#28 (uniformity)

[posteverything]

"the ghostwriter"

1.Anybody can be a writer. No matter how varied the circumstances may be to bring anyone to that point assuming the personae is simple enough, after relative mastery of the written component of one's language is established and what scant tools of the trade there are have all been collected (which would probably happen well

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Let's Get These Teen Hearts Beating, Faster, Faster

[luckaduck]

FIRST!

Also, I love you. More commenting later, post-sleep.

Re: Let's Get These Teen Hearts Beating, Faster, Faster

[posteverything]

<3 you deux, okay there boss

[nancy_drew]

once i called myself a "drunken retarded superstar lookin' for love in all the wrong places" or something to that effect.

a lot is going on in your life! best wishes!

[posteverything]

I think what you should do on Livejournal is for there to be a community similar to ohnotheydidnt, but it's all about you as "Nancy Drew" reporting on what this other person Alex S has been doing. Like posts of you containing pictures of you getting ice cream with Jared Leto and whatnot, while other people comment about what you're wearing. The whole thing'd be Warholian and awesome.

But, thanks. I keep telling myself that I'm sticking my nose in way too many different things at the moment, and sometimes I feel overextended and vulnerable about that but at least I can say it's been interesting (at least to me anyway.)

[nancy_drew]

that's a great idea, i should post obviously photoshopped pics of me in a wheelchair kissing jude law and dying britney spear's stubble at the same time and stuff.

i think i know the feeling of sticking your nose into way too much at once, it is interesting and bittersweet and worth it in the end, don't be surprised if you'll want to take a vacation from it suddenly, i'm sure you've thought about it. it's not a bad thing, these vacations - they're about survival. (my new word, i watched deliverance not too long ago)

[posteverything]

Deliverance, eh? That's actually one of my favorite movies. I don't really know why, but..

I've definitely taken vacations from it before. For the rest of that weekend all I did was basically hide from the rest of the world. I didn't want any part of it. I didn't answer any phone calls or reply to any e-mails and I drew the curtains to prevent the sun from coming in. Honestly, I did that. I think I did that so I could actually manage to summon the wherewithall to fall back in on Monday morning. I've started calling it "cocooning", and while it's a shame that I have to do it sometimes just to survive in this world, I know I could probably be doing worse. We all have our escapes. Mine just happens to involve sitting around watching Japanese cartoons on YouTube and eating frozen White Castles.

[devronika]

god damn

[posteverything]

i know i know, tl;rd

[mesoterica]

Man, it's so good to see you around here.

[posteverything]

Thanks, kid. How's it been?

[mesoterica]

Oh, ups and downs, things are crazy - you know how life gets.

[posteverything]

I know, and it never ever stops. It's nice to see that you're engaged. Or are your married now? It's hard to tell from the journal. But in any event, in a crazy life such as this it's good to be able to hang on to something that will always be there, something that's absolutely real.

Without that, well..you kinda end up like me.

[cardiorrhexis]

i miss these posts. i like that need to take time out to actually focus and read them, not just skim them like other LJ posts.

[posteverything]

It's nice to be read Val, and it's no less flattering for me than it's always felt. But I have forgotten how entertaining it is for me to write these things out. The whole process took an entire week, just searching inward for what I feel about things and then the reasons why I feel them (which was, in a manner of speaking, this post's narrative). To spend the last four months building walls around me and then systematically tearing them down in a week has proven cathartic as all shit, to say the least. Even my co-workers have noticed a difference in my mood.

You probably didn't ask for all this but I figured you were as good of a target as any. :)

[cardiorrhexis]

let me try to comment again, this time with a complete sentence.

it's good to be able to write whatever you feel and not have to worry about who is reading it and what they are thinking of you. i am happy for you that you're able to do this, and that i get to read it. and the hamster pics do help! :)

[posteverything]

Thank you but you know, I kept thinking those things were mice until you just mentioned that they were hamsters and I was like, "Oh snap! Yes they are." :(