I’m thinking…
I have
decided that one of the things I need to work on is beginning to like preparation
work. Unfortunately, as of right now I loathe it, and I really think I always
have. There is a reason why I have always hated writing outlines before
writing, why I hate cutting out patterns before sewing and there’s nothing I
like less than taping off a room before painting it. This isn’t productive for
obvious reasons. It’s necessary to do the taping before you paint and the
cutting out of patterns- at least if you want your finished product to be of
any worth. I find it awfully like torture though. When I start a project I am
so very excited to actually start. I can’t wait to write those first few words
on the page, to make that first splash of paint on the white wall, and putting
off that visible start is awful. Perhaps this can be simplified to saying that
I need to work on patience, the patience to do the necessary work before I’m
able to begin the enjoyable part of the work.
Actually,
patience is definitely something I need to work on. I’ve found this out over
the past couple months from long hard lessons of waiting for college and
scholarship applications to be returned to me.
You can picture me here strangling a mail box and then slowly crumpling
up and dying. Yes, this is melodramatic, but Emily is melodramatic on occasion
(as we know too well) and suspense is not something I handle well. This would
be why I read books so quickly. Not because I’m a fast reader (though I suppose
you could say that as well) but because I simply won’t put the book down until
I have finished it because I don’t handle suspense. (Let me here recommend the
book Entwined, which has been my record breaker fast read for the year. Yes, I
know, it’s only March.)
I’m listening
to… King of Anything, Sara Bareilles.
Outside my
window… it’s lightly raining outside. I hope it gets harder. What I hope most
is that we have a great big storm and the power goes out. That’s always my
favorite. I love lighting candles and wrapping up in blankets. I love the
feeling of it being cold and rainy outside and being nice and cozy inside. I
really love storms.
I’m reading… Cinder.
I’m actually not very far into it but so far I’ve found the whole premise quite
interesting. Normally I wouldn’t be too interested in books about cyborgs etc.
but I’ve heard quite a few favorable recommendations of it so I thought I’d
give it a go.
From the
kitchen…about as soon as I finish this I shall start on making up Chicken Enchiladas
for dinner.
I’m creating…
a drawing of a duck. It’s for a scholarship I’m going to be trying to enter. I
would post it but I don’t think you want to have things you’re going to enter
in contests published on anything, even if it’s only you’re personal blog. I
think that’s usually the procedure. Could be wrong.
