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I feel like I've been away from LJ for longer than usual. For no reason really. I've been working on a story that I thought died an uneventful death many months ago - makes me realize how much I've grown as a writer, to tell the truth. I've also been working on a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring a Germanic castle of some sort and it made me realize that I write stories like puzzles - I write things down as they come, and it becomes a matter of stitching the parts together, waiting for the right combination of sentences to come. This is probably totally obvious and asinine, but keep in mind I actually know very little about the mechanics of writing.
This is the most important thing I discovered during my leave of absence:
I wasn't paying much attention to college football when this happened (in 2007). But I've been saying "I'm a man! I'm 40!" for the past few days at random intervals. The tentative clapping at the end is the best part.
I spent New Year's Eve with essentially the entire Greek population of Lincoln, Nebraska. Had ouzo for the first time. I'm not a big fan of licorice, so I'm not a big fan of ouzo, but it's all right. There was much breaking of plates. Then we left and went to O Street and O Street was lame, as usual. I almost died doing the human shuffle on the dance floor because the dance floor was covered in alcohol and my boots had no traction, but Christina caught me, so I survived. Then Christina almost died walking back to the car (winter is not a wonderland in heels, apparently) , but I caught her, so she survived. Oh, and I got $1 from a balloon. The end.
Oh yeah, and I discovered the new One Republic song, "All The Right Moves." I like it. Reminds me of all the 5-star recruits that have fizzled out at Nebraska, because we are apparently destroyer of impressive high school players. What can I say. Our defensive MVP at the Holiday Bowl, Matt O'Hanlon, was a walk-on, no lie. That means he happened to be at UNL and decided to try out for the team, and repeatedly cut it during try-outs. "The epitome of what Nebraska football's all about," he is.
This is the most important thing I discovered during my leave of absence:
I wasn't paying much attention to college football when this happened (in 2007). But I've been saying "I'm a man! I'm 40!" for the past few days at random intervals. The tentative clapping at the end is the best part.
I spent New Year's Eve with essentially the entire Greek population of Lincoln, Nebraska. Had ouzo for the first time. I'm not a big fan of licorice, so I'm not a big fan of ouzo, but it's all right. There was much breaking of plates. Then we left and went to O Street and O Street was lame, as usual. I almost died doing the human shuffle on the dance floor because the dance floor was covered in alcohol and my boots had no traction, but Christina caught me, so I survived. Then Christina almost died walking back to the car (winter is not a wonderland in heels, apparently) , but I caught her, so she survived. Oh, and I got $1 from a balloon. The end.
Oh yeah, and I discovered the new One Republic song, "All The Right Moves." I like it. Reminds me of all the 5-star recruits that have fizzled out at Nebraska, because we are apparently destroyer of impressive high school players. What can I say. Our defensive MVP at the Holiday Bowl, Matt O'Hanlon, was a walk-on, no lie. That means he happened to be at UNL and decided to try out for the team, and repeatedly cut it during try-outs. "The epitome of what Nebraska football's all about," he is.
