The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | January 31, 2007
Did a little bit of writing today (just a character building exercise for class, and I’m not sure how effective it was, but at least it was writing, which I didn’t do yesterday because I was busy writing an article). I’m exhausted, it’s nearly midnight, and I’ve been on the go since eight. Tomorrow is [...]
Dan | January 29, 2007
After attending all of my classes today, I realized that I really need to mellow down on what I’m doing, so I’m putting off volunteer work until the end of March. There’s just no way I can work, schoolify, and be a good citizen for the next seven weeks. Sorry, world.
Wrote another big chunk today, [...]
Dan | January 27, 2007
Went to dim sum with some friends this morning, gorged on steamed pork buns, then ran into a friend and had a donut. Thus fortified, I went to Cafe Velo Rouge to do some homework. No seats, I went on, passing several different places, eventually settling on the Oak Street Cafe, where I read two [...]
Dan | January 26, 2007
I think I’m going to title this story that. I’m really good at writing (admittedly funny) scenes with the characters that do absolutely nothing to move the story forward, mainly because I’m not feeling the story arc much after a month away from it. Note to self - don’t stop writing for a month, ever [...]
Dan | January 25, 2007
And no, I’m not talking about our national political situation. That joke is too easy. I worked all day, went home and made dinner, then headed over to my first workshop class of the semester. I had to bring a synopsis of my novel-in-progress, and so I did - going through it made me realize [...]
Dan | January 24, 2007
That’s my favorite Magnapop song (and I saw them opening for Sugar in 1994, so sit on that one for a while. Alternative rock, in the classic sense, is in my blood). I’m writing again, and it’s going slowly, and as I was thinking about how slowly it was going, the song popped in my [...]
Dan | January 22, 2007
I started working on the novel again just now, and wrote for about an hour. “Wrote” meaning “typed some words, frantically opened and closed windows on my computer and contemplated IMing people I don’t know so I could type without having to write something just made up out of my own head.” Terrified that nothing [...]
Dan | January 22, 2007
But I’d have to be working for these guys. My fave quote from this ad: “Everyone here has degrees from Stanford, Berkeley, or Bryn Mawr, but we’re open to other top Universities.”
Have fun recruiting people who can actually write with that kind of attitude.
Dan | January 21, 2007
I’ve finished a few books over the past week, most notably Eat. Pray. Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Places In Between by Rory Stewart. Both are travel memoirs in the loosest sense of the word; both authors view getting up and getting out as part of a greater, more spiritual quest.
I’m not as focused [...]
Dan | January 19, 2007
Wonderful news from over at Maya’s pad - her pal Katie woke up!
I’m not by any means religious, but I do believe in (to quote Rose Walker) weird shit, as I was explaining to a friend last night. I don’t know if the good thoughts I and other sent her way helped, but part of [...]
Dan | January 16, 2007
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Dan | January 16, 2007
Maya’s friend Katie is in the hospital. I’m not a pray-er, not religious, but I do believe in weirdness. And, perhaps if people send good thoughts, the weirdness will help her out. So, if you have some good thoughts to spare today, please send them towards Sacramento, where a vivacious young woman is lying in [...]
Dan | January 14, 2007
So if you want to know where I was, I suggest you check my Flickr page. Not much to add, other than that it was a much-needed, very welcome week away.
I wrote some song lyrics in my head on my way home from breakfast today, and I’m going to use them in a story - [...]
Dan | January 7, 2007
So I got a phone call last night, and it looks like I’m going on a fun little trip this week - I’ll be online if I want to, but..well, I won’t likely want to, other than to do some freelance stuff that’s a bit overdue. Pictures when I get back on Friday…
Dan | January 4, 2007
I’m having sock issues. I bought a bunch of socks less than a month ago, and as I took my shoes off just now, I noticed that one of them has a hole.
Coming on top of the disappearance of my favorite pair of thick winter hiking/skiing socks, this is kind of annoying. The sock demons [...]
Dan | January 2, 2007
I don’t write as much about music as I used to (one of my shortest-lived gigs was writing news for Pitchfork, but I stopped when they never printed my stories about Judybats reunion tours and kept putting up minute-by-minute updates on the bowel movements of that guy from the Dismemberment Plan), mostly because as I [...]
Dan | January 1, 2007
Well, I rang in the new year with a sore throat and a bit of a cold. Not exactly the rock and roll time that some people had on the turn of the annum, but it worked for me. I spent it with good friends, talking.
New Year’s resolutions? I don’t really do them. However, I [...]
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