wednes | You'll never get away with this!

I used to be friends with this guy. Whenever he'd come over for one of my gatherings and drink, by the end of the evening he was jealous of every happy couple in the room. Anyone who had a girlfriend that he thought was attractive--he'd mope and "hate" and feel all this animus toward. While I thought that was annoying as hell, I also felt bad for the guy. Sometimes I do find myself assuming that anyone and everyone is happier than me, is more successful and doing more with their lives than me, and had better prospects for the future than me.

First to Die

How will it happen?	You will be left in the desert - then eaten by vultures.

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Depression is seizing me once again, punctuated by H wanting to buy a house and yet another rejection letter arriving today. Why won't anyone even LOOK at it? They aren't even asking for the whole manuscript, and it's so GOOD. I mean, some of you have read it, it really is good. So what else does it need besides goodness and marketability? I really don't know...and it's not like I can just go to grad school and find out.
And of course, the fact that I've sent out 8 resumes since getting back into town and no one at all calling me yet. My job developer is fucking worthless. And like the current state of our fair country, I don't feel like there's a damn thing I can do about it. Oh, and my phone is broken so it only rings when it wants to and can no longer be used as a speakerphone or alarm clock. Considering it doesn't have games, a camera, or itunes, that's kind of a drag. ;-{

Anyway, we're going to see Superman tonight at the IMAX. I bet that'll be fun.

It appears that Two (important, presumably) people will die in Harry Potter book seven. And at least one person got "a reprieve." All I can say is, things are not sounding very good for Roonil Wazlib. I'll say this now and stand by it: Wormtail is TOAST!

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So I guess you won't be seeing Superman with us at the IMAX. It's a good thing that I didn't buy your ticket.

passive aggressive much? You can come and see it with us if you like.

You think that was bad, read Kim's comment.

I would, but it's too late to make plans like that for tonight. I assume that it's at a midnight showing?

Wait, if you're not going tonight, why does it matter if I go with R and K and H?

Well it doesn't. But we thought you were going with us. I was 5 min away from calling you to ask when was good, when I read your post. We had discussed it last week. I really thought that at the last discussion of it you were going with us. But then again, when I'm around you, I'm usually damaging my memory rather than enhancing it. But we totally could have made a 10pm show, if we had known about it.

I was going to go with you. But didn't think that precluded me from going with H and R and K, especially since neither you nor Kim mentioned going on opening night. I was psyching myself up to go on a weekend day.

I didn't realize you were going twice. Anyway, we're probably going on Saturday, or Sunday during the day.

I assumed Superman in 3D IMAX would be fun more than once.

I didn't see H on any of his days off last week because I was in Clare with you guys. As you must know, he's the King of the Castle around here so he always gets first dibs on my time.

Did we have plans to do that?

I was fairly certain I'd be seeing Superman with H.

I'm sorry you are down, but you have to realize that tons of good books get turned down every year. Just like tons of good movie scripts. Just like all kinds of stuff. You'll get noticed, it just takes time. Years maybe. Also, remember when you start getting frustrated about this topic in general, something pokes it's head out and reminds you that it's not you, it's them. I believe in you and so do most of your friends. It takes many people years and years to get noticed at something they were born to do, and you may end up with a similar story when you are famous.

I'd think that H wanting to buy a house would be a good thing. It's so exciting. Despite the problems we have here, we love it. It's ours. Besides, there are many houses for sale in our neighborhood.

Lastly, SUPERMAN RETURNS!!!

Ditto. How many stories are there of immensely famous novels that were passed over by countless publishers before they were picked up? 20 years from now there will be a Trivial Pursuit question "How many publishers rejected A Stabbing for Sadie before it was finally published? 0, 10, 20" And everyone will know that the answer is 20, because that's how Trivial Pursuit writes their questions.

LOL

Well, I hope that's true.

H wanting to buy a house kind of slaps me in the face with how bad my finances are, and makes it that much harder not to be able to get a job. ;-{

But yeah, a lot of this is just me feeling frustrated and discouraged...and that always passes.

And yeah, ~~Lex Luthor~~ Superman Returns!

Sorry you're feeling down...but um, we thought you were going to the Imax to see Superman with us. So...have fun and everything. Wish anyone had thought to invite us along (as we do with everyone else ALL the time), or even let us know you decided not to see it with us. Wow, now I'M feeling depressed.

Damn.

I'm really sorry. It did occur to me to mention it to you guys, I guess I assumed you wouldn't be able to make a 10:10 show on a Tuesday night. Nobody mentioned to me that you were going tonight.

It's really rare that H is availible on a night when anyone else is, so I thought it would be fun to actually get to go out with H and other people. I did remember us talking about going, but I figured we'd go on a weekend day.

Never give up! You are a great writer.

Is your Superman show at 10pm? all the ones here start at that time. I'm used to 12:01. I wonder why the change

I appreciate the encouragement. I'll endeavor to not give up.

Superman has a 10:10 start time, which I assume will include the Spiderman 3 teaser and the new Lady in the Water trailer, and that stupid Charlie Sheen thing about not talking.

I assume that they can show the movie anytime as long as it doesn't end before midnight. This one, I am told, is 2:35.

Both parts of your story are rather sad.
Never mind 'bout the phone!

I'm just being whiny and giving in to my depressed feelings. After doing that for a little while, I always feel much better.

;-}

I'm just being ...
Understood.

much better
OK, I'm surgeless again.

You'll never get away with this!

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