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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | | 9:28 pm |
INPUT NEEDED
I've been kind of at a loss for what to do with my new manuscript ( Code Name: Cassandra) as far as flushing it out, making the story consistent, filling in the gaps, etc. usually, the ungodly amount of structure I use is good for this (most of it is scaffolding and saw dust to be removed or swept away later). none of my structure has been working. so, I'm going to add another layer by pulling out something that's not as consistent in the manuscript and adding more of it. WHAT I NEED FROM YOU FINE FOLKS:
I need rhymes that you'd most often hear on a playground. for example: "circle circle dot dot, now I have my cootie shot"; "missed me missed me, now you gotta kiss me"; etc. hand clap rhymes too would be fabulous. I'm not really interested in nursery rhymes... those have too much of a parental shadow cast over them. I really really really would love the ones that are slightly ugly to look back at, but didn't seem so at the time.big thanks and hugs and kisses and stuff to everyone! | | Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | | 5:56 pm |
updates
I've been hibernating for several months, but I'm here to say that the magic is back!1. Shawn has magically showed up again. chewed him out pretty well, but am still not satisfied. I mean, really, at what point do I tell someone that they've quite simply been a bad friend and what exactly do I subject them to as penance. he really tried to pull the "my phone was broken" excuse. for a whole year?! and didn't he ever think "hey, Panika's been really quiet... I should give her a call." any suggestions? 2. quit my job. I didn't so much quit it as I told the owner of the company that I had absolutely no interest in working with the campaign manager that I had been for over a year. I had gotten in her cross hairs and for two months I couldn't talk to a patron without her yelling at me. I left one Thursday and called her boss to ask him how I should go about talking to her about it as nothing thus far had worked. but, by the time he actually called me, I had decided that I simply did not wish to work with her further. she tried to get me to come back by saying that she wouldn't say a word to me as so many others had just quit and she really needed me. I decided that if the way she was treating me was that unnecessary, she shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. she tried to bully me by saying that I would never work with the company again. I know how many people she's said this to before and also know that it has never once been true. I need to get my 17th century Brit poetry book back from her, but haven't really wanted to talk to her enough to actually ask. if she does anything to that book, though, she's really going to be upset about the cost. it's $50-100 for just the book, plus the fact that it was for a course at SLC and has those notes in it. that's like another $4000. 3. instead, I'm working for my cousins. trying to get File Maker Pro set up for my cousin's band business, but am a little out of my element. he works with mostly cover bands. this entails completely different venues, interchangable band members and a bunch of other weird things. the part that I'm actually getting paid for is taking care of their kids (Audrey 1.5 yrs and Evely 3.5 yrs) Tues-Thurs. anyone want to set up a play date? 4. Alex is being a bit of a poop. and I'm really tired of the "you're a fantasy" part making him act like I'm not a real person. and this is after I sent him the very best care package ever. I'm sure it'll resolve itself, but have no idea how or when. 5. will be teaching poetry appreciation a small cadre of home schooled kids. I will be paid by one of the mothers doing body work on me. am hugely excited about this for the following reasons: a) I'm getting an hour for hour trade, and because body workers get paid exponentially more than teachers, I'm really getting a great deal! b) the system of knots on my left shoulder and scalpula are starting to cut off circulation when I go to sleep at night. so that'll get fixed. c) I get to teach these kids my dream program. I don't have to worry about some parents panties being in a twist because it's not going to lead to anything if they do and is unlikely in the first place. go me! 6. ATTN ALL: REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY NEED A WRITING PARTNER.it's not just that I haven't been writing as much. it's also that I need someone to kick my butt in gear about submissions and that I'm at the point with Codename: Cassandra where I need feedback from others. 7. have a new afternoon / early evening / late night delight. :D (yes, this does warrant an emoticon.) 8. skipped Kerrville Wine and Music to sit back and reflect on how to get back out there and love the festival again. spent the money I would have spent there on a spree at Half Priced Books during their 20% off sale. met a guy in the parking lot who gave me a contact at theragblog.com and at the Texas Observer. will be following up on those after this update as I have been lazy on that end as well. 8. additions to my list of "the best things ever": harvest bread from Russells Bakery and Coffee Bar (it's like carrot cake without the butter cream icing and so good that it doesn't need all that extra sugar), mis-priced books at Half-Priced Books (scored a signed copy of You Gotta Dance With Them What Brung You for $6), songs I forgot about (one of the things in Alex's care package was a CD with about a hundred songs on it from all of my theme song lists which I've been doing every season for about 4 years now and reminding myself that these are really awesome songs), $1 beers at any place I love... 9. trained my mom's dogs while she was out of town, and she