Long story short, nearly two weeks of bureaucracy and phone tag and being runaround by pharmacists, doctors, and insurance representatives have culminated in a small prescription of Vyvanse. Today was my first day on the stuff.


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Dear Travis:

Congratulations! It is our pleasure to inform you that the Regional Arts & Culture Council is awarding funds for your Artistic Focus Project Grant Proposal!
And so on. $5,092 has been awarded me for the short version of The World of Missing Persons. So I guess I know what 2011's going to look like, at least in part ( Read more... )

(January) as if anybody asked me
I have a hard time quantifying and sorting favorites, but my reading habits have changed this year to include a rather large amount of film criticism...

(February) mr. in & out
I have been neglecting livejournal lately.

(March) colorado creep
Cassie was really drunk. (Note: this was a dream)

(April) i never ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not dead yet ( Read more... )

The last thirty-six hours or so have been hell in all the right ways.

I have spent something like ten or eleven hours sitting in three different mall food courts poking away on the laptop, turning my bullet-point outline of Dogsview Ln. into a prose, treatment-style outline. Currently it's still replete with glib parenthetical notes-to-self and ( Read more... )

I've sent a couple of big, serious emails around about Dogsview Ln., just planting seeds in the heads of people like Jon. Talking to anyone who'll listen (Jen, Brie, Dutch even) about some of the more ambitious ways I've thought of spending money on this project. (Money I don't have, mind you; money I hope to find a producer who'll help me get ( Read more... )

This weekend, Jen and I went to the zoo. Jen, it must be understand, has a certain fondness (somewhat akin to a sense of camaraderie) with bears. My, but she does love the bears.

And so a zoo can be a slightly depressing place, causing reactions like this:


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Without context, here is an incomplete list of some of the things that over the last few years I have glibly claimed would make good titles:

Even Slightly Reasonable Candidates

• The Biggest Jerk in Jerktown
• The Nth Lull
• You Were Only Last Night
• Sam Hill
• For Want of Plankton

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