1. There's been a lot of talk (articles, blog posts, e-mail group discussions) about feeling envy/jealousy for authors who are finding success when we aren't. Everyone is saying envy is okay, that's just wishing you also had that sale or good news or whatever, in addition to being happy for that person. Jealousy is bad, because that's not wanting them to have the good thing they just got.
My question is, if envy is okay and jealousy is not, why is envy one of the seven deadly sins?
2. The gag reel on the Supernatural Season Two DVD is quite possibly the best one I've ever seen. Usually gag reels are people messing up lines or being unable to stop laughing. But this nine-minute-plus video has true gags and some highly entertaining exchanges. Plus boytouching.
3. I'm irritated with the people who mentioned the Jared barefoot kickboxing on the DVD (yes, Gail, I'm looking at you!), because I can't find it. I have some interactive map things to look at still, and didn't finish the webisodes, but if anyone can point me to the barefoot kickboxing, I'll be grateful.
4. I love soccer, but I've been spoiled. The problems we've encountered this season have left me with constant nausea and a strong desire for the season to be over. I hate that!
5. Can the Patriots go 16-0?
6. I listened to last week's Pottercast, and they discussed Dumbledore's plan and how he was a jerk, and how he should have just told Harry that the sword of Gryffindor would destroy the horcruxes. I shouted at my iPod a lot. Dumbledore was dying, yes, but he thought he had a year to live. He didn't expect to be killed on that tower. We could presume that as soon as he and Harry got back to his office with the locket, he would have showed him how to use the sword and explained why it would work. He just never had the chance. He never wrote it down because it was of paramount importance that Voldemort not know they were aware of/were after the horcruxes. Anyone else knowing about it, or documents lying around that mentioned it, could lead to someone telling him, either out of loyalty or fear.
7. Supernatural starts in...*checks ticker*...seven days!
8. I decided to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I hope to finish Hummingbird by October 6 and have the rest of October to revise it, with a final polish in December or January or even after that, as I have other projects that can come first. In the meantime, I've been percolating More Than You Know, about a married couple who has to learn to live together for the first time. I have enough to pound that out in November, I think, the way I did Under the Moon last year.
9. I've had several friends in various levels of stress and/or crisis lately, and I think for that reason I've been nursing anxiety off and on all week. It's not my own anxiety, though it is probably exacerbated by fatigue.
10. I can't complain about being tired as it's all my own fault. I've had a lot of work, which I've been focusing on at night as well as during the day, but I haven't given up my vegging time, nor have I taught myself to watch only two episodes of a TV show on DVD (still Gilmore Girls), even if watching four meant going to bed at 2:00 a.m. when the alarm goes off at 6:11 a.m.
11. Fall TV Premiere Week is filling up my TiVo. I have Prison Break, Eureka, Heroes, Reaper, Private Practice, Bionic Woman, and four hours of Dancing with the Stars. Tonight Smallville and Ugly Betty will join them. And I am not eager to watch anything!
12. Waiting does not ever get any easier in the publishing industry. In fact, as hope increases, for whatever reason, waiting gets much, much harder. That's a no-brainer, I know, but it seems like the waits should be shorter (and may be) but it doesn't matter, because it's still torture every minute that the wait is occurring.
13. Captain Black's Grog-Flavored Pirate Mints are not as gross as they sound.
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3 comments:
1. Maybe it's more of this overwhelming frustration/desire. But then, I can't speak for anyone but myself.
2. Whoot!
3. Enquiring minds want to know.
6. Exactly!
7. Whoot!
8. Good luck! I haven't decided yet!
9. You're probably right!
13. Sounds gross!
Isn't it weird when others are stressed, we stress for them?
Can you believe I haven't even opened my Supernatural season 2? I did my best to empty my Tivo this weekend in preparation for the coming week, and wasn't crazy about anything I saw except My Name is Earl.
Good luck in Nano! You kicked butt last year!
V, I agree with you on #1, but I'm still wanting to know why people say envy is okay and jealousy is not. I mean, really, they're the same thing, aren't they? It's always how you REACT to the emotion that's the bad/good thing.
I don't know, Mary, I think it's a woman thing. I HATE when people say stuff like that, but we are trained to be empathic. It backfires. :)
I hope you both do NaNo, too! It's so much more fun with people you know! I know you pushed me last year, Mary. :)
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