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If it seems like I disappear at two weeks at a time, it’s because my life keeps changing two weeks at a time. Last month, during my trip to New York, my girlfriend gave my information to a recruiter, who asked for my resume, set up an interview, and essentially gave me a job within days of my return.
Two weeks later, I started training, and two weeks after that, I’m officially working. I have no life. I, very officially, have no life. I went from being the free-est bird in the city, to the slave of the Silicon Valley. I knew it was going to happen eventually, so I don’t really have anything to complain about. But, I miss free life already. There’s still so much that I wanted, and still want, to do. Having a job doesn’t stop me from doing it, but it does slow down most of these things.
It doesn’t help that I wake up at 5 am, and head out of the house by 6 am, only to come home exhausted after an hour of traffic around 7 pm, and fall asleep by 10 pm. Technically, I only work from 9-6 pm (starting 8-5 pm this week). All those other hours are for the express purpose of avoiding driving through traffic. Hey, it’s better for the environment. At 6am, I’m usually at Starbucks, writing on a good day, and browsing the Interwebs on a bad day. Today is a blog day. The morning is all the time I have for writing. Afternoons go to my family, for dinner, and nights to my two dogs. I have yet to figure in time to work out, since most of the time, I’ve lost all motivation to “do things” and I would rather just enjoy the moment and “exist.”
But merely existing isn’t much of a life, is it?
Life gets a little frustrating when I can’t even sit down and enjoy an episode of Skip Beat! I just haven’t been “feeling it.” For some reason, I don’t “feel” like watching it, despite how excited I was about it. Bummer, right? But, I finally read Chapter 129, and I’m really looking forward to the next chapter, and that sparked my desire to watch Episodes 1 & 2. I’m going to wait for episode 3 to be subbed, and I’ll watch it all at once. I’m a marathon-er, like that =)
Anyway, I got an email last weekend, prodding me to update. It was really nice and sweet, and it made me realize that I’m just sitting on a stack of papers. I have all of these sections written, but I just don’t want to “publish” them because I’m not satisfied with what I’ve written. Hell, I’m still working on the rewrite from scene one! LOL But I’ve got to do something, because this story needs to get out of my head so I can move on and write other stuff.
