February 2012
6296/10,000 words written for this story
PROGRESS
and then when that’s done it’s BACK TO THE BOOK.
nothing2c said: <3 your skill is awe-inspiring missy.
Aw! Thank you.
I am still working on the whole “accepting a compliment” bit so I will just say: I am still practicing, and also I love watercolors.
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the truth about cover letters
If are just aggressively apathetic, they aren’t so bad.
can’t sleep. lovely.
good things about fury
I now have an updated version of my portfolio finished a 75% complete cover letter to a company with an internship opening.
Also, thanks to those who offered help and comfort. I am… I am…tired, and angry, but I have not comported myself well this evening, and I need more time to think about … life.
fuck design position listings that say "intern" in...
and then go on to ask for “3-5 years experience.”
Seriously.
Fuck that.
I am trying really damn hard not to type anything...
BUT IT IS HARD.
I am so angry I could puke.
how does one have a discussion with your mother...
“Mom, there is a point where the clothes I choose to wear are no longer your concern (no matter how much you dress up this concern with your impressions of “flattering!” and “professional!”), and that point passed about five and a half years ago.”
Archaeological News: Google Ancient Places digs... →
archaeologicalnews:
An exciting new project exploring how people in the past viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 grant from Google, Inc. via its Digital Humanities Awards Program.
Google Ancient Places (GAP) is developing a Web application which allows users to choose a…
Must remember to try this.
I need advice.
1. How do you use LinkedIn to best advantage? I guess I have sort of a bare minimum of stuff up on mine.
2. What is professional Skyping etiquette? Is taking notes by typing poor etiquette?
rustling around writing workshops for the summer
I don’t know where I’m going to be in the summer. Still. Maybe this will help determine that small fact.
unproductive moods that I fall into
1. Depression — usually linked to lack of sunlight. Nothing has ever happened, nothing will ever happen, I might as well go back to bed.
2. Anxiety/lack of focus — mind skitters over dozens of topics but cannot form single coherent idea. Must get up from computer to pace around house regularly. Rapid internet surfing occurs.
3. Neuroses/insecurity —Spewing of unfiltered...
nothing2c replied to your post: I keep writing complaints about this book I’m reading
D: nuuu. read some susan cooper to cleanse your palate!
This is a good idea, particularly since the friend I lent my Susan Cooper books to just returned them. :)
I keep writing complaints about this book I'm...
and then saving them as drafts because I should have known this book would be stupid, or at least contain some stupid material, except somehow magically I thought that a book advertising itself as “legends and myths” would not also contain a lot of super questionable speculations and deductions that the author says are REAL history. (Some of which he could maybe be excused for because...
today-things
1. Deposit my check
2. Get box for care package
3. Look through art magazines for likely-looking articles
4. Finish at least 10 frames in animation
5. Make a valiant effort at finishing the next story. I am at 1500 words and 10,000 is the upper limit.
6. Read 50 pages in my annoying book, the better to get it over with.
reading a book to get it off your shelf
wish it didn’t suck in x, y, and z ways
too proud to stop reading
I just submitted my story to the New Yorker
because there’s no time like the present, nothing ventured nothing gained, what the hell, you only live once, all that shit, WHATEVER
but mainly because at some point I need to make a living and I’m as good as anyone and I feel a bit sick but it’s DONE and now on to the next story/painting/project.
things that I am not buying right now
1. Paint box (here)
2. Nobrow books (here and here)
They would cost $110 altogether about. I shall wait and plot.
teeeeeeaaaaaaaaa
started on a second story
heheheh
I think I am buying more tea
Don’t judge me.
trying to justify buying a $60 paint box
even though I have only saved up $19.
Maybe if I return all the bottles on Tuesday I will feel less guilty about this.
ETA: I have the money, but I don’t have the money saved in the *specific* “paint box fund” zip-loc baggie.
also
I finally feel somewhat oriented (I fell asleep while babysitting, because familyfriendson’s bedtime is at 9:30. So we read books and I sat/napped with him while he was falling asleep [which took kind of a long time; he seemed rather unusually anxious tonight] and then I went out and slept on the couch and then was totally startled and stumbling-around-confused when familyfriend and hubby...
thinking about the story I just finished
I always worry about writing sad stories, because I’m twenty-three and I’ve lived a pretty charmed life so far. How seriously can anyone take sadness coming from my mouth (ETA: or rather, my keyboard)?
I did not clean the bathroom today
so I shall have to do it tomorrow.
finished my first short story in. . . um. . . six...
Hells to the yeah, to use a puzzling phrase that I do not actually know the origin of. Now to edit and submit.
I gave Stubby a thumb-sized piece of chicken
from my lunch. Because I am a terrible owner. And also because I figure he’s old and deserves treats.
things to remember
Today:
1. Clean the bathroom
2. Babysitting at 6
3. Email to ask for more specifics about KCDW articles
In general:
1. Animation — first scene
2. Finish story (currently know as “house story.” must come up with more clever title.)
3. Start next story (book story, due March 31)
4. Fairy tale comic (by March 12)
5. Book — write to end of new outline bit
6. Dress...
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WatchSo, embarrassingly enough, this is as much of the animation as I have done. (Actually I have the background painted and the first few frames of the next scene, but it’s a longer scene so it probably won’t be ready for a while.)
Still, I like it.
[desc. an 11-second stop-motion animation of a hand dropping a seed into a stream and it floating away.]
today
1. Bought all the frames I needed
2. Wrote several pages of my story and maybe even am almost done with it
3. Outlined for the next scene of the book
4. Ascertained that I am going to Kansas City to cover Kansas City Design Week for an urbanism blog
What what, this was a good day.
OUT for writing and also buying frames
excitement!
more thoughts
I am not naturally a “tolerant” person. I was raised in a judge-y house and I remain judge-y to this day.
However, while I routinely judge other people’s choices (though I try very hard to not say that out loud, cough), I’m trying to not be un-thoughtful about how I do so. (Not saying other people are un-thoughtful, just that I have held a lot of opinions based on very...
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having a philosophical/moral quandary
It’s not related to anything specific in my life, just some things I’ve been reading.
But:
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to simultaneously … judge and not-judge, I guess? I’m reading a series of articles on Feministe (yeah, I need to branch out my blog reading, ugh, but right now about one SJ blog is as much as I can handle keeping up with, so if anyone has...
my ability to focus has sadly gone down the toilet...
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the other business. . . →
I have a couple new followers that I noticed! I just wanted to mention — this tumblr is a compilation of images that inspire me (mainly art and illustration right now, but also travel photos, architecture, and occasionally style or fashion photos), musings on my daily experience (cough, lots of those, cough), political and social opinions, thoughts of the books I’m reading and movies...
walked five and a half miles
I have done my duty to the lovely weather/my need for sunlight and now may resume other tasks.
