Rachael Stephen's Blog, page 5
September 29, 2015
Me: Ugh my hair is so long and annoying, I need to get it cut.
Partner: You have been saying that for literally months. The first time I heard you say that your hair was an inch shorter.
Me: ...I'm busy.
The I'm-Writing-A-New-Bio-Challenge: Guess which fact is false!
Rachael is a Glasgow-based writer who knows more about coffee than is healthy for the average person. She curates obsessions with gold and copper things, will climb over asbestos warning signs to explore abandoned buildings, somehow has a degree in Philosophy, and competes with her dog Elfie on who has a bigger mouth. She has been writing books since she was 11, and intends to keep doing so even after the written word is obsolete and we all wifi our thoughts directly into each other’s brains. She is also 100% a bona-fide creep.
September 19, 2015
Omg last night Ross came home reasonably panelled from his work night out and at one point he was...
Omg last night Ross came home reasonably panelled from his work night out and at one point he was talking about a ‘green fairy who I sometimes indulge in’ and I was like Are you talking about absinthe or me?
September 18, 2015
The pre-frontal cortex, which controls future planning and...
The pre-frontal cortex, which controls future planning and impulse control isn’t fully developed until AFTER TWENTY.
And schools and parents expect 16-18yr olds to decide their whole life’s path!!
I’m 23 and only now feel like I’m getting any kind of control over my long term planning and goals. How many ADULTS have trouble deciding their priorities, long term plans & sticking to them? Why do we expect this of still-developing teens? Why don’t schools ever tell teens its okay not to know, to have a next-few-years goal that isn’t Your One True Career?
Being a mature student should not be seen as a mistake. Why cant teens choose not to study now because they KNOW theyre not into it but still be reassured its always an option! You’re always allowed to go back and learn if you’ve discovered a passion. (I shouldn’t even say go ‘back’ and learn! Its not going backwards, its going forwards.)
There are life experiences that can be more valuable & educational than doing a degree, it shouldn’t be the default stop after school. A degree does not teach you how to survive, how to look after yourself, they expect you to muddle through all that as you go.
Why don’t we have Self Care instead of Home Economics? Why aren’t we teaching kids HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES? I know if there was a class called Self Care it would be ridiculed to fuck but honestly…
…why did I struggle through algebra which I haven’t used since THEN, and nobody explained the basics of how to do my taxes?
*steps down from soap box*
*dusts off*
September 17, 2015
True stories of things that have happened to me. Origin StoryThe...
True stories of things that have happened to me.
Origin Story
The Epic
My Sister and a Bus
Yoker Moon
THE STREET MAGICIAN
What stories do you end up telling over and over?
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September 16, 2015
Joker: Two years ago, we lost our dear Commander Shepard.
Shepard: *from a distance* QUIT TELLIN' EVERYONE I'M DEAD!!!
Joker: Sometimes, I can still hear her voice.
September 15, 2015
Thank you all for the birthday wishes and cards, it was a lovely adventure. Here are some real things which happened on my birthday:
Waterstones Byres Road forgot about my tea and gave me free cake to say sorry, and someone told me I looked like a woodland elf princess.
A lady at the next table interrupted my writing for the fourth time to sincerely ask me what I’d do if someone kept interrupting me all the time while I was trying to work.
In the course of a phone call with my mother every patron and member of staff in Tinderbox Paperchase now knows all my secrets and not a single one of them can any longer be trusted.
My mum gave an incorrect version of my number to my aunt who wished a very terse lady happy birthday - She was very angry, apparently unaware of the entire concept of benign wrong numbers.
Ross gave me a DIY foil engraving set of a dog and a creepy cat which he traded some German girl scouts for a guitar plectrum.
September 13, 2015
eirstegalkin:
the main difference b/w bi women and lesbians, besides who we are attracted to, is...
the main difference b/w bi women and lesbians, besides who we are attracted to, is that bi women use dual wield weapons and lesbians use one larger weapon. the dps is about equal but lesbians excel at single target and bi women are good at aoe, so i would suggest having at least one of each in your party for endgame discourse
September 9, 2015
In the space of one short phone call my grandma managed toA) Tell me I should get a Normal Job...
In the space of one short phone call my grandma managed to
A) Tell me I should get a Normal Job (again) ‘like in an office or something.’
B) Ask what my new book is about because 'I just couldn’t really get into the last one.’ (#thanks)
and C) express disbelief I actually have to revise it and still haven’t finished it yet. (Full time day job, Muriel, just sayin)
She also tried to warn me out of my plan to drop down to part time in my non-writing job, even though I’ve done all the budgeting, and she thinks I’m clearly slacking and not writing fast enough.
'But Rachael, didn’t Dumbledore give you that Time Turner? Why aren’t you using those extra twelve hours a day?!’
where’s ur masterpiece, grandma? And you can’t use that time u danced on swords in Denmark when you were young AGAIN.
