Wedge a stone in the gears of the clockworks, try to keep us from acting our age

[kleenexwoman]

Maybe it's the stress from finals and the dread of working at Taco Bell for an entire summer, maybe it's the encroaching food shortage and oil crash, maybe it's all the Mischief Brew I've been listening to or all the Baudrillard...but after I graduate next winter (okay, the spring afterwards, since it's going to be cold and snowy), I really do want to be some sort of anarcho-primitive gypsy and see if I can live off the land. Just live in a little shack in the woods and have a garden and spend my free time reading and writing. Dig out my typewriter. No computer. Phone for emergencies only. Learn to play the guitar or some ridiculously easy instrument instead of listening to CDs. Maybe see if these people have openings for 2009. Even if it's just for a few months.

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[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

LET'S GO BE WRITER FARMERS TOGETHER

or we could buy a caravan and take a road trip across the U.S. and land up in California

or go to Europe and backpack and hitchhike like good little college grads

Now is the time when we need to chuck it all and just go off someplace new.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

This is so like my own feeling. I can't face ditching the meat, and I want to shoot photos, so an RV and nowhere to return to is my own bag. Someone pay me for gas ---

I wonder if any of those poets in residence can match 20,000 words edited to death per year, which is the rate I'm going at?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I bet having 20 hours a day to write kicks up the productivity a notch. I'm seeing cabins littered with words, sheaves of poetry stuck on bare branches...

[drworm.livejournal.com]

I would if I thought I was thinking healthily. But I think I'm thinking neurotically, which is less... um... good. :/

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

so am I, sadly. But I still want to travel.

Maybe in a year or so we can get our heads together straight and take off healthily.