Background Noise: Sway, Michael Buble
Last website visited: dance.stanford.edu
Mood: waking up, again
Right now i want... really want to dance still... alone in my living room is cutting it less and less...

just wanted to mention the title of my blog before i go to bed. i told barb, which means i thought i had told everyone... wow, this writing stuff down is going to keep me honest. anyways.

"My Letter to the World..." if you read this and thought, huh, that feels an awful lot like "this is my letter to the world that never wrote to me,..." the poem by emily dickenson, you're right. it is. that's where i got it. and yet, this is not a depressing journal, or at least, i hope it's not. so why the pseudo-depressing title? i like the line. i've liked it since middle school when i first read the title of the poem before i realized it was about death. so give me a break. it was also what came off the top of my head this morning when blogger demanded a title.

i could change it later, but maybe not. we'll see.

the real problem is, i, unlike other people, cannot title a piece before i write it. i write my paper, my ariticle, whatever, first, then pick an appropriate title. i can't work the other way around -- pick a title then write a piece. doesn't work for me. that creates an issue when needing a name for a piece of writing that actually cannot be in any state of completion before it is titled.

so is this title appropriate? who knows, not me. maybe i'll give it a few days, see how it feels.

maybe the sex and the city quote "the universe may not play fair, but it has one hell of a sense of humor" would work. but that seems too long. most movie quotes are too long. one of my friend's uses the quote from Candide "...that she might be a sufficient reason for young Candide, and he for her;" brilliant choice. absolutly perfect. it's a fabulous quote, from a seminole piece he loves. great choice.

i usually default to shakespeare for catchy titles. then again, the modern poetry of song lyrics are tempting. or new musicals (wicked, anyone?), or other books. maybe an old-fashioned girl, or girl of the limberlost would be good places to look.

then there's always the tone issue. do you want to be funny, satirical, witty, tense, dramatic, catchy, loving, cutesy, charming, intelligent, sexy, sporty, informative, open, revealing... and lord knows whichever i choose invariably depends on my mood, time of day, music i'm listening to...

;) i suppose i'm saying my title as just as good as any. i wanted to address it, though, before anyone caught the literary reference and worried about me slashing my wrists. i promise, no plans to do so.

though i will be dancing my way up to bed, or, haven of feathery goodness...

... starlight, star bright, first start i see tonight, i wish i may, i wish i might, have the wish i wish tonight...