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Saturday, January 12, 2002
Amazing thing: I had to write a story for a journalism class about someone at work. Anyone. But deadlines were pressing, and I'd already been turned down twice. The most ridiculous rejection was from the barber down the street who shook his head wearily and said he explains cutting hair to someone every year for a journalism class. So I started to wander. I wandered down to the el tracks, briefly thought of asking to ride with a pizza delivery person, and tried the locked doors of a Southern Baptist church. Finally I just stood on the corner, feeling at a dead end, alarm beginning to rise. I stood there for more time than people usually idle. Maybe a minute. And from around the corner came a guy with purple sunglasses, holding a strip of 10 animal videos shrink-wrapped together. "Check it out!" he said. "These go for $30 at Blockbuster, we're clearing 'em out for 5 bucks." My jaw dropped. "You're going to think I'm crazy," I said. "But I have to write this story about someone at work..."
00:28
Friday, January 11, 2002
"Hey, you know they're all the same...You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in. Live right now. Yeah, just be yourself. It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else.... It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride... Everything will be just fine, everything will be all right." -- Jimmy Eat World, "The Middle"
14:09
Thursday, January 10, 2002
I'm feeling lonely in a crowd... like it's up to me to make my life happen, for the first time ever, and I'm failing, and no one can help me. At the same time, and just to give you a more balanced snapshot of my mental state, I'm glad this is senior year. Maybe now, instead of just learning about what others have done, I can do something of my own. Maybe it'll be small. Maybe I'll fact-check for genealogy magazines. But things will get better. They must.
01:28
Tuesday, January 08, 2002
"Follow your bliss," Joseph Campbell says... well, my bliss is hard to define. Is it the thing that's most comfortable? Or is it the momentary bliss that comes when I've accomplished a really hard task? Or the hope of future lifetime of bliss when I actually become comfortable with a really hard task? I'm drawn toward things which also evoke immediate dread, namely travel and journalism. Why do I do these things? Why do I keep doing them? *Announcer voice from the sound booth*: Answers to these questions and more in the next megaphone!
16:30
Monday, January 07, 2002
"It was springtime and I could feel my blood -- and you know how that is." -- Mark Roberts, on attraction
01:33
Sunday, January 06, 2002
Overheard while waiting in the airport for my flight to Chicago:
Toddler: French fries make me want to puke.
Dad: You just put too many in your mouth, that's all.
20:42
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." -- John Lennon
20:38
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