life & reading update

[illuvium]

anywaaaay! i finished 1984 & am still under the impression that animal farm was better. i would italicize & capitalize properly, but i'm honestly too fatigued to bother with the html things. now that i'm done with 1984, i'd love to get back to reading pale fire, which i do intend to do, but i've been really busy lately and have been getting back into writing. i feel like i always feel ashamed of writing something self-indulgent, which really sucks since the majority of why i write is to be self-indulgent. i don't really know, nor do i particularly care to air all of my introspection out in public like this. as far as my takes on recent situations, i do think that the cheating fiasco aired out at the coldplay concert got taken too far. i understand making jokes about it given that that's the nature of the internet, but it's taken to such an extreme. people are so desperate for this easy serotonin (if that's even the right term... i doubt people actually feel happy, it's just this sort of mix of wanting to be in the know, or even worse, wanting this exclusivity to be the First to know) that they've gone to the wife's facebook account and started flooding her there. it's really shameless! and i hope people realize this. it makes me grimace seeing all sorts of posts everywhere online, but perhaps this was really expected. it's not exactly atypical of the internet to act this way, but i just still believe it's in such poor taste.