"Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything."

[katernater]

Well, now I'm not going to get anything done this afternoon:



by hughsbeautiful



I will write for the Drabble-A-Thon; I can feel creativity percolating. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to have whole sentences and paragraphs spring from my head (I was going to go for a really dorky Greek myth analogy here, but I'll spare you) and those are moments of absolute pleasure for me. That, for whatever reason, I'm channeling something that whole and complete. "Extracting the insect from the amber," if you will. (I was going to make an even dorkier Jurassic Park analogy here, yadda yadda yadda.) Then again, I'm afraid that if I even break for a moment from my plan -- which goes something like "Statement of Purpose Letter, Statement of Purpose Letter, Statement of Purpose Letter" -- that I'm going to sap my resources and one or the other thing is going to come out terribly. Almost like I have to bank my creativity and reserve it for special occasions or for the things that have the most importance at any given time. Is that ego? Does that sound self-involved? God, I can't even tell anymore.

I did cheat a little yesterday. I started writing something for the "packing" prompt that involved House and Cuddy at a medical conference together, critiquing the contents of each other's suitcases. ("God, Cuddy, did you pack for a weekend or were you planning on transporting the entire GDP of Ecuador back with you?") I stopped because I was wonky about the dialog (can you even physically carry a Gross Domestic Product? I think it's just a number, not a physical entity), the premise (how many "Cuddy's big baggage" jokes can you make in one paragraph?) and because the stack of grad school stuff in the corner of my desk started giving me the stink eye.

Tonight. I'll sit down and write that letter tonight.

Comments

[ellixian.livejournal.com]

DIES FROM FLAIL MAY I PLEASE MARRY YOUR DESKTOP.

WRITE FOR DRABBLE-A-THON.

AND OMG, PACKING PROMPT SOUNDS GOOD. I hear ya on the GDP thing though. Don't think you can carry that back, t'isn't a physical entity.

Letter. And then DRABBLE.

[gleam.livejournal.com]

I am so going to be waiting with baited breath to read your drabble -a-thon contribution now! You have me wanting to contribute. Nnh.

Desktop =/= productivity! That's the end of that!

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

"Statement of Purpose Letter, Statement of Purpose Letter, Statement of Purpose Letter"

Hey, our brains have the same mantra! ;D I've been avoiding mine for...oh, about a month now. Good luck!

(Also, there's a community out there called review_my_sop that might be helpful. They're good at telling you where you're wildly off-mark, at least. XD)

[katernater.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were applying to graduate school! Good for you! What do you plan to study?

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

I'm applying for library science. What's your poison program? :)

[katernater.livejournal.com]

English. I haven't decided between British Literature Before 1700 and British Literature After 1700.

Wow. Library science! What would you like to do with that? I mean, what's your ideal job or destination? If I were a librarian, I'd want to work here.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

English was my undergrad, so I would have a crazy hard time trying to choosing a period (or, for that matter, a country) to focus on. ;)

My ideal job would be the Resident Sexy Archivist at a university library. XD Also, that link is library porn. PORN, I say! They have the Book of Kells...oh, man. I've only ever seen facsimiles.