OrbitDestination

OrbitDestination

Monday, August 15, 2011

I can't think of anything

I can't think of anything worth writing.  So I'm free writing for 5 minutes.  I'm deliberately trying to keep my sentences simple and short.  If I don't do that, I tend to ramble.  Spaghetti sentences are more interesting, but they're also a pain to read.  Keeping track of complicated syntactic structure can be obnoxious, especially when the ideas presented in the sentence don't warrant such a level of sophistication.  Oops.  Let one slip out.

The thing is, though, simple sentences are boring.  They may be clear and concise, but they're dry.  Deserts are dry.  Most deserts are dry.  Most of the time, anyway.  The Kalahari desert is pretty dry.  I remember watching "The Gods Must be Crazy" when I was little.  At the time, I had no idea it was a foreign film dubbed into English.  I think the original was French.  At the end of these 5 minutes, I'm going to google it and find out.  I'll let you know whether it is or not after the fact in these parentheses: (According to Wikipedia, the original language used in most of the movie was Afrikaans.) 

I'm at about the 3 and a half minute mark.  It's getting a little cloudy outside.  They're mid-altitude clouds.  It's surprisingly easy to type while I'm not looking at the screen.  I'm glad I took typing in high school.  it really paid off, especially when I was writing papers in college.  I want to go back to school.

I'm looking at the screen again.  Surprisingly, I only made one spelling error while I was looking away.  I'll correct it before I post. 

5 minutes are up.  See you later!

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