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Annual AAM Conference and Balticon
This last week has been trip after trip. First, was three days in Los Angeles for the annual American Association of Museum conference and now I’m at Balticon 44.
I should write more about all the exciting things from both events but it is 4am and I am rapidly running out of steam. Hopefully I can get more caught up tomorrow/today.
More of the Same…
Well, the first quarter of 2010 is over. I’m feeling both good and bad about it. Good because as far as work is concerned I’m doing pretty good. I’m meeting my resolutions for the year. There’s still a part of me that says “You’re not doing enough. You need to do more,” but I’ve been relatively successful at stifling it. I do hope though to pick up the pace for the second quarter. The end of March/early April are starting to feel a bit like 2009 and I don’t want to get bogged down.
On the writing front, things have ground to a complete halt. I’m not sure why, but I am JUST.NOT.MOTIVATED. to do anything. A novel, a screenplay, a short story, a poem…heck even just a few lines jotted down. On this front, it feels very like 2009 which was a terrible year on the creative front. I try to track not only when i write, but also when the ideas first come to me and according to my journals it would seem that most of my work came from late 2007, early 2008. So right now I’m struggling with trying to find out the “why” and work myself back into things. It was one of my resolutions for 2010 and I’m loathe to let it go. I guess this falls under the put-up-or-shut-up mentality.
I’ve got a few other gripes and pat-on-the-back items but for right now, I’m just keeping an eye on these two things – work and writing and hoping to keep moving forward. I don’t want 2010 to be more of the same…
PS Of course adding in the fact we’re planning for a November wedding, 2010 does have its distinct differences.
Snowpocalypse…in Video
Ever since Renee showed this to me, I couldn’t get it out of my head. It’s pretty neat and I think really illustrates what all the snow here was like. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, I wonder what this video’s worth?
Snopocalypse, Snowmageddon, and Snoverkill…I think I’ve just had enough snow. Period.
Like I think most people in the Washington DC metro area, after more than 5 days of non-stop snow, I’ve had enough. One would think with all the snow, and work cancelled, and no going out and not much on television I would become very productive – write a lot, post a lot…you know, accomplish. Unfortunately, that’s not happening. My brain seems quite happy to curl up on the couch with the dog and cat and turn to mush watching news reports of what’s happening, sending out Facebook updates about the snow and watching old NCIS episodes. Now, as much as I enjoy NCIS, I think I’m about done with television, and considering that many of the folks I know are also experiencing this plethora of snow and doing just as little as I, perhaps my ambitions might be better served by actually…I don’t know…doing something.
So…I’m cat vacuuming. Some would call it blogging, but I know what’s really at stake. I’m just putting off actually writing. I can’t say that I’ve done any “real” fiction writing in a couple of weeks; although I WILL say that I’ve been submitting. And have the rejections to prove it. So perhaps I should post a bit about the two most recent rejections which came with comments. But before I do that…and just to keep ya’ll entertained – a few snow photographs!
Veni the dog in snow up to her head. Behind her is the small cleared out potty spot
I love this photo of Veni. She seems so unsure about the whole potty in the snow “thing.”
Veni and Renee in front of the house
And the photo of both Renee and Veni shows our front walk BEFORE we got an additional foot of snow. Let me remind folks, Renee is 6’2!