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<title>Pointless Plans | Cutieguwu</title>
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<h5 class="page">Blog - Pointless Plans</h5>
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<h1 class="title">Pointless Plans</h1>
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<p class="date">Posted: 18 December, 2025</p>
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<p class="date">Last Edited: 18 December, 2025</p>
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<div class="body">
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<p>
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So... remember my first post where I said that "a meaningless 'Welcome to my
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Blog' filled with my hopes and aspirations that inevitably would never come
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to light was something I knew I didn't want." Well...
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</p>
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<p>
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I've been stuck in a doom and gloom phase here, and with me hopefully
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concluding my counselling soon, I definitely don't want to dwell in it.
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</p>
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<p>
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As a result, I'm making a little list of things that I'd love to write
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about, and that you can hopefully expect to read about sometime soon!
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>CyberSci</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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I had the fortune to participate at the Regional level,
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representing Carleton University. (Spoiler: We won, barely)
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</li>
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<li>
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This will probably have a follow up once Nationals happens in
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the summer.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Creative Writing Work</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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I've written some good things and some really bad things for the
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Creative Writing course this term. Obviously, I'll only publish
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works that I believe are well polished.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Poetry</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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I want to get back to writing poetry, but for now I have some
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things that are still unpublished.
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</li>
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<li>
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They're nothing like Building Up, so if you can't read [bad]
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Rust, don't worry. They're also far less whacky than Falling
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Down.
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</li>
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<li>
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<a
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href="https://gitea.cutieguwu.ca/cutieguwu/falling_down_building_up"
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>Falling Down & Building Up</a
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>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Also, I've come to realise that I have a thing for memoirs. I never actually
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realised it because I usually read book series, but I now have four memoirs
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in my library.
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</p>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<em>Fatty Legs</em> by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
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</li>
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<li>its sequel, <em>A Stranger At Home</em></li>
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<li><em>The Glass Castle</em> by Jeannette Walls</li>
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<li><em>Tomboy Survival Guide</em> by Ivan Coyote</li>
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</ol>
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<p>
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So, after a creative non-fiction flash writing assignment just didn't work
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out well, even after reworking it heavily for the exam, I decided that I
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should actually take it in the direction of a full memoir, rather than the
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poetic form that it currently has.
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</p>
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<p>
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The problem is that I mean, a <em>full</em> memoir. And the problem with
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that is that memory is a complex thing. Many important and relevant things
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for a memoir are episodic, iconic, flashbulb memories, which can be
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difficult to just retrieve on the spot. (Yes, I referenced my textbook, no I
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am not a credible source for interpreting this information.)
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</p>
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<p>
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A lot of the time, my writing, particularly my poetry, comes from what can
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best be described as state-dependent memory. If I'm lucky, some random
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stimulus or set of stimuli will trigger a recollection of these memories,
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and give me an image from which to write. The problem is that this also
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means I cannot write sequentially.
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</p>
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<p>
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And just to make things even more difficult, memory is unreliable and easily
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influenced. So I need to review and consider how much I trust my own
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recollection of events, and work to mitigate my biases whenever possible by
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asking someone else to recount the event and compare details.
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</p>
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<p>
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So, in the background, I'm going to start working on that. Almost like
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forgetting to write in a diary for a week, then trying to catch up while you
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still remember.
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</p>
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<p>
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Hopefully this will have the added benefit of holding back some of the
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future doom and gloom from the blog.
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</p>
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<p>
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And finally, I'm going to try to finish up my blog generator,
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<a href="https://gitea.cutieguwu.ca/cutieguwu/cutinews">cutinews</a>. It's
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about time I got back and actually finished a programming project. Chances
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are that I'll be live on Twitch (yes, eww, ik) working on the code.
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