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Saturday, March 09, 2002
another quiz
Are you quirkyalone? Relationship status doesn't matter... once quirkyalone, always quirkyalone. I'm not sure how the results of this quiz relate the results of the IM addict quiz.
16:18
update
Yesterday was a beautiful night. It felt like summer. I was walking towards a bar downtown, but I felt like re-enacting a scene from our old apartment in New York instead: hanging out on the fire escape with the neighbors, sipping a big glass of red-wine-and-Coke, feeling so cool for actually having a fire escape. Instead I went to the 1800 Club with Amanda and Bart, and watched the scene like it was a PBS special, thinking: so this is where I went to school? The soundtrack just about matched every college formal I'd ever been to, thanks to the jukebox up front loaded with "Like a Prayer," "Come on Eileen," and Don McClean's "American Pie." I had a great time talking to people I knew, but I felt like I was already at my own 10-year reunion.
14:25
quiz
Are you addicted to your Instant Messenger?
14:08
read
Malcolm Gladwell investigates the art of failure.
02:53
Friday, March 08, 2002
question
I would like to paint houses in Portland, Oregon for a living. Is that an option? My only concerns: I have never painted houses. I have never been to Portland.
18:53
realization
Today I realized something that most people have always known. No matter how much I worry about something (which usually includes preparing for the worst possible outcome), it doesn't change what is actually going to happen. It's oddly freeing and yet really scary to remember how little control I have over the future.
02:38
Wednesday, March 06, 2002
link
Feeling inexperienced, disillusioned or confused? Aren't we all. Eliina pointed me to ShinyGun the other day.... I think it's written by people who understand.
18:02
procrastination post #2
I'm eating Fritos so old the bag has a picture of a Christmas tree on it. Yet they're still quite tasty.
00:27
Tuesday, March 05, 2002
anyone? anyone?
I'm posting this in the hopes that you, too, are procrastinating because you have an enormous project or two to finish tonight. Let's all send each other positive mental energy. I am also accepting chocolate chip cookies, Mountain Dew and Reese's Pieces.
23:01
read
Roger Cohen began his job as foreign editor of the New York Times on September 11. He came to visit Medill and gave an amazing speech: "Art is distilled truth. When we come closest to the distillation of the truth we observe, we come closest to a journalism that has the resonance of artistic creation."
12:46
Monday, March 04, 2002
quote
"you could be comfortable, you could go to grad school, you could move to hollywood and pursue a career in the movies, you could rat out the mobster in your family and join the witness protection program, you could leave everything you know and run away with a random guy, you could sell all that you own and beg, you could seek enlightenment, you could, you could." -- a note from David
02:37
cool thing
So I made maple syrup brownies this weekend. And as Andrew pointed out, that's weird. Cuz in my first blogger posting, I referenced making them. They turned out much better this time. My roommates actually ate most of them before I even woke up on Sunday morning, which was fine with me, but it just goes to show that these were not the chunks of crystallized sugar we made during that first attempt. I made them alone, though... and I was happy with my little Saturday night activity, listening to jazz and mixing ingrediants. But it was a different kind of contentment than I felt that night last year. I shared them with Patrick, who used to be far away.
02:32
Sunday, March 03, 2002
realization
I just realized I was using the completely wrong approach to an article I'm writing for my non-fiction class. It's about a coffee shop closing down and the group of people who'd found friendship there. I keep trying to use my tried-and-true fiction methods for non-fiction, but they ain't gonna work. When I was modeling (at age 15, forever ago), we learned that we had to be good clothes hangers. That was our job. If we had good posture and good movement, the clothes would look great. My article would sound a lot better if I had a well-built structure to hang all the pretty words on.
22:50
read
So running and writing often go hand-in-hand. I noticed this. Lots of writers -- freelancers, novelists, professors -- say that they run regularly. Until I tried it myself, I was surprised. Aren't writers supposed to be sedentary desk types? Aren't they supposed to covet old wooden typewriters and dust and rainy days? Here's some insight into writers who run. Any repetitive activity that keeps you doing something but allows your mind to wander has the same effect. I've always had my best ideas in the shower. For some people, it's washing dishes or biking or knitting.
14:25
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