annanotbob's Diaryland Diary
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Almost started packing
If I had any sense I'd be packing, but here I am instead.
Here's a pic for the-moo as I think of her every time I walk down this street and it looks like it will soon be gone:
I went to the first writing group at the day hospital this afternoon, which was a bit weird. Five of us 'service users' and three facilitators. I think I'd come third out of five for visible anxiety levels, so it could be worse.
We did a short warm up, then a longer piece, but both of mine ended up being autobiographical which was a bit disappointing. I seem to have lost touch with any ability I once had to create fictional characters and settings. Still, it was only the first meeting.
The short task was to write anything we liked, beginning, 'I must go down to the sea again...' and all I could think was 'not fucking likely, I've just crawled out of my below sea-level pit up to the top of this beautiful hill and this is where I'm staying,' so I wrote about that.
For the longer task we had to choose from these titles: A Sea Shell; A Lilo Adventure; Brighton Pier; A Ship in a Bottle. Again my mind got stuck, this time on the conch from Lord of the Flies and my abortive attempt to impose order on an unruly bunch of Y10 (15 year olds) by the same rule - ie you can only speak when holding the conch. The first sentence was barely out of my mouth before a heated row erupted between Dean and Scott about how conch is pronounced, with Nina endlessly repeating that she couldn't talk about shells cos she didn't know nuffin' about 'em.
Right.
That was the decisive sound of me going off to pack. I may be back as I find writing here so soothing and I still have two and a half hours before I need to collect Jane.
But I do wish people would turn their notes on. How many great diaries are there, crying out for a bit of notage? - some don't even have profiles. It's wrong, people, just wrong.
3:55 p.m. - 09/04/2008
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