Things on the stove
I’m lazy, when it comes down to it. I like to sit on my butt whenever possible. Preferably playing video games, watching movies or vacantly staring at whatever infomercial has invaded my cable at 3 in the morning. My roommate is trying valiantly to get us both working out every other day. It has worked up until yesterday. When it didn’t work yesterday, there was a valiant attempt to get it going today. We’ll see how that goes.
So here’s a couple of ideas boiling around in my head.
Shortly, I’m going to be starting a secondary blog for shopping cart sightings. I am not kidding. It’s going to involve me having to take a notebook with me everywhere, and preferably the crap digital camera, which has no batteries at the moment.
It’s going to involve me finding shopping carts outside of their natural settings. Congregating in herds, running away.
I think it’ll be a lot of fun.
But I’m lazy.
The other thing I’m thinking about, as more of sort of a once-off project in this blog, is to document each blog that I look at each day, and maybe some of the ones I neglect, and go to some random link from each of them.
I can’t tell you how much I love visiting other people’s blogs and seeing their connections to other things and to their interests.
The Internet is so massive, so lovely and random.
It’s kind of like this ever-growing sodsbrood … we’re far apart but connected. I want to explore, just briefly, the interconnecteness and difference of all the things I might look at in a day. I often do on an informal basis.
But I’m lazy.
So I need some encouragement and motivation here. Tell me to get off my butt. Tell me to stop whatever it is I’m doing that prevents me from doing these things.
Well, I’m accountable to myself. I guess I’ll have to motivate myself too. But maybe writing about it will commit me to it a little more. If I just let it boil in my head, no one else would need to know that I wasn’t doing it.
Ya know, I think we all go through this laziness thing. I think it’s more than laziness though. It’s just being apathetic to the world around us and maybe just trying to take in the smallish part of the world that is indeed ours. Once you get a grasp on that, the rest of the world will be waiting. But yes, isn’t the Internet the perfect window to the world?
It’s just trying to get by, I think. Working because we have to, and not wanting to do anything else because we feel like we’ve done enough. Even though neither one of us does manual labor, we’re tired. We don’t want to do anything.
So I just have to stop being so tired. Maybe. But lazy too.
I like your repetition of “but I’m lazy” Good writing.
I love the shopping cart idea. Not only could you take pictures, but you could write the story of the shopping cart, or at least create a story about how it got to the corner of heartbreak and vine and what happened to its “pusher”
I think it could be quite fun to watch this develop.
Oh yes. . . get off your butt, Melissa.
ps: we just sent a few books your way–no letter (too lazy), but a few books you may or may not like: Delany and a famous book by Joanna Russ.
Oooh… Books!
And, I’ve gone as far as to set up the second blog, but haven’t done anything else as yet. … I need to get some batteries for the crap digital. Gotta get notebook in the car, though I have a temporary piece of paper in there. But it’s shortly on the way.
What I’d really like to do is figure out the skins better, or how to customize the blog a little more, so I can add shopping cart art somewhere as part of the big picture. I’ve been stubbornly maintaining that I could do this myself, but I might be forced to ask for help at some point. Wanted to do the same thing with Dreams, actually. Ah well, we’ll see. Lazy, lazy.
FYI: I enjoy your blog for its writing about day-to-day life and dreamscapes.
Thanks, Wadulisi.