Happy two days with my girlfriend! We went hiking on a wonderful trail that usually ends at a waterfall, but (to to the obscene heat lately) ended in more of a trickle. Still, we looked for tadpoles, then left before the mosquitos ate us.
I'm feeling disgustingly happy.
Earlier, saw some really good Shakespeare and friends from school, all of which also made me happy.
I'm wimping out on Ulysses in a big way, and reading Mansfield Park instead, my excuse being that I'm too tired to muddle through Joyce right now. I love Austen, who manages to be both brilliant and fluffy.
I'm feeling disgustingly happy.
Earlier, saw some really good Shakespeare and friends from school, all of which also made me happy.
I'm wimping out on Ulysses in a big way, and reading Mansfield Park instead, my excuse being that I'm too tired to muddle through Joyce right now. I love Austen, who manages to be both brilliant and fluffy.
Thank-you. Actually I don't really have any writing collected in the formal sense. I write allot of e-mail, so most of it's in there. Since 1994 I've sent or received > 54,000 emails. I really think that is most responsible for developing my writing skills. Now I've also got this journal which has been really good for me, I think.
I sort of have a "complex" with writing. I used to write lots as a kid, particularly character development stuff for the science fiction and fantasy role playing games I was involved in. Through my father (always thinking of a profit motive), some game and comic companies became very interested in all these characters, and at that point it became a job, and not an outlet, when things like deadlines and money were involved, so I ceased to enjoy it, and the well dried up. Haven't written anything since then really except a couple of poems. It's all psychological. This is starting to change though; the ice is starting to melt. In the meantime, I've continued to read, so I don't think anything was lost. I just have to learn how to free the vivid imagination that I know is in there, hiding under so many layers of worldly concerns. Someday perhaps. Incidentally, I think all this is why I chose a polar opposite career path (engineering/computer science research). I'm hiding.
Ok, I know now what you mean by black box. I've seen a few of those. I tend to really enjoy the up close and personal type of theatre.
Congrats on your happiness. There's nothing in the world like the feeling of new love. Joyce doesn't really mix well with this anyway.
[Edited on Jul 21, 2004 3:24PM]