Fighting the Current

revisiting documents...

If some odd mention turns up and I think nothing of it, that thing usually occurs somewhere else later in the day. In church tonight I found myself with Auld Lang Syne stuck in my head. Out of absolutely nowhere. Then tonight, a friend brought up an old entry of mine, so I started rereading a good portion of my old journal entries, and found part of the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne.

Rereading all my old journal entries, I've discovered several things. The first being that I'm writing more frequently now than I did when I first began my journal. Another is that I think I have a journal entry for every Friday the 13th since June 2001. And yet another is that I cursed a lot more frequently earlier on. And my final (listed) discovery is the change in my writing--subtle style changes, word choice, general paragraph length, et cetera.

Why Songs Stick in Your Head
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A356870
^ I like most of the suggestions, but I know that I, for one, can hold two thoughts in my head simultaneously, so focusing on something else does not work. I have two completely different sentences going at once sometimes (three when I realize I'm doing it, but then it usually breaks up). It's easiest when I'm just mentally reciting something. When I have absolutely nothing else to occupy me, I do things like that with pictures and sounds and manage not to get it all confused somehow.

Now that people are looking at me like I have five heads...

One day of break left. ::sigh::

One project to be finished tomorrow (finishing touches Monday night at the latest). One project to be finished by Thursday. One to be finished next weekend.

I want to start working on a new accent. It's time to move on and expand, lol. I may just watch Waking Ned Devine enough to get a working brogue, but that's a really hard one to master. Hm... I'll have to figure one out--something interesting, which I can use (well, as much as I can use any) and have fun with (I don't think there are many I wouldn't have fun with). I think I could do almost any accent given enough time. Practice really does help. I'd sit and read something, aloud but just under my breath, focusing on the exact pronunciations and tones. After the movie last night, I could pronounce some words with a slight Greek accent just from hearing it so many times through the course of the movie. I've lost that by now, but if I saw the movie again, I'd be able to do it I think.

"If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?"
"Pakistan!"
- from some game show. I'd probably answer with an obscure or violent place like that. ::eye roll::

Oh boy, is hipocrisy interesting or what.

Just realized how many things I've reread today. And it's a lot. Pages upon pages upon pages of things that happened months or even years ago. I don't know why. I just started doing it today. I reread some things I really should have remembered, some things which may have been really helpful to remember, some things which I still can't figure out.

My brothers have been fake Irish dancing to the music on my playlist all night. It's hilarious. I need to find my plaid kilt/skirt from gradeschool. It would work very well for them... And I need to find a CD of traditional Celtic/Irish music...

Today was such a dreary day. And we had no thunder or lightning after that little bit earlier. Sort of a disappointment, but a relief as well.

G'night.