Who: Canadino
What: original lit, fanfiction, misc writing-related thoughts, fangirling
When: relatively often
Where: right here
Why: "'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." - Virginia Woolf
How? This Journal is partially friends-only. Story/writing/fangirl posts are PUBLIC; personal posts are FRIENDS ONLY.

( So now for something completely different: writer's block! )

I really miss my friends who are abroad. It's not a soul-crushing, angst-ridden kind of missing but it's acute and daily enough for me to really notice their absence in my life. I have people I am spending time with and killing the time with and talking to and I would probably tell my friends the same things I tell the people I have here but…it's ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I'm subliminally motivating myself to put myself out there and make a lot of friends because half of my friend group is going abroad during spring quarter…I say half, but really these are the main people I talk to on a daily basis and with them gone I'm very much crippled…I'm glad that I have winter quarter as a buffer to foster ( Read more... )

I went out for dinner with a bunch of my friends yesterday for one of my roommate's birthdays and just before and during and a little after I just sort of was hit home by how great it and how right it was. I think there are just so many changes and a lot of different things happening now that's reminding me that I'm really getting older and so is ( Read more... )

I want to ruin our friendship
We should be lovers instead
I don't know how to say this
'Cause you're really my dearest friend.

Up until today, I'd never really understood what people meant when they met someone in person and went into utter hysterics, but now I am very aware it is a real thing and completely and ridiculously embarrassing to go through but in the end, you don't even care ( Read more... )

M: canadino, you've really been keeping up on shaving your legs during winter.

Me: But I've never shaved my legs my entire life...

Next proceeds J and M both touching my leg and being amazed.

I met this totally rad girl at this apartment party last weekend and she had come with friends or so I assume, but she was very receptive to chilling out with me and my friends and we went to a local diner a little drunk and we chatted there and exchanged numbers and I blabbered nonsense about being kindred souls and when the rest of the table had ( Read more... )

I have no idea why - I'm blaming the dreary Chicago weather - but I've been feeling this intense mood of apathy toward school lately ( Read more... )

I woke up today groggy and completely forgot it was Monday and I had class all day, wondered why on earth my alarm was waking me up at nine on Sunday, it was bad, my only saving grace is that I finished the homework I know for sure is due today but if I had anything else I was not prepared ( Read more... )