littlest things

First and foremost, sonnets are /hard./1

I have a whole new respect for those dead Renaissance guys. 2

I tried to do a Shakespearean, but I couldn't make the ideas in my head fit the rhyme scheme, so it's going to be a Petrarchan. I consider those much easier, goodness knows why. 3

Second and not foremost, I am really wondering why I'm posting a journal, since my poems are, by their very nature, chronicles of that which goes on in my life and thus make journals a bit... superfluous. I guess I just needed to rant about sonnets and writing a poem about sonnets is just a wee bit too meta for my tastes. 4

And in other news, my computer may have a virus, I may have no self-respect, and my feet may be plotting a mutiny from all the high heels I may have been wearing this week. (Since there are no verb tenses in Chinese, I start missing them sometimes and then they get overused.)