graveled

When I meet selfish single-borns, my heart just breaks. I learned how to share, and after a long time, the appreciation of everything I had gotten as a spoiled only kid. What do selfish kids learn? How to just be productive with their time... but nothing about valuing others and giving them time to grow, since you're not the only person in the world, just an only child in your family. I'd rather care about others than know how to spend my time well. So fuck this difference, selfish one.

I cannot wait to be back in school, although post-bachelors scares me. I might go right into my Masters to avoid further time living at home, but at the same time, I should probably save more money by just getting a full-time job here after graduation. Either way, I will probably not be allowed to fully move out somewhere else and even if I am, I'd feel bad for my parents being alone.

So apparently my research done on Indian women in technology is definitely true, at least when it comes to my family. It seems the main purpose of having women succeed in India is not to find a good, successful job, but to say you will be successful by taking part in a "major with a scope." My dad had an engineering degree (yet he's in banking) and my Aunt has some Law degree (and yet she is just a teacher here and had to further her education to do that). There are other members of my paternal family that apparently do not have matching education and careers but basically they are all obsessed with the IDEA of education, rather than the APPLICATION.

( rant about sexism/education continues here )

Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.

Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bulls from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.

Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there? Write this as a short play.

Write a story that is an exchange between two individuals taking place on the "Missed Connections" section of craigslist.org. Alternately, two people meet each other on Craigslist, only to have one of them discover a terrible secret. Write a scene in which they run into each other at Qdoba the next day.

Write a story in which a forest fire is a good thing.

The Letter E is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet. The letters N, S, T, and R are the four most commonly used consonants. Write a story that either doesn't use E, doesn't use N, S, T, R, or doesn't use S, T, E, R, N.
( I have anger issues. )

Chorea sancti viti is Latin for "St. Vitus' Dance." It is really a debilitating muscle disorder. Write the summary of a musical about this horrible ailment.

Jot down a work that does not have any word with more than four... letters.
( I also like inflicting issues. )

Write a college entry essay revolving around a very memorable sandwich. What kind of sandwich was it? Where did you get it?
( I'm not sure where this was going. )

Tom Stoppard's famous play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, revolves around two minor characters from Hamlet. Do something like that. You can't use Hamlet. And you can't use Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, or you'll break postmodernism.

Have you ever heard of a snowclone? Examples of snowclones are "X is the new Y," ("pink is the new black,") or "What Would X Do?" (What Would Batman Do?") where X and Y can be replaced by a variety of things to create an instantly recognizable trope by lazy writers and journalists. Pretend you're writing an ironic piece for the New Yorker in which you give suggestions for new snowclones. Make sure this isn't boring.

The year is 2031. Nick Nornby is 74. He is writing his 36th book. What is it?

Render a great work of literature into a limerick.

Write a story from the first person POV without using the word "I." Has to be grammatically correct.

Write a scene that takes place on a paddle boat in a state park. It may be any state park. The paddle boat may be shaped like any animal, but it must be shaped like an animal.

Write an epistolary (story composed of letters) between two or more characters. Teh first letter must be posted in 1993. All other letters must be posted after 1999. You may not include any details that could come up during a high school reunion (marriage, jobs, college, etc). If your story has four or more characters, one of the characters must have received the letter in error, and responded to it anyway.

Write a series of short journal entries as written by a literary/artistic figure. One of the entries must include the phrase (in caps) IT JUST MAKES ME SO MAD ARRRGGGHH, and another must describe a classified/personal/etc ad they wrote or responded to, and the results.

"Hoarding" is a form of OCD the acquisition of, and failure to use or discard, such a large number of seemingly useless possessions that it causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities such as mobility, cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping. Use this in a story.

Write a story that includes the following: a wedding, a divorce, a lovely trip on a boat, pasta salad, an Intro to Drawing class, incest, a harangue, a car chase, a deck of cards, Antonio Bandaras (may be substituted for other Latin American celebrity), a hand-rolled cigarette, a mention of the state of Kentucky (no characters may be from or have ever visited this state, nor may they know anyone who ever has), a tumbleweave, Lupus, an untouched bowl of candy corn (story cannot take place in the month of October), bedbugs, and junk mail. Your story must fit into the following box:
( It fit into the box. )

Credit, for the most part, goes to S. Clark.. or so I've been told?

For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
-Ernest Hemingway from 1920s?

I have no idea what my story would be but the only thing I can come up with is:
Another day, in spite of feelings.

It almost seems true for my life... it also seems like a pathetic six-liner.

Credit for the idea: plotting_pen

Edit 10-01-08: I did not mean for it to sound as if I do not want another day. It was more of a "I'll do something another day, despite feelings of wanting to do it sooner" or something like that. I don't know what I was thinking. It was a horrible six-liner. I was not meant to speak/write, haha.

Basic Accounts
Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No account created after this date can be turned into a Basic Account. Basic Accounts will not have any advertising displayed on their accounts, but will have fewer benefits and features.

So like this would be like the middle-adopters? :-p Poor people who cannot get an ad-free livejournal and learn to socialize here... although they do have facebook to go crazy on. Part of me wishes i never deleted my old journal. Oh well.

That reminds me, I really see no point in the iPhone commercial about Facebook. Why would that be a motivation to buy it!?

Can I say cute?

The kids were around 8 years old and had written letters to Jay Leno about eating healthy after seeing his article on Parade magazine. This got him interested and had the kids contacted through a satellite. I loved how the kids were so happy throughout the whole interview and then when Jay Leno had his first vegetable things, the first thing they told him to eat was a broccoli. He actually ate it. One of the kids started chewing on his sleeve, haha. I think this was the sweetest episode in a while.

Dakota Fanning was the guest after Jay Leno's first vegetable bite since 1960-something.

"I'm hoping that some of you are curious about this idea, and may lend me a hand. I'd love to get in touch with an old friend, but Googling him has led me nowhere. So... if y'all could post about my search, and ask your neighbours and friends to do the same, we can test whether social networks will allow me to find him.

I'm looking for Justin Hans Zuber, Torontonian when I knew him, son of Swiss father and German mother.

Aaaaand.... GO!" --Nox

I thought I'd post the entry here even though not many people know this journal in hopes of helping the person out. Any idea? If not, ask around please.