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- 07:44 Up early to see if I can get something–anything–together for crit group today. No promises, tho :(. #
- 08:44 First AM I’ve walked anywhere without my skoolbook in a week. Talk about liberating! #
- 08:46 Caffeine supply, check. Writing stuff, check. Writing playlist (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), check. Let’s roll. #
- 09:57 Progress…so…slow! #
- 21:19 No time this evening to process crits from group. Tomorrow, maybe! For now, I think I’m just gonna hit the hay. #
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- 08:20 Stayed home from the jazz show & still managed to stay up too late. Sans studying. Off to a late start this morning–doesn’t bode well. #
- 08:33 WTF?? Since when did my tweets stop posting w/titles on the website? Oh, since 3/18. #
- 10:16 Interview with Haruki Murakami tinyurl.com/d23yk7 (If my reading backlog wasn’t so long…) #
- 12:36 Okay, I’ve wasted enough time today. I can hear my inner drill sergeant screaming, "Let me see your war face!!" #
- 13:57 Was in a cafe, listening to a trivia ? on the radio re: liner notes. Overheard someone ask, "What are liner notes?" #
- 20:13 Wings and beer–a decent way to end a day of brain-frying microecon. #
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- 07:57 Warmth + sun = hopefully less emo today, ‘cos I got stuff to do 🙂 #
- 07:58 1st pre-work AM all week not spent catching up on missed sleep or in a meeting. And I gotta spend it on skoolwork. Hurts, it really does. 🙁 #
- 08:05 Study playlist: All TOTO, all morning. ♫ blip.fm/~3h36v #
- 09:02 *sigh* I really, really don’t want to do the "smart thing" and blow off tonite’s jazz show. Maybe I just need to be stupid once in awhile 🙂 #
- 09:03 I know, you’re all saying, "*Once* in awhile??" Eh, screw you 😛 #
- 11:11 Notified about new chapter notes, a problem set for before the midterm, and one due right after?? That is SO not cool!! #
- 13:35 Gonna enjoy the walk back to work in the sun. I’ll have to fight to stop myself from walking *past* work :). #
- 14:21 RT @ColleenLindsay RT @newscientist "Pondering the population dynamics of vampires sn.im/eojvc " #
- 14:56 I need a nap. #
- 16:59 Yikes, what a *day*. I may miss tonite’s jazz show from sheer exhaustion :(. #
- 19:34 IMO, one of the most annoying things in life is being hungry while having no idea what you’re hungry for, even as the blood sugar plummets. #
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- 07:28 Long day No. 2. Whether I get much writing done this weekend depends on how today goes. Or it should, if I had any common sense :). #
- 08:34 Miscalculated the time and arrived a lil’ too early for class discussion section. Reviewing last problem set–wondering if it was too easy? #
- 08:34 Clearly, I *still* haven’t recovered from my late Sunday nite being camera meat :(. #
- 10:32 Minor errors on the problem set. Forgot about TR(Q) for the monopolist. Yeah, not 100% sure what that means, either. 😛 #
- 10:33 Tomoyasu Hotei w/@chicagotheband, "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" tinyurl.com/ckusaz My theme of the week. #
- 11:42 Determined not to miss @FLEFF like I did last year. Poring over schedules, now. #
- 12:49 All this gray’s making me feel emo. Simple solution: Boston’s "More Than a Feeling" on the mp3 player. ♫ blip.fm/~3fsci #
- 13:01 According to a couple of coworkers, I’m not the only one who felt manic in the sun yesterday, and emo in the gray today :(. #
- 14:40 Feelin’ good re: the studying plan. So far, as Palpatine said, "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it." #
- 16:17 Keep waffling back and forth about going to a public reading tonite. I wouldn’t, if I was smart…which is a pretty big "if," I know 😛 #
- 17:23 Looking at my skoolbooks & decided to do the almost-smart thing. If I’m gonna procrastinate, I’ll do it at home hehe. #
- 17:57 Reviewing problem sets on the downlow at work…shhhh! #
- 19:14 Carrot/stick time. If 2 chapters get done tonite/tomorrow, then I’m going to a jazz show tomorrow nite. If not, then the usual 100 lashes. #
