Crazy Nick and Writing.

Then I see Nick walking around with a plastic bag on his head. He was wearing a clear plastic produce bag from Longo's like a tuque. I said hi then snatched the bag off of his head.

"What the hell are you doing?"

I threw the bag in the recycling, then he grabbed the bag from the recycling and put it back on his head. He explained to me that there really was no reason to not wear it. I told him that people don't wear bags on their heads. They just don't; that's not what bags are for.

"Why not? what's wrong with it?"

"You look like you're crazy."

"That's the point. See, people don't need to be crazy to look crazy and people don't need to look crazy to be crazy."

"But everyone who sees you will think that you're crazy."

"So? they think I'm crazy and they're the only ones who are affected."

"Not really. By you wearing that bag on your head you're changing the way you feel about yourself, you're going to act differently because you're expressing a certain... individuality."

"I guess you're right."

I ripped the bag off his head and thrust it into a nearby recycling bin.

I'm looking forward to build season ending. I need time to read and write. We'll still be working steady until regionals, but at least we'll get sundays off again. Aside from my spare I have no free time because of robotics and I use that for homework. I have however managed to type up My Raison D'etre, in my downtime. I even got Brittany to edit it. She said that she loved the plot, but I needed to make Clair special. She's got no substance. I've added in a paragraph about Martin's feelings towards her and I'm planning on adding more. Maybe some idiosyncrasies and better description.


Asgiga approached me in the library yesterday and urged me to publish Thoughts. I guess I would but I don't know if I could publish just one short story. I told her about my plan of getting an anthology together and I think that enthusiastic may have been an understatement. I could possibly have my first fan. I asked her if she'd like to edit my two newest stories and she said yes. I'm awaiting a response from her. Speaking of which, Shenelle finally got back to me on Heavenly. She gave me some good constructive criticism. I'll need to get around to better developing Peter and Rachel's relationship.

I think I should 'come out of the closet' as an amateur writer to my classical civs class. I think that Ms. Rajabalan would be interested in my stories and that some of my classmates would be too. Of course there are a couple sour kids who don't give a shit about anything, but there are a couple who I think will be genuinely interested. I think I will get my work out there. Maybe I'll drop something in the question box next time it's passed around, or just bring it up in class one day. I really haven't done anything to stand out yet, but maybe this is my opportunity to arouse a certain classmate's interest in me. Today I thought of saying to her: "I was going to get you a rose, but I couldn't find one nearly half as beautiful as you are." ... I didn't say it.