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Day 2,125: Me Droogies

Josh and I watched A Clockwork Orange tonight for the podcast. Still a couple weeks ahead of schedule, which is just lovely.

The movie itself, not so lovely. It’s violent, particularly towards women, and it’s particularly dark and nihilistic. Not a decent character to be found in the entire movie, save for perhaps the chaplain in the prison…but even he is a blind fool.

It’s not a movie for me. I don’t have that fuck-it-all bone to be tickled inside me. It pushes me away, makes me disengage ra...

Day 2,125: Pool Party

Went to a pool party today at Ashley’s house, and it was perfect day for it. Ie – hot as balls.

They’re moving into a new, giant house, and they didn’t have a pool at their previous house. So: party! It was a lot of fun, and the pool was dooooope. So warm. And salt water instead of chlorinated. Put on plenty of sunblock, and stayed in the shade too. No sunburn!

Both Liz and I remarked when we were lathering up the sunblock that it smelled like Hawaii.

We’d love to have a pool. I mean, honestl...

Day 2,124: Pool Party

Went to a pool party today at Ashley’s house, and it was perfect day for it. Ie – hot as balls.

They’re moving into a new, giant house in Los Feliz, and they didn’t have a pool at their previous house. So: party! It was a lot of fun, and the pool was dooooope. So warm. And salt water instead of chlorinated. Put on plenty of sunblock, and stayed in the shade too. No sunburn!

Both Liz and I remarked when we were lathering up the sunblock that it smelled like Hawaii.

We’d love to have a pool. I...

Day 2,124: Saturyay!

I love my Saturdays.

They’re *my* day. I get to chill usually.

I always try to get work done on the podcast on Saturdays, but I’m never in the mood. Maybe I should just change their due dates on my OmniFocus app to Sundays, because that’s always the day that I take care of that work. Never on Saturday. Maybe I should just listen to my own rhythms and preferences and plan to have Saturdays be my un-plug days.

Just had a great little writing session. I wrote the dialogue/arguments for a scene b...

Day 2,123: Saturyay!

I love my Saturdays.

They’re *my* day. I get to chill usually.

I always try to get work done on the podcast on Saturdays, but I’m never in the mood. Maybe I should just change their due dates on my OmniFocus app to Sundays, because that’s always the day that I take care of that work. Never on Saturday. Maybe I should just listen to my own rhythms and preferences and plan to have Saturdays be my un-plug days.

Just had a great little writing session. I wrote the dialogue/arguments for a scene b...

Day 2,123: In-laws

Watched a funny horror flick with Liz’s Hollywood Fam tonight called Ready Or Not.

It was fun! A bit safe for a horror flick, but still very fun and funny, and jump scary in the right parts.

Solid day at work. Great day for writing. I’m wrestling with a scene but I’m, like, actually wrestling with it. Like, making headway. Having good ideas.

The shift, honestly? Two things: first, I’m meditating before every writing session now. Every one. It calms me the fuck down. I can feel my brain slow....

Day 2,122: Solid

Man…I had a solid writing day. Easily the best writing day I’ve had in months, and that was only with one session of new words in the afternoon, and then just 10-15 minutes right now before bed.

I wrote 1,548 words today. In 45 minutes of dedicated writing time.

I feel insecure about the words that I wrote, that’s for sure. The scene I’m churning out might be shoe-leather. Might be. But I am skipping ahead in time, and there are things I want to establish…but

BUT – I have a tool to use now. T...

Day 2,121: A quick one

Going to bed on time tonight, so this will be a quick one.

I had a excellent day today. Work. Writing. All of it. And that’s despite needing to sleep in after the late night last night.

I just realized I never posted an entry for last night. It was that late after podcasting

Day 2,120: Late due to Castin’

So, I remember laying in bed last night, just about to fall asleep and remembering that I hadn’t yet posted my blog. And I remember being so tired, and it was so late, that I just decided to let it be and post it the following day.

Here we are

Day 2,119: Unstructured

I was unstructured today, and it cost me in the psyche department.

I still got stuff done, but I felt rather anxious about it all. And it’s because I didn’t have a clear set of what I was going to do. I struggle to find a balance between over-scheduling my work, which inevitably leads to a schedule that cannot possibly be kept, and under-scheduling my work as a reaction to that anxiety…which leads to the floating kind I suffered from today.

That isn’t to say the solution is terribly complicat...