I'll get back to blogging soon enough. Lately my computer has been a tornado of resumes, cover letters, and Pro Tools sessions. And the occasional fantasy baseball update. But the blogs will come! They will. I started working on a non-fiction book called "Thoughts from a Recovering Narcissist". I'll post bits and pieces of it I think. What better place to reach outside yourself than the world of blogging, right?
Big show tonight at Cafe 318 in Excelsior. Well. Not big. But a show nonetheless. So, I'm off to rock and roll.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Technology, weight, and prose
I think I've found a job. I'm expecting a second call early this week. From Home Depot. It's something right?
I've been trying to slow my digital life. I think technology is wonderful but sometimes it does get your head spinning so fast that it's nearly impossible to find peace. I'm working towards employing a tech sabbath. It's at least a though now.
I'm also working on losing some weight, which is weird to talk about for me. My sister called me Ribs when I was younger because I was rail thin. But somewhere around 25 my metabolism went on strike and we have yet to work out a collective bargaining agreement. So I have an oldschool (yet space-age looking) exercise bike that I have been spending quality time with. And I've been counting calories. All of this sucks. I would have eaten more and better food when I was younger if I had known about this day. Blarg.
So technological peace, weight watching, and the third leg of the trifecta is: novel writing. I'm completely starting over. [shock!] I'm currently reading Leif Enger's Peace Like a River and it is breathtaking. The story is great but the prose is ... Why I read. So shouldn't that be why I write? I completed the novel once and by that I mean I completed the framework and I have some idea of where I'm going. Now I'm going back to write lovely prose.
Check back with me in six months about the weight, six years about the novel, and six decades about peace.
I've been trying to slow my digital life. I think technology is wonderful but sometimes it does get your head spinning so fast that it's nearly impossible to find peace. I'm working towards employing a tech sabbath. It's at least a though now.
I'm also working on losing some weight, which is weird to talk about for me. My sister called me Ribs when I was younger because I was rail thin. But somewhere around 25 my metabolism went on strike and we have yet to work out a collective bargaining agreement. So I have an oldschool (yet space-age looking) exercise bike that I have been spending quality time with. And I've been counting calories. All of this sucks. I would have eaten more and better food when I was younger if I had known about this day. Blarg.
So technological peace, weight watching, and the third leg of the trifecta is: novel writing. I'm completely starting over. [shock!] I'm currently reading Leif Enger's Peace Like a River and it is breathtaking. The story is great but the prose is ... Why I read. So shouldn't that be why I write? I completed the novel once and by that I mean I completed the framework and I have some idea of where I'm going. Now I'm going back to write lovely prose.
Check back with me in six months about the weight, six years about the novel, and six decades about peace.
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