Be Mrs Robinson If You Want
June 23rd, 2010
i always say that i will learn how to just blog whenever i want to, instead of accumulating stories or leaving my thoughts to marinate for too long — but i never do. which has resulted in a blog that’s been stagnant for the most part as of late. some days i toy with the idea of shutting down quaintly.net, but almost immediately it morphs into something quite comical. i think i’m just pathologically lazy (and a procrastinator). and like the rest of us who are growing up, i’m spending less and less time on the internet, and more time in the real world. also, less and less time in my own head, and more time in the real world. it’s a strange feeling. i’m perpetually feeling like i’m out of my element and drifting away. but the dreams that come to me in the spidery threads of the early mornings have been keeping me true to myself. today i dreamt that we were both in the same store, and as i was leaving and he was entering, we caught each other’s eyes. no hugs, kisses, nothing. just a sky blue tshirt and two smiles- but before i knew it we were fighting and a slap was thrown. a stunned face. and then i woke up to the most comfortable bed in the world, and a sensation that felt dangerously like a heart attack.
i’m learning to do lots of things, as well as unlearning. i’m learning how to hold back from saying too much, yet unlearning how to be cynical and suspicious of people’s intentions. they kind of work in opposite directions but i dont think it’s impossible to strike that balance if i can find the right force to use on both sides of the equation. okay bye late for dinner.
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16 Comments Add your own
1. Patricia | June 23rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm
dont shut down quaintly.net
pwease.
2. KY | June 23rd, 2010 at 10:20 pm
u shut down, i keel u!
3. aud | June 23rd, 2010 at 11:49 pm
ya i will bash your head in wtf
4. Cheryl | June 24th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I guess that’s one of the shitty part about blogging eh. You want to word vomit but only coming to realize that you need to “filter” everything or to hold back to type.
Updating regularly or once a month, regardless, don’t shut down! You’ve still got tons of readers :)
5. iswari | June 24th, 2010 at 12:36 am
dont shut it down :(
6. kimberlycun | June 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
i feel younger now than say when i was 18 and happier ;) all this learning and unlearning are gooooooood!
p/s: shut this down and i will hunt u down, tie u to the floor, and flick your forehead with a teaspoon repeatedly
7. biopolymath | June 24th, 2010 at 12:49 am
Please dont, pleaseeee.
8. cd | June 24th, 2010 at 1:09 am
kimberlycun, I ikut sama.. but I use laddle. Heheheheh
9. kehrole | June 24th, 2010 at 1:19 am
i think you have like 48937298 drafts sitting in your admin page lsa
10. Nikki | June 24th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Your little blogging haven is awesome, and you’re doing great. I’m guilty of the same leaving thoughts stewing, you just have to go with the flow, blog without obligation and keep doing what you are doing.
11. Michelle Chin | June 24th, 2010 at 4:18 am
my hand places itself over the heart
an o forms over the mouth
at the words
“shutting down quaintly.net”
no.
12. k0k | June 24th, 2010 at 5:17 am
how does one write at the speed of thought?
there simply isn’t enough time in the world to explain our minds. at a second a word, we’d die before we’re done with the prologue.
you are in your author’s blahs,i think. we all get them. but i think the pressure of speech and flights of ideas in your head will crack your skull open if you don’t have quaintly.net to free them on the occasion :)
13. sweatlee | June 24th, 2010 at 6:38 am
wtf everyone so violent one!!
when u coming back faster got alot stories to tell!
14. ront | June 24th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
mrs robinson? i’d prefer…mrs jones…..me and mrs jones, mrs jones, mrs jones…
15. joyce | June 25th, 2010 at 8:27 am
you shut down quaintly.net, we keeeel you! :( please don’t deny us readers the joys of reading your writing. i’ll be satisfied just by rereading your old posts!
16. quaintly | June 26th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
patricia: i wont!
KY : if you dont tell me the truth i keel YOU!!!!
aud : so much angst!! :(
cheryl : ya this filter thing is awful. but such is the price of writing in public spaces. and yes i’m grateful that people still want to read my blog at all !
iswari : i wont la :P
kimberlycun : you learn from where wan this teaspoon thing??
biopolymath : i wont! well not yet anyway :P
cd : wow cruel lah you all :( abuse both me and cutlery!
kehrole : how u know wan kehrole!!!
nikki : actually there are a few reasons why i cant do that (and why that in turn is giving me stress) but that’s a story or a blogpost for another day :)
michelle chin : hahahaha what a dramatist!! :P
k0k: you’re right.. :)
sweatlee : I CANT WAITTTTT. 1.2 more weeks!!!
ront : hahaha mrs robinson is hotter than mrs jones!
joyce : aww :) not shutting down la! :)
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