Where did this week go?
I seem to be asking myself that question a lot lately. Every Thursday night I go over to my parents’ house for a few hours. My brother also shows up and this is how we stay connected as a family. The night has become known as ‘Six-pack Thursday’, which I find intrinsically funny since none of us actually drink beer. Well, Six-pack Thursday always sneaks up on me and I find myself asking 1) where did the week go and 2) what did I do with my time.
This week is a little easier to figure out. I spent time on my third and hopefully final draft of the children’s book I’m working on. I also spent part of a day reformatting three scripts so my co-writer can do his job easier. Good advice for writers who are collaborating, discuss and agree upon a format for your script prior to starting. You’d be amazed at just how different people set up their scripts. Monday was a wash since I was sick and part of Tuesday vanished for that as well. What I never got to this week was swimming or playing my bass. It’s a shame, I have three basses and they are collecting way too much dust.
The one highlight of the week came yesterday when I discovered that a licensed property I had pitched for but didn’t get suddenly changed and I am doing it. I am very excited about it since it’s both a title I love and a title that the average person on the street knows. It’s going to be a lot of hard work but I think the storyline is very cool and I get to play with a lot of great characters.
My final thought of the day has to do with the lunch I had yesterday. A friend of mine is about to pack up his family and his belongings and head off to Arizona. Part of me can understand the idea of going someplace that doesn’t cost a fortune to live and getting a house three times the size for less money… but going to a place where it’s very hot, you have to check for scorpions in you sheets and where you know nobody seems like quite a jump. How many of us see our friends and family on a regular basis? If I moved I would lose Six-pack Thursday… but how rare is it that people see their family once a week? I’m pretty sure yesterdays lunch was the first time I saw my friend since maybe February. So has the increased modes of communication actually lessened the need and desire for face-to-face meetings? Is it easier now to move away from everyone you know because in truth you really don’t see that many people, other than say co-workers, on a regular basis? There are far too many friends I can think of right now that I have only seen once in this calendar year… and far too few that I have seen twice or more.
We really are becoming a society of hermits.
I seem to be asking myself that question a lot lately. Every Thursday night I go over to my parents’ house for a few hours. My brother also shows up and this is how we stay connected as a family. The night has become known as ‘Six-pack Thursday’, which I find intrinsically funny since none of us actually drink beer. Well, Six-pack Thursday always sneaks up on me and I find myself asking 1) where did the week go and 2) what did I do with my time.
This week is a little easier to figure out. I spent time on my third and hopefully final draft of the children’s book I’m working on. I also spent part of a day reformatting three scripts so my co-writer can do his job easier. Good advice for writers who are collaborating, discuss and agree upon a format for your script prior to starting. You’d be amazed at just how different people set up their scripts. Monday was a wash since I was sick and part of Tuesday vanished for that as well. What I never got to this week was swimming or playing my bass. It’s a shame, I have three basses and they are collecting way too much dust.
The one highlight of the week came yesterday when I discovered that a licensed property I had pitched for but didn’t get suddenly changed and I am doing it. I am very excited about it since it’s both a title I love and a title that the average person on the street knows. It’s going to be a lot of hard work but I think the storyline is very cool and I get to play with a lot of great characters.
My final thought of the day has to do with the lunch I had yesterday. A friend of mine is about to pack up his family and his belongings and head off to Arizona. Part of me can understand the idea of going someplace that doesn’t cost a fortune to live and getting a house three times the size for less money… but going to a place where it’s very hot, you have to check for scorpions in you sheets and where you know nobody seems like quite a jump. How many of us see our friends and family on a regular basis? If I moved I would lose Six-pack Thursday… but how rare is it that people see their family once a week? I’m pretty sure yesterdays lunch was the first time I saw my friend since maybe February. So has the increased modes of communication actually lessened the need and desire for face-to-face meetings? Is it easier now to move away from everyone you know because in truth you really don’t see that many people, other than say co-workers, on a regular basis? There are far too many friends I can think of right now that I have only seen once in this calendar year… and far too few that I have seen twice or more.
We really are becoming a society of hermits.
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