Clockwork Dreams

Enthusiastically Unstable; Eloquently Retrotech

Odd conversations

| January 31, 2011

I really don’t deal well with social interactions. I’m okay if it’s something rote, something I have a pre-learned query/response for: “Excuse me, do you know the time?” “Do you have any change?” “Do you know where is?” Things outside of that, though, make me freeze and retreat into myself and hope desperately the person [...]

As promised: PHOTOS OF MY HAIR

| January 30, 2011

Tadaaaa! Excuse the low quality; my only option right now for taking pictures is my webcam. As you can see, it’s still kind of messy. Considering that this is the first time I’ve seen the back of my head since well before trimming it last night, I think it is pretty darn good! There is [...]

The secret to writing is there is no secret.

| January 29, 2011

You’ve probably seen it before, the fool-proof instructions for being a writer. Sit down. 2) Write. That’s pretty much it. But what, I hear you (the fictional audience that lives in my imagination) say, what about that infamous writer’s block? What if you can’t write? Well. Some writers talk about inspiration, or their muse, or [...]

Wherein the author admits she probably has a legitimate disorder.

| January 24, 2011

In fact, I may have two legitimate disorders. But it’s all just speculation at this point. I still think I likely don’t… which might be silly… anyway! Let us first examine the one termed “Emotional Detachment“, using Wikipedia as a source text. Emotional detachment in the first sense above often arises from psychological trauma and [...]