- 20:25 Okay, 2 chapters tonite/tomorrow was just a weeeee bit unrealistic. Almost done with 1 chapter, tho :). #
- 20:29 RT @MaryRobinette RT @nalohopkinson Clarion South needs help: www.clarionsouth.org/donate.htm #
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- 07:23 As if I don’t have a hard enough time avoiding *new* TV–Carl Sagan’s COSMOS on Hulu www.hulu.com/cosmos #
- 07:24 Next two days are gonna be long and painful. All work & no write make Don a dull boy :(. #
- 09:44 AM mtg. wasn’t too heinous. At least, not for me. Now, only 8.75 hours to go. #
- 09:50 Cat Rambo, Jim C Hines, Merrie Haskell & Tobias Buckell on World Building for Short Stories tinyurl.com/cg2grh #
- 09:51 Just what I need–writing advice when I know there’s no time for me to write. The universe is a cruel place :(. #
- 11:46 Still not physically 100% for the uphill climb to skool. Gonna have to suck it up, tho ;). #
- 11:54 But at least I’ll have my noise cxl’ing headphones again. Guess I’ll have to relearn not getting so absorbed that I walk into traffic heh. #
- 13:35 Writing bug, leave me alone! Don’t want to notice the fascinating undergrad dialogue around me! Refuse to write it down. Midterm, remember?? #
- 13:37 Ah…screw it. 😀 #
- 15:06 Just now realized that not only can I breathe thru both nostrils, I’m *not* coughing up any more lung tissue! Huzzah!! #
- 15:09 Because I wanted a kick-ass happy song! ♫ blip.fm/~3ehf3 #
- 16:08 Wondering how heavily I’d have to hit the skoolbooks tonite to merit some writing time before Friday…? #
- 16:16 Following too many Twitters but don’t want to cut. Have TweetDeck on the netbook but I’m not always on the netbook. What to do…? #
- 17:06 Praying for 90 min of peace. Obviously, I’ve just jinxed myself. #
- 17:46 Sun and warmth seem to be doing something strange to my mood. Far, far fewer violent impulses today :D. #
- 17:58 RT @charlesatan Basic Online Publicity by Cat Rambocatrambo.livejournal.com/229929.html #
- 18:55 Escaped from my 10 hr. day a few minutes early to get a jump on studying. Out of the frying pan, etc. #
- 18:57 Study playlist: Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band #
- 20:44 I’ve got 8 days to the midterm and a plan of attack. Bring it!! #
- 21:10 Tonite’s GHOST HUNTERS at Edith Wharton’s retreat, The Mount! Makes me want to read some Wharton. #
- 21:39 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #writer #fantasy #shortstories #
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- 08:22 Purposely getting off to a late start today to get more sleep. I can burn myself out this weekend. #
- 08:24 Coming 4/7/09: Cassandra Wilson’s CLOSER TO YOU: THE POP SIDE. Greatest hits but I’ll get it for the cover *SWOON* tinyurl.com/cokctl #
- 10:23 RT @ColleenLindsay Announcing Queryfail 2: Queries Never Die on Friday, April 17th… #queryfail #
- 11:40 Head still stuffy. Voice unrecognizable, according to coworkers. Good time to make some prank calls? 🙂 #
- 12:27 On "Writing When You Don’t Wanna" tinyurl.com/de83xg #
- 14:25 Most cryptic fortune cookie fortune I’ve ever rec’d: "How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?" WTF…? #
- 14:31 No writing at lunch. Had to stare and new problem set instead. Having my skoolbooks w/me might’ve helped. *headdesk* #
- 14:32 Meant, "Had to stare *at*…" Looks like I can’t even write now, either 🙁 #
- 16:42 Bit my tongue so as not to give a coworker Pacino’s speech from GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. "You’re job is to *help* us. Not to f**k us up!!" heh #
- 16:50 Gonna sneak some writing in tonite to use some of the brainstorming I snuck in on the dayjob’s dime >:D. #
- 17:33 Can’t get enough of this Steven Millhauser quote. Kinda like a mirror. www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/148862 #
- 17:39 My kingdom for a bionic right plantar fascia :*( #
- 18:17 Not looking forward to tomorrow AM’s team meeting. Anticipating my academic plan might have to be retooled. #
- 20:07 Couldn’t go another minute w/out noise-cxl’ing headphones. Outside world can now suck–uh, I mean, can be less distracting :). #
- 20:08 1 pg of rewrites–well worth the price of the headphones!! 🙂 #
