I feel like myself again. I got a solid night’s sleep…I woke up reassured with the fact that my sniffles and scratchies were, in fact, allergy-related…and now I have Zyrtec-D coursing through my blood making me feel whole once again. It’s a christmas miracle!
Two Guys One Trek went live today…sorta…I’m actually STILL putting the final polish on the last couple episodes, the last 10, acutally, but the first 20 are LIVE. Man…I seriously underestimated how friggin long it was going to take to process all these episodes. Majorly underestimated. I’d say each episode has taken an average of 5 hours. No joke. From beginning to end, anyway. 3 hours to record in the first place, and then another 2 hours of editing and processing.
Jesus. That means TG1T has taken…145 hours to produce. How do podcasters do it??? And we’re talking baaaaaaasssiiiccccc stuff here. Nothing like “RadioLab” or any of the other professionally-produced and insanely intricate podcasts of which I listen to and love so much…but then again, I do suppose they have a BUDGET for those, and people are getting PAID to produce them. TG1T is a labor of love, and by “love” I mean “free”…
…and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m listening right now to Moderat. “Animal Trails,” which is off their newest effort. So freaking good. I love these headphones that the Ho and I got last year. The highs are nice and crisp, and the lows are out of control good. So deep. So loud.
Flix work today was long. These new titles where I’m subbing out all the musical cues is quite a lot of work. Hopefully I get better at them as time goes by. I need to. We’re coming up on when this shit is supposed to be DONE. I can do it tho. I can do it. Just have to keep pounding the pavement.
Writing…I miss you. I’m starting to come up for air, I can feel it. Getting this podcast off my shoulders has been a relief. The Ho handling so much of the building has been a relief. Josh taking back his film and us planning to meet for a full day in a couple weeks has been a relief. Getting through this pile of trailer work WILL be a relief. My plan, oh my plans…my plan is to have this fucking outline for “The Long Way Home” finished in two weeks. I can start writing July 1, 2016. It’s the same date I started writing two years ago on “Starstuff.”
I’ve learned a lesson, you guys. I have to say “no.” Have to. My stories are waiting for me. I’ve left them out in the cold, and the only way I get to invite them in, to wrap them up warm their shivering smiles is to learn to say no. It’s the only way I will have the time to bring to life.
I’ve always been too distractible. Always. Perhaps 2016 is the year that I finally learn that lesson. I should be the year I learn that lesson. I’m ready to be a published author. I don’t necessarily mean that my WORK is ready to be published…no, I mean *I* am ready to reach for that goal, ready to put in the work that’s required of me. So, it’s time I learned the lesson that I have to say “no.”
So…I will finish what I set out to do. I will finish TG1T. I will finish my Flix work. I will finish Josh’s movie with him. But my first priority will be writing.
It has to be.
Much more ridiculousness to come, y’all.