Writer's Block: Do-over!

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If those were my options I'd totally give it to a friend, but tbh I'd rather give it to an enemy.

I have no desire to relive childhood, I don't think it could possibly have been made any more pleasant for me but it wasn't something I would voluntarily go back to without some excellent reason, and I don't think I would do any better next time.

If they get a parent swap there are some friends I would happily hand it out to, but if it's just a do-over in general I'd rather give it to someone I didn't like - after all, they might turn out better next time!

(hi guys, it is Procrastination O'Clock here, where I bury my head in the sand and try not to do anything worthwhile for a month or so in order to recharge - I am still available for doing minor useful things but given I now have three Possible Major Projects that people are failing to get back to me about, I don't have any Major Planning Space or amazing reserves of cope right now)

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[happybat.livejournal.com]

Three? Good grief!

I would accept a Do Over card with amazing speed - I'd keep a lot of things the same, but there are some major errors I would totally want to fix. Of course the terror would be that in fixing them I would lose the good bits... Hmm... Am suddenly no longer sure.

(It's your fault I signed back on to WoW today. Love, Dhurma the baby cow)

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Sorry :p

I'll be online this evening from about 7pm to guildinvite you :).

Three is a _little_ bit of an exaggeration, that's two I'm waiting for further action on and a backup plan if those both don't work out.

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Also - I guess I'm amazingly fortunate in that I really haven't made any major errors that I think I could fix. I suspect given the chance to do over I would in fact make the same mistakes again pretty much exactly, or if I made a serious effort to avoid some mistakes then I would just end up falling into different equally bad ones.

If I found myself _having_ to do-over I would probably change direction entirely (probably doing something like psychology or politics/sociology at university) but I don't know how well that would work out, as I'm not convinced I was mature enough to deal with being in a non-technical field straight out of university...

[happybat.livejournal.com]

Medicine - if I could do over, with my current memories, I would train as a doctor. I just think it would be so much more immediately beneficial to the world than teaching. Also a much better chance of working anywhere, not just being stuck inside one institution. However, I'm not sure I would want to lose the outlook on the world that my original course of study gave me - I think going straight from school into something technical might have made me a bit one-track.

"if I made a serious effort to avoid some mistakes then I would just end up falling into different equally bad ones" That's completely the big danger, isn't it... terrifying.