Alrighty

I just got done building two web pages for businesses I want to start. For manuscript editing and website design. Pah! Well, I know I'm anal retentive and can do the editing thing. And as for web design.... ha! Sorry, I know my sites are simple. My designs, I mean. Blurrrrrgh. Oh well. I like them. They are fast loading and easy to navigate. I need pizza. No, anyway, back on track.

I don't have money for pizza. Well, I do, but that would blow most of my grocery money. I have realized lately that I need more money! Hence, the two businesses. Which hopefully won't fry my brain. Whatever. I think it will be fine. Sheesh. I had this great idea to invent a bunch of background images and have ads on the site and give the backgrounds away for free, lalala. But.... do banner ads work anymore these days? Why else would people pop popups all the time? I mean, if a banner ad worked. Wow, I make no sense. Summer. What can I tell ya?

No new TV on tonight. It's my day off from work. I work weekends now. Go me! Ummm....! I quit working on my novel for the moment. I have to have a worry fit about money for a while first. Then I'll get back to it. I'd get a second job, but evening jobs are not as easy to find as day jobs. Weird. I could find wee hour of the morning jobs, but I don't hate myself that much yet. Give me time.

Oo, I think today is payday. But I'm not at work, so I'll pick up my check tomorrow. Lazy! Wow, I just yawned. Proved my own point. Nah, days off are for yawning. It's cool. But I work on the computer on my days off anyway. There are no days off! Whatever. I wish I had time to make a video. I have this great idea in my head! I love exclamation points!!!! Today anyway.

Let's see.... nope, nothing good. No, seriously, positive thoughts. If my two businesses work, I will have a day job and spend every spare moment working on my businesses. HMM. And when will I have time to make videos and revise my own novels? Uh.... never? After 6 months or so perhaps I will quit the day job? But I'd hate to make a living on just businesses that may fluctuate all over the place. Yowza! Scary. But perhaps I will have steady work because of word of mouth, yes? It's possible. Argh, why didn't I finish college like a normal person?..... blargh. The world has all these RULES. Rules I hate. I have so many dark and brooding novels to write. But no time. In the future, my businesses will be my day job and I'll work on my novels on evenings and weekends. That'd be nice, hmm? Darn time. Well, this is depressing. But only because I don't know for sure if it will work. The businesses. You never know. But maybe I've learned enough by this point in life to do well with these things. It pays to be a little bit old.

Oh, I have to run on over to a certain website to have my services listed. Whoop! Wish me luck. (Silently, in your head. Or out loud, who am I to judge? ) Later.

Chris on 06.24.05 @ 05:36 pm [link]

Bored out of my gourd

I have a new job now. No more fast food. I am a hotel housekeeper. I like it a lot better. More regular hours. Anyway. Today is my day off, and I'm working on my novel finally. I finished reading it last week and I like it. I had forgotten parts of it. It was funny. I kept wondering what happened next. Eee! Anyway, today I am translating it into Renaissance English. Boorrring! I like the book, but this is tedious. And it's Sunday. I should be driving through the country or something. Okay, I used to do that. And ate some kind of pesto avocado sandwich at this restaurant. Yummy! But that was back when my grandmother was alive. Hmm. She and my mother and me used to go do that. Drive and eat, drive and eat, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But fun.

I just finished watching the whole series of Angel. Again. Now what?!!! Maybe I should buy a new show on DVD, like Tru Calling. Huh? HUH? Weird, I don't know how that became all caps. Why does Joss Whedon not have a new show out now???? Not that I would have the channel it was on if he did. Well, maybe I would get cable just for that. I had cable just for The X-Files once upon a time. Ah, I miss cable. I never watched TV even when I had it, though. Except my favorite shows. Two or three, whatever they were. "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." I just watched Shakespeare in Love. Good movie. I was trying to see what other modern writers did with Renaissance English. Cuz you can't just make it as accurate as possible with all its quirks. I want people to understand my novel better than they understand Shakespeare at a glance. You know? I haven't used any "thee"s and "thou"s yet. It just hasn't felt natural. But it's going well. Except I'm bored.

I have this crazy dream of living off of novels. Writing them. Weeee! Imagine. It's a very simple dream. And apparently boring. Whatever! In my little novel writing dream I would get weekends off, see. My friend I was supposed to see last night was on call and had to work 14 hours yesterday. Boooo! Next week we are going to start watching Firefly. And then go see the movie. Whoop! I love me some science fiction. Most of the novels I have notes on to write in the future are science fiction. But neither of the novels I've written are. I hadn't found my niche yet. I found my niche when I wrote a few X-Files episodes. Whenever I say that, people think I mean I wrote some of the episodes that were on TV. Hello! No! So, I guess I should call them fan fiction stories or something, except I actually intended for them to be episodes if I could get someone at 1013's attention. No such luck. But worth a try, yes? How would I feel now if I had not tried? Yucky! That's right! Hee.

So, cleaning hotel rooms. I wish people would check out when they are supposed to. I wish there were enough towels to go around. Mmm, but mostly it's good. The elevator has a mind of its own, but whatever. I like this job much better than fast food. I wish I had more time to make videos. I was going to make an Angel one. I hope I don't lose the motivation before I have the time. Eek. Novels, novels, novels. Boop dee doop dee doo. Yeah, you see how I've forgotten all about accounting. But I don't want to be in more debt. School is debt. Plus, my ambition is writing. Sure, I'd like to go the normal route and have a sure path. Money, house, dog. Whatever. But bone deep boring. (Unlike today, which is regular boring!) You know how in the movies writers sit at a typewriter and finish writing their novel, and BAM immediately walk out the door with it to bring it to the publisher without revision or proofreading or anything? What's that about? Pfft! I guess they have editors. I do not! It's all me, baby.

Yawn. I could sleep the day away, man. This is booorrrring. Urgh. I guess I'll get back to it. Writing. It's much more fun when I'm writing the first draft of a story. Yeeeaaaahhhh. Weeee! But first I have to publish a few more books I've already written. (One is poems.) Sigh. Okay. I'll see ya when I see ya. (Or not?) Adios.

Chris on 06.12.05 @ 01:09 pm [link]