Something that made me sad
I was browsing through the popular photos on Instagram (something I had not done before, because I was under the impression it was mostly pictures of undeserving food in sepia tone) when I found out that most of the pictures are actually of puppies and pretty girls (both subjects that warrant closer examination). I saw one picture of a vaguely familiar celebrity smiling prettily as she walked down a street with friends. Below that picture I saw this comment: “OMG you are so pretty and skinny, YOU ARE MY ROLE MODEL FOR LIFE!.”
….You poor, damaged child, I thought to myself. What have your parents allowed you to fill your head with? It’s really not okay that any one thinks they should select a role model based on facial symmetry and malnourishment.
Now I am sad.
Time to write (Taken with instagram)
Well, now I’m going to need a lot more books. (Taken with instagram)
Why I shouldn’t stay home on Friday nights: I end up buying books theoretical physics and string theory (Taken with instagram)
Things that annoy me that probably shouldn’t:
This is part of my ongoing series called Things that annoy me that probably shouldn’t:
1. Girls (or I guess theoretically guys) who start descriptions of themselves with “Well, I’m an Animal-lover” I don’t know why this annoys me. I like animals too, and usually like people who like animals, but I find it really irritating that they distill the essence of their being down to “kittens.” I imagine I have now offended about half of the world, but you know what, someone had to say it.
A new tool for finding overused words when your writing. This is a word cloud visualization of the first few chapters of my book Fates. I made using http://www.wordle.net/. You can bet that when I’m editing the draft I’m going to be on the lookout for some of those big words.
There is a kind of immortality in telling a story.
The scars of war. Each spec represents a time I forgot to put the cap on my pen and left it sitting by the mousepad on my desk. #firstworldproblems (Taken with instagram)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft
