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I just finished my last paper of this semester. It is approximately 7:30am - I have been awake forever, and I am sad. Not because the paper is done, but I just re-read it and didn't like it. I'm hoping that this is just late night - early morning heebie jeebies -
but that part of me that just generally believes I suck in every bad way imaginable - is refusing to shut the fuck up. So okay.

I've got a resolve on to work harder - and looking back at this semester, I can see all the ways that I could have - mostly involving doing work when I say I'm going to, and not just reading fanfic, or day-dreaming instead. But in other ways, I feel like I gave up so many things I wanted to do, so I could study, or work, or whatever. And then instead, I just frittered away my time.

No more. I have so many things I want to do. Two people have taken up residence in my head, and I'm so happy to have them, and eventually I hope they'll say some stuff to me that screams to be written down, and I will stop what I'm doing and do just that. There'll never be a better time to start then now.

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Jan. 22nd, 2002 12:17 am
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i was trying to cobble together a story.

that narrative writing class requires a manuscript-audition for a place in the class. i have quite a few stories that i could offer, mostly written (can it really be?) three years ago, the second half of my first year of college.

they are mostly finished short stories. perfect in length for the purpose. and i couldn't make myself hand any of them in. they're not me. not anymore. and in this one thing, i will not be lessened. i will not put myself in a box. not even if it was one that i used to call home.

so, instead i'm handing in three short disconnected excerpts from the novella i've been germinating in my head for a few months now. i write bits and pieces of it whenever i can pin them down. i'm not sure that this will get me into the class, but i can't muster up the wherewithal necessary to fake it.

it will be what it will, i suppose.
i can't compromise. not on this one.

hey, no one has ever called me sensible.
well, not for long anyway.
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good things:
last night i managed to write two whole paragraphs on the silly novel type thing that i am working on. (the amount would be pathetic, but it's the most i've managed in weeks);
i cleaned half my house. (well maybe more like a third, but hey, who's counting.);
i fell even more in love with John Cusack last night as I re-watched Grosse Point Blank;
i exhausted myself, so that by the time i went to bed, i was really really sleepy, and didn't have to deal with insomnia eating my head.

not-so-good things:
the sunshine went away;
my stomach decided to try and come out of every orifice it could think of;
i had the nightmares again. those ones. with her in them. could i fucking get over this already? please?;
i still have the rest of my house to clean, and laundry to do;
i'm hungry, and there's no food here;
my head feels like it's been stuffed with sawdust and ground glass, and then, to add insult to injury, it feels like it's been pickled;
and, like Emily of New Moon, i am far too obsessed with italics.

and, did i mention that i'm hungry?

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