1. I'm quitting energy drinks tomorrow! I binged all weekend, cut back yesterday, only had one today, and tomorrow I'll have none. Seriously, if I quit smoking, I can quit energy drinks and stick with it!
2. Allow me a moment to be a crabby bank teller: Don't bring eight deposits and two tax payments to the drive-thru thereby holding everyone else up because you couldn't get off your butt and walk inside to the lobby! ESPECIALLY when the business you own is a health club!!!!
3. I miss The Hills. ;( August cannot come fast enough.
4. Did anyone see the Supernatural finale on Thursday? What did you think?
5. Has anyone read The Host? I'm having a hard time getting into it. Does it get better?
6. I read Holly Black's Ironside and Melissa Marr's Ink Exchange both within the last week. I loved them and I'm sad there won't be another story with Kaye and Roiben, but at least there will be more Marr books! Yeah!
7. Possession is almost finished! (And I'm afraid it sucks!)
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The writing break went well! I think I needed it anyway, considering I was starting a new job. After overloading my brain with all these new bank rules, it was nice to come home and just surf the Internet or sit down with a book. I finished Bloom, as I said and started Vampirates and Story of a Girl, which the library FINALLY got in. I was bugging them weekly. They're probably happy to get rid of me!
I also watched lots of TV and some movies. I watched an Australian indie remake of Macbeth. I love Australian indies. Ever seen Somersault? SO GOOD. The guy who played Macbeth in the remake was a main character in Somersault. His name is Sam Worthington and he is so yumm. He's been cast in James Cameron's new sci-fi movie, Avatar, so I think we'll be seeing more of him in the US.
After watching Macbeth, I was instantly inspired to open a new document in Word and just started writing. The thing with Australian indies, they have this haunting quality, quiet and poetic. I just love them. At least the ones I've watched and perhaps it's true too for US indies, but I haven't seen many to know.
Anyway, here's what I just wrote and I love it. It felt so good to stretch that writing muscle after a week or so! That really isn't long at all, but, whatever. For me it is!
This is a story of death. Of the literal and figurative sense. Because I saw them dead and because I am not the same as I was when this story started. Where did it start, exactly? Where all stories start. On a day. On a day that began like any day. Perhaps it was a Thursday though I can’t remember clearly. After the beginning, the titles of the day blurred together like lights outside a carousel. They were just a flash of golden smudged against the darkness. But on that day, I twisted shut the lock on the front door of my father’s chocolate shop and that was where the ordinary ended. It was a distinct end, an audible click in the night. The next sound that reached me, carried on the crisp cool wind of autumn, was a gunshot.
(And since this is technically a teaser, consider it my teaser for Tuesday. I'll be working all day Tuesday, so I won't post.) | |
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Agent Lady from Friday hasn't emailed me back yet. I'll snail mail the MS over tomorrow, absent email be damned! Hopefully she'll still read it because I'm rather low on AA requests and I have to take all I can get. In other news, I got a call today from The Bank. Bank Lady says, "Hey Jennifer! You haven't taken that other job yet, have you?" I'm trying not to laugh as I say, "No." The other job is Walmart, I think, and with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lilrongal's help, I've read Nickel and Dimed. I'd be an idiot to take that job! "Oh good," Bank Lady says. "Well, you did really well on your testing on Friday and we want to send you on your second interview. It's the final step in the hiring process and it'll be less formal. The manager and head teller at the East Branch just want to meet you and ask a few questions. Does that sound okay?" I'm like HELL YEAH! I didn't say that, of course... The job is at the East Branch, which, I'm actually pleased with. The East Branch is smaller and smaller means less imposing. And I'm already scared out of my mind about the whole thing. We played Monopoly Saturday night and I screwed up the money like a million times! How will I ever do a REAL bank job? But anyway...my friend Lacy (who works at another bank) assures me that after a while, the job will be no big deal. You learn and you get better at it. I hope she's right. (Despite how scared I am and how much I'm craving an easy job---like at Staples or something---the bank job really makes the most sense. I'll mostly work while Son is in school---total bonus there. Mr. Jen has weekends off, I'll have weekends off [except for Saturday mornings every now and then] and the pay is pretty dang good. I just have to get over my initial fear of screwing up. And I also have to get the job first!) | |
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There were several things I wanted to talk about in this post, several things that don't relate at all to each other. So I'll just make a list.
1. I hit a deer Sunday night. It's the first time it's happened to me. Really, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. In the newspaper, in the police records section, sixteen car-deer accidents were reported over the weekend. Ours could have been A LOT worse. Thankfully, no one was hurt and my car is still drivable. I have collision insurance, which means my car will be fixed for free. Yeah! It dented and scratched the hood, broke the grill and really smashed up the front fender, but that was it. Like I said, it could have been worse. I mean, that dang thing darted right out in front of me. There was no stopping. I remember thinking, Oh Crap. What if a hoof comes through the windshield? But there were no hooves, thank God. The scariest part was watching that deer roll off the hood of the car and then thrash on the side of the road. Luckily it got up and took off. I hope it's all right, but I'm pretty sure one of its hind legs was broken.
2. After submitting resumes and applications all over town for the last two months and receiving not one flippin' phone call, I now have two interviews this week. One at a local bank and the other at Walmart. My friend asked me tonight if I had the option to pick, which job would I go with and I had a hard time answering. The reasonable answer would be the bank---better hours, better pay, holidays off!, the opportunity to advance into a higher paying job. But I think I'd have more fun working at a place like Walmart, plus I know a ton of people who work there. I can name seven right off the top of my head. Plus I like buttons and scanners and I've always wanted to operate one of those awesome button-intensive registers. We'll see. Maybe I won't even have to choose. Maybe neither will like me.
3. I revised Possession again this weekend. I don't know why. I had already decided I was going to retire that book, but then I started thinking about it again and I couldn't STOP thinking about it. I rewrote the beginning and a few chapters in the middle. And then I status queried on a few of those agents who still had it or who had expressed interest in a revision and two of them got right back to me. One asked me to send over the newly revised edition via email when previously he'd asked for it by snail mail. The other agent wants me to email in two weeks. I also sent out four new queries. I'd thought I'd exhausted the list of agents for Possession, when really I'd exhausted the list I wanted. But this is the same thing as going for only the popular guys at school when one of the lesser known guys might actually be the better fit. So I have to try.
4. I don't think there was a four. How about...Happy Halloween!!!
This Mom cannot wait to go trick-or-treating tomorrow night. I love me some chocolate.
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