The process whereupon one decides to do a task earlier than necessary, and then, at the early time they have alloted to said task, then postpones accomplishing the task.
It's the first step toward procrastination.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
So Very Naughty
I went to the bookstore.
It was naughty of me.
I am not allowed in bookstores. I can't ever be good in them.
I go to the library, and stuff tote bags full of books that pique my interest, and return them three weeks late, but only pay $5.
Libraries are made for people like me, and elderly folk.
I have trouble in the bookstore.
But I think today I did pretty good. I picked up six books, but only left with three, one a biography on Ann Boleyn just cuz I get into phases, a book of essays by Ray Bradbury on writing, and a book by Janet Evanovich because she writes in a style I like, and I want to try to mimic, even though I can't spell her name, and I don't want to write mystery.
Total? $60
I was so very naughty.
THEN I went to the Office Depot.
This is just as hazardous for writers-to-be. LOTS of organizers, papers, boxes, writing THINGS....
I behaved. I only picked up ten pieces of poster paper to do a timeline on, and some sticky notes.
So very good, after being so very naughty.
hee
It was naughty of me.
I am not allowed in bookstores. I can't ever be good in them.
I go to the library, and stuff tote bags full of books that pique my interest, and return them three weeks late, but only pay $5.
Libraries are made for people like me, and elderly folk.
I have trouble in the bookstore.
But I think today I did pretty good. I picked up six books, but only left with three, one a biography on Ann Boleyn just cuz I get into phases, a book of essays by Ray Bradbury on writing, and a book by Janet Evanovich because she writes in a style I like, and I want to try to mimic, even though I can't spell her name, and I don't want to write mystery.
Total? $60
I was so very naughty.
THEN I went to the Office Depot.
This is just as hazardous for writers-to-be. LOTS of organizers, papers, boxes, writing THINGS....
I behaved. I only picked up ten pieces of poster paper to do a timeline on, and some sticky notes.
So very good, after being so very naughty.
hee
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pee Wee, Oh My
First day of Pee Wee soccer practice... occurred.
Lets just say it happened.
Bear sat down and refused to play. That was all there was to it for him.
Turbo intermittently got in line to kick the ball, than decided he didn't like the rule about not touching it and picked it up and left, and then, decided to go fly off and be a bird.
Of course all the OTHER children stayed with the group, got in line and took turns kicking the ball. None of the OTHER kids needed to be corralled.
This happens to me all the time.
It's like, my kids are off in their own world, masters of their own universe, and they don't want to do anything they don't want to do.
But it's just SOCCER! Is it too much to ask to let mommy have ONE thing that doesn't make mommy put her face in her hands or end in, "Oh Dear." "Oh My." "Maybe Golf?"
Lets just say it happened.
Bear sat down and refused to play. That was all there was to it for him.
Turbo intermittently got in line to kick the ball, than decided he didn't like the rule about not touching it and picked it up and left, and then, decided to go fly off and be a bird.
Of course all the OTHER children stayed with the group, got in line and took turns kicking the ball. None of the OTHER kids needed to be corralled.
This happens to me all the time.
It's like, my kids are off in their own world, masters of their own universe, and they don't want to do anything they don't want to do.
But it's just SOCCER! Is it too much to ask to let mommy have ONE thing that doesn't make mommy put her face in her hands or end in, "Oh Dear." "Oh My." "Maybe Golf?"
Monday, March 24, 2008
Surviving tweendom
I'm pretty sure there's no way I"m going to survive Tweendom.
I can not STAND my 11 year old Drama-Girl's mood swings for absolutely no reason...
"Before you go out, you have to pick up your clothes, make your bed and clean up the trash on the floor"
"I"LL NEVER GET DONE I CAN"T EVER HAVE A BREAK I'LL BE STUCK HERE FOREVER AAHAHHH YOU'RE EVIL MOM"
Oh, well, in that case, continue living in the pig sty. Really. I misunderstood.
Do your homework.
HOMEWORK IS STUPID IT MAKES NO SENSE I DON'T WANT TO DO IT IT SUCKS I'M GOING TO STAY IN MY ROOM AND YELL AND SCREAM BUT LEAVE ME ALONE I DONT' CARE IF I'M DISTURBING YOUR ATTEMPT TO HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE I HATE MY LIFE AND I DON'T WANT TO DO HOMEWORK AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME SCREAM AND THROW THINGS.
Come down and talk to me, we need to have a conversatoin (On account of all the yelling).
