Keep it together keep it together keep it together.
Ahhh….the allergies. Cutting into my work-style, y’all.
So, Coops is at the front door right now, sitting and waiting for the Ho to return from acting class. He can, quite literally, smell her coming from a couple miles away. No joke. I’ve seen him do it before even without me talking on the phone with her. He’ll get up and go over to the door and wait for the five minutes or so it takes her to get from the exit off the freeway to our front door. Crazy, right? Such a good boy.
Okay, we’re back. The Ho came home, and the Coops had the zoomies in the bedroom for a bit. So, yeah…dem allergies doe. No late night/early morning waking up coughing, but it fucking wipes me out. I took an hour nap today, which I was trying NOT to do…but I couldn’t focus. I still got my work done, thank you lord. And writing.
Oh! And got to see Joe. He came over in the morning to go over this scene he had for a showcase. That was nice. Miss that fucker…and now he’s moving. We’ve wasted living down the street from each other…to a certain degree. We’ve taken advantage of it here and there, but not enough.
Just gotta keep plugging away, man…keep on this script. Act Two is now a couple hours away from being cut down to size. One and a half pages. Then, on to Act Three, which needs more work than any other act, because it’s actual structure is changing. But, I got that shit on lock. I know I can rock it. It’s getting simpler, not more convoluted.
I can’t tell you how ready I am to move on and rework my novel. SO FUCKING READY.
I think I’m also deciding just now that for the next conceivable series of blog entries, I’m going to talk about something other than just my day-to-day musings. Something bigger. Today, it’s about the trailers for these documentaries that I used for work that got me all worked up. The first was called The True Cost, which is about the garment industry…which is something that I keep forgetting about, and is something that REALLY needs to change. It is NOT okay where our clothes come from, by and large, and people are making so SO much money on the backs of desperately poor people. The second was called #chicagoGirl, and was about this young college-age girl in Chicago whose parents came here from Syria…who is literally coordinating, or WAS coordinating the protests going on in Syria from her laptop. It was very moving. And I should say not just watching the trailers, I was digging through actual footage from each movie for my work…but they just really grabbed my attention today, and made me think a lot about not taking where I am for granted. And that there is so much in the world that needs attention to get better. My deepest respect for those who dedicate their lives to such pursuits. I should be better myself about helping…I’m going to fix that some day.
Anyway…that’s all for tonight 😛 Catch you all on the flip!