If you’re just getting to the party, this is the last of a three-part series about the The Blcklst.com site. Part 2 contained two examples of evaluations for scripts that I posted on The Blacklist site. Part 1 provided an overview of the site, and posed some questions I wanted to address: “Have you tried it?” … Read more
This is the a computer screen that I use at work. It’s kind of small, but maybe you can see that each of the items on all these lists are links to things you can do. Some people might use a lot of these links. I generally use about two. For instance, I … Read more
Well, the thing we hoped would happen didn’t happen. Paul and I, based on a script we’d worked on together had made it to the final stage of a fellowship program, but in the end, were not among the final selectees. I think I was more worried about his one because it included him, and … Read more
An interesting article from Salon showed up on my Twitter feed this week, on the science of how and why rejection hurts. Here’s a quote from it: Humans are social animals; being rejected from our tribe or social group in our pre-civilized past would have meant losing access to food, protection, and mating partners, making … Read more
As this is a record of sorts, of my creative progress, it bears mentioning that I have been flailing lately in my creative life, and well, just my life. I haven’t posted much about it, not because it’s an emotional topic (though it is) so much as it is one that is difficult to capture … Read more
Every morning when I come into work and boot up my computer there is a new wallpaper on my desktop. I have been screen-grabbing them just to show you. Who provides these wallpapers? Dell? Microsoft? Unknown. But my computer is a slow booter-upper, and thus I gaze at them for a few moments every morning … Read more
You nudge me awake early in the morning, wanting me to feed you. My anxiety is a first world problem, born of too much opportunity. Paul has said that when he pictures me in this mind–his image of me–my avatar I guess you could say, is a little girl, feet planted, arm straight outstretched, holding … Read more
At work on Monday afternoon, I spent six and a half hours single-handedly doing this: So that on Tuesday, they could do this: The new furniture is all match-y and stuff. When it’s not still covered in boxes, I’ll take a picture. I think it looks nice, but unfortunately an entire office of new laminate … Read more
The campus where I work is connected by areas mainly intended for pedestrians. To encourage this, there are several of these automatic gates, which I think only open for campus service vehicles. The gates are equipped with signs like this…I have a hard time envisioning the logistics of this, because the arm only rises when … Read more
I’m sitting at my desk at work, and I’m just thinking about how happy and grateful I am. I’m doing this insanely long expense report, and for days I’ve been entering £1.50 bus tickets and converting them to US dollars based on the conversion of the specific date, and now I’m entering a large stack … Read more