NO I'M NOT LEAVE ME ALONE I'M IN A BAD MOOD....
Then pack your bags, because I've changed your room, it's currently on the moon. Call me when you get there.
I can not STAND my 11 year old Drama-Girl's mood swings for absolutely no reason...
"Before you go out, you have to pick up your clothes, make your bed and clean up the trash on the floor"
"I"LL NEVER GET DONE I CAN"T EVER HAVE A BREAK I'LL BE STUCK HERE FOREVER AAHAHHH YOU'RE EVIL MOM"
Oh, well, in that case, continue living in the pig sty. Really. I misunderstood.
Do your homework.
HOMEWORK IS STUPID IT MAKES NO SENSE I DON'T WANT TO DO IT IT SUCKS I'M GOING TO STAY IN MY ROOM AND YELL AND SCREAM BUT LEAVE ME ALONE I DONT' CARE IF I'M DISTURBING YOUR ATTEMPT TO HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE I HATE MY LIFE AND I DON'T WANT TO DO HOMEWORK AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME SCREAM AND THROW THINGS.
Come down and talk to me, we need to have a conversatoin (On account of all the yelling).
NO I'M NOT LEAVE ME ALONE I'M IN A BAD MOOD....
Then pack your bags, because I've changed your room, it's currently on the moon. Call me when you get there.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
To the Anonymous HR Folks
Dear Anonymous Corporate HR Drones,
Are you REALLY right now, at this moment, reviewing my experience and qualifications to find if they match the position you are seeking to fill? Am I to believe that the MOMENT that message arrived in my in-box, that you had, with great excitement, pulled my submission out of your in-box, to immediately review my qualifications and experience?
And what are the odds, the chances, really, that even if I DO pleasantly surprise you with my experience and qualifications, that you will contact me in a reasonably reasonable time? Truly?
I'm just wondering, is all....
Are you REALLY right now, at this moment, reviewing my experience and qualifications to find if they match the position you are seeking to fill? Am I to believe that the MOMENT that message arrived in my in-box, that you had, with great excitement, pulled my submission out of your in-box, to immediately review my qualifications and experience?
And what are the odds, the chances, really, that even if I DO pleasantly surprise you with my experience and qualifications, that you will contact me in a reasonably reasonable time? Truly?
I'm just wondering, is all....
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Three Pages
I have a rule about writing.
Three pages, a minimum, every day. I give myself one day off to not do it. But every other day, three pages, this includes weekends, and the kicker, they HAVE to be 'relevant' pages, to the story I'm writing.
So, I'm 12 chapters in. I reckon (Yes, I said I Reckon) I have five or six more chapters to go to 'finish' the story, of course, there are five or six chapters I'll be adding in when I do the rewrite (I so can not believe some of the detail I left out, LOTS of detail, but then, this IS the first draft and I AM just trying to get the story down and it IS flowing, and isn't that something?) I am actually unsure as to what other writers do, being as I don't know any others, but I read that Laurell K Hamilton SWEARS that you don't rewrite until the full story is down or you'll never finish a book.
Another author swears that you rewrite as you go, or you won't go where the story properly wants to take you.
I've tried both, and it seems I'm in the 'get the story down than make it pretty' camp.
And why am I telling you this?
Why, I'm telling you this because it's 8:23 p.m. at night, and I have yet to write my three pages, and I am loathe to, (I am a morning writer, truly, but today, I went and did mom/housewife errands) but I am determined and bound to a promise to myself that I would write three pages every day.
Yes, A promise to myself. I promised myself something that requires a lot of me to me. How funny, that i am doing this. But I promised myself that I wouldn't sit and not try to write a novel. And to write a novel one requires mass amounts of discipline, so I promised myself that no matter what, I would be disciplined, and write at least three pages a day. I promised myself that I wouldn't let myself down.
Myself is very happy, because myself feels that I truly mean it. And I am writing these three pages though all I want to do is drown myself in the naughty King Henry the VIII show, The Tudors, (Dynasty, only with History!) or the Other Boleyn Girl novel. But I made a promise to Myself and by golly, I mean to keep it.
But here's the thing that has me spooked.
I made a promise to Myself, and I am keeping it, so Myself will be happy. Myself is THRILLED that I'm going to write the three pages. I am struggling to do so, but, again, don't want to disappoint Myself, even though I'd rather be goofing off... Myself is nagging me because of what I said.
