So, I am working with Wordpress 2.0 and playing around with its features. If you refresh often, I may be playing with the sidebar or adding a different theme. Regardless, if you find something funky, please let me know.
Also, Tali fix your RSS feeds or you shall be banished to the normal link world, damnit!
Yeah, I am playing with RSS too. I’ve decided that my site is my base for links and if I visit your site often, then I am just going to keep a feed up so I don’t have to check it all the time. Call it the lazy woman’s guide to web-surfing.
D, the world’s coolest and best husband, did all the work on this. I feared for my years of posts because he lost his database when he switched to 2.0. It seems his blogging sacrifice satisfied the gods, because my site went over without a hitch. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I can’t use one of the themes for some reason. It keeps eating the graphics. Perhaps I should slaughter a tofu or somehting in the name of the blogging gods. They need to keep their meddling hands off my site, damnit!
In other notes… I have to turn my story in for Fiction tomorrow. I am very very very very very very (etc) unhappy about this. I challenged myself this time, and took a risk basing the story off dialogue. It’s not my strong suit. And after reading some of the other stories in class, I feel like less of a writer, that my words don’t hold the kind of power they should (this isn’t a fishing expedition for compliments). So I have this good dialogue between two characters, and a loose tension within the story, but not a lot in the way of description and place. I think I haven’t realized the locale in my own mind, so it’s difficult for me to write about it. I wanted something lighthearted because “Changing Memory” was a lot heavier than it needed to be. This is kind of a whimsical story that confronts losing yourself in the everyday grind. But, I don’t think I’ve done an adequate job of relaying those ideas. Blech! Sometimes I just want to become a fucking plumber or cashier at a dollar store.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:38 am
What exactly is “A ToFu” And does it have fur? Can we make a ToFu Fur Coat? I’ve had goo creatures on the mind for weeks now. Damn you Gloop and Gleep. I think a ToFu would look a lot like one of them. HAIL SQUISHFACE!
April 13th, 2006 at 9:45 am
The most successful stories combine description and setting, with good old dialog. You can do it, you’ve already proven it, just keep doing it. Comparing yourself to others is only natural, but I’ve discovered in art class, that while you are looking at others work, going “wow, that’s better than mine.” others are looking at your work going “wow that’s great, so much better than mine.” Plumbing is nowhere near as satisfying as creating worlds and people, unless you really enjoy playing with your own poo, then maybe you should look into it.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Ok fine! ::sighs:: I did not mean to sound like I was snapping at you. You know I was just dong the thinking/typing thing out loud. But if you thought that, I’m sorry.
I put in a request to get an internet quote today so that I can be a cool kid as well.
April 13th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
I like pretty colors!
April 13th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
I like the surprise of something new each time I come to your site…well, for the past few days anyway…not saying you have to have it changing constantly…although that would be cool too…hmmmmm, I just gave myself an idea…well I suppose you did that. Can you tell it has been a long day…my verbal diarrhea (as B calls it) is in full effect.
The great thing about being a writer, like yourself, is you can be just a janitor…or a dollar store worker…in your mind…when say, you are writing, and then return to your existing life without sacrificing your dreams.
“…i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you don’t stop…”
~brought to you by Sugar hill Gang and Tea Master Cat
April 14th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Squishface sounds like a pet-name Frankie. I think I am going to rename you in my phone as Squishface….cause it’s just CUTE!!
And no Tofur coats. Unless you enjoy the slimey texture of smooshed soybeans.
I know that envy will make me a stronger writer. I want to be the best I can be. And I don’t think plumbing is for me now that you mention poop. I have an aversion to poo.
Tali…sorry. I was grumpy and thought you were being mean. I am the suck. But at least I napped (I left work early)
Anne…thank you love!
I love the term verbal diarrhea. And you are forever cursed for the hippity hop….damn you woman!! Cause I think I know most of that song and it’s impossible to get out of your head.