In case you were curious...
Yes, I did finally get that ominous Statement written for the grant proposal and got it all off in the mail on Monday. (see relevant post somewhere below.) I am now polishing up my grant acceptance speech! Even as I type this...
We shall see. [Insert all prayers and offerings on my behalf here. Thank you.] I was told by the "Grant Foundation" that it would behoove me to attend the panel discussions in December when they begin the process of voting on the grant recipients; that it would be "edifying" for me to experience the whole process. Well, gee, I don't know. I guess I'll wait until December and then see if I feel like shooting myself in the head at a public grant-voting panel discussion or not.
Well, it's been a crazy few days. Working on the new short story, which is, as always, under a tight deadline since I seem to schedule everything really close to the bone around here. Working out as much as possible -- the yoga and the walking. I am training for a 10K walk in September that I let a friend talk me into doing. Not sure why.... but I did. Alas. I am also on the jury for the upcoming Columbus International Film Festival and have "judged" 10 films already, with a few more yet to go. And I managed to attend the 48 Hour Film Project screenings last night. I volunteered to give out ballots and those little tiny pencils to everybody. It was a lot of fun and the films -- all nightmarish, time-constraint hellish things considered-- were quite watchable and most of them were actually pretty good. In my very opinionated personal opinion, while I liked quite a few of them, Dead or Alive: A Zombie Romance was probably my favorite. It was too fucking funny.
Which reminds me, in a round about way... the girlfriend says she has never seen the original Night of the Living Dead. It is really hard to imagine that, but that's what she claims. Since I happen to own that lofty film on DVD, guess what we'll be watching on Halloween? (Is that, like, a truly creepy film or what, gang? The first time I saw that movie, a million years ago in NYC, it creeped the shit out of me.)
Well, okay, on that lofty Autumnal note.... I gotta get back to work around here, gang. Thanks for visiting! See ya!
We shall see. [Insert all prayers and offerings on my behalf here. Thank you.] I was told by the "Grant Foundation" that it would behoove me to attend the panel discussions in December when they begin the process of voting on the grant recipients; that it would be "edifying" for me to experience the whole process. Well, gee, I don't know. I guess I'll wait until December and then see if I feel like shooting myself in the head at a public grant-voting panel discussion or not.
Well, it's been a crazy few days. Working on the new short story, which is, as always, under a tight deadline since I seem to schedule everything really close to the bone around here. Working out as much as possible -- the yoga and the walking. I am training for a 10K walk in September that I let a friend talk me into doing. Not sure why.... but I did. Alas. I am also on the jury for the upcoming Columbus International Film Festival and have "judged" 10 films already, with a few more yet to go. And I managed to attend the 48 Hour