I'm going to have a post talking about the work situation soon. But meanwhile: I was turned down for one contract yesterday (the budget was cut after the interview) and I'm hearing about a job I interviewed two weeks ago today. These days, the pre-interview stress actually is debilitating and after an interview I'm exhausted and ill for a day or ( Read more... )

Had a nice dinner in the garden today talking (among other things) about what to do with my play, which is already "my plays" because one of the things is to finish play number two which I really want to get produced before Christmas. the_same_sky said basically I ought to get the finished one submitted already and take my mojo and go finish up play number two ( Read more... )

Apparently I haven't been on here reading for about a month, which I think is due to 1) writing a lot 2) using FB as my safe space 3) it's blocked and work and my phone was out of service for weeks. Speaking of writing: hey I finished my play ( Read more... )

Kind of not doing very well tonight, trying to calm down and recenter by reading Scarlett Thomas' "Our Tragic Universe," which seems to have a lot of conversations in it about writing. I liked this bit, no idea if it's true: "Tolstoy always saw his own writing as 'teaching' and had his breakdown partly because he was so anxious that he didn't have ( Read more... )

God damn I'm itchy today.

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Right, I think I need to get back to writing on a daily basis, because now that I'm not working, day after day is going by and I'm having a hard time remembering what I was doing. Last week was especially hard. To be honest, I think I was having a hard time dealing with the reduction in stress reduction medicines, combined with having two double- ( Read more... )

I'm still struggling a bit with memory (poorly affected by stress and exhaustion) and energy levels (utterly sapped by this immune system problem) and thus I keep forgetting to do things that I need to do. Now, it's okay that I'm not doing everything at once, but I don't like that I forget what I'm supposed to do ( Read more... )

I'm continuing to write the H.P. Lovecraft Institute of Software Design blog, although I've only had one entry for this week (since I spent Tuesday doing an art thing). It's got a companion twitter feed but due to space limitations it doesn't have Lovecraft in the title ( Read more... )

I am finding a hard time keeping up with my very basic blogging these days. She Stoops to Conquer? Still not written up and looking unlikely. I've been going to shows, sure, but now that I'm running nonstop from the moment I walk in the door at my new job to the moment I leave (usually rather later than I used to at the Post Office), I am just not ( Read more... )

I was thinking of making a resolution that I wouldn't blog until I'd written a short story, kind of as a push to get myself to write a short story, kind of because, well, I've really never written any fiction before. But I didn't think that was right, to stop blogging altogether, as, well, how much time do I really spend doing this? It seems like ( Read more... )