I'm not registered in New Mexico. Heh. But I am keeping up to date on all the issues, and have been on a political/wartime movie/TV kick (lots of West Wing, plus I have about a half a million war movies to watch on top of that), and have been enjoying putting a bunch of issues into the stuff I'm writing.
Do you guys do that? Like, if you have some real-world issue you're interested in, whether it's the world at large or something you're facing on your own, do you insert it into your fics/art/whatever to get it out on paper? I know a lot of people write because it's cathartic and a good way to get emotional and psychological issues to unwind in language, and I feel that way a lot too. Anyone who's ever read any of my artistic writing will know that the way I think is very, very erratic and makes little sense to most people, which is odd since I'm such an analytical kind of person. But writing things down helps me put it in some kind of logical order, and something that makes no sense in my brain now makes perfect sense because I have forced myself to put it into complete sentences. I know I did it a lot in Sasuga Tezuka, and I am doing it a tonne again over at mirandised, but I think all of my fics have some element of that.
In fact, I uh. Heh. I have a tendency to repress and repress and repress until everything kind of explodes all at once, which happened to me yesterday, and I called my mother in tears and cried at her for a half an hour. (I'm fine now, so no worries.) There are so many things I am always thinking about, and so much frustration and anger (I have serious issues with repressed anger, haha), and all I could think about when I got off the phone with her was that I needed to write. I didn't, unfortunately, because breakdowns always exhaust me, but I think I am going to have to today. So I guess I was just curious if you guys felt the same way, especially since I've seen a lot of people say they're feeling down at the moment.
ANYway. That's enough from me for today. *goes back to her writing stuff* Oh, and P.S.: teamtheme! ♥