Jimmy

Just got back (OK, a couple hours ago, but excuse me for not updating my blog posthaste) from a weekend jaunt to Michigan for a wedding. It was an interesting and intense weekend for a number of reasons (not the least of which being that my immediate family is the most interesting and intense group of five people that I know and whenever we spend whole days together traveling or at events it’s always really, really fun), and I’m glad to be home. Now there are no more events before the fall semester starts in two weeks and I find my full attention focusing on that and all its implications:

1. I still want to finish or very nearly finish my screenplay. That requires writing roughly 6 pages of script a night, giving me no days off to mull over issues I need to work out in the plot or anything like that. Technically I think I could pull this wicked intense writing schedule off but I think the finished product would be seriously crappy and since I think what I’ve written so far is fairly solid I’m going to opt instead on allowing myself time off when I need it but pushing myself to write when I don’t need the time to think about the plot.
2. I still need to order textbooks! The sister units have ordered most or all of their textbooks already but I’ve been lazy and haven’t gotten the ISBN numbers for my books yet and so can’t order them yet. (Getting the ISBN numbers for my books requires walking/biking over to the University bookstore before 5pm some business day [no easy task when you sleep 'til mid/late afternoon every day!] and finding the book for each of my courses and writing down the number. Heaven forbid the Bookstore or University or professors make it any easier to buy books at a third the cost of what the Textbook Cartels are charging.)
3. Aaaahhhhh! The summer was waaaaay too short and yet all too long! What happened to it? What happened to me? What’s happening all around us? I both long for the summer to go on and on and long for it to be over. I feel like I need more time to think about life and the coming school year and I feel like I want it to just start right now because I’ve thought way too much this summer and it’s just time to do stuff again (I apparently think that I only “do stuff” during the school year, an internal mindset that I should explore further…actually, it seems true, since I slept until mid/late afternoon most days this summer, so I only “did stuff” in the house and not very much outside it, which is what I think I’m referring to when I type this phrase…but it’s probably flawed to think that I can only get “stuff” done when I’m outside of the house, since I did get a lot of stuff/information straightened out/organized in my own head this summer, which is VERY IMPORTANT [something about listening to Nightwish way to loud in my headphones at 3am seems to help me put my life in order...which is good, because that's exactly what I've been doing for the past hour]).
4. How can I top #3? I mean, srsly?

So life is grand and tiring and like-whow I’m cryptic sometimes! Or perhaps it’s just “artistic writing”, who knows?

It’s nearly bedtime for me, but I think it’d benefit my thought processing if I turned Dark Passion Play a bit louder and did inconsequential things on my computer for a while longer.

Some day I’ll explain why I put so much stock in thinking, but not tonight.

-j

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