Write This Down

I over slept and had 15 minutes to get ready this morning. I always think I need an hour to get ready so it's surprising to me when I accomplish things in a quarter of the time I assume it should be (even though I have over slept many times and even set the record for 5 minutes).

The kid who sits next to me decided to inform me that he had to write a short story. "Better get writing." He let a long pause go by and I suppose when he realized I didn't care he added. "Fiction."

I hate it when people try to get me to talk to them by continually talking-- as if what they were saying sounded interesting-- and I don't like to appease them a lot. "What's it about?" I humored him.

"Well..." If one is attempting to egg me on and start a conversation he/she should be prepared. I ask a straight forward question, there shouldn't be a non-straight forward response. He flips his pages back and forth (a page, front and back) and lets me know that it's about a vacuum salesman with a boring life and then it doesn't become boring. "I have to end it though. I think he might die."

"He needs to die. It's the only ending that would make sense." Hm. "Have you ever seen Stranger Than Fiction?"

"Yeah."

I nod. The story that he just described to me is the same story played out in the movie theatres except without having the underlying story (which is the part that actually makes it interesting) or any clever element.

"I kind of stole from that," he continued, "and, have you ever read The Alchemist?"

"No. But I have heard of it."

"And I kind of used that, too."

Hm. Plagiarism or no longer having anything new to write?

When I was younger I started writing a book. I never finished it but it was more than several pages. Now, the same basic plot in my ten-year-old writing is now the hit TV show "Lost".

I have an 8-10 page paper to write before December 10 and it's not working out too well considering I haven't written any of it. It's on a sonnet of Shakespeare which-- I know it makes me a freak-- is something I find quite interesting (Shakespeare is a brilliant fellow). Though I find it interesting, I don't find it helpful to write 8 pages of words that won't effect me and probably isn't anything new to my professor. I would love to get into a class that lets me write. Lets me write whatever I want. Communication, The Fearie Queene, fossiliferous rocks. Who cares? In twenty years no one is going to care if I understood the foreshadowing of Una.

25 and never had a girlfriend? How unfortunate.
--Carmen