- 20:42 Okay, gonna try today’s skool problem set again, this time w/book in hand! T-minus 8 days to midterm! #
- 22:40 I must be tired if I’m letting EASTENDERS distract me this much ;). #
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- 02:58 Finally home from student film shoot. Aside from the hour, it was definitely *not* an unpleasant experience ;). #
- 02:59 Tomorrow–er, later this morning–is gonna be a *bitch*! #
- 10:25 twitpic.com/2dk9u – My reward for last nite’s shoot: 4 hr old steak & eggs. Oh, I ate it, too. #
- 10:26 twitpic.com/2dkab – Setup for my (too) close-up! #
- 10:31 Today’s AM writing time: nixed. Wednesday’s: nixed. Plus, 2nd midterm next week. Happy, happy, joy, joy. #
- 11:04 The sad part is, despite the exhaustion and brain death, this is still the best I’ve felt in a week. #
- 11:49 Almost time to get my zombie-fied behind to skool. Ugh. #
- 13:39 Good news: perfect score on last skool problem set. Bad news: Can’t remember HTF I did half of them :(. Midterm next week. What, me worry? #
- 15:00 is on page 45 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. On the first 1/3 of the story "The Room in the Attic." #
- 17:09 RT @charlesatan Interview: Gary Turner, publisher of Golden Gryphon Press tinyurl.com/cszktr [Pub. of some of my absolute fav anthos] #
- 17:41 Because I’m in the mood for a 90s R&B jam (w/sax by Branford Marsalis) ♫ blip.fm/~3bq46 #
- 19:55 Thoughts on M. John Harrison’s thoughts on Urban Fantasy tinyurl.com/czr9t7 #
- 22:34 Feel better after a nap, except for being seriously scared by tonite’s PARANORMAL STATE. #
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- 09:04 Holy Anxiety, Batman! Woke up thinking it was Monday :(. #
- 09:08 Think I’ve beaten all but the last vestiges of whatever contagion tried to kill me :D. #
- 09:36 RT @mightymur Inbox 0 feels strange. But I’m not at to-do list 0 so I need to get moving. [I’m in the EXACT same spot.] #
- 14:08 Fraking EUREKA! Figured out how to solve every single story problem with the current WIP!!! #
- 14:09 Problem is, I’d have to rewrite. A lot. Before next weekend. Bleh. 🙁 #
- 14:15 But all I had to do was go back and build on my *original freaking story premise*!! Gee, go figure! #
- 14:50 Trouble with my writing progress is that it’s kicked the lines I’ve memorized for tonite out of my head! Frak! 🙁 #
- 14:52 T-minus 7 hours ’til I get to be camera meat! I’m told I can do this! Even if it’s true, I’m afraid I’ll be like Gina Bellman in LEVERAGE. #
- 15:45 Most of the WIP is restructured at least. I’m so excited!! Now I gotta finish memorizing these lines :(. #
- 17:51 "I’ve never been known for sticking around to hear the music / When all of the notes are nothing but flat." tinyurl.com/d79ddf #
- 21:06 It’s gonna be a long night. WTH was I thinking, volunteering to do this? The sacrifices one makes for student film! 🙂 #
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- 23:13 It was a’ight. 🙂 #bsg #
- 07:42 Gotta get myself together. Agenda for the weekend is longer than my arm. #
- 07:44 Most important thing (after writing) is memorizing lines for my camera-meat session on Sunday. #
- 08:07 Of course, the day I need to get myself out and about is the day it starts out at 14 deg. Bleh. #
- 10:29 Left this morning bundled up, scraping ice off windshield. Came back with jacket off and windows rolled down. #
- 10:55 Amazed at the amount of crap in my old computer, necessitating a 3 hr. virus scan. And it’s still going! #
- 11:06 Wondering if I should even bother heading to the coffee shop in hopes of getting a table w/an outlet. #
- 11:18 Letting a *boring* BookTV talk distract me!! I gotta get outta here! Maybe having limited battery life could be a good writing motivator. #
- 12:17 RT @mightymur RT @scottsigler Spoilers for BSG finale: 10 of the plot "resolutions": tinyurl.com/d7jkjo [I agree w/this 110%!!] #
- 12:17 I *did* score a table w/an outlet, hence continuing to dick around on the interwebz 🙁 #
- 12:32 Journaling! Yeah, that’s it–maybe that’ll loosen up the brain. Have a Robert Lamm mix playing; that’s good, contemplative music. #
