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[shadowkat]

At lunch. It's cold and gloomy, ugly really, with dirty gray clouds. The trees stand naked without their leaves, depressed and silent. Feburary is an ugly month. Good thing it's short, albeit long this year - it being leap year. Anyhow took very brief walk, gave in and bought cheap chocolate to cheer self up.

Writer's block question of the day?

Vision Test
Do you believe in love at first sight?

No. Well that was easy. This exists mainly in movies and romance novels, because it's too much work to actually build up the relationship through the writing - so people take a short cut. In reality? It's physical love and doesn't tend to last very long. About a month or two tops. Why do you think so many celebrity marriages only last a month? (Okay, a month if they are lucky, some last no more than two weeks - long enough to fly to Bali and back.) Love at first sight, more like LUST at first sight. Easy to get the two confused.

Saw part of Glee last night...and...note to writers? Focus on the Glee Club's competition and strive towards sectionals and musical numbers. Do not focus on the teacher's career paths, minority issues, Spainish as a second language, romantic entanglements, babies, or female aging. Thank you. Last night's episode was so unwatchable, that I gave up half-way through.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I also gave up half way (maybe only a quarter of the way?) through Glee...
it is on the DVR and I was thinking I might go back to it, but I would have to be pretty desperate since it was pretty boring and pointless....
sigh.

I don't believe in love at first sight either, although I had had occasions of feeling a shiver upon first meeting someone, but I never trusted that to be a good thing or a bad thing.... Basically I trust friendship growing into passion. This is in fact the reason I hated the movie 'Love Actually', every single one of the relationships were people who never ever talked to one another but believed themselves to be in love... and the only relationship where the two people actually knew each other well was the married couple getting a divorce!! What kind of blue print is that for trusting in relationships/love at all? It seems crazy to me.

[boot-the-grime.livejournal.com]

I never believed in love at first sight, not even when I was 15/16 and believed in one true forever love and all that stuff. "Love at first sight" never made any sense to me, you can't love someone you don't know. You can just be attracted to them at first sight, that's all. Some people blow it out of proportion because they want to be in love and they mistake attraction for love. I've been an object of that a couple of times and I just found it weird and silly on their part. I'm not that kind of person and I never "fall in love" at first sight, one needs time to develop feelings, and when someone tells me they fell in love at first sight, I just think they have a shallow idea of what love is, or they're just in love with the idea of love and looking for the first person to focus on.

That's why I was thoroughly unimpressed by Romeo and Juliet as a love story even when I was 13/14.