So, between Myself and I, who the heck-n-crap is Me?
ahhhh
Three pages, a minimum, every day. I give myself one day off to not do it. But every other day, three pages, this includes weekends, and the kicker, they HAVE to be 'relevant' pages, to the story I'm writing.
So, I'm 12 chapters in. I reckon (Yes, I said I Reckon) I have five or six more chapters to go to 'finish' the story, of course, there are five or six chapters I'll be adding in when I do the rewrite (I so can not believe some of the detail I left out, LOTS of detail, but then, this IS the first draft and I AM just trying to get the story down and it IS flowing, and isn't that something?) I am actually unsure as to what other writers do, being as I don't know any others, but I read that Laurell K Hamilton SWEARS that you don't rewrite until the full story is down or you'll never finish a book.
Another author swears that you rewrite as you go, or you won't go where the story properly wants to take you.
I've tried both, and it seems I'm in the 'get the story down than make it pretty' camp.
And why am I telling you this?
Why, I'm telling you this because it's 8:23 p.m. at night, and I have yet to write my three pages, and I am loathe to, (I am a morning writer, truly, but today, I went and did mom/housewife errands) but I am determined and bound to a promise to myself that I would write three pages every day.
Yes, A promise to myself. I promised myself something that requires a lot of me to me. How funny, that i am doing this. But I promised myself that I wouldn't sit and not try to write a novel. And to write a novel one requires mass amounts of discipline, so I promised myself that no matter what, I would be disciplined, and write at least three pages a day. I promised myself that I wouldn't let myself down.
Myself is very happy, because myself feels that I truly mean it. And I am writing these three pages though all I want to do is drown myself in the naughty King Henry the VIII show, The Tudors, (Dynasty, only with History!) or the Other Boleyn Girl novel. But I made a promise to Myself and by golly, I mean to keep it.
But here's the thing that has me spooked.
I made a promise to Myself, and I am keeping it, so Myself will be happy. Myself is THRILLED that I'm going to write the three pages. I am struggling to do so, but, again, don't want to disappoint Myself, even though I'd rather be goofing off... Myself is nagging me because of what I said.
So, between Myself and I, who the heck-n-crap is Me?
ahhhh
Friday, March 14, 2008
Secret Life of a Soccer Mom
Someone sign me up for it.
I see it as a cheap way to get a job.
I can talk about some crazy dream of mine to be an executive of a publishing company or something.
At the end of the week, I will give a tear-felt speech to my family, whereby I tell them how much I love them, but that frankly, their appreciation of me has been a bit on the down-side, and it was time for us all to fly the nest.
Mommy will go to her new job, Turbo and Bear can go to daycare, I've already researched a couple of them, and Drama Girl will get her own key to let herself in after school.
Hubby McRed will take dinner duty three times a week.
I will cry, and sniffle, and then go take whatever job I was offered... and since it won't be the glamorous job portrayed on the television, I will stay there only long enough to get a better paying job somewhere else...
...would that be wrong?
I see it as a cheap way to get a job.
I can talk about some crazy dream of mine to be an executive of a publishing company or something.
At the end of the week, I will give a tear-felt speech to my family, whereby I tell them how much I love them, but that frankly, their appreciation of me has been a bit on the down-side, and it was time for us all to fly the nest.
Mommy will go to her new job, Turbo and Bear can go to daycare, I've already researched a couple of them, and Drama Girl will get her own key to let herself in after school.
Hubby McRed will take dinner duty three times a week.
I will cry, and sniffle, and then go take whatever job I was offered... and since it won't be the glamorous job portrayed on the television, I will stay there only long enough to get a better paying job somewhere else...
...would that be wrong?
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Spring Break
In the past, spring break, you think
beaches
bikinis
beer
bummy kids
Okay, you still sorta think of it, because lets face it, it still means that, however,
In the new world of adult education, and the influx of adults who hold jobs while going to school, or while tending demon ferret monkey offspring, (post coming) spring break now means...
laundry getting done
no homework and class time at 9 p.m. when the kids are finally in bed
an actual dinner on the table
an hour in front of the idiot tube
two hours with a book you're reading FOR FUN
sheer giddiness and delight from the prospect of not having to deal with school
But, alas, no beaches.
Not for me.
And, I'm a bit sad about that.
beaches
bikinis
beer
bummy kids
Okay, you still sorta think of it, because lets face it, it still means that, however,
In the new world of adult education, and the influx of adults who hold jobs while going to school, or while tending demon ferret monkey offspring, (post coming) spring break now means...
laundry getting done
no homework and class time at 9 p.m. when the kids are finally in bed
an actual dinner on the table
an hour in front of the idiot tube
two hours with a book you're reading FOR FUN
sheer giddiness and delight from the prospect of not having to deal with school
But, alas, no beaches.
