#making scenes

[ticklefighthockey]

*clears throat* *taps mic* I wrote tonight

[truu2u]

my problem with writing is not that i have many stories in my head that i can't put on paper, it's actually the opposite. i feel like i have the skills and when given an assignment, a clear outline or plot, i can write really well (in my opinion). i'm just horrible at thinking of an interesting story...

[odettecarotte]

HOW SHOULD I ORGANIZE MY BOOKSHELVES?!??

[marginalutilite]

Although, now that I've googled Penelope Trunk and read some of her Brazen Careerist blog, realizing there's no insight behind this documentation makes it all just a little less awesome.

[marginalutilite]

WALDENBOOKS has no alarm system and very tall shelves. I can't go in too often, or for too long, so I have to have organized reading lists. I started out with the nineteenth-century D's: Dostoyevsky, Dumas, Dreiser, Dickens, and George Sand because she was misshelved. I did K's and P's because those sections are hard to see from the counter. Then I noticed philosophy is a real cinch, so I stole The History of Philosophy. I made a list of deconstructionist philosophers, and I stole them. From the footnotes, I did a list of French feminists, but Waldenbooks doesn't have very many, so I special-ordered Cixous and Irigary, and I paid for them by exchanging books on Judaism that my dad sent to me. Today I'm stealing books that are on my feminist psychology list. Two of the men on the staff are staring at me, so I pay cash for Women and Madness to throw them off. [Upon being given an ultimatum by her boyfriend to stop stealing] I READ FOR A WEEK. I read Cisneros, Coover, Camponegro, Carver and Cortazar, and that's the last of the Waldenbooks. I cry when I finish Hopscotch because I don't know how I'll get more books. I know it's stupid to cry over this. I know I could go to the library, but I have to own a book if I read it. I've given back Cameron. I've given back Robert. I cannot give back my books.

_Making Scenes_ by Adrienne Eisen

Oh, _Making Scenes_, you perfect book, detailing biblioklepsy in between the bulimia and the incest. (It's a form of deviance that shouldn't be overlooked!) Shoutouts for mentions of _Hopscotch_ and _Women and Madness_, even though Phylis Chesler is vile now. Also, it's so exquisitely 90s for her to be stealing from Waldenbooks.

[marginalutilite]

Nevermind, _Making Scenes_ is AWESOME. (That's my highly considered analysis.)

[marginalutilite]

Upon starting to read _Making Scenes_:

OK, I really love Emily Books, but on the other hand it could be called "Traumatic Things Young Straight Girls Get Themselves Into." (Maybe I've just read too many of them in a row?)