I live again.
It's two in the morning on a Monday. I sit here, a bowl that used to contain macaroni and cheese (the extra-thick kind, with some mozzarella, parmesan and garlic-herb seasoning mixed in) on one side, empty two-liter bottle of diet Mountain Dew on the other. I'm clad in a used set of unipants that Rhi just handed off to me and a Tripp brand shirt we managed to find at Goodwill, as well as a pair of socks as my feet are a little cold. It's raining just a bit outside, some thunder just rumbled, and I've got Voltaire playing from my media list.
And I'm doing a genuine update for the first time in over a month.
It's dawned on me that, while I would love to be less of a hermit, to go out and see the people I love and see way too little of, there are a few basic facts I have to face:
1) I live in the middle of effin' nowhere.
2) I work a full time job.
3) I do not have a vehicle of my own.
This is no big change from the way things have been for the past few years, of course. But the end result is that while big claims about being more sociable are easy to make, it's not quite so easy to back it up in practice. When it comes down to it, I realize my only real extended social circle is online. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, considering my living situation. But it does mean I have responsibilities of a sort if I want to maintain those connections outside this crappy little town. Part of that is being more than just a lurker on the Internet.
So I intend to start blogging a little more regularly from now on. Even if my life isn't the most exciting, I can still find relatively interesting things to write about. If I can pull several novels' worth of fiction out of my ass over the course of a year, I can vomit out a few paragraphs to let other people know I exist and am doing things every couple of days.
For right now, life is mostly good news:
1) Rhi and I are still going strong. Go figure.
2) I'm currently about a hundred or so pages into a complete re-write of the Messiah In Green series. Since this is something I'm hoping to actually get published, I am not going to be posting this online. A few exceptionally interested people that I trust may or may not get emailed copies of what I'm working on, it will all be judged on a case-by-case basis.
3) My job is paying me (before taxes) 11.25 USD an hour. This is, frankly, the highest amount I've ever been payed. Since, relatively speaking, it's not that bad of a job (the worst part of it is the fact that I'm essentially spending eight hours a day locked in a refrigerator) I will be sticking with it for as long as possible.
4) Current big-spending plans are for the following by priority: Saving up for rent, saving up for my own vehicle, saving up for a nice hunky desktop PC.
5) Creative pursuits include writing (obviously), continuing to draw and maybe getting a little more poster-work in, getting back into clay-modeling (I've got some Lovecraftian terrors I'm aching to put into three dimensions), and some more clothes design.
Also, new blog: http://djinnkitty83.blogspot.com/
And I'm doing a genuine update for the first time in over a month.
It's dawned on me that, while I would love to be less of a hermit, to go out and see the people I love and see way too little of, there are a few basic facts I have to face:
1) I live in the middle of effin' nowhere.
2) I work a full time job.
3) I do not have a vehicle of my own.
This is no big change from the way things have been for the past few years, of course. But the end result is that while big claims about being more sociable are easy to make, it's not quite so easy to back it up in practice. When it comes down to it, I realize my only real extended social circle is online. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, considering my living situation. But it does mean I have responsibilities of a sort if I want to maintain those connections outside this crappy little town. Part of that is being more than just a lurker on the Internet.
So I intend to start blogging a little more regularly from now on. Even if my life isn't the most exciting, I can still find relatively interesting things to write about. If I can pull several novels' worth of fiction out of my ass over the course of a year, I can vomit out a few paragraphs to let other people know I exist and am doing things every couple of days.
For right now, life is mostly good news:
1) Rhi and I are still going strong. Go figure.
2) I'm currently about a hundred or so pages into a complete re-write of the Messiah In Green series. Since this is something I'm hoping to actually get published, I am not going to be posting this online. A few exceptionally interested people that I trust may or may not get emailed copies of what I'm working on, it will all be judged on a case-by-case basis.
3) My job is paying me (before taxes) 11.25 USD an hour. This is, frankly, the highest amount I've ever been payed. Since, relatively speaking, it's not that bad of a job (the worst part of it is the fact that I'm essentially spending eight hours a day locked in a refrigerator) I will be sticking with it for as long as possible.
4) Current big-spending plans are for the following by priority: Saving up for rent, saving up for my own vehicle, saving up for a nice hunky desktop PC.
5) Creative pursuits include writing (obviously), continuing to draw and maybe getting a little more poster-work in, getting back into clay-modeling (I've got some Lovecraftian terrors I'm aching to put into three dimensions), and some more clothes design.
Also, new blog: http://djinnkitty83.blogspot.com/