Not for me.
And, I'm a bit sad about that.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
What, it's only Wednesday?
I'm coming 'down' from my paper trauma.
It's in, and now I can fret about the grade and nasty mean comments I'll get, never mind my personal thoughts on the class... just... want...pain.... to....cease.... but.....still....get....degree....
My group in my other class, well, Abbot and Costello.
The upside?
I'm taking the night off :) and writing chapter nine and ordering pizza and not cooking and not thinking about school.
:)
The downside?
School makes me grumpy, and papers make me fretty, which make me eat ice cream.
Upside?
I saw Tulips sprouting on the way to pick up Drama Girl from school, which means SPRING IS COMING AND IT WILL BE WARM.
Downside?
Snow on Friday. WHAT?
:)
It's in, and now I can fret about the grade and nasty mean comments I'll get, never mind my personal thoughts on the class... just... want...pain.... to....cease.... but.....still....get....degree....
My group in my other class, well, Abbot and Costello.
The upside?
I'm taking the night off :) and writing chapter nine and ordering pizza and not cooking and not thinking about school.
:)
The downside?
School makes me grumpy, and papers make me fretty, which make me eat ice cream.
Upside?
I saw Tulips sprouting on the way to pick up Drama Girl from school, which means SPRING IS COMING AND IT WILL BE WARM.
Downside?
Snow on Friday. WHAT?
:)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Look! I'm Procrastinating!
What am I doing?
Why, Procrastinating!
I am on the last bit of the first and most likely final draft of a paper I have drawn out for three days.
This is my last semester of class, and it is...toooorrrttuuuureee... because it just so happens, I decided, during the second to last semester of class, that while a masters in mgt. is handy, the PR sub-section of that degree is not, because during the second to last semester of class, I decided I most likely probably never want to work in PR.
So this paper is pure torture because it represents, a, a paper on a topic the teacher doesn't understand or care about, b, the second to last paper for this class and c, i didn't do so smackin' hot on the first paper, and nervousness makes me procrastinate more....
ahhhh
so, i'm procrastinating....
Why, Procrastinating!
I am on the last bit of the first and most likely final draft of a paper I have drawn out for three days.
This is my last semester of class, and it is...toooorrrttuuuureee... because it just so happens, I decided, during the second to last semester of class, that while a masters in mgt. is handy, the PR sub-section of that degree is not, because during the second to last semester of class, I decided I most likely probably never want to work in PR.
So this paper is pure torture because it represents, a, a paper on a topic the teacher doesn't understand or care about, b, the second to last paper for this class and c, i didn't do so smackin' hot on the first paper, and nervousness makes me procrastinate more....
ahhhh
so, i'm procrastinating....
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
An insight into game drama
For those who think games is free of the gossip, drama, and the sort of petty goings ons that afflict other creative industries,
I give you snorehammer.
Skip down to all the comments, and you'll see the sort of love that goes on in the community. It is very hard to out-rantxor a master rantxor, and those in the gaming community are rant masters. I myself only dream of the rant ability of community game posters.
For those who for some reason would think that those in games, the gaming industry, and the gaming community, are above it, well, I mean, we're talking games here, what did you expect?
But before you click, let me clarify some things...
a) Everyone hates WoW because it's currently the biggest, baddest most successful game out there, and nobody is near toppling it currenlty.
b) Everyone hates WoW, but because it is currently the biggest, baddest most successful game out there, everyone is playing it.
c) The people that aren't playing it, are rare.
d) this is not a cheap ploy to get more viewers by linking to a well-viewed site. I can't maintain a blog with more than five readers as it is.
e) I don't play mmo's anymore. I would LIKE to. I enjoy them. I think they are fun. I just don't have the time.
f) I do not have the knowledge to either agree or disagree with whether or not the game is good, because I don't have the time to play the games, and it's not out yet.
g) Yes, I know people who work on it. They all say it's good. Except the angry bitter ones. Who say it's bad. We'll never really know until it comes out. Or I play it. Re, time.
h) I don't actually expect anyone to go through and READ the comments, I just did to admire the rant masters at work.
i) I'm on the 9th letter of the alphabet, and I just realized this post is super dull.
I give you snorehammer.
