It’s been an up and down week. Today was an up and down day. Anxiety-wise, that is.
It’s stupid, but it made me anxious to make Coco boiled ground beef and rice, just because I’d never done it before. And it made me anxious to take her in to get groomed. But…I did those things, and then I had a pretty nice evening with the pups.
I watched Space Cowboys. It was on my list as a prototype story for the old fogies military SciFi series I’ve been kicking about. I actually broke it down into sequences as I watched it, and it was SO INTERESTING. I’m definitely getting much better at that stuff…identifying structures, and conventions, and character archetypes…even the fact that we showed Eastwood with a bottle of Miller in his hand as he’s making his decision whether or not to go on this mission struck me as a goldmine in terms of who this movie was for, and what kind of hero he was supposed to be.
It was a decent movie, actually. It nailed its genre and structure. Well done. I can see why it was enjoyed at the time.
Other thing I wanted to write about tonight: I really need to make sure that I’m doing creative work and thinking when I’m on a FULL stomach. Jesus fucking christopher the thoughts can get cloudy when I’m hungry 😂 At one point I was way past hunger today, and I was worried I was feeling depressed…and then I ate and I realized I definitely was just hungry. 100% true story.
Sigh…
Time for sleep.
Today was a good day.