August 03, 1999
I Am Not The Eggman (Or The Walrus)
I'm remarkably scattered today, so if it shows here, I apologize in advance. I spent most of the early part of the day trying to track down car insurance. I was, eventually, successful. However, that meant spending my day from about 11 am to 2 pm either on the phone, sending a fax, waiting for a fax, waiting for a call... you get the idea. Very very banal. And we were shorthanded. The truly amusing part of the day was hearing two missing co-workers referred to as "The Eggman" and "The Walrus". Coo-coo-ca-choo. (And yes, if you've heard me talk about work, you probably know who those two are.)
Emerald is still down, so I'm still suffering from gaming withdrawal. Yeah, there are other places to play, but Emerald's home, for the most part. And speaking of my addiction, I'm working on a MUSH page for this thing, just to explain a lot of my references. So far it's got various links and character descriptions and even (wow!) pictures of some characters. Have I mentioned that I absolutely adore Arachnophilia? If you're looking for an HTML editor, I highly recommend it.
After talking to Brand the other day, I'm seriously considering trying my hand at writing a kith book for Changeling. A kith book is a source book that details a specific kith, or race of Changeling. Now, this particular book isn't for one of the main kiths, so I don't expect that White Wolf (or ArtHaus, whoever) will actually want to buy it, but it might make a good web book. So... if anyone out there has any suggestions or requests for Kithbook: Selkie, drop me some email. Now I just need to study the kithbooks I have and see how I want to format it, then research it and write it... ack. What am I getting myself into? Heh.
Somewhere on my list is a serious editing of "At The Ocean's Edge", the short story that got rejected from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. I know some things I want to change, but I can't seem to actually get time to glue myself to the chair and actually DO it. Well, that's not true. I'm almost always glued to my chair, that's something else I'm trying to change. I just seem to have too many projects that keep coming up as more urgent than editing. Like, well... this journal for example. I keep telling myself that by writing here, I'm establishing the habit of writing everyday, but I can't help but wonder, does this count? I mean, I'm not writing fiction, for sure, and half the time I'm just rambling, like I am right now.
Funny, I'd have so much more time to get everything done, if it wasn't for the damn phones at work. ;) Why can't I find someone to pay me to sit around and do what I want to do on a computer all day? Ah well. I'd dream about winning the lottery, but like the e*trade ad I saw the other day says, "Someone's going to win the lottery. But not you."
Hey... if it's you... can I come sponge? I'll be your very own pet writer.
Posted by Lisa at August 3, 1999 08:01 PM