Skip down to all the comments, and you'll see the sort of love that goes on in the community. It is very hard to out-rantxor a master rantxor, and those in the gaming community are rant masters. I myself only dream of the rant ability of community game posters.
For those who for some reason would think that those in games, the gaming industry, and the gaming community, are above it, well, I mean, we're talking games here, what did you expect?
But before you click, let me clarify some things...
a) Everyone hates WoW because it's currently the biggest, baddest most successful game out there, and nobody is near toppling it currenlty.
b) Everyone hates WoW, but because it is currently the biggest, baddest most successful game out there, everyone is playing it.
c) The people that aren't playing it, are rare.
d) this is not a cheap ploy to get more viewers by linking to a well-viewed site. I can't maintain a blog with more than five readers as it is.
e) I don't play mmo's anymore. I would LIKE to. I enjoy them. I think they are fun. I just don't have the time.
f) I do not have the knowledge to either agree or disagree with whether or not the game is good, because I don't have the time to play the games, and it's not out yet.
g) Yes, I know people who work on it. They all say it's good. Except the angry bitter ones. Who say it's bad. We'll never really know until it comes out. Or I play it. Re, time.
h) I don't actually expect anyone to go through and READ the comments, I just did to admire the rant masters at work.
i) I'm on the 9th letter of the alphabet, and I just realized this post is super dull.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
AW, shucks
You guys are so nice! bout my writing!
I now make it a rule that monday through friday I can not go to bed til I've written three pages, excluding my babbling journal writing (which will never ever see the light of the day).
But on to my DOOM TOPIC
SCCCHOOOOL.
This is the final semester FOREVER (I am pretty certain I'm going to bail on the MBA, but my husband, a few friends, and my sister think I'll regret it) ANYHOW.... I'm in my LAST SEMESTER OF MY MASTER'S PROGRAM.... my LAST TWO CLASSES...
and they are the freakin' hardest two classes ever.... like, both instructors are insane. They are like, Oh, so you are about to graduate, you think huh? None of my other classes have been this insanely difficult.
I'm slightly proud to say that one of the 4.0 GPA students in my group is going to 'discuss' our crappy group grade with our professor since it was b.s. But even aside from that, the classes are JUST HARD> ARGH.
And... I am so not in the mood... just end it... ahhhh I...just....want...to.....pass....
it's not like this degree is giving me ANY help in getting a job, anyhow! SHEESH!
And that, folks, is my school rant.
I now make it a rule that monday through friday I can not go to bed til I've written three pages, excluding my babbling journal writing (which will never ever see the light of the day).
But on to my DOOM TOPIC
SCCCHOOOOL.
This is the final semester FOREVER (I am pretty certain I'm going to bail on the MBA, but my husband, a few friends, and my sister think I'll regret it) ANYHOW.... I'm in my LAST SEMESTER OF MY MASTER'S PROGRAM.... my LAST TWO CLASSES...
and they are the freakin' hardest two classes ever.... like, both instructors are insane. They are like, Oh, so you are about to graduate, you think huh? None of my other classes have been this insanely difficult.
I'm slightly proud to say that one of the 4.0 GPA students in my group is going to 'discuss' our crappy group grade with our professor since it was b.s. But even aside from that, the classes are JUST HARD> ARGH.
And... I am so not in the mood... just end it... ahhhh I...just....want...to.....pass....
it's not like this degree is giving me ANY help in getting a job, anyhow! SHEESH!
And that, folks, is my school rant.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
On Writing
I've been writing a consistent three pages a day for two weeks.
I have lots of writing to show it. I SHOULD be posting this on my 'writing' blog, but, alas, no one reads that one ha ha ha. And all five of you, well, I want you to share my giddiness at actually having the discipline to write three pages a day.
Go Me!
One day, I will have something to send out to an agent, so I too, can enter the world of 'unpublished writers' vs 'aspiring writers' though TECHNICALLY because all my jobs were 'writing' jobs, I'm actually an unemployed writer who is working on her own material in hopes of being published, and thus, employed.
Or something.
I have lots of writing to show it. I SHOULD be posting this on my 'writing' blog, but, alas, no one reads that one ha ha ha. And all five of you, well, I want you to share my giddiness at actually having the discipline to write three pages a day.
Go Me!
One day, I will have something to send out to an agent, so I too, can enter the world of 'unpublished writers' vs 'aspiring writers' though TECHNICALLY because all my jobs were 'writing' jobs, I'm actually an unemployed writer who is working on her own material in hopes of being published, and thus, employed.
Or something.
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