Spam? Me?

[brigdh]

I am thwarted in my desires. Thwarted, I tell you.

I come to this coffee shop, where I have rarely been, with the express purpose of finding large numbers of loud people, so that I may be distracted and have interesting conversations and do something different. Instead? There are three people here, and I'm not exaggerating to make it sound more pitiful.

Come on. I could have found more people in the library. Although I did run into an old friend I haven't seen in ages, and got to talk to her for a while, so I suppose I ended up winning out by coming here.

I suppose this is a sign that I should write- which is actually possible for once, since there are no major projects or papers I need to be working on at the moment. Except, well, for reading Sartre and researching the presentation I have to give on Tuesday and attempting to do something about the fact that by this point, I'm going to end up begging some unknown professor to let me into field school after the application date has passed. But if I didn't procrastinate, I would be... a much more productive and successful person, probably. But less fun.

I was going to ask for entertaining links, or demand that people IM me and entertian me though that's unlikely to work, as I get shy and extremely slow-to-respond in real-time conversations, but it occurs to me that most of you are more likely to refuse in the hopes of encouraging the writing. You bastards. Of course, without that I suddenly have much less of an excuse for posting.

Um. Links?

The Real ID Act passed last week.
coffee_and_ink reviews Descendants of Darkness 5.
yaoi_challenge is still looking for story requests.
telophase has half-naked Gojyo fanart.
penelope_z is casting actors as anime characters (and if I could ever remember the names of actors, I would join in.)
mrmoonpants has a neat description of paper-writing versus fiction-writing.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*shivers* How awful. It reminds of a girl I knew at a camp once; she'd said plenty of things over the course of the week I knew her, but the one that always sound out to me was when she told me that she wouldn't mind if, and in fact expected, her parents picked out her husband, because "they know me better than I know myself".

I can barely imagine being in that mindset.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Me neither. It's indoctrination, big time.