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I think a lot about writing when I'm at work. I've got two jobs and I work 6 days a week and I do get a lot of time to just think about whatever.
Damn this is hard to type. My second job has me working on a computer and i have to do typing, and the layout is slightly different. I bought my laptop 13 years ago in Japan, and there are a few keys that are different. Also the physical spacing is different... I keep hitting the wrong key because I'm off by an inch or so.
When I was in college I was a french major, and I figured out that I could change my keyboard to a French keyboard so I could more easily type the accents and so forth... but a few keys are switched around, so I had to go in and write them on my actual keys with a sharpie so I could learn where they were.
What was I saying? Writing.
I take notes sometimes, but by the time I get home it's all gone out of my head.
My coworker the other day was telling me that her teenage kids have started writing fanfiction, and talk about it like it's something they've invented, or at least, discovered some covert secret thing that NOBODY else knows about.
"So I'm doing this THING now..."
I'm sure I was like that too when I was writing fanfiction like crazy.
Maybe I'll write fanfiction again someday. Does it have phases? Are there trends? What do people write anymore? Where do they post it, if not on their geocities sites?
I know about the two main sites, but still... in my head and in my heart it's still this sort of underground thing... something you find, a treasure, something you might not find again.
When was the last time I checked my bank account on my computer? I don't even know if I could do it anymore. TO remember the password and so on.
I barely touch my computer anymore, to be honest. That's one reason I want to write here. To keep using my computer. To go on and go to pages and write something down and create something that takes work, that isn't just reblogging or pushing a button. Is it reblogging on Instagram? Reposting? I don't know. Do you know how old I am, from hearing me say that kind of sentence?
How old do I think I am? Too old anymore?
I listen to my younger coworkers talking about their lives. They're really nice. They invite me out with them any everything. I want to go, but when it starts at 10 pm? Oh... life used to start then, I remember that. I don't remember what i did in all the hours leading up to 10 pm, but I remember being full of energy and verve and eagerness to see where the night would take me. Now I just feel exhausted thinking about it. And even if I did muster up the courage and the optimism to give it a try, I'd be a stick in the mud and not very fun to be around, really.
hum
how do you change that, when you're old?
Damn this is hard to type. My second job has me working on a computer and i have to do typing, and the layout is slightly different. I bought my laptop 13 years ago in Japan, and there are a few keys that are different. Also the physical spacing is different... I keep hitting the wrong key because I'm off by an inch or so.
When I was in college I was a french major, and I figured out that I could change my keyboard to a French keyboard so I could more easily type the accents and so forth... but a few keys are switched around, so I had to go in and write them on my actual keys with a sharpie so I could learn where they were.
What was I saying? Writing.
I take notes sometimes, but by the time I get home it's all gone out of my head.
My coworker the other day was telling me that her teenage kids have started writing fanfiction, and talk about it like it's something they've invented, or at least, discovered some covert secret thing that NOBODY else knows about.
"So I'm doing this THING now..."
I'm sure I was like that too when I was writing fanfiction like crazy.
Maybe I'll write fanfiction again someday. Does it have phases? Are there trends? What do people write anymore? Where do they post it, if not on their geocities sites?
I know about the two main sites, but still... in my head and in my heart it's still this sort of underground thing... something you find, a treasure, something you might not find again.
When was the last time I checked my bank account on my computer? I don't even know if I could do it anymore. TO remember the password and so on.
I barely touch my computer anymore, to be honest. That's one reason I want to write here. To keep using my computer. To go on and go to pages and write something down and create something that takes work, that isn't just reblogging or pushing a button. Is it reblogging on Instagram? Reposting? I don't know. Do you know how old I am, from hearing me say that kind of sentence?
How old do I think I am? Too old anymore?
I listen to my younger coworkers talking about their lives. They're really nice. They invite me out with them any everything. I want to go, but when it starts at 10 pm? Oh... life used to start then, I remember that. I don't remember what i did in all the hours leading up to 10 pm, but I remember being full of energy and verve and eagerness to see where the night would take me. Now I just feel exhausted thinking about it. And even if I did muster up the courage and the optimism to give it a try, I'd be a stick in the mud and not very fun to be around, really.
hum
how do you change that, when you're old?
