Sometimes it's hard for me to remember tomorrow will arrive. There will probably be a next week. There will probably be a next month. Seeing listings of books that aren't to be released until the summer give me hope. I don't know where I'll be then or what my life will be like, how it will differ from now, but it will probably still be going on ( Read more... )

I wish I were by nature a calm and easy-going person who didn't have a panic attack every time things didn't go as planned. I get things very set in my mind and I hate change. When I'm anticipating something and a turn for the worse happens, I mentally and emotionally collapse. I can't handle the situation and I just want to thrust the situation ( Read more... )

Music tends to have a strong impact on my mental state. I often listen to songs on repeat that seem to suit either my current feelings or what I want to currently feel. What I relate to in the song isn't always obvious (what the song is actually about). Often the synesthesia impression I get from songs alters their meaning for me, so a song that ( Read more... )

"It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. It is true that if there had been no Timotheus we should have been without much of our lyric poetry; but if ( Read more... )

I haven't felt so well today so far, but hopefully I will start feeling better this afternoon/evening. I'm tired and lounging around. I'm in the middle of some writing (including a short story I think I will start transcribing to my computer later today). I was really inspired by the writing style of Ashputtle by Peter Straub , which I read ( Read more... )

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