Time to write?
Mar. 26th, 2003 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI want to write again. I really envy you folks who do. Where do you find the time? I suppose the easy answer is to say, "Make time," but I'm just so terrible at making time for anything. I live pretty moment-to-moment, with the exception of work. I don't really make advance plans, and when I do, I tend to forget them. I need to remember that I'm supposed to try to catch lunch with 
Beaktoria on Saturday afternoon, and I think on Friday night I'm supposed to try to get together with my friend Tiffany from my social work program. But I don't remember if we're going drinking or if we're going to that tea salon. I'm trying to remember if I made plans for Sunday or not. I know I'm trying to get my Jennifer to go see this play about geniuses and math and stuff ("Proof"), but that's at night if I remember correctly.
It's funny, I sit here and say that I don't make advance plans, and it seems that my weekend is already all booked up. I need to get a haircut in there somewhere, and I want to buy a bicycle, and I'm running out of shampoo. (Whenever I think of the word "shampoo," I think of how that woman says it in Run, Lola, Run.) Tonight is Wednesday night, so whatever I do, I must do the requisite cleaning of the cat boxes and taking out of the garbage. I think I'll cook something for dinner tonight, too, since I've been going out too much. But what to do before/after that? Should I try for the haircut, or the bicycle? I want to do some more![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
geocaching.
I brought two of my paper journals to Vic's last night, but I ended up catching up on letters I was meaning to write a month ago. I will never win the Pen Pal of the Year award. Oops. I wrote this terrible scribbling on 07-28-02. (Sometimes I'm amazed at how terrible a writer I am, hee.) I had no idea how bad it would get:
my country tis of thee
where the overwhelming attitude is
MORE! MORE! MORE!
where we're not satisfied unless we
can buy-one-get-one-free
where we drown our freedoms in red, white, and blue
tightly wrapped in plastic flags flapping from rear windows
and where has the American Dream gone?
where is the promise for the tired, the poor,
the dark-skinned, the accented,
where is Lady Liberty when our calls are screened
and our letters sniffed
and our packages searched?
my country tis of thee
where is justice for all?
p.s. Got any suggestions of books I should read? Your favorites, please. Thanks!
Beaktoria on Saturday afternoon, and I think on Friday night I'm supposed to try to get together with my friend Tiffany from my social work program. But I don't remember if we're going drinking or if we're going to that tea salon. I'm trying to remember if I made plans for Sunday or not. I know I'm trying to get my Jennifer to go see this play about geniuses and math and stuff ("Proof"), but that's at night if I remember correctly.It's funny, I sit here and say that I don't make advance plans, and it seems that my weekend is already all booked up. I need to get a haircut in there somewhere, and I want to buy a bicycle, and I'm running out of shampoo. (Whenever I think of the word "shampoo," I think of how that woman says it in Run, Lola, Run.) Tonight is Wednesday night, so whatever I do, I must do the requisite cleaning of the cat boxes and taking out of the garbage. I think I'll cook something for dinner tonight, too, since I've been going out too much. But what to do before/after that? Should I try for the haircut, or the bicycle? I want to do some more
geocaching.I brought two of my paper journals to Vic's last night, but I ended up catching up on letters I was meaning to write a month ago. I will never win the Pen Pal of the Year award. Oops. I wrote this terrible scribbling on 07-28-02. (Sometimes I'm amazed at how terrible a writer I am, hee.) I had no idea how bad it would get:
where the overwhelming attitude is
MORE! MORE! MORE!
where we're not satisfied unless we
can buy-one-get-one-free
where we drown our freedoms in red, white, and blue
tightly wrapped in plastic flags flapping from rear windows
and where has the American Dream gone?
where is the promise for the tired, the poor,
the dark-skinned, the accented,
where is Lady Liberty when our calls are screened
and our letters sniffed
and our packages searched?
my country tis of thee
where is justice for all?
p.s. Got any suggestions of books I should read? Your favorites, please. Thanks!
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Date: 2003-03-26 06:45 am (UTC)As for writing , yes you MAKE the time. If the need it great enough this is not a problem because your head will not let you rest until you do.
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Date: 2003-03-26 06:53 am (UTC)ARGH!
<3 monkeyluv <3
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Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Every person living in America should read this.
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Date: 2003-03-26 07:02 am (UTC)But here for you now, I recommend Night of the Avenging Blowfish By John Welter
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Date: 2003-03-26 09:20 am (UTC)Something so last year? Atonement, by Ian McEwen.
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Date: 2003-03-26 10:02 am (UTC)And read anything with unicorns!
Oh, you opened a can of worms:
Date: 2003-03-26 01:37 pm (UTC)Sublime: Little, Big by John Crowley
Funny and weird: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy.
Or for deadly serious: Bury Me Standing: The Life of the Gypsies by Isabel Fonseca is an engrossing study about gypsies in Europe in the twentieth century. She lived with a Romany family in Albania and wrote about her experiences, mixing them in with history. Good stuff.
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Date: 2003-03-26 03:29 pm (UTC)Ooooh. Great movie! :) Took me months to convince Cat to watch it with me, and boy was he kicking himself for waiting so long, once he did!
I'm reading a very interesting book right now that a friend of mine sent me for my birthday: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
Another one I re-read recently and still have to shake my head at is Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, but I figure being pretty tight with Mark, you've already read that. How is The Boy, anyway? You heard from him recently?
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:06 pm (UTC)Erk. Mark stopped speaking to me in January of 2002. I'm sorry I can't give you any kind of update. :(
I keep meaning to read more Palahniuk. Thanks for the tip! And Atwood is /good stuff/!
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:36 pm (UTC)If you like Palahniuk, though, I'd highly recommend both Invisible Monsters and Survivor. I haven't read the new one, yet. Twisted and eerily meaningful. If they weren't so damned raw, the word might be 'poignant.' *grin*
I'm really enjoying the Margaret Atwood book. I've been so busy that it's slow going, and I find myself pondering things about it in between readings. That's generally a good sign.
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Date: 2003-03-26 07:36 pm (UTC)My novel of recommendations
She's Come Undone
Ellen Foster
Tipping the Velvet
anything from the Bebo Brinker series (fun!)
The Undertakings
The Bloody Chamber
Listen to the Silence (easy but disturbing)
Jacob Have I Loved (teen book, but good!)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (teen-y, good)
The Red Tent
The Agony and the Ecstacy
And my one Non-fiction:
The Sadian Woman
... I'm not a big reader, but these ones are favorites.
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Date: 2003-03-26 07:34 pm (UTC)She's Come Undone
Tipping the Velvet
Listen to the Silence (easy but disturbing)
Jacob Have I Loved (teen book, but good!)
The Red Tent
I'll look into the others!
good books
Date: 2003-03-26 08:36 pm (UTC)I own some of them and would be willing to loan them.
Re: good books
Date: 2003-03-28 03:18 pm (UTC)I'll even lend you one of my favorites, to trade.
Re: good books
Date: 2003-03-28 04:55 pm (UTC)Do you have a similar list?
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Date: 2003-03-29 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: good books
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Date: 2003-03-31 07:16 am (UTC)I sell books sometimes and regret it, because then I want them again. I'm weird like that.
Some of my current favorites include everything I have by Neil Gaiman, everything I have by Jack Kerouac, my Jim Carroll books, and my Nick Hornbys, and my Jeanette Wintersons.
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Date: 2003-03-27 05:39 pm (UTC)Me Talk Pretty One Day---David Sedaris
Great book--laughed out loud. kinda cynical...if you like that kind of thing
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