Reading and Writing

 Well, it's been a few days. Not much progress has been made. I think I'm starting over yet again. I have another idea, I have renewed hope for motivation, etc. I also made a new website over the past couple days, but it's still barebones. It may stay that way forever, who knows. That's at www.1800newgods.com if you want to check it out. If you get the reference, email me. Okay bye.

 Last night I tried writing a new story's beginning. 500 words in, I'm not sure if it'll go anywhere, but I think I'm a little more interested in the potential here than I was for the first thing I wrote. Of course, that means I'm 500 words behind my goal. That's OK.  I joined an online writing goal on a site called Trackbear, which allows groups of people to self-report their progress over a period of time and charts it on a big graph. That's fun. Again, we will see if it lasts.  I also watched the premiere episode of season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race last night. It was pretty good, I thought. The guest judge was Cardi B, who I found to be quite charming. In any event, that's all I have to say. See, I told you these would be short!  

 I took a train back to the city on New Year's Eve. It was an Amtrak, which is the closest we come in America to genuine commuter rail. It was a four hour journey, give or take 30 minutes, which was bearable, until a random child sat next to me for the last hour. I didn't love that. Also I was running on about 3.5 hours of sleep. When the train arrived at Union Station (incidentally, I'd like to write a collection of short stories called Union Station, where all the stories meet at one point or another. Like a union station. It's basically a metaphor) I got to experience my favorite thing, which is walking up the narrow walkway between the train platforms and into the station proper. It feels like a remnant of the 19th Century, in a way that I find thrilling.  I knew I was supposed to take the Brown Line north to the station nearest my apartment, but when I got to the platform, I saw only an Orange Line train. Luckily, I heard the robot announcer voice say "This is...