Blargh =_=

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.