Note to Self
You miss Liz and Steph. It’s been way too long since you’ve seen them. Call them up and go out drinking with them.
Archive for April, 2004
Fuck Me, this is boring shite
I’m looking at what I just typed, and it makes me want to kick my own ass. How often can I groan on and on about work? Leaving work on time doesn’t do me a bit of good if all I do is run right home and do the hermit thing. I need to take…
Separation of Work and Home Not So Separate
I’ve been forcing myself to leave work on time. Roughly 5:30 – 6 PM each night. There’s a ton of work left on my plate that needs to get done, but I’m still leaving. One of my projects this week is to wire up a version of our CMS admin. It’s something I told my…
Random Picture
Don’t Press the Shiny, Candy-like Button!
Editing
Working on cleaning up some poems. This feels fairly slow going, but I’m really happy to be in this mode again. I’m thinking a bit more on the somewhat recent return to writing I’ve had. And I’m thinking about how we define ourselves. Purpose and meaning and who we are – all that fun stuff….
On the Way Home
On the Way To Work
Revising
Right now, I’m sifting through my “middle” pile, and trying to tweak some things here and there. I have a lot of poems in this pile that I’m still proud of, and I expect I’ll have another fleet of paper to send out soon. This is going to be an extremely egotistical remark but… I…
Artful Dodger
Hung out at the Artful Dodger after work. Saw Jamie, chatted for a while and sank two beers. No chess today, unfortunately… but we ended up talking about restaurants and books and coffee for a while. There was a good deal of activity (for being so early on a Monday). I ended up seeing Eric,…
You Are Beautiful
Sent!
They’re off. I slapped the stamps on them this morning, and they’re on their way to magazines as we speak. It’s been some… oh, let me see… four years now, since I’ve sent anything out. More than that, even. It might even be closer to five or six years. I’ve had stuff taken and published…
Poems: Prepared
So I’ve got the first wave ready to go. I’ve got 24 poems, and I’m planning on sending them to four magazines. I printed out my poems. I looked up the magazine info in my copy of Poets Market. I’ve got everything stuffed into the right envelopes. And tomorrow, I just need to find out…
Assisting
Called up Stu tonight, and talked a bit more about my assisting him with his wedding shoots. There won’t be a real need for him to have an assistant until around June/July, but there’s an upcoming wedding he’s doing this weekend… and I’ll probably tag along and observe. This is an incredibly flattering offer he’s…
Plan B
This morning, I woke up. Early. I’m talking in the car by 8:30 AM early. I made my way to Target, but as I slowly circled the lot and looked at the closed doors… I realized, they were closed for Easter. Typically, I know they open at 8 AM. And me, preferring to avoid crowds,…