You want to hear about my life when it's 3:15 am and I can't sleep, right?

I've been working a lot of short shifts at work this week. This is a mixed blessing. On one hand, all the extra free time makes it feel almost like having a day off. On the other hand, the actual work shift itself feels longer. In an 8 hour shift I get two breaks plus an hour lunch. That breaks the day up quite a bit and makes it feel faster. The short shifts only give one fifteen minute break. So the shift seems to go slower.

Our store has an optometrist shop built right into it. Oh evil corporate juggernaut, you serve me well! I am getting new glasses finally after needing them for like, four years. And with my employee discount I got about fifty dollars off on them. It's going to be so nice to see again. They won't be ready until Wednesday and it feels like waiting for Christmas.

Writing continues at its uneven pace. Completed a phenomenal section of Seasons in the Abyss only to be stymied as to what the next scene should be. This happens a lot. When I finish writing a scene I am really pleased with the next scene after just doesn't want to get started. I'm taking a few days away from it because I know from experience that that's the best thing. But it feels like I'm being non-productive and lazy even when I know I'm not.

Maybe today will be the day the scene takes the shape it's meant to. I shall now return to bed to hasten the moment when I find out.

Writer's Block: See the music

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I think this is like, the third time I've posted this video. And I'm gonna keep posting it until you all appreciate how fucking brilliant it is! Shriekback are so criminally unappreciated and this is what music videos should be. This was released in 1985 and the world would not see this much effective usage of surreal imagery and sexually ambiguous hairless men until the coming of Lady Gaga over twenty years later. WHY IS THAT? WHY IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN LIKE THAT! DAMNIT, SHRIEKBACK WERE RIGHT! WE ARE GOING TO WIND UP WITH THE GREAT BIG FISHES UNLESS WE START BEING MORE AWESOME RIGHT NOW!