Thoughts in No Particular Order

[revena]

I'm finding the section we're currently reading in the Iliad pretty interesting, on this go-round, now that I've read the Aeneid in Latin (or large parts in Latin, and the rest in English, anyway). Seeing Homer's version of Aeneas is kinda neat, knowing what I know about the character from Virgil.

However, I had a sudden, startling thought in my Homer class on Friday, and I just can't seem to let it go.

Dude. Virgil was -so- totally writing fanfiction. It's an ancient tradition!

In other events of complete and utter dork, last night was fun. Jameson and I dressed up as Jedi and Sith, and spic_ity_do_da tolerated our geeky presence. deserttango was also there, with his girlfriend, Bianca, and Mom joined us for the first film. I had been especially excited to see the Star Wars films because it had been just long enough that I had forgotten all of the details... It was nice to see 'em again. The dialogue just does not get any better as I get older, though. There was a lot of giggling at campy lines going on.

Anyway, it was really fun, and I'm glad we went. I'm feeling a bit tired, though, because I'm sick of this insomnia bullshit, and I made myself get up at a decent hour today hoping I'll actually fall asleep like a normal person tonight. I really need to start getting up at the same time on Tuesdays and Thursdays as I do for school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If nothing else, I need those hours to work on the thesis. Which is still minus a thesis -statement-, by the way, for those of you monitoring my stress levels.

I need to do -something- different, because it's not getting done, and it's gotta happen. I've been refusing to allow myself to write Valmai stories, hoping that would spur me on, but so far it's just meant that I have to find other things to do to fill that time. And then, on top of no thesis, I've got this creative flood backed up in my brain, and it's driving me crazy. I think I'm gonna give up on that as a self-persuasion tactic and just go ahead and write the next couple stories when I feel up to it.

I wish I had a working laptop. I have breaks between classes when I could be typing something-or-other, and I'm sort've obsessively ahead in most of my readings right now, because I end up reading instead of writing. I also could bring a laptop along to things like the babysitting job I'm doing tonight. I wish I hadn't screwed my old one up. It was a good machine.

But, probably, the lack of portable computer isn't the issue. The issue is the lack of motivation and drive.

Maybe I should try withholding Mountain Dew?

Comments

[raghnaid.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I don't think you ought to deprive yourself of the outlet of the Valmai stories, like some sort of punishment for not working on your thesis. Write *something* - *anything* - and it may very well free up your brain cells for thesis writing.

[revena.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. Usually, I can use the reward withholding method effectively. Like, if I read my textbook for an hour, I then allow myself to read a novel for an hour, but I don't get to read the novel until the hour of textbookery is up. But the thesis is a lot bigger and scarier and harder to get rolling with than an hour of textbook reading, so I clearly need new strategies. And frustrating myself because I won't allow myself a creative outlet while I'm trying to organize my thoughts is, it is now clear to me, counterproductive.

[(Anonymous)]

actually, we've pretty much given up soda at this house, and randomly the people who guest here as well (Carolyn and my friend from Michigan); not that we drank much in the first place, i suppose. in truth, Carolyn has actually given up sugar altogether for about three weeks now, and her weight's been dropping (that, and her rowing workouts). anyhoo, my cursed thesis awaits....evil little bugger...
frank

[revena.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could give up soda. I'd go into some sort of withdrawal shock. Right after the caffeine headaches would come the sugar seizures. It'd be messy.

[lesbiem.livejournal.com]

DO THE DEW!!!!!

[revena.livejournal.com]

Oh, baby. I do. You know I do.