tara_la_reine :: Recent Entries

Title:	Writer's Block: Go it alone
Topics:	writer's block
Date:	2009-12-09 @ 12:29
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
Mood:	happy

Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children? Do you think this ostracizes people who would be perfectly content to remain single and/or child-free? Is this pressure worse around the holidays?

View 1365 Answers

Yes, yes, and yes. There also seems to be a popular fallacy that single and/or childfree people are "alone" or "lonely". The vast majority of us still have family and friends; I'm going to see mine for the holidays.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: Just another manic Monday
Topics:	school, weekends, work, writer's block
Date:	2009-11-08 @ 11:30
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Rain
Mood:	thankful

Do you look forward to returning to work/school on Mondays or do you live for the weekend? What do you enjoy most about weekends? What do you dread most about school and/or work?

View 836 Answers

I live for the weekend. Saturdays are the best. I sleep in, and then I might go out and do something fun, or clean my flat, or just be lazy and read, play video games, or muck about on the computer. Sundays I have a love/hate relationship with. Sunday evenings are hard for me, because my depression issues really kick in. I dread Mondays- *dread* them. I dread getting up early. I dread the meeting I have every Monday morning. I really like the other teachers I work with and used to love those meetings, but this new, ridiculously-rigid structure the administrators have put in place sucks all the fun out of them. I dread lunch duty- it's incredibly boring. I dread the last class I have on Mondays- the kids are unholy hellions in that particular class, and nothing I've come up with seems to make any difference to them. So, yeah- I'm alright with my first class on Mondays, but that's the only decent thing about them.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: 6 replies :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: Relive in the moment
Topics:	relive, second chance, writer's block
Date:	2009-11-02 @ 22:01
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	The Eagles - Wasted Time
Mood:	melancholy

If you could relive one hour of your life so far, what would you choose and why? Would you do or say anything different? How do you think it would change your life?

View 1016 Answers

Those are difficult questions to answer. I can think of days, weeks, months, even *years* I might choose to relive, and I would definitely do and say things differently... but an hour? Oddly, I think I'd choose an hour that I wouldn't change- any one of many hours I spent with my friends as a freshman in college. For the sake of experiencing sheer, simple happiness again- that'd be my pick.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: Ohhh, baby
Topics:	baby, conception, fertility, infertility, writer's block
Date:	2009-10-20 @ 16:28
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Soundtrack to 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' VG
Mood:	anxious

If your best friend asked you OR your partner to help you conceive a child, would you consider it? How do you think it would affect your friendship and your relationship?

Submitted By moho2987

View 972 Answers

Hell, no. I would, however, help her with looking into adoption.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	How Random
Topics:	jxhq
Date:	2009-09-21 @ 21:43
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
Mood:	sleepy

I had lunch duty today, which is always a drag because it's boring and hot in my area of the cafeteria. Toward the end, however, I spotted something that kept me tickled for the rest of the day: a kid in a Mad Love shirt. It had a cute picture of JxHQ on it. I went barreling over, of course, to tell her that I just loved her shirt. I didn't ask if she actually liked the pairing- discussing comics characters' kinky relationship w/ a student seemed inappropriate- and she said she got it at the mall, so who knows. She might still be wondering why some random teacher accosted her at lunch to have a cow over her shirt, but she seemed flattered.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: A Bitter Pill to Swallow?
Topics:	exercise pill, intel, intel sponsors of tomorrow, writer's block
Date:	2009-08-20 @ 21:23
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	the A.C.
Mood:	blah

If you could get your exercise by taking a pill, would you? Why or why not?

Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow.

View 512 Answers

If it was safe and gave me all the benefits of exercise w/ none of the effort and timesuck? Gawdamighty, yes. I'd take it because finding the time and energy to exercise is usually pretty much a lost battle for me.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: Let’s Get Physical
Topics:	fitness goals, intel, intel sponsors of tomorrow, writer's block
Date:	2009-08-19 @ 21:24
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Bathwater running.
Mood:	contemplative

What are your fitness goals? What is helping or preventing you from accomplishing them?

Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow.

View 486 Answers

I'd like to be able to run a mile w/ no difficulty. What's preventing me is the South Texas heat. Yup. And laziness. Let's not forget plain ol' laziness.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: Thanks for the Input
Topics:	writer's block
Date:	2009-08-18 @ 23:59
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	the A.C.
Mood:	worried

What is the worst piece of advice you've ever received?

View 513 Answers

"You should have kids." I've been told this in an endless variety of ways, some polite and others not. If there is one thing I know about myself, it's that I would be utterly ruined by having children. I don't actually believe I'd be a bad mother- the evidence suggests I'd be a good one. But I- the person recognizable as me- would be ruined.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: 1 reply :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: And the Apple Goes To
Topics:	writer's block
Date:	2009-08-17 @ 18:53
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	the A.C.
Mood:	groggy

Who is/was your favorite teacher in school?

View 517 Answers

I am. ;)

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Title:	Writer's Block: The Right to Privacy
Topics:	writer's block
Date:	2009-08-16 @ 22:27
Security:	public
Location:	Home
Music:	Garth Brooks - More Than a Memory
Mood:	dirty

Should some parts of celebrities' lives be off-limits to the public, or is giving up privacy a fair price for being famous?

View 513 Answers

Some parts of celebrities' lives should be off limits to the public, for the well-beings of both the celebrities and the public. The famous are, in a nutshell, a reflection of us. Any and all vulgarity, irresponsibility, arrogance, and selfishness that may be observed in the famous may also be observed in the home of someone down the street, or next door, or your own. It's been said that the job of the modern celebrity is to make "normal people'- that's us- feel at once envious and superior. Our collective celebrity obssession is simple jealousy on one hand and simple vanity on the other. It is also voyeurism. Let's not forget voyeurism. The incessant gossip-grubbing digs up some nasty things about celebrities, but the fact that it goes on at all says far nastier things about us.

:: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply

Advertisement

Advertisement