Sunday, December 31, 2006
2007, Here We Come!
I am a procrastinator and I am not alone.
I had to drive up to Massachusetts this afternoon to buy alcohol for the New Year's party I'll be attending because it's Sunday and Connecticut does not sell alcohol on Sundays. The funny thing is: As I was waiting in line, which stretched from the register to nearly the back of the store, I noticed that the majority of people in line were flashing Connecticut driver's licenses. All of those people, myself included, just couldn't get it together and get their procrastinating butts to the liquor store before Sunday. Instead, we all drove miles from home and waited in 15-minute lines with our fellow Connecticut procrastinators. Happy New Year to all.
This year, I've decided to avoid setting myself up for failure. I'm not going to make grand, life-altering resolutions. I'm just going to make some small goals and slowly work toward them as 2007 progresses. These include, but are not limited to: blogging more, focusing on my creative writing and perhaps sending out some material to literary magazines, collecting rejection letters from aforementioned literary magazines, deciding my thesis topic, and learning to cook and bake.
There. I've blogged. I'll now reward myself with the all-too-appropriate "Millennium" episode of The X-Files.
I had to drive up to Massachusetts this afternoon to buy alcohol for the New Year's party I'll be attending because it's Sunday and Connecticut does not sell alcohol on Sundays. The funny thing is: As I was waiting in line, which stretched from the register to nearly the back of the store, I noticed that the majority of people in line were flashing Connecticut driver's licenses. All of those people, myself included, just couldn't get it together and get their procrastinating butts to the liquor store before Sunday. Instead, we all drove miles from home and waited in 15-minute lines with our fellow Connecticut procrastinators. Happy New Year to all.
This year, I've decided to avoid setting myself up for failure. I'm not going to make grand, life-altering resolutions. I'm just going to make some small goals and slowly work toward them as 2007 progresses. These include, but are not limited to: blogging more, focusing on my creative writing and perhaps sending out some material to literary magazines, collecting rejection letters from aforementioned literary magazines, deciding my thesis topic, and learning to cook and bake.
There. I've blogged. I'll now reward myself with the all-too-appropriate "Millennium" episode of The X-Files.
Labels: Procrastination, The X-Files
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
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Anyone else see the humor in the fact that I wrote, almost one week ago, that one of my goals for the winter break between classes is to "blog every day, even if I don't have anything to say"? I think it's a riot.
Since Christmas, I've been lounging around in my robe, reading either this or this. I'm thinking tomorrow will be the day. I will blog. I will write part of that short story that's been gestating in me for quite some time. I will do laundry. I will...make my overdue car payment. Big plans, I tell you.
Since Christmas, I've been lounging around in my robe, reading either this or this. I'm thinking tomorrow will be the day. I will blog. I will write part of that short story that's been gestating in me for quite some time. I will do laundry. I will...make my overdue car payment. Big plans, I tell you.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
This Cake Is Baked!
My first semester of graduate school is complete. Wrap it up and put it under the tree!
I have some rather lofty goals for the "winter break," which starts - for me - tomorrow afternoon, when my half-day at work ends:
I have some rather lofty goals for the "winter break," which starts - for me - tomorrow afternoon, when my half-day at work ends:
- Blog every day, even if I don't have anything to say.
- Read a lot, including a big, fat classic novel and something by Stephen King.
- Successfully cook a dinner that is not microwavable or stored in a can.
- ...And if that goes well, bake something from scratch.
- Discover some crevice of X-Files fandom I have not yet explored.
In other news, I'm about as jolly as St. Nick himself lately. What a beautiful time of year. If I could, I'd wear a Santa suit 24 hours a day, for the next four days. Now that's festive!
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Bert & Ernie: Which One Are You?
I went Christmas shopping with my cheerful, wonderful mother this weekend and we had a conversation that went something like this:
Me: I like to park on the side of the building, away from everyone.
Mom: Why?
Me: I don't know. I hate walking near people.
Mom: Gee, Sara, you need to lighten up.
Me: ...I drove this time, so we park on the side.
Mom: I hate parking on the side.
We park on the side and get out of the car.
Me: It's finally getting cold! It feels so Christmas-y.
Mom: Brr!
Me: It's so nice, I love being all bundled up. This is my favorite time of year.
Mom: I like Spring.
We walk into the store, my mom smiling and me with my arms folded (probably scowling).
Me: You know, we're just like Bert and Ernie.
Mom: Wait. Which one's which?
Me: Ernie's the jolly orange one, the one with the rubber ducky who plays jokes on people and laughs all the time. Bert's the taller, anxious one who can be pretty miserable.
Mom: We are like that!
I'm Bert, in case this little tale needs further explanation.
Labels: Family, I'm An Old Lady
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Scram!
From this, I have learned that the original Oscar the Grouch was orange. Who knew?!
Labels: Sesame Street
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Will The Blog Go On?
As the semester is nearing its end, I've been wondering what will happen to my blog. Part of me wants to discontinue it and return to my more private (but in no way more interesting) Livejournal. Part of me wants to keep it going for a while and let it run on its own -- without the assistance of writing prompts from the blogging class. Of course, in doing this I'd probably end up creating a weird blog that seems to be written by feminist muppet who reads a lot and obsesses over The X-Files.
And I'd probably end up turning my minuscule readership away.
Eh.
I'm also wondering what will happen to the other class blogs, who have given me daily doses of interesting, insightful and funny writing. Will I start going through some sort of www.trinblogwarriors.blogspot.com withdrawal? Meep.
And I'd probably end up turning my minuscule readership away.
Eh.
I'm also wondering what will happen to the other class blogs, who have given me daily doses of interesting, insightful and funny writing. Will I start going through some sort of www.trinblogwarriors.blogspot.com withdrawal? Meep.
Labels: Blogging
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Procrastination Rears Its Filthy Head
Some great (in my opinion) Livejournal communities:
- SistersBronte is delightful if you're into the Bronte sisters. And, c'mon. Who isn't? By the way, I'm convinced that someone's favorite Bronte says a considerable lot about him or her.
- Academic_Anon is for (sometimes "recovering") academics.
- HipsterBookClub is useful for finding new reads or revisiting old ones.
- StoryBookLand is a community for those interested in the art of children's literature.
- I like old photographs, so VintagePhoto is a blast.
- For your muppet fix, here is muppets, a community devoted to muppet thoughts. There's also muppet_icons, which is barrels of fun.
- And here's a community of people who are fighting for a second X-Files movie. Death by Excitement, anyone?
- There are also some creepy communities, ones that advocate alcoholism, eating disorders, strange fetishes, etc. But I'm not going to link those because I don't believe they deserve the attention.
And now, back to persistently avoiding my final Literary Studies paper.
Labels: Livejournal