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The edge of the procrastinatory wasteland

I am very slowly getting things done. Last couple of weeks a lot of things have been tossed on the "I'll do that later" pile and I woke up this morning with a keen interest in actually getting the entire list off my desk for good and ever, and although I am by no means working it fast because I am, after all, a lazy fuck, I am crawling through it. A lot of housekeeping stuff and a few creatives as well. I even picked up Terra again - which wasn't even on my list for today so I guess I was procrastinating other stuff by doing it, but it felt good. Wrote for a couple of hours, finished my pages (well, most of my pages), like my pages a lot and they were hard pages so there. Now I've got like three more things to do for the rest of the day and I am dragging my ass like crazy. Like, I just spent twenty minutes positioning Obi-Wan Kenobi on my desk. But now he looks tight.

I am really into SModcast right now. My self-indulegence meter should have gone off like a fire alarm long ago yet I can't get enough. It's like a Smith/Mosier commentary every week, about nothing. Way back in the day Bex and I were going to do a podcast about nothing where we just sat around and talked about whatever we wanted, but I figured nobody would listen to that shit. Well I guess I was wrong.

In a weird bit of they're-on-my-tail-and-I'm-not-moving-fast-enough, this TV pilot is pretty much the exact concept that was the conceptual predecessor to subculture, i.e. the script idea that Jared came from before I nailed down the subculture idea. You know, sometime I'm actually going to make something of my life and THEN WHAT, HUH? Then other people will be listening to my podcast about nothing and bemoaning the fact that their old script ideas are being turned into my new TV series and I'll say "now who's the dean?"

Comments

It's funny that I've checked your blog and seen this particular post about 18 times this afternoon, the day before an exam... curious that.

But my dear Rebecca, that is why for it is there!

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