The Nancy Drew Club

[gwendolyngrey]

I spent a wonderful evening catching up with old friends. It's odd how we all ending up pursueing creative careers even though we all sort of went seperate ways when we were about fourteen...it's only lately that I've started getting to know them again, and it's amazing how un-awkward it all is. And yeah, English and music and classics and art majors all. And since almost all my friends are at school, that leaves me constantly surrounded by creative people who actually (mostly) understand why I do what I do and what I'll face once I leave school. Except for Lynette who will probably use her english degree to teach, although I think she will be swept off her feet and get married and give piano lessons and she'll be happy and content while the rest of us disperse around the world trying desperately to get work and keep up with rent. 

And I love driving late at night when there is hardly any traffic...no headlights coming my way, but the streetlit freeway just stretching on ahead and I don't have any music playing and I could be anyway in the world right then. Unless it rains. There is nothing more dismal than driving in the rain in the dark....I'd rather have snow and ice any day.

All night I was writing things in my head. Even as I was brushing my teeth (during which I somehow got toothpaste on my nose) I was shuffling sentences around. But then sometimes I'll get a sentence stuck in my head, something about the sound of the words catches on my mind, and it's like my brain turns into a broken record. Literally. I cannot stop thinking the same set of words over and over...sometimes changing the inflection, but it's really, really hard to force myself out of that circle and start a new thought. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's sometimes a bit awkward when people ask me what I'm thinking because I am actually thinking the same thing over and over and over and it essentially becomes thinking about nothing. I do think it's possible to stop thinking.  

Comments

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

That's funny - that's been happening to me alot lately for some reason - getting a snippet of words stuck in your head over and over. Eventually it goes away but I have noticed it happen at least twice over the last week or so. Not something I normally have a problem with unless I'm delirious with fever. When I had pneumonia in high school, I had a really high fever, and I had a part of the song "Imagine" going through my head over and over and over, and it drove me nuts. :-)

[twoeyedgirl.livejournal.com]

YES YES that happens to me too. And not song lyrics. Sentences or phrases... the other day my head kept telling me "Mrs. McGillicuddy" and I cannot for the life of me determine why.