Something About Something related to Nothing

Who loves lists? I know I do, albeit unorganized and hazy lists that are unrecorded and change depending on my whims. The specific list I’m building up now is a list of topics that I will never care about, no matter how earnest or excited the speaker is. These topics are, in no particular order:

1. Figs/miniatures (ridiculously expensive tiny metal or plastic figurines to be used in overly complicated and tedious strategy games. Warhammer 40K as an example). I understand that your tiny men are super special and powerful in your mind, but please stop telling me about them.

2. MMOs, specifically World Of Warcraft. I know the game is a monument to repetition and is the most complex chat room you could ever enter, but there is no place on earth that slang from the game will sound cool, you giant sad nerd.

3. Sex Fetishes. It brings me a small amount of sadness to be made aware of the insanely detailed and time-consuming preparatory work you need to achieve the level of arousal that I can get by doing nothing at all. But needing pre-work and instruction manuals in the bedroom isn’t something to brag about, so hush up. And stop saying ‘Vanilla’ as if I should be embarrassed that I don’t need wax/fire/3 ring circus to get my rocks off.

I do what again?

So, a week has passed with no responses from my interviewees. As well, my employer has not replied to a followup email either. My faith in these people actually existing is beginning to slip. Perhaps I created them all within my mind to allay my terror at the financial future.

To compound my lack of output, my creative writing is at a standstill. Procrastinating for no good reason, unless a whiny ‘I’m tired’ counts as a top-notch excuse these days.  And totally unrealted to writing but another let down, the run I went on that I thought/assumed was 5km was actually 3.5km. Oh well. At least the boy had fun today.

Dilemma, bedevilled

I’m trying to put together an entry for the playwright’s cabaret (as I’ve mentioned before) and I thought I found the easy solution. I have an already (hand) written piece of approximately the right length that I like. Getting into the transcription and editing of the piece, I’ve realized that the 4 actor constraint of the cabaret will force significant changes on the script. And, since I’m actually fond of the script, I’m unwilling to chop it up. True, I’m essentially refusing to cut a fart joke, but it’s a GOOD fart joke.

So, my two options are: chop the thing up, or go with a new idea. The problem with the new idea is that I’m not hot for it. No tingles, no curiosity, and if I just force myself to do it, it will be loveless and wooden.

Maybe I’ll take an honest run at the new idea and see if I can breathe some life into it. The good news that comes out of this is that I like the existing piece enough to spare it from mutilation, so now the question is where do I find an outlet for it?