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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...

Day 2,118: Procrastinator

I procrastinated editing together and posting the Film School podcast episode all day today for some reason.

I think I was just tired. That’s been a theme for damn sure all week

Day 2,117: The A’s Win Again!

Just had a dope little writing sesh. I wrote the opening chapter of a completely new project.

A’s won again today. That’s three in a row against the Astros, who were just a few days ago, the best team in all of baseball record-wise.

We go for the four-game sweep tomorrow, and you’d better believe the Astros are going to place their fucking faces off tomorrow. I hope we will, too. It would pull us within striking distance of the division if we could manage the win.

Anyway…it’s late. I had a ve...

Day 2,116: A’s Win

The A’s won a squeaker tonight in Oakland.

3-2 in 13 innings. We won a game that Justin Verlander started. We didn’t beat him…he got a no-decision…but it’s still significant. That’s the best we’ve been able to do against him for a long, long time.

The Astros have played a level above us so far this year. Entering this series, we had 8 more games against them to prove we could play at their level. So far, we’ve won the first two contests. I hope we win all 6 of the rest

Day 2,115: Emotional

I feel like I’ve been more emotional lately in my day to day.

Actually, scratch that. That’s not what I feel. What I feel is that I’m more in tune with the emotions that I’ve always been feeling. And rather than judging them or fixating on them, I’m doing better at recognizing that they’re there and sitting with them.

That is hard.

It’s particularly hard with the more anxiety-ridden feelings and thoughts.

I was in the shower tonight, and thinking about my day, and how I’ve been feeling very r...