Distractions

Okay, so I'm having a hard time doing any work today because of the elections. Currently, I'm watching CNN and they have a hologram. It's really weird and really distracting, hence the title of my blog. I'm so confused. Also, the my friend's TV has been on msnbc all day and they've attracted quite a crowd. I would love to be with them, but I have work to do and I'm slowly getting it done (emphasis on the slowly). Okay, this hologram is just really odd. I can't imagine it being real and feel like it's just superimposed, but CNN is swearing by it. Some slightly unrelated voting news in my life is that, I was so upset about not getting a voting sticker. And I'm not the only one. Just putting it out there, but who else was upset that we absentee voters don't get a nice little sticker stating that we voted?

Anyways, onto more class related stuff since commercials are on at the moment. I don't know if anybody else has been feeling the same, but I've been in a rut. I've been having the hardest time thinking of what to write about. I end up going around my house for other people's input. For assignment #5, I ended up writing vaguely about abortions because my roommate just blurted it out when I asked. We laughed at the joke and then I actually took it in consideration. I don't think the story came out badly or anything, but since it wasn't entirely my making, it just didn't feel the same as everything else I've written. For this assignment, I asked around like I did for #5, but nothing sounded like something I wanted to write about. So, after days of procrastinating and trying to figure out what I was going to write about, I went to the Internet. I found a website that, as one of the options, gave you three random words. From those words, you could try to think of a story around them or, in my case, trigger an idea that had a strange, random, and convoluted connection. It was an interesting way to into a writing mentality and I found it helpful. For anybody who might want to use the website as well, the url is:

http://shortstoryideas.herb.me.uk/

Well, that's all I have to write about. Back to the election and trying to do more work.