Okay, my collegue and writing partner has an audience with an executive looking for new television shows. This is basically a pitching session she asked for. Shows could be an hour or 30 minutes and anything is acceptable, she says, although I looked the company up and they make suitable-for-family television (still for grown-ups ( Read more... )

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Because NaNo's day 1 is looming, it's getting clearer and clearer that life will work against me during my undertaking. I've all of a sudden got translating work to do (and boring translating at that), I've got a mega throat infection, my mom's accountant is helping me with the finances and gave me tons of homework. Also Cirque du Soleil is putting ( Read more... )

On Friday I went to the launch of this Urbania magazine's latest issue. It looked like it would have been fun later but I had to get out early, what with the kids being at my parents and my oldest having Circus School in the morning. Wish I could have met more people, although I could have gone without the humiliation of having my story cut down 3/ ( Read more... )

Urbania magazine, which I'm getting an article published in, is having a party for their latest issue. It's the one I wrote my first article for, the one with crazyness as the theme.

Should be fun, unless I find out the editor really screwed with said article and then I'll be ashamed and hurt. I don't know what's going to go down though, it's the ( Read more... )

1. Antoine is out of daycare as of last friday and soon off to the real big boy school. At first, I was afraid of sending him there because of the phone message: "because of violence and intimidation, there will be parent-teacher meetings all week, for kindergarten sign-ups, press 1..." but a few good parents in the area (that I trust) said they ( Read more... )

I'm not doing too well, not bad either, just not good. I keep eating, and gaining weight. I looked like a freaking dork dressed up on Halloween in the subway and at work and in the subway. I did win 35$ at work for my costume but damn, I'm a joiner and shit, because I wanted to be and I didn't like when I wasn't, but it sure is hard to put yourself ( Read more... )