Blargh =_=

[soc_puppet]

That's it, I quit. I'm setting down One Hundred Years of Solitude and leaving it set down >E. I don't care how good it is, I'm not reading any more if every time I pick it up the Magic Realism makes me feel sociopathic. (Most serial killers are anti-social (= sociopathic) rather than psychotic, BTW) Reading stuff doesn't do that to me very often, but when it does, I try to make sure and quit while I can. Last time this happened was when I was trying desperately to make my way through Ill Met By Starlight +_+. I put it down before I found out how it ended. Most of the time I love empathy, but there are times when I'd rather drop-kick it out a window -_-

Am, sadly, not in much of a writing mood at the moment. Nor have I been all weekend. Feeling sorta blue, and a lot like making a chart of my emotional ups and downs so I can see if there's a pattern. Of course, that would involve things like finding/digging up a calendar and recording emotions, etc, so I'm probably going to put it off a while longer.

What I really feel like doing is blowing off stuff. Which I have been doing, but whatever. And what little I do feel like writing is mostly emo!crack!stuff. Like crack!pairing shit. And I really, really feel like reading some good original fiction right about now. Possibly something old, though I won't be able to get class credit for it (in Contemporary Lit) unless it's from after 1960 -_- I also have to have not read it before, but I'm willing to fake ignorance. (I like fantasy/sci-fi, and some realism, but no high fantasy. It bores me after the first book or so. Any recs?)

Okay, done wallowing in self-pity for now. Will write more later.

Edit: Oh, yeah, the Pope! I wanted to talk about the Pope!

The Pope's dead. And I don't really care all that much. I mean, yeah, now the Catholic church, and by relation the Protestant church, is without leadership until the Cardinals elect a new one (watch for white smoke at the Vatican!), but I don't give much of a hoot. I mean, I didn't really know that much about him or anything, and I don't really follow church politics very closely, so it doesn't mean very much to me. I keep on feeling like I should feel guilty about this, but I don't really. So I think I'll just stop feeling that, too.

What I'm worried about is the next one, and I'm not even too worried about that (yanno, unless he chooses the name 'Peter' or something ^^;), because yes, his decisions will make an impact, and yes the impact will be felt world-wide, but it probably won't change what I feel and believe all that much. Well, unless he suddenly decides to start a campaign to revive the holy feminine or something.

Also, all this publicity about it would feel a lot less phony if we didn't say pretty much the same sort of things for movie stars and such.

Okay, 'm done.

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[(Anonymous)]

Recommedations? In sci-fi? Anything by Larry Niven. Sometimes he writes alone; sometimes he collaborates with one or two others. Oh, he has at least four multibook stories so, if you latch onto one of them, try to do them in order. :P

[soc_puppet]

Larry Niven, I'll remember that. Thanks ^_^

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

What did I say about you and getting depressed? It just doesn't fit!

And no, I'm not gonna accept and apology from you about not being online, because I'm not at all angry. You've been busy, I can understand that and am not at all angry.

About the Pope? Really, you shouldn't worry... Unless you are a hell heaven-bent religious person... But if you don't get into Heaven, I'll see to have a spot open for you in Valhalla ^.^

And about good books: I would advise you to read Jonathan Stroud's "Bartimaeus Trilogy"... The first two books are out (still waiting for the third). Book one is called "The Talisman from Samarkand" or something like that, and book two is "Golem's Eye". The way it's written is good, and some of the footnotes are just hilarious!

[phantom-kaito.livejournal.com]

Actually most serial killers and psychopathic(not the same as psycotic), not sociopathic. Yes, I know too much about serial killers.

the pope, eh, I don't see a radical differnce between popes. They all ear phallic symbol hats and spout out the same stuff. Next one won't be too different from the last

Hmm, good books? Only one I've read recently is "PS Your Cat is Dead"

[soc_puppet]

^_^; Oops? Well, we haven't covered serial killers in Abnormal Psych yet, so I don't feel too bad about it. All I know is that Mrs. Green keeps saying, "Serial Killers are not psychotic; they are anti-social."

I don't see much difference between them either, myself ^^. Something interesting: Dad says that they have to bang the dead Pope on the head with a silver hammer to make sure he's really deceased ^_^ <--- amused

o_O Interesting title...

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

Something interesting: Dad says that they have to bang the dead Pope on the head with a silver hammer to make sure he's really deceased

Is it good or bad that I just had Kingdom Hearts flashback as I read that? O.o

(SPOILER)it's because Donald had the Silver Mallet as Sora turned into a Heartless, and he later uses that Mallet to hit Heartless!Sora over the head with to "get rid of the evil Heartless" (doesn't know that it is Sora)(END SPOILER)

And how many times did I just type "Heartless" in that sentence? O.o

[soc_puppet]

^_^;... would you believe that I'm on 20 mg of (generic) Prozac for depression/anxiety? I haven't had chronic depression since, oh, 9th grade (I think o.O), but once in a while I do feel blue. I'm beginning to think it's a hormone thing -_- Which is why I want to keep track of it with a calendar or something.

I'm not too worried about not feeling bad about the Pope. He's just some guy that's dead now, really; it's just that it's ALL OVER THE NEWS -_- and I'm a little tired of hearing about it.

Okay, I'll look into that ^_^ Thanks for the rec!