- 12:44 "Are you a civilized person / Is your lifeform advanced / Has tragedy avoided you / This is no accident" tinyurl.com/dluyod #
- 13:37 Miniscule progress pissing me off! Will sublimate it John McEnroe-style; throw my tantrum, then let it fuel me. #
- 13:38 Yeah, yeah, I know, "…path to the Dark Side of the Force." Whatever ;). #
- 14:23 Taking a break and fighting *not* to buy the TPB of a book that was loaned to me. Have a feeling it’s a losing battle :). #
- 14:37 Back in the saddle. (Re)writing playlist: Cassandra Wilson mix. #
- 15:19 Good news: resisted new book temptation. Bad news: pricing noise-reduction headphones, instead. #
- 15:20 Better news: making rewrite progress I actually feel good about! #
- 15:40 RT @barthanderson Rufus on Midnight Special. "Tell Me Something Good." tinyurl.com/bfotps [Momentary distraction, I swear!] #
- 16:06 [Mantra to self] No, I didn’t make 3 days’ worth of progress to compensate for being ill. But I got a lot done in 4 hours. I’m OK with that. #
- 16:33 Forced myself to squeeze out 50 more words. Because I could :). #
- 16:36 Was told at yesterday’s talk that Patricia Arquette (MEDIUM) usu. gets 24hrs to learn 8 pgs of script. I’ve got 29hrs to learn 5. Yikes! #
- 20:28 A #BSG finale recap I agree with as equally as with the "what a load of BS" recap tinyurl.com/c98dtv #
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- 09:40 Like the phoenix from the ashes, I have slept, but now I have awakened!! And I’m the one who’s sorry…at work. 🙁 #
- 09:41 I’m half brain-dead, and I still managed to solve three of my coworkers’ problems. Would gloat if I weren’t so groggy. #
- 11:13 Since this tweet disappeared yesterday: Will be camera-meat in local film student’s project this Sunday nite! ACTing!! #
- 11:13 Trying to conserve my energy to make it to this, this afternoon tinyurl.com/cepvf9 #
- 11:15 Just for kicks & giggles, I’ll show up Sun w/script notes in red & demands for my trailer. 🙂 #
- 12:34 Of course, since I’m scheduled to have an early day, the next 2.5 hours are going to be the longest. of. my. life. #
- 12:57 RT @victoriastrauss Things to do in private: Playboy puts 53 back issues online for free tinyurl.com/c597st [Y’know, 4 the articles.] #
- 13:40 I’d feel so much better if I could just temporarily detach my head and drain it! #
- 14:04 Am cautiously optimistic about tonite’s #BSG finale. Who’m I fooling–I’d watch it even if I wasn’t ;). #
- 14:21 Unless I can finagle access, I prolly won’t be livetwittering from this talk 🙁 tinyurl.com/cepvf9 #
- 16:02 Yes! Tenuously connected to teh interwebz! I am here: tinyurl.com/cepvf9 #
- 16:08 Lesson 1: good impressions matter in job interviews, even if you don’t get the gig. People could refer you w/out knowing. #
- 16:10 Lesson 2: damn, show business can be cold–to one’s advantage. #
- 16:14 Lesson 3: the importance of any kind of arts education to learn to tell *stories*. #
- 16:16 Lesson 4: school won’t/can’t teach you some things about "the Business." #
- 16:22 Lesson 5: careful which bridges you burn, but you gotta do what you gotta do #
- 16:29 Lesson 6: the importance of the fist legit job. being a writer means getting read. being a director means getting stuff seen. #
- 16:30 …and then, the (show biz) agents start calling *you* #
- 16:42 Lesson 7: Pitching to networks = pitching the *series*, rather than just the premise. #
- 17:04 Lessons 8-327: more going on during the Q&A than I can possibly tweet 🙂 #
- 18:12 Made sure not to cough in my hand for the entire presentation hoping for the chance to shake hands with the man, which I got! #
- 18:21 Recalling conversation at work re: St. Paddy’s day festivities masking my symptoms. Decided to give that approach another shot. #
- 18:30 RT @The_Rumpus the editor’s desk, note from austin, how to make money in the arts tinyurl.com/cnftdu #
- 19:07 Accepted that I’ll get very little done tonite. Just gonna kill time until #BSG finale. #
- 20:08 Gah! It’s that sucktastic 3rd-last #BSG ep. The one where we find out Baltar was descended from the McBaltars. #
- 21:42 Did I glimpse a gold centurion? #bsg #
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