June Words and the OutdoorsI've written 14,764 words in June and my story is now 173,783 words in total. The characters refused to all spontaneously die at once no matter how I prodded.
In other news Ann Arbor has something of a famous Summer Festival with outdoor concerts and movies and shows. I have been to none of this. Not because I couldn't but because after some soul searching I realized it wouldn't make me happy. Yes, I do need to get out of the house more but I'd rather get out so that I can get into other places. At the age of 22 I've accepted that I'm not an outdoor person. Now, this does not mean I hate the outdoors or that I'll say no to all outdoor activities. But it has to be worth it in my opinion. I have to have a good companion (or companions) or be going somewhere like RenFest to make me feel the time spent being chased by bugs and aggravating my allergies has been worth my time. I was going to go see the aerialists (some kind of Cirque du Soleil type act of gymnasts suspended in the air) but couldn't find anyone else interested and I wasn't personally motivated enough to go by myself. I also just watched the preview and I'm don't really feel bad about missing it. Not that it doesn't look interesting, just that I still feel my time was better spent lazing around. I think it also did me good because my eye twitch seems to have gone for now. I think it's been at least a couple days now so that seems to support the cause simply being overwork.
Anyway if I really want to see something I will go by myself and not worry about that sort of thing. Just like when I spent three days touring just the Louvre and was quite happy not to have anyone else there to complain I was taking too long. So not going is almost always a sign I'm not interested enough to do it myself.
As for the movie I was thinking of going to tonight I just got that same movie on DVD at the grand opening of our new library branch (an event I am glad I went to) so I can now see it in the comfort of my own home.
So there's my psychoanalysis on why I'm a Hobbit.
2 comments:
Great to see you posting again, Cherie! I was starting to fear you'd fallen off the face of the Earth. If it's any consolation, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa is over a million words. We're reading another book by the author, Pamela, for one of my summer classes--it's monstrously boring. Hope your summer is going well--inside or out!
TOTP doesn't seem to have bugs. At least not the years I've been. The food is terribly overpriced though. It's nice to catch up on movies I've missed during school, but, yeah, unless you live downtown there's not much motivation to just wander over there on a weeknight. Some of the bands are good if you like live music too, but I've never understood the hype behind that either even though my boyfriend can rhapsodize for hours about how it's "more real" when it's live.
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