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It's a Tuesday.
I have a paper that was due two days ago. I'm procrastinating on it still. It helps that I am sick and I slept maybe 12 hours today. I got up at 9:30 and went to the doctor and then came home at 11 and slept until 4. I'm still sleepy and I'm also very dizzy even though I've been drinking lots of fluids and eating really tasty strawberries and Italian bread and pizza from Bertucci's.
I've been listening to everyone's music on tumblr. There is a lot of it. Some of it is really quality. I'm getting to the end of the list, though. Anyone have suggestions for bands I should listen to next?
Now I'm researching amputations and prosthetic legs because I have a character who lost a leg in either the Iraq or Afghanistan war. Prosthetic limbs are really cool. You can get them painted with designs and things and sometimes they look almost exactly like flesh limbs and they make special ones for running and swimming and things. Losing a leg sucks, obviously, but it doesn't look as bad as I had originally thought it'd be.
So lots of research on that. I don't have to do a ton of research on PTSD though because I've done extensive extensive reading about it already. I guess I could seek out an actual war veteran to talk about it with, but I feel like that would be invasive and awkward and just not something you really do. This happens every single time I write something. I pick characters and situations that you can't just interview someone about, like prison or wars or serial murder or being an astronaut or rapists. And then I research as many details as I can and make up the rest and worry that they're all wrong and the people who work in those fields or experienced those things are going to be so mad at me for getting it wrong.
I have real hair now. Not that much, but some.
I don't look bald or dying any more, at least.
I have my laptop on top of an ice pack right now because the fan was making a noise and the bottom part of it was burning my lap a bit.
This is probably a bad idea but it's better than a fried computer, right?
I really need to talk to my friends more. And get out of the house more. I want to go take pictures of Somerville and Harvard Square (even though I have a kajillion pictures of Harvard Square already, there is so much more of it that I don't have pictures of yet). I want to explore the places I live.
That would be a lot easier if I could walk without falling over. :I
Homestuck fandom is making me sad. It has lots of great people in it but there are so many more of them that just make me shake my head forever at the stupidity. asdfjh.
I've been drawing a lot more lately. I probably fill 7 or 10 pages a week, but I don't do a page a day. I'll draw three in one day and then skip a day and then draw two the next day. I can't tell if I'm getting any better. I think I need to draw from life more.
I keep meaning to make chocolate milk and then forgetting. It's kind of stupid.
I feel like I have a fever. My temperature was 96.4 earlier today and it's 98.7 now and I'm not sure if that counts.
I'm going to go finish procrastinating. I'll watch a movie tomorrow, I think.
I have a paper that was due two days ago. I'm procrastinating on it still. It helps that I am sick and I slept maybe 12 hours today. I got up at 9:30 and went to the doctor and then came home at 11 and slept until 4. I'm still sleepy and I'm also very dizzy even though I've been drinking lots of fluids and eating really tasty strawberries and Italian bread and pizza from Bertucci's.
I've been listening to everyone's music on tumblr. There is a lot of it. Some of it is really quality. I'm getting to the end of the list, though. Anyone have suggestions for bands I should listen to next?
Now I'm researching amputations and prosthetic legs because I have a character who lost a leg in either the Iraq or Afghanistan war. Prosthetic limbs are really cool. You can get them painted with designs and things and sometimes they look almost exactly like flesh limbs and they make special ones for running and swimming and things. Losing a leg sucks, obviously, but it doesn't look as bad as I had originally thought it'd be.
So lots of research on that. I don't have to do a ton of research on PTSD though because I've done extensive extensive reading about it already. I guess I could seek out an actual war veteran to talk about it with, but I feel like that would be invasive and awkward and just not something you really do. This happens every single time I write something. I pick characters and situations that you can't just interview someone about, like prison or wars or serial murder or being an astronaut or rapists. And then I research as many details as I can and make up the rest and worry that they're all wrong and the people who work in those fields or experienced those things are going to be so mad at me for getting it wrong.
I have real hair now. Not that much, but some.
I don't look bald or dying any more, at least.
I have my laptop on top of an ice pack right now because the fan was making a noise and the bottom part of it was burning my lap a bit.
This is probably a bad idea but it's better than a fried computer, right?
I really need to talk to my friends more. And get out of the house more. I want to go take pictures of Somerville and Harvard Square (even though I have a kajillion pictures of Harvard Square already, there is so much more of it that I don't have pictures of yet). I want to explore the places I live.
That would be a lot easier if I could walk without falling over. :I
Homestuck fandom is making me sad. It has lots of great people in it but there are so many more of them that just make me shake my head forever at the stupidity. asdfjh.
I've been drawing a lot more lately. I probably fill 7 or 10 pages a week, but I don't do a page a day. I'll draw three in one day and then skip a day and then draw two the next day. I can't tell if I'm getting any better. I think I need to draw from life more.
I keep meaning to make chocolate milk and then forgetting. It's kind of stupid.
I feel like I have a fever. My temperature was 96.4 earlier today and it's 98.7 now and I'm not sure if that counts.
I'm going to go finish procrastinating. I'll watch a movie tomorrow, I think.