Friday, January 21, 2011

Reunited and it feels okay. I mean, soooo gooood.

I am a huge disappointment. Why? It's been over a week since I last updated, and it was a lame post about my even lamer school schedule. Where did I go so, so wrong?

I don't know what happened, there's truly no explanation; but every day, I've woken up and searched for inspiration, purposefully seeking out potentially hazardous scenarios to inject myself into just for a couple of laughs and a sub par blog entry. I feel like a whore. A very unsuccessful, unfunny whore.

Finally, I realized, posting something is better than nothing. I'm not some kind of absentee writer that phones in a post every now and then when I feel like. Or at least, I don't want to be. It's not what I intended for this endeavor. Thankfully, as I was doing complete and total mundane tasks not too long ago, a very handsome light bulb went off above my head, and a post idea was thrust to the forefront of my mind like some kind of pelvic convulsion.

Could it really be? Inspiration for a post? Yes, indeed, it was. I felt like ET discovering Reese's Pieces, slowly and methodically repeating the word 'idea' over and over to myself, rolling it around on my tongue like some kind of foreign but tasty intruder(I...dea? Ideeeeaaaa...i...deee...aaaa!). And no, this post is not the aforementioned inspiration, this is only a prelude, precursor, foreword, introduction...whatever. Pick a word. I don't care which one you like best.

Don't get your hopes up about it being the entry-to-end-all-entries. It would be safe to compare me to the Tin Man, rusty and frozen while time continues to move forward without me, only to later be greased up by a foreign girl and some guy with no brain. I have yet to decide who or what represent my saviors in this analogy, so for now we'll just call them "Dorothy" and "Scarecrow." The names came to me in a dream, induced by getting hit in the head by a windowpane in the middle of a tornado. Or maybe that was a movie.

I just realized all my paragraphs get progressively larger in this post. I mean, not anymore, since this one kind of ruined that trend, but up until now, it's an accurate observation.

So, in conclusion, I'll be working on my new post today and probably publish it tomorrow. I have some drawings to do and my tendency to nitpick every little aspect of them until they're perfect usually extends the time it takes to finish from what most would consider normal to ridiculous.

6 comments:

  1. Thank you! It feels good to be back in blogger mode, kind of like putting on an old pair of shoes that smell a lot worse than you remember.

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  2. I was going to leave a comment saying something along the lines of "I BELIEVE IN YOUUUUU" but then I looked at the date, and now I have only shame.

    NO NO just kidding. But where is this allegedly inspired post? Is it SO awesome that it has taken weeks to compose? Or are you like me, and the promise of grandeur becomes your downfall?

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  3. Dearest Emily,

    Contrary to what many(and by many, I mean maybe one person, though I might have imagined that) people have accused me of, I have not given up on my blog. That post is currently in limbo, along with about 12 others, because every time I start writing it turns to crap and I have to tighten my cilice. I am not Catholic, I just enjoy their self-disciplinary practices.

    Alas, despite having only two actual classes this semester, the work load has proven to be more than I expected. Also, I'm working on a super-secret addition to this blog that has taken up even more of my free time. I can't give any hints aside from the fact that I am basically the next Martha Stewart, but with less testosterone and time spent in prison.

    So please, do not think I have abandoned what is sure to become the second best blog in the universe--yours being number one--I am simply in a rut, combined with work, combined with additional ambitions. I still read your blog in a militant and fascist manner, meaning I goose step whilst holding my laptop in front of me, and it never fails to make me cackle like one of the witches from Macbeth if they had a sense of humor.

    Stay tuned for more mediocre attempts at humor, 99% of which is self-deprecating and the other 1% consists of nitrogen gas and zombies.

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  4. Okay, good. Then I STILL BELIEVE IN YOUUUU!

    If you need a whip-cracker, I can consider filling that roll.

    YA! YA! MUSH! ETC!

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  5. Your whip cracking made me inspired, Emily. While I'm not operatively conditioned like a sled dog to run at the word "mush," it still managed to make me run in the direction of a new post. The story I'll be posting in sections is hereby dedicated to you.

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Preemptive strike: I love you too.