Who Killed Andreas Willhoff

Hey there.


I've been writing every day since January 16th. I know it hasn't been that long, but I'm trying to rebuild my regimen. It seems to have fallen apart over the past few months. Sometimes I'm not so sure about this whole writing thing. Sometimes my motivations seem impure. Sometimes I don't know what I want to do.


I have a cat.


I've had him since November and his name is Huxley. He is very energetic and likes to try to stand on my laptop while I'm typing. I really like him. The only problem is, right now, I'm getting the itch to find a seasonal job somewhere far away. Things get a little harder when you have an animal. 


I finished reading The Lazarus Project. It was pretty cool how Hemon was able to weave these two immigrant stories together. One story is about Lazarus Averbuch in the beginning of the 20th century. He is a Jewish immigrant in a time when the many people in the U.S. hate Jews. Many people in the world hated the Jews. Lazarus survived the Kishinev Pogrom. They also fear Anarchism. Lazarus was sent to Chicago Police Chief Shippy's house. He was sent by his boss at the factory. He was a hard worker. Shippy's wife thought he looked dangerous and it resulted in both Chief Shippy and his bodyguard, James Foley shooting Lazarus many times. The other story is of a writer named Brik. He is researching Lazarus' story. In doing so, he travels to Eastern Europe (towns Lazarus lived in) and has the unique experience of being considered and American in his home country while being considered Bosnian in the U.S. 


Fascinating. 


Now I'm reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. It's about Super String Theory and, as you may assume, it's pretty fucking mind blowing. I feel more inspired to write when I read non-fiction. It is research without feeling like research. The book I'm writing involves a meteor (technically a bollide). It's important to know the way the universe acts in order to write these stories. It's also interesting to think about time as relative (in accordance with Einstein's theory of Special Relativity). 


I could seriously go on and on. 


Now I'm listening to Amanda Palmer and thinking that my crush on her will never go away.