managed to screw that up in a week. finally recorded an episode of Houston Animal Cops on her DVR about a woman who is a hoarder too and told her that if she doesn't start cleaning up her act, I'll be forced to call Lieutenant Parson (the guy who does most, if not all, of the animal control for Austin/Travis County and is one of the most awesome law enforcement officials that I've ever met) and let him know that she has bigger problems than just not being a good alpha. I can do this now that I know Lieutenant Parson well enough that I can get him to keep the animals at TLAC without putting them down or on the adoption list. and because I really can't handle her not cleaning out the cat boxes anymore. one of the key things on the advertisement for the episode that caught my attention was one of the cops saying, "I don't care if people choose to live this way, but subjecting other animals to it is just wrong." | | Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | | 9:12 pm |
poser
I know I haven't posted in a while. I'm perfectly okay. nothing is wrong with me that wasn't wrong to begin with. nothing terribly life altering has been happening lately. however, my family is up in Minneapolis this weekend to spread my grandmother's ashes while I stay at home and take care of the riff raff. but I was thinking about all the times that someone has said to me or my mother (more to her than me) I'm surprised that your three kids survived. I mean, really, how stupid are people. surviving is the easy part. it was pretty much guaranteed with the whole being born in the USA in relative health to an upper middle class couple that had health insurance and paid into social security. I'm surprised that anyone would be surprised. sure, we ended up in a single parent house hold, but that wasn't really going to make a life or death difference. people survive much more abject circumstances across this country, let alone across the world. it's not like we were born in Somalia or something. you only have to have a functioning cerebral cortex to figure that one out. I think what they mean is that they are surprised that not only are we sane and functional in society, but that we're all three pretty fuckin' smart. yeah, I think and say that my brothers are dolts, but compared to the average American, they're still Einsteins. so I suggest that all these people say what they mean. it's like the thing your parents tell you when you're a little kid: these people are simply jealous. | | Friday, July 17th, 2009 | | 10:15 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | | 2:01 pm |
stagnant has been the theme of the last month. it's time to be done with that. | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 5:10 pm |
ignoring the chance that I'm going to piss off Matsu Valley kids again
Dear Gov. Palin, Amidst singing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" this week, I thought I might share with you some advice. 1) If you can't hack media scrutiny, then you shouldn't be a politician. Seriously, lady. What did you expect? The media is hard on everyone in the public sector. Especially those who run for high office. It's called "vetting." 2) Quit attracting undue attention to your kids. It's not the media that's doing it. It's you. When you claimed that you were qualified to be VP because you are a mother, then you immediately begged the question, "Well, what kind of a mother has she been?" And to be clear, this was your main argument. This was not someone saying that they could sympathize with other parents across the country because you were a parent as well. You were saying you wanted to be the country's mommy. Furthermore, how are you to relate to and/or lead the teeming masses of godless, childless, snubbed nosed people across this nation like myself? Also, when you were being made fun of last week for signing an email "From Trig's Creator, Your Lord and Savior", the media did not make fun of Trig. They have better ethics than that. They were making fun of you for having a god complex. And the heartless liberal media was not the group really going after you for not telling Bristol that if you have sex without a condom, you will get pregnant (not to mention the likelihood of getting a STD). It was you and FOX that kept talking about it when I couldn't remember anyone really going after any of your children in depth. 3) Give it all back. The per diam money. The free house. The embezzled money you used to send your daughter to a snow mobile competition. Everything. Apologize to your former brother in law because it's not his fault that his marriage fell apart with your sister. It is also not his fault that while trying to address the alcohol problem in AK that he inevitably had to also deal with the issues linked to alcohol in AK such as abuse, homicide, suicide and drug abuse. 4) Actually, apologize to everyone. To Wasilla for building that dumb rec center when they really could have used an update on their sewage and water treatment systems. To Alaska for gutting the Permanent Fund. To your family for hiding your pregnancy from them knowing that your children would be responsible for most of Trigs care. To John McCain for tanking his campaign and refusing to stay on message. To Obama for all of the accusations you flung his way. All of them. To the RNC for all that money of theirs you spent on clothing. To the media for everything you've said about them when it was your tactic that backfired. To wolves for not understanding basic ecology. To the Alaska Geological Survey and the USGS for never ever ever reading an actual report on ANWR. To the University of Alaska system for gutting their budget, too. To your family, again, for putting them in a spotlight they never wanted. To Ted Stevens for being a hypocrite. To intelligent individuals everywhere for denouncing them when you couldn't pull the wool over their eyes. 5) Quit saying that you're not going to do "politics as usual." Because if anyone does, it's you. You mud-slinging, evasive, bribe taking, hand biting, power mongering bitch. Really, what did you expect. No one to investigate your money laundering. No one to question your statements? I must say that I'm glad that you're out of politics. Stay out if you really know what's best for your family. Because, after all, it's never been the media, it's always been you. Sincerely, A concerned American citizen | | 5:09 pm |
| | 4:41 pm |
short updates
1) ATTN: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) flightviolation & phoenixsinkingFriday? 2) been helping my mother with cleaning up her house. really gross. but worth $15/hr to her. 3) dropped my phone in a pot of soapy water. will need to re-update phone list again. but I saved all the emails. 4) really need someone to teach me FileMakerPro. so that I can get on this thing for my cousin. also need a better free download site for Microsoft Excel... keep trying to download it, but is not working. 5) Iris is sick. hoping she just needs a new battery and not a new alternator. 6) working at the symphony for the moment. want tickets? is really good season. "Ode to Common Things" anyone? 7) new favorite TX places: DISH, TX (yes, all caps) where the people get free DVR service from DISH Network for a decade for naming their town after the company. and Loving County where some libertarians falsified documents to try to claim large portions of land, take over the county and make laws allowing "victimless crimes" including cannibalism, incest and trafficking (not limited to drugs, they wanted to traffic people too). 8) it's hot. | | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 3:40 pm |
| | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | | 4:49 pm |
| | Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | | 2:35 am |
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don't touch it. don't touch it. no, don't touch it. DON'T TOUCH IT! | | Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | | 10:01 pm |
Dear nice people of Laredo, Not every subdivision in your town (or county, as the case may be) counts as an unincorperated area. For the purposes of the list I'm making, I have to count unincorperated areas because there's at least one county seat that is. So don't add your apartment complex to the list, take it off, or make it an actual town. You bastards, List Maker | | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 3:39 am |
seriously. seriously.
okay. Thriller was my first album. don't believe me? in 1988 (yes, not the release date) my mother bought three copies of it for my brothers and me. why that particular album? I haven't a goddamned clue, but I loved it anyhow. why three? because she was trying to avoid certain battles between myself and my older brother. we also owned a copy of the movie Moonwalker (watched it a lot as kids... profound Michael Jackson fans until well after Dangerous came out) and the music video (which I spent much time earlier today trying to explain to people who hadn't seen the movie... "I taught him all he knows!") for "Smooth Criminal" is still a favorite. but still, for me to not be able to get any information on anything else going on in the world. are you fucking kidding me?! I mean, it seems like a lot of these tribute shows were ready to go. like everyone knew. you couldn't wait until Sunday and act like you didn't know and keep reporting on what else was going on in the world, if not the country. what the fuck?! | | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 12:04 am |
| | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 8:29 pm |
a couple more facts
things that happened yesterday: a suicide truck bombing yesterday in Taza, Iraq wounded 211 people, killed 80 and destroyed 50 buildings. the town is mostly populated by Shiite ethnic Turkmen. during an attack on Bagram air field in Afghanistan, two NATO soldiers were killed and six others wounded. the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. how quickly did we forget? | | Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | | 7:17 pm |
ever have a fantasy about Clark Kent? or being Clark Kent? | | Friday, June 12th, 2009 | | 8:27 pm |
bragging about my fabulous friends
I like bringing smart people from different communities together. so, if you're in New York and you have nothing to do next Thursday (or want a good excuse to procrastinate what you really should be doing) you should head out to this show. I wish I had a youtube link to their staff concert fiasco, but, sadly, this has yet to be posted. suffice to say that Samantha X severed two of Sick's fingers in their "performance" (aka security breech). however, she is a trained healer and got them to regenerate within three days. and for everyone else: check out http://www.chinaonthemove.netKFF's own Mike "Dirty Feet" Melanson received the honor of being the first featured journalist on the trip. you can find out more about the project there. | | 7:54 pm |
I made myself some cut-offs today. yes. and watched a bunch of West Wing episodes. yes. and looked up cute folk boys on the interwebs. uh huh. and all of this prevented me from doing a KFF09 update for you fine folks. it only takes one night of sleeping in a real bed for the smell of camp fire to become incredibly apparent on all of my clothes and linens. taken care of. what's not? I lost my phone before going out there. so if you all could bc me your numbers, I'd greatly appreciate it. | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 6:35 pm |
back from KFF09. more on that later. did laundry all day and now will take a shower before continuing the festivities at Cafe Mundi this evening. |
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