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[oakenguy]

I really shouldn't be spending so much time puzzling over this, but it's just SO baffling.

This morning at work I was using the urinal. Someone else came in, and this was his sequence of events:

*He went to the sink and got his hands wet
*He and his wet hands went into a stall and shut the door
*He got some toilet paper
*He pulled his pants down


At that point I'd done all I needed to and headed out, but I've been scratching my head all morning. Why would you wet your hands before you go into a bathroom stall???

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I friended you back! Looks like we have a few cool friends in common, too.

I love writing fiction; I just don't do it much anymore. When literary bursts happen these days, they're often for tiny audiences of one or two, like here. For some reason, I excel most at gross TMI imagery, but folks often feel weird reading that if it's written by a girl. Here's an actually-published one of mine in the same vein:

http://www.stwa.net/tsg/goodwill.htm
(safe for work except for the word "shit," and no malware)

[resk.livejournal.com]

Nice story. Sick, but good. I especially liked lying about having a dollar and fighting the urge to squirm.

I wish I wrote stuff like that. Writing a blog for 7 years has gotten me ingrained into a few particular (similar) styles. I'm trying to break free of that a bit by doing Script Frenzy, which entails writing a 100-page play during the month of April. Unlike NaNoWriMo -- where you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November -- Script Frenzy allows you to write with a partner. So far, my friend atothek have written 35 pages, so we are -- amazingly -- on schedule.

Anyway, it's really freed me up from the writing chains that I've unwittingly bound myself in. And writing with her has taken a lot of the pressure off both of us. Also, she completed NaNoWriMo in the fall, where as I crapped out after only 1,000 words; so she is fully ingrained in the idea of just writing and writing and writing and not worrying about editing until later. I'm still in the process of accepting that mode of operation.

Really, with both NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy, the goal is not to finish the month with something you can immediately send off to a publisher. It's pushing yourself to complete a first draft. Which is a good Goal Thought to default to when you're stuck.

Anyway. That was a lot of words.