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July 25, 2019
Day 2,094: Le Quick
Has to be quick tonight because it’s 1am and I have to get up early to fly out of town…or as the business world calls it, OOT 
July 24, 2019
Day 2,093: The Lost Day
I just posted what somehow became a lost blog entry. It never posted, I guess? And somehow, it showed back up in my “trashed” folder?
I don’t know. But, I’ve re-posted it in the sense that I just acknowledged what had happened. I couldn’t even open the post to look at what I talked about. All I know is that Josh and I played golf that day. July 17, 2018. Just over a year ago.
What a year it’s been since then.
Anyway…it’s very late. I need to sleep. I have an early morning meeting with James....
July 23, 2019
Day 2,092: Rally
Today rallied.
I was down early. Got a late start because…well, just because I felt overwhelmed.
That seems to happen a lot the first day that I work from home in any given week. It’s part of a pattern. This time, specifically, it was because I realized I had so much stuff to do before we leave town on Friday.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my therapist pointing out that “safe” is a feeling that I very much hunt for and am sensitive to in my life. Whenever I feel uncomfortable or stressed or...
July 22, 2019
Day 2,091: 100% Pure Coops
Work today was solid. It was prep stuff, and gathering stuff for delivery.
Writing today was…scary. But I did it. And…some good stuff happened. I think? We’ll see.
I still fight the idea that stuff should be ‘good,’ and that it needs to be so because I need to be done with this project asap.
That kind of thinking, I realize as I type out this entry, is toxic. It holds me back. It prevents me from experimenting, or even allowing myself to get things wrong. It paralyzes me. And it’s because I l...
July 21, 2019
Day 2,090: Werds
I just wrote some werds. I like them.
I feel a little stressed out about the fact that I haven’t written really over the past few days, but I guess I just wasn’t ready. I was ready tonight, so I wrote a little bit. I want to write more tomorrow, but that means going tooooo bed 
July 20, 2019
Day 2,089: Unsafe
I realized today in therapy that safety is a big theme in my life.
I like to feel safe.
That can really serve me sometimes, and it can really torpedo me at other times, especially when that’s working on my subconscious.
I’m keeping it short tonight, but I just wanted to share that little bit of insight. It feels like some good stuff
July 19, 2019
Day 2,088: Priorities
I feel like I’ve let my priorities slip a bit over the past month or so. Not doing as much writing.
Gonna fix that tomorrow and focus on it next week during work.
It can be done
July 18, 2019
Day 2,087: Closer
I’m getting closer, you guys.
Like, for reals this time. Finally.
I met with James today and we went over the time travel element that sits at the heart of this new, latest, final rewrite of EfRT. And he got it. It made sense to him. And that means it made sense to me.
FINALLY.
And it solves several issues with old drafts of this story. It’s simpler. And it has potential to be more emotionally powerful.
Next step is to work through and send him the final version of the Act One outline. Gotta...
July 17, 2019
Day 2,086: Uke
How must it feel to know how to play an instrument so well that you can rock out with it?
It must feel like flying.
That’s how the Ho put it. I agree. I imagine that’s how it must feel. Flow state. Bliss.
She found a woman from Hawaii who plays the ukulele like a flamenco guitar. We’re going to go see her at Pepperdine in October. And now we’re listening to Rodrigo y Gabriela. They play the guitar, not the uke
July 16, 2019
Day 2,085: Long Days
Oof. What a long day.
Put in some extra time at work today to get this project across the finish line and we did it. All the hard work prepping for this thing paid off. We used almost everything I worked on in advance. Like, almost everything.
That was very satisfying.
We were prepping video clips to use for a celebratory video to honor the titles in the Netflix catalogue that received Emmy nominations this year. The catch: we didn’t know what the nominations would actually be until they were...
