All My Life For Sale

All My Things For Sale:

It sounded kind of scary for him to stay at strangers' houses, but it sounds like the buyers and
readers of his posts are genuine and caring people. Probably quite similar to him. It's also crazy
he happened to be in NYC for 9/11.

A Place For My Stuff:

Being a college student, you eventually realize that you don't have extra money to spend on all of that "stuff" you think you need. The other day, I was at Drugmart, and there was a hands-free soap dispenser on sale for 6 bucks(you know, you wave your hand in front of it, and the soap pumps out magically), and I almost bought it. I was being rational that day, I guess. First off, I definitely didn't need it because I've got plenty of soap dispensers back home, even though they're not all cool and high-tech. Secondly, I live in a dorm for 2/3 of the year... wouldn't make any sense to have it either. It's cool that Carlin took a reality of the everyday, and turned it into something funny.

Shitty First Drafts:

When I first started reading "Shitty First Drafts", literally, this was my first thought: "Dude, this is awesome!" Haha because it's so true.

I definitely can get anxiety about writing. At the start of any assignment, I am a perfectionist. It's all or nothing with me. Go big or go home. I'm dreamin' big and want everything to go smoothly and be well-thought out. But then, I start the assignment. If the ideas are not going so well to begin with, I go from being a perfectionist to being a procrastinator. Which then, if I'm not careful, can turn me into an underachiever because I don't make the time to even write the paper.

I think Anne Lamott's bottom line is to get over our fear and anxiety of writing sh*tty drafts, and to just go ahead and write those sh*tty drafts. Then, we can actually write something like what we envisioned we would write. Hearing this come from a person whose written 6 novels, I think I'll take her advice.

(I'm just going to pretend like today is Monday because I ever so confidently looked at week 2 instead of week 3 for the blogging schedule this week)