In the works
This has not been a fantastic month for me so far.
But eh, what can I say... The life of a student (particularly a student of my own brilliant but not exactly disciplined calibre) is never easy. I have six weeks to get through in order to finish this semester (hopefully pulling off a last-minute coup to yank up my grades, as seems to be my modus operandi) and then a couple of summer courses and the degree will be in the bag. And not a moment too soon.
Money sucks right now, so I'm chasing a few leads. Namely, a contract IT position, and a position setting up trade shows on the weekends. Either or both would be more than welcome and are currently less than certain, but as my father told me yesterday at the pinnacle of stress-induced panic, "It will all work out somehow." It always has, so I have faith that it always will.
But on to other things.
A couple of months ago, I registered a second blogspot domain name, categoricalnonsense.blogspot.com. Initially, I started the blog with the intention of doing a podcast - which is still the plan, and in fact I'm actively compiling the first episode - but today it occurred to me that I could do so much more with it than simply that. In short, I'm considering making the transition from Livejournal and the Cabinet (my other blog) to the new blog, posting not only interesting and useless art and pop culture factoids and confessionals but also establishing a central repository for my fiction, music and other artistic ventures.
In fact, the idea occurred to me today that in my short fiction, one overarching theme is that of the alternate perspective: approaching an established narrative or trope from an unexpected place, or with an unexpected voice, and thus recasting a familiar story in an unfamiliar light. And cat.non would be an excellent place to showcase that. I'd love to make this an ongoing feed, of sorts... And then have the podcasts (which really are just mix-tapes in a more widely accessible format), the interesting (to me) news, the editorials, and so on.
The point is, Livejournal reaches a very limited audience, and while I appreciate that audience, there isn't much room for expansion. I'm a fairly self-centered person in that I believe what I have to say is worth reading or hearing, but LJ imposes a certain casualness that I think I've relied on, and been hobbled by, for far too long. It's not that I'm critical of LJ, by any means... just that the online world seems to be funnelling itself down to the soapbox-for-selected-persons format, and I'd like to get beyond that.
It remains to be seen if anything I have to say will validate that.
But eh, what can I say... The life of a student (particularly a student of my own brilliant but not exactly disciplined calibre) is never easy. I have six weeks to get through in order to finish this semester (hopefully pulling off a last-minute coup to yank up my grades, as seems to be my modus operandi) and then a couple of summer courses and the degree will be in the bag. And not a moment too soon.
Money sucks right now, so I'm chasing a few leads. Namely, a contract IT position, and a position setting up trade shows on the weekends. Either or both would be more than welcome and are currently less than certain, but as my father told me yesterday at the pinnacle of stress-induced panic, "It will all work out somehow." It always has, so I have faith that it always will.
But on to other things.
A couple of months ago, I registered a second blogspot domain name, categoricalnonsense.blogspot.com. Initially, I started the blog with the intention of doing a podcast - which is still the plan, and in fact I'm actively compiling the first episode - but today it occurred to me that I could do so much more with it than simply that. In short, I'm considering making the transition from Livejournal and the Cabinet (my other blog) to the new blog, posting not only interesting and useless art and pop culture factoids and confessionals but also establishing a central repository for my fiction, music and other artistic ventures.
In fact, the idea occurred to me today that in my short fiction, one overarching theme is that of the alternate perspective: approaching an established narrative or trope from an unexpected place, or with an unexpected voice, and thus recasting a familiar story in an unfamiliar light. And cat.non would be an excellent place to showcase that. I'd love to make this an ongoing feed, of sorts... And then have the podcasts (which really are just mix-tapes in a more widely accessible format), the interesting (to me) news, the editorials, and so on.
The point is, Livejournal reaches a very limited audience, and while I appreciate that audience, there isn't much room for expansion. I'm a fairly self-centered person in that I believe what I have to say is worth reading or hearing, but LJ imposes a certain casualness that I think I've relied on, and been hobbled by, for far too long. It's not that I'm critical of LJ, by any means... just that the online world seems to be funnelling itself down to the soapbox-for-selected-persons format, and I'd like to get beyond that.
It remains to be seen if anything I have to say will validate that.