22 Apr 2009 | I still have no idea
I still have no idea what to write for my short story assignment. It's due this Friday.
I'm screwed.
Yesterday, I wrote my English teacher a mildly amusing (but in hindsight pathetic) e-mail that began with "Sorry to bother you, but should I be at all worried that I still have absolutely no idea what to write for my short story assignment?" As expected, he responded along the lines of "I know you can do it, I have faith in you." Which was deliberately unhelpful, since I didn't explain that I'm incapable of creating anything these days, and that humans (and stories concerning them) no longer interest me, and that literature as a whole (aside from the masters, like Edgar Allan Poe) is replete with crap that either disgusts or alienates me, and that I can't understand romantic love (I laugh at those anguished morons), and that everything I read is devoted to the nature and experiences of mainstream society (that is, people in love with money, family, religion/fairy tales, stars, sex, and other people), and that my own ability sucks in that anything I put down sounds bogus and lame, and that the two characters haunting me are only phantoms, with nothing to motivate them, and that every female lead I invent somehow becomes lesbian, or at least bisexual — but you can probably see why I didn't tell him that, over a line of communication that could be monitored by other people.
A narrative about hamsters did occur to me, which at any rate is indicative of my desperation… but as I sat by myself in the library, once again, the storyline became tragic, the protagonist was alone and forgotten, and I nearly cried at the thought of the poor Señor, huddled in a corner of his cage, resigning his tiny, beating heart and closing his liquid eyes…
By the way, I have a nonrenewable House DVD that I borrowed from the library, and it's overdue, and I'm racking up $1 USD per day in fines, not including the $10 I already owe them, and it's pathetic.
Tags: asexuality
Amy says:
We're hardly ever assigned short story assignments, but I love it when we do, probably because I do enjoy writing about mainstream topics. XD Maybe you could try humor instead? Or a stream-of-consciousness approach. I think it's perfectly fine to write about hamsters, especially since they're not as often written about as dogs, cats, horses, the like…
I never go to the library anymore because of fines. X_X Actually, I've lived in a number of different cities and each time I move I leave a hefty library fine behind. This is probably why my literacy level has plummeted…
12:01 am | Thursday, April 23, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
Hahaha, I should take a leaf out of your book. I really do not want to pay that $10+.
12:50 am | Thursday, April 23, 2009
Deanna says:
Do you actually need to pay those fines? I don't ever recall paying even though I know I had super overdue books… e-books are the way to go!
I'm stuck on writing my Spanish assignment which shouldn't be so hard since I managed to twist the topic so that it fit what I wanted to write about…
Anyways, I say don't pay your fees. You're about to go to college anyways so you can just check books out from their massive library. :)
But if you do accrue fees there, I do suggest you pay for those hehe…
4:59 pm | Saturday, April 25, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
Advice taken. Good thing the contact information in the library database are now obsolete, so I won't be getting those fine notices.
10:44 am | Sunday, April 26, 2009
arathael says:
Why don't you tell your teacher about your blog?? I'm pretty sure she will be interested…
This is the most recent post i could comment.. Don't think you're getting all the attention only because its YOUR blog.. i mean.. comments are important (mines are)..
Have a nice day and i'm waiting impatiently for a new 2009 wp theme..
1:52 pm | Monday, April 27, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
Dude, Arathael… what happened to Touché Diseño? How come I can't access it anymore? T______________T
Mi blog es personal. A mi maestro no le interesan estas cosas…
Jajajaja. Que te vaya bien el día también. Estoy pensando en un nuevo theme, pero probablemente tendré que esperar hasta el fin de mis examenes para empezar a diseñarlo.
2:08 pm | Monday, April 27, 2009