I haven’t even Twittered in like a week and a half. What’s up with that?
There are things happening. Here’s a little rundown.
–Slowly but surely, I’m getting back to running. It’s been hard with work knocking me in a satisfied way on my ass, and feeling too tired at the end of the day to run, but too lazy to go to bed early to do it, either. One mile at a time.
–I have 2 baby showers and a wedding in the next 4 months. I’m not sure how I feel about this other than fleetingly sad. I say fleetingly because I have other things that I’m working on that take up most of my mental capacities that I don’t think about that too much. Which on the one hand is wrong on so many levels because it implies hermitude, but yet right because I don’t dwell and get depressed about it.
–The novel is moving along, but is on hold (mostly) for the next few weeks while I work on a new story that has a May 15th deadline. Since Friday night, I’m about 3500 words in– and about 2500 of that was today alone. Yes I’ll be hounding you for Beta Reading.
–I’m doing the latest “Under The Influence” series on Thursday at the Jewel Box Theatre inside the Flamingo Library. I have a vague plan on who I’ll be reading and what of mine I’ll be reading. Mostly old stuff, but it will be fun. I’m excited.
–I want to play bass in a band again. Preferably not in a metal one.
–And, I (heart) Bat For Lashes.
Music :Iron Shirt - Gave You All My Love (Matt Shadetek´s I Gave You All My Dub Remix)
I’ve been feeling more and more tired lately, though I’ve been getting enough sleep and eating (mostly) okay. I’ve been avoiding soda about 80% of the time now. And you would think that would be a great list of things to get me back into the gym, but I just don’t feel it right now. I can see and feel myself gaining weight and I’m just not. Motivated. It’s terrible. Today I just couldn’t get it together.
But then again, that might just be because taking over a new store can be equal parts taxing and awesome. Here’s a list:
The Pros:
–I’ve learned how to use 2 engraving machines, one of which still utilizes an Apple II floppy disk reader. Oh, nostalgia.
–Which means no laser, which means prettier plaques
–Smaller shop, meaning less likelihood of those pesky 200-plaque orders due in 10 days where the graphics for each plate are printed on paper, the plates cut for the main and border plates, then all assembled
–Closer to home– a 10 minute commute as opposed to the up-to-30 minutes it would take to come home from across town
–Meeting new customers
The Cons:
–Being part of a business (though it may be changing with the new owners) that’s entirely built upon the grocer’s apostrophe
–A girl like me who likes to learn things and get her hands dirty apparently impresses 70 year-old men
–Lots and lots of old people customers, who are likely to be short and possibly mean with myself and my 19 year-old co-worker (this is from someone who actually LIKES old people, for the most part)
–The possibility of working more now that I’m on salary
Everything has made it so that I’m very lax on replying to messages and emails. I’m a terrible person that way.
Get to know some stuff in a quasi-resume,
but really: what's this blog about?
I write for friends far away, as a way to keep caught up. I sometimes
talk about music. Sometimes I write about writing,
and process, and stories. Most of the time, when I write new poetry, it goes
here.
or catch me training,
I ran my first Half-Marathon in 2 hours and 49 minutes in December 2008.
Currently, I'm back to slowly, slowly doing the Couch-to-5K program to get back to running and feeling better...
but always, always writing.
During the summer of 2007 I was at the Clarion Science Fiction/
Fantasy workshop, writing like a mofo. Believe it. Here are the writers I was instructed by:
