Public Transit in this city needs to stop costing so much. It's depressing to think that a couple hours of work only pays my transit costs for the week. Of course, my only other option is driving, and I'm not going to poke the hornet's nest that is car insurance. Or car ownership. Or anything vaguely car-related ( Read more... )

Dear Laptop,

Please stop making that horrid grinding sound. You know, the one that sounds like a rusty cement mixer full of broken glass and the wails of a thousand clubbed baby seals? I know you are old and thus the computer equivalent of arthritic and senile, but I just need you to last until August.

On a similar noteDear (mentally fulfilling ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm weird, but I have never been one to "ship" characters. Romances can be fun if they're interwoven into the plot, but I'm not rabid about X and Y needing to be together. Of course, I also refuse to pay money to see romantic comedies unless the movie also involves gratuitous explosions. (Note to self: Write that movie.)That being said, A: ( Read more... )

This is where I realize that my obsession with tiny, minute details is probably unhealthy.  But I will be anal-retentive until the day I die, goddammit ( Read more... )

The Good:

• After 23 years, I've finally learned to make a story outline before starting to write.
• This is probably the most streamline, straightforward thing I've written in a long time.
• I haven't been this enthusiastic about writing in a long time.
• I haven't been this happy with something I've written in a long time.

The Bad:

• My outline is 7 pages and ( Read more... )