Cold + Rejection = Life is generous
The fact that I am not that bothered by the crappy things happening to me is because I have been laughing along all the people watching Demetri Martin, the new Comedy Central guy or so am I to believe and he can really make you smile and wear that smile, while crap is pouring even though right now the case with me is not so.
I completed my macroeconomics project for the competition on Monday, but I actually spent a whole weekend nurturing a very bad and naughty cold, which started with an itchy throat and sneezing to flame-y Throat from Hell, Sneeze Machine Gun, Really Leaky Nose and as an effect a headache. I am actually surprised that I got these since, when I get a cold it results in my inability to breathe since everything cements in my air tubes and nausea with fatigue and with these I actually feel like the people in Coldrex Commercials. Eventually I prepared a medical cocktail from harmless headache painkiller, cough tablets and some nerve relaxing drops, but my mom insisted that I should not go with the tequila for base. Anyways now I do feel better and will go out to see some friends.
And also yesterday I received a rejection for “Tinted Windows” from the Future Fire, which didn’t surprise me much though I had hopes it would have gotten published. 20$ are twenty bucks and as materialistic as I sound it’s crappy to have no money anywhere, so some income would sweeten my life immensely. It took the magazine around a month to respond, which also good, since they did say maximum up to two months, so I didn’t get to wait that long. I wish they had given me some details on what they didn’t like or some encouraging words, but I got to thinking that if their main activity is pick materials for the next issue and every day they have to sift through many queries after awhile it will get draining to make it personal. Anyways I am aiming for another magazine “Reflection’s Edge” and hopefully in another month I will get an answer. I think that I will keep a story on the roll for 12 tries and after that it hits the “You were good, but I still need to do better” category.