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Stuff I've been doing, and watching:
Jul. 9th, 2010 05:49 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I have a pretty low tolerance for unhappiness, and an even lower tolerance for abject despair. As such, I work only jobs I don't hate even if I could be making more money doing other things. I could make pretty decent money in retail management, or even management at my current gig. I'm confident that they'd promote me if I agreed to be full-time. But I would hate it. I don't want to dread my work, and I don't want to be miserable all the time. Hence the fact that I'm almost 40 and I've never owned a car and will probably never own a house. I'd rather be poor than have a miserable life. I imagine people don't really lament on their death bed that they wish they'd had more money. And I say that as a great lover of material possessions.
Way behind on the JulNoWriMo. I'm right about half of where I should be right now. Not sure I'll be able to catch up, but I'm not going to stress about it. I still have a professional blog I'm working on, and the podcast, and also trying to secure some reviews and take advantage of some networking opportunities. Lots of people owe me reviews right now. If you are one of them, feel free to step your game up! ;-]
So far, the podcasts have been very well received. My daily hit count went up over 100/day between May and June, and so far is up another 100 hits a day since then. Over 1,100 people have hit up the iTunes feed since July 1st, and I already got a piece of hate mail. I wish I'd saved it, but I accidentally deleted my first bit of hate mail. It said my work was disgusting and that I should be ashamed of myself and that my parents should be ashamed of me. I wanted to write back and tell them they should buy a whole bunch of my books--and burn them, and to remember to alert their local media of the event. *snerk* Sent one of my actors a fabulous gift because I'm not paying him. Hopefully that will arrive soon.
The book is coming right along. The intro chapters I'm writing currently will not end up being the beginning of the book. I'm five chaps in and there hasn't been a single zombie yet. The dog POV chapter is totally weepworthy though. I'm gonna start the actual novel with something more punchy, and chompy, with some character being evil. Some of these people are damn interesting and keeping in line with my theory that EVERYONE is batshit crazy, we just don't always notice until it's too late.
I've downloaded James Purefoy in Solomon Kane to watch soon. I'm also gonna check out Dead Girl which I've been hearing great things about. Both Predators and Despicable Me open today. I would like to see one or more of those provided the reviews are not overtly terrible. I'm hoping for good things on both of those. Remember when Aliens came out? I was in high school and we were SO super stoked by its goodness. I've also been watching the first season of Dexter which has really fantastic writing. I don't like seeing Mark Pellegrino play a bastard though, I like him better as Jacob.
I have a pretty low tolerance for unhappiness, and an even lower tolerance for abject despair. As such, I work only jobs I don't hate even if I could be making more money doing other things. I could make pretty decent money in retail management, or even management at my current gig. I'm confident that they'd promote me if I agreed to be full-time. But I would hate it. I don't want to dread my work, and I don't want to be miserable all the time. Hence the fact that I'm almost 40 and I've never owned a car and will probably never own a house. I'd rather be poor than have a miserable life. I imagine people don't really lament on their death bed that they wish they'd had more money. And I say that as a great lover of material possessions.
Way behind on the JulNoWriMo. I'm right about half of where I should be right now. Not sure I'll be able to catch up, but I'm not going to stress about it. I still have a professional blog I'm working on, and the podcast, and also trying to secure some reviews and take advantage of some networking opportunities. Lots of people owe me reviews right now. If you are one of them, feel free to step your game up! ;-]
So far, the podcasts have been very well received. My daily hit count went up over 100/day between May and June, and so far is up another 100 hits a day since then. Over 1,100 people have hit up the iTunes feed since July 1st, and I already got a piece of hate mail. I wish I'd saved it, but I accidentally deleted my first bit of hate mail. It said my work was disgusting and that I should be ashamed of myself and that my parents should be ashamed of me. I wanted to write back and tell them they should buy a whole bunch of my books--and burn them, and to remember to alert their local media of the event. *snerk* Sent one of my actors a fabulous gift because I'm not paying him. Hopefully that will arrive soon.
The book is coming right along. The intro chapters I'm writing currently will not end up being the beginning of the book. I'm five chaps in and there hasn't been a single zombie yet. The dog POV chapter is totally weepworthy though. I'm gonna start the actual novel with something more punchy, and chompy, with some character being evil. Some of these people are damn interesting and keeping in line with my theory that EVERYONE is batshit crazy, we just don't always notice until it's too late.
I've downloaded James Purefoy in Solomon Kane to watch soon. I'm also gonna check out Dead Girl which I've been hearing great things about. Both Predators and Despicable Me open today. I would like to see one or more of those provided the reviews are not overtly terrible. I'm hoping for good things on both of those. Remember when Aliens came out? I was in high school and we were SO super stoked by its goodness. I've also been watching the first season of Dexter which has really fantastic writing. I don't like seeing Mark Pellegrino play a bastard though, I like him better as Jacob.
