I'm outta here!!! At least for eleven days...
Well, tomorrow marks the official start of my Great Alaskan Adventure! I will be flying to Seattle in the morning and meeting up with my friends and then on Sunday we will sail away to ports North. I look forward to this because my town is suffering from a severe shortage of cool people to talk Star Trek/Doctor Who with, and being that this is a Star Trek cruise, I am going to be in heaven! Dominic Keating of Enterprise and Vaughn Armstrong, who has played many characters in every incarnation of Trek since Next Gen, will be attending. It will also be nice to dance. Dancing is cool. And I, being a Gringa-rican hybrid who has no idea how to dance salsa music (Yes-I am only Puerto Rican on the outside!), am so very eager to get my groove on to music I can actually dance to!
Anyway, I hope to come back renewed, inspired and ready to take on life with a River Song-esque gusto. It would also be nice to get my muse back so that I can finish the fics I have half-written on my harddrive! I need it so much. Who cares if the moment I start writing a story someone posts something with a plot that has an uncanny resemblence to what I just wrote. Is it a case of "Great minds think alike?" Or is it something more sinister? Like a dark force toying with me using the very thing Iove against me? LOL...God I need some sleep! And who cares...everyone can write about the same thing and have different takes and styles when they do it. I just have to stop being so damned afraid. Read a really good quote about it too. From Dune:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain."~Paul Atraides
I must live up to this. I have been notorious for talking a lot of talk about what I want to do and then doing nothing. May this trip grant me the courage to finally snap to it.