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so yeah.
livejournal.
we're hoping for freezing rain all night so we can miss class tomorrow but I'm not getting my hopes up. I tell people that i try not to get too excited about anything and I'm pretty sure that sounds like I'm pessimistic or depressed or something. It's not really like that. I don't get upset because "nothing excites me" and it's not like I don't ever get my hopes up.
I guess I am a pessimist. The reason I try not to get all worked up over future plans or events is because, from experience, I know that really exciting and fun things tend to go somewhat wrong, if not completely wrong. If I expect something to go wrong, then when it does I'm not all that shaken up about it. Furthermore, if everything goes well then what i was looking forward to goes above and beyond all my expectations. So there ya go. My flawless logic in action.
Chidsey printed out a prototype Dive Hotel publication (volume 3). It looks pretty good. We had quite a few issues with this zine. First of all, Britni's piece had to be changed because certain high ranking college officials thought that it was too direct in its mockery of the "homeless insane" The entire piece was modified and Chids pretty much typed up a more PC version himself. I don't blame him. We are recognized by the school so we have to go by there standards. I highly doubt that the piece would have offended anybody, but who knows. We gotta play by the rules. I feel bad for Britni, though, and she's not too happy about it either.
Chidsey did give us the option to print the zine under another name so we could keep all of the stuff we had written and not be affiliated with the school. It's a logical idea...but i'd feel weird if we worked this long only to abandon the name "DIVE HOTEL".
I just want this thing to come together and get to work on the next issue. It might just be me, but I think we can take the next one in a new direction. We don't necessarily have to write about sex and drugs...we could write about...idunno...more interesting things. Britni wants to use the "found" idea. We find a piece of paper on the ground, or banana peel, or a pile of poo and write a piece about it. Of course, this could go in any number of directions. I guess that idea would have to do with association. I mean, obviously if you found a love letter or something you might re-create the unknown characters. But if you found a piece of poo you could write about anything from waste management to nasty caf food.
I guess the only problems we would have with this one is if we found something incriminating and embarrassing, put it in there, and hurt somebodies feelings. I doubt that would happen though.
I just now realized that my LJ is turning into a "Dive Hotel Blog". Whatever. It's something to write about.
livejournal.
we're hoping for freezing rain all night so we can miss class tomorrow but I'm not getting my hopes up. I tell people that i try not to get too excited about anything and I'm pretty sure that sounds like I'm pessimistic or depressed or something. It's not really like that. I don't get upset because "nothing excites me" and it's not like I don't ever get my hopes up.
I guess I am a pessimist. The reason I try not to get all worked up over future plans or events is because, from experience, I know that really exciting and fun things tend to go somewhat wrong, if not completely wrong. If I expect something to go wrong, then when it does I'm not all that shaken up about it. Furthermore, if everything goes well then what i was looking forward to goes above and beyond all my expectations. So there ya go. My flawless logic in action.
Chidsey printed out a prototype Dive Hotel publication (volume 3). It looks pretty good. We had quite a few issues with this zine. First of all, Britni's piece had to be changed because certain high ranking college officials thought that it was too direct in its mockery of the "homeless insane" The entire piece was modified and Chids pretty much typed up a more PC version himself. I don't blame him. We are recognized by the school so we have to go by there standards. I highly doubt that the piece would have offended anybody, but who knows. We gotta play by the rules. I feel bad for Britni, though, and she's not too happy about it either.
Chidsey did give us the option to print the zine under another name so we could keep all of the stuff we had written and not be affiliated with the school. It's a logical idea...but i'd feel weird if we worked this long only to abandon the name "DIVE HOTEL".
I just want this thing to come together and get to work on the next issue. It might just be me, but I think we can take the next one in a new direction. We don't necessarily have to write about sex and drugs...we could write about...idunno...more interesting things. Britni wants to use the "found" idea. We find a piece of paper on the ground, or banana peel, or a pile of poo and write a piece about it. Of course, this could go in any number of directions. I guess that idea would have to do with association. I mean, obviously if you found a love letter or something you might re-create the unknown characters. But if you found a piece of poo you could write about anything from waste management to nasty caf food.
I guess the only problems we would have with this one is if we found something incriminating and embarrassing, put it in there, and hurt somebodies feelings. I doubt that would happen though.
I just now realized that my LJ is turning into a "Dive Hotel Blog". Whatever. It's something to write about.