Yeah. I really don’t know what to say. I don’t know what freakish universe she’s living in, but in this one, you pretty much don’t do favors for people you hate, people who have treated people you love like crap, uneccessarily. Rigodamndiculous.
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That’s right – we’re baaaaack!!!!! I know you didn’t believe me that we’d be back…but we are. Let’s hope for no more hiccups, at least until I reach the end of “a year of rabid lamb comic” (i.e. November 5th).
And to you movie texters out there – it would be great if you could stop texting because it’s wrong and it ruins peoples’ movie experience – but if the moral fortitude to do the right thing escapes you – just know that some crazy bitch and her giant angry boyfriend may be in your theater, ready to follow you home and kill you for being an insensitive jackass. Is texting really worth your life? Turn off the goddamn phone – I assure you your life is not so important that it can’t be put on hold for two hours…and if it is…then what the hell are you doing in a movie theater anyway?
This is apparently my new favorite thing to rant about…see?
So I’ve submitted a “Phase II” round of short fiction submissions, sad that at 32 I’m only in Phase II, but what can you do? Nothing that’s what. A few more contests and publications I’m interested in open up for submissions in September and so I’ll be adding a few to the pile, but in the meantime cross your fingers for all my precious little short fiction babies out there in the big bad world…
There are four submissions currently out, two that were submitted in May and two submitted in August. There are another two to four that will go out for submission in September. Eight would be a good ratio – if I can get to eight we’ll be looking good. And then, depending on how long it takes me to finish a decent polish on my novel redraft and how long it takes my excellent readers to read and comment, and how long it takes me to revise (that’s a lot of “how longs”) I hope sometime in early winter to begin seriously re-querying agents for my novel. And so we will then be able to begin the sad and desperate ‘Query Letter Tracking Posts’ again…
Actually, technically I still have one agent that requested a full that never got back to me…maybe I should email them…hmmm…
Ah, the sleep talking Adam returns. Good times. I really am not complaining about this, because it is one of the genuinely funny things going on in my life these days (sad, but true). So talk on Adam, talk on you crazy sleeptalker.
As for Rabid Lamb this week, I will continue posting all week, but there may not be comics until next week. I’ve put myself under major re-write pressure now through September 1st and while it is unlikely I can actually finish, I have made some serious progress in the last four days and I feel I owe it to myself to really focus on that.
But have no fear, comics will resume shortly in all their non glory…
I have to say, not to brag, but this is maybe my favorite cartoon so far. Not that the drawing is any good (it’s terrible, as usual lately) but I just love the idea of my elliptical trainer having a whole personality that hates me. That I’m not working IT out, which is what it was born to do. I just find the idea hilarious.
I hope everyone’s life is going better than mine. I am so stressed out from developments at work, the kind of developments that really need you to buckle down and concentrate and work hard, coming at time when I should really be finding some better balance in my life – getting more excersise, having more fun, and finishing my novel re-write (of course).
So it’s all very stressful. And I feel very conflicted. And tired. All the time with the tired!
PS – Comic #200! That’s sort of an accomplishment! Right?
So thanks Dave. Thanks a lot.
I hope you all have great weekends ahead of you. As my writing deadline fast approaches (11 days!) I will be buckling down, I hope like never before, to write write write. I plan to take a break Sunday and go to a movie and dinner with Adam after my writing group.
I’m currently trying to talk myself out of going to a special midnight screening of a new 35 mm print of The Crow that is screening at the Sunshine theater Friday and Saturday nights…sounds like some good relaxing fun (I freaking love that movie and would love to see a new print) but I just think it will throw me off and the next thing you know I’ll be having fun left and right…
Ew is right. I confess until now, I have never seen a concessions stand at a theater closed for failing an inspection and I find it kind of horrifiying. Although the movie theater I went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona at on Tuesday seemed like it should have been not only closed but condemned – the whole theater – not just the concessions stands. Yucky. I’ll be avoiding that theater in the future whenever possible.
Yeah, this one seemed like it was going to be an epic battle, but it blew over pretty quickly. Maybe both of our memories are getting so bad that it’s harder to hang onto that internal rage. Adam says I like being mad. I say, nobody likes being mad, but it does take me longer to cool off than the average bear.
Guess what I’m unable to cool off about this morning? The fact that I went to a late showing of Vicky Cristina Barcelona last night with Adam and three bitches (THREE!) were texting at various times throughout the movie (which was a good movie – more on that later). And since it was a late show on a Tuesday night there were only like 30 people even in the huge theater. What the F!?! If your life is so exciting that you cannot put down the blackberry or phone for 96 minutes then don’t buy an f’ing ticket. I am so sick of this. Does anyone live somewhere where this kind of thing doesn’t happen? If so, please let me know and I’ll pack my bags now. I’m so fed up with disrespectful people. I just don’t get it.
That’s right, there’s your awesome (read: totally mediocre) punchline. 
It’s true though, as much as I’m enjoying the Olympics and am shocked how into it I am, I also cannot wait for it to be over…it’s been rough for all of us on the East Coast…you West Coasters are getting it good – sometimes over here you have to stay up until like two freaking AM to find out end results of shit. I’m SO tired.
That said, when they’re gone I’ll completely and utterly miss them I’m sure.
Also, can I just say how awesome it is to have a boss that not only doesn’t get mad at your for maybe borderline nodding off at your desk, but who fully admits to having the same problem. As I’ve said before, working where I work and for who I work for has spoiled me from ever having another “real job” again, I’ve pretty much got to make a go of this “writing thing” or I’ve got to kill myself or find a way to retire…overweight trophy wife anyone?
I promise you there is a punchline in your future (specifically your future of tomorrow).
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was surprisingly productive/enjoyable as in I got some writing done, submitted a new piece to a new journal I haven’t tried before, did some critiques for group on Sunday, actually attended group on Sunday, did five comics (shocking! this hasn’t happened in months – maybe I’m getting back on track!) and spent a nice day with Adam eating sandwiches in a park-like setting and seeing two movies (Frozen River and Brideshead Revisited – more on both of those later) as well as had a nice little sushi dinner with him on Sunday.
All in all, if I’d managed to get in more exercise it would have been a pretty healthy and balanced weekend. Still too much time sitting on my ass though…I need new hobbies…reading, writing, and drawing/art/comics are just making me fatter and fatter and fatter…bastards.
Guess what I still didn’t manage to do though…amongst all that other good work and “success” – I still managed to not write ONE SINGLE WORD for my novel rewrite.
Go me! I am the king of procrastination!