through all the frosty ages
Dec. 18th, 2009 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraOne final down! Three to go!
And now I feel all virtuous because I studied philosophy this morning and then took the final this afternoon, so I will not feel bad if I spend the rest of the day goofing off.
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Sometimes I am sort of amazed by how many friends I have.
Last year I posted on facebook offering stories to my friends as presents for anonymous wintry holiday (or non-wintry, depending on hemisphere), if they gave me a prompt. The idea was that I would be forced to write them and therefore get back into the swing of writing.
It didn't work so well for that! I wrote precisely one of them in late January and then promptly got busy, forgot, et cetera. I remembered about them yesterday while avoiding studying philosophy, so I dug up the list of prompts again and started writing some of them. There were twelve requests all in all last year; I have five and a bit done now, with some ideas for the other ones, and I've started posting the ones that are done to their respective recipients.
One of the nice things about doing it this way is that I've lost touch with some of the people who asked for them last year. So they get a story from me, and we're both reminded of each other's existence.
So, because clearly it is not enough to only have a bad idea once, I offered the same thing again this year. Already there are twelve requests, and I know perfectly well that there are at least a few people who just haven't been on facebook in the past day or so. What have I gotten myself into?
I only have a week and a half for winter break this year, because I'm coming back to campus for our January term. It looks like I will have something to do every day while I'm home, if everything works out. Which is awesome, because I didn't see any of my friends over Thanksgiving break and then felt silly and alone, and I really do like my friends a lot.
(As a side note, if anyone who's on here wants a solstice-type-holiday story present from me, comment and give me a prompt, and I will write you one. This is not restricted to facebook friends, that's just where a lot of mine tend to live.)
And now I feel all virtuous because I studied philosophy this morning and then took the final this afternoon, so I will not feel bad if I spend the rest of the day goofing off.
--
Sometimes I am sort of amazed by how many friends I have.
Last year I posted on facebook offering stories to my friends as presents for anonymous wintry holiday (or non-wintry, depending on hemisphere), if they gave me a prompt. The idea was that I would be forced to write them and therefore get back into the swing of writing.
It didn't work so well for that! I wrote precisely one of them in late January and then promptly got busy, forgot, et cetera. I remembered about them yesterday while avoiding studying philosophy, so I dug up the list of prompts again and started writing some of them. There were twelve requests all in all last year; I have five and a bit done now, with some ideas for the other ones, and I've started posting the ones that are done to their respective recipients.
One of the nice things about doing it this way is that I've lost touch with some of the people who asked for them last year. So they get a story from me, and we're both reminded of each other's existence.
So, because clearly it is not enough to only have a bad idea once, I offered the same thing again this year. Already there are twelve requests, and I know perfectly well that there are at least a few people who just haven't been on facebook in the past day or so. What have I gotten myself into?
I only have a week and a half for winter break this year, because I'm coming back to campus for our January term. It looks like I will have something to do every day while I'm home, if everything works out. Which is awesome, because I didn't see any of my friends over Thanksgiving break and then felt silly and alone, and I really do like my friends a lot.
(As a side note, if anyone who's on here wants a solstice-type-holiday story present from me, comment and give me a prompt, and I will write you one. This is not restricted to facebook friends, that's just where a lot of mine tend to live.)