Tomorrow is July 1st. Like everyone else in the world, I’m looking forward to watching the next part of Stranger Things. I bought some Eggos, so we are ready.
I liked the first part of season 4. I love how Running Up That Hill has become so popular. I’m really happy for Kate Bush. Like…imagine a song you created and loved and offered to the public and the whole world didn’t care, until 37 years later and suddenly everything you ever dreamed of the song being comes true.
I love it.
Also, I hope it doesn’t take the general public 37 years to appreciate my books. Although if it does take that long, I’m gonna wait for it.
I also dabble in songwriting from time to time. My husband and I write most of them together. Sometimes we think about trying to record some stuff and release it, but it’s tricky without a lot of quality sound equipment.
I’ve also been thinking about whether or not I ought to get onto TikTok. I really don’t want to, but also I feel like I probably should, because that’s where all the young people are. I don’t like videos, though. I dislike watching them, and I feel horribly self-conscious trying to make them.
A long time ago, it was my dream to be on the Disney Parks Moms Panel. And as long as the rounds were writing, I was solid, but as soon as I got to the round where I had to make a video of myself, I got out every time. I have a hard time being natural in front of the camera, and so as soon as it’s filming, I get distracted by the sound of my voice and the way my mouth is moving like that and where are my eyes even looking and am I blinking too often or not enough, etc.
And I’ve heard that TikTok values naturalness and authenticity, which is difficult if you dislike making videos of yourself.
I think my cat feels the same way. She photographs wonderfully, but the second you put her on a video, no matter how cute or funny she was being a second ago, she instantly quits and you get a long boring cat video of the cat staring at you like, knock it off, human, you cannot exploit me for views.
So, I don’t know about TikTok. Plus I’ve heard rumors they are owned by Chinese spies who sell your private data to the Russians. And I can’t let the Russians see me doing the Renegade. It’d be a security risk.
I need to get my next episode of Somewhat Alive up on Vella today. I’ve been getting distracted by social media and researching Gen Z things, but really, I want to write and the best way to do that is to write and not to think about TikTok.
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