Thoughts of LoWriter

A Week in My Life

Well, you can tell that fall is getting closer because my entries are getting less frequent. Pretty soon the leaves will fly, and classes will start up again. I am still planning to be among the masses attending higher education this fall, and I now have the backpack to prove it. I'm also up five more hours of overtime at my day job. Don't ask me how those two committments will co-exist.

I actually wrote something that was not in a blog and took it to writing group with me on Monday night. That was a huge accomplishment, seeing as how I'd been unable to acheive that goal in, oh, three years. Apparently it didn't suck, either, because the best part was that the other people laughed. So at least it isn't just me who thinks I'm funny now, which is huge. It's nice to know that I'm not laughing alone at all of my own jokes. I pretty much had to fight with myself for two weeks just to even get something down on paper.

I finally sat down on Sunday afternoon/night and banged something out on the keyboard. It went pretty much like this:
1) Sit down on the couch with the laptop and a glass of water.
2) Turn on the TV to make sure FarScape isn't on. Watch a half hour of the Magic Bullet infomercial just to be sure that FarScape isn't on next.
3) Go check the laundry.
4) Stand in the kitchen for five minutes eating crackers while waiting for the spin sycle to finish.
5) Sort the next load of laundry and deal with the finished ones.
6) Sit on the couch with the laptop and a beer.
7) Drink the beer while watching another half hour of the Magic Bullet Infomercial.
8) Write three sentences.
9) Repeat steps 3 through 5.
10) Sit on the couch with the laptop and erase the three sentences written before checking the laundry. Write a paragraph.
11) Hit enter 17 times and start over.
12) See if FarScape is on yet. Watch 20 minutes of Muppets from Space while waiting.
13) Realize that FarScape is on on Saturdays, not Sundays. Eat some cheese as consolation.
14) Turn off TV and write two more lines before realizing that the laundry is done.
15) Repeat steps 4 and 5.
16) Spill salsa all over the kitchen. Clean it up but mope because it was the last of the favorite salsa.
16.5) Say a few words over the garbage can about how you wish you could have eaten the salsa rather than spill it all down the front of the stove and cupboards.
17) Sit on the couch with the laptop and a glass of water.
18) Find salsa on pants.
19) Stain treat pants while moping some more.
20) Sit on the couch with the laptop. Write three more sentences.
21) Call everyone in cell phone while repeating steps 4 and 5.
22) Sit on the couch with the laptop. Write a paragraph.
23) Contemplate insecurities.
24) Worry about bachellorette party.
25) Write three more lines.
26) Check to see if maybe StarGate has spontaneously turned into FarScape.
27) Sooth dissappointment by typing "I hate StarGate" 37 times.

That was pretty much my whole evening. I did manage to actually write two pages. Pretty amazing considering the fact that I probably only did an hour of actual work for the six or seven I spent in my house trying to work on the piece. Now you know why I haven't written anything on here in a week.