Today I'm wearing my Frakkin' Toaster Glarkware T-shirt and my Roller-Skating Girl With Pegasuses hoodie, the sexual-availability hoop earrings, jeans, and my pink-and-black Vans. My skin is behaving, and my hair can be easily ignored. It all works. It won't get me laid, but it'll do for the day.
Yeah, I totally feel ya. It's hard to keep from second-guessing what one 'ought' to be doing and what one wants to be doing. For me, if I could just settle on ONE thing, that'd be grand, but the self-cross-examination seems as if it wouldn't cease, anyway.
I often I have the 'i really need (consumer good X) but gee, what does it mean in a larger context?' headtrip as well.
I have four days off in a row, and there's this background pressure to somehow make it a life-changing period of time, but mundane shit like laundry, bills, and yes, getting new stuff is going to have to factor in there too.
I'm reminded of the title to a Lynda Barry graphic novel: "The Good Times Are Killing Me." :D
I've been having that week. I have no money, I'm at a new job, I have photography assignments due but can't afford to buy the needed materials, math assignments due but I just can't make myself study - it's like I've developed a mental block. I get home from work/school, sit down on the bed "for a minute," and pass out. I feel another D in math brewing.
I do agree that you're always cute. p.s. I need to do some portraits for school, would you be interested, and if so, would any time this weekend work for you?
Don't stress picking up bbq stuff too much, we have shrimp and veggies for kebabs, hot dogs and hamburgers, and oh yeah. . . Lots of spiked watermelon! Wheeee!
Yes, it does - it's even less likely to earn me money than writing vampire stuff, but then again, maybe not. It's the same kind of genre-fiction grind, but with an even smaller target audience. But it is there. I don't know - I haven't read anything in that genre before, so I should probably get a couple of the best-selling things and read them and see if my work has anything to do with that.
My writing is just me. I'm my own kinda thing, and I have no idea how to market it besides "it's really good". And without a lot of money for promotion, that approach doesn't really work.
I really don't know where my writing fits in to anything, except that genre-mash-up genre, which I associate with Jonathan Lethem, even though we talk about completely separate things and he's not as intensely tied to exploring emotional states and motivations; he's a plot and concept kinda guy, and I'm a character and psychology kinda gal. But he's the closest to my kind of approach of any other writer I can think of.
Comments 9
Reply
Today I'm wearing my Frakkin' Toaster Glarkware T-shirt and my Roller-Skating Girl With Pegasuses hoodie, the sexual-availability hoop earrings, jeans, and my pink-and-black Vans. My skin is behaving, and my hair can be easily ignored. It all works. It won't get me laid, but it'll do for the day.
Reply
Reply
Yeah, I totally feel ya. It's hard to keep from second-guessing what one 'ought' to be doing and what one wants to be doing. For me, if I could just settle on ONE thing, that'd be grand, but the self-cross-examination seems as if it wouldn't cease, anyway.
I often I have the 'i really need (consumer good X) but gee, what does it mean in a larger context?' headtrip as well.
I have four days off in a row, and there's this background pressure to somehow make it a life-changing period of time, but mundane shit like laundry, bills, and yes, getting new stuff is going to have to factor in there too.
I'm reminded of the title to a Lynda Barry graphic novel: "The Good Times Are Killing Me." :D
Reply
I do agree that you're always cute. p.s. I need to do some portraits for school, would you be interested, and if so, would any time this weekend work for you?
Reply
Reply
Lots of spiked watermelon! Wheeee!
Reply
Reply
My writing is just me. I'm my own kinda thing, and I have no idea how to market it besides "it's really good". And without a lot of money for promotion, that approach doesn't really work.
I really don't know where my writing fits in to anything, except that genre-mash-up genre, which I associate with Jonathan Lethem, even though we talk about completely separate things and he's not as intensely tied to exploring emotional states and motivations; he's a plot and concept kinda guy, and I'm a character and psychology kinda gal. But he's the closest to my kind of approach of any other writer I can think of.
It's both depressing and freeing.
Reply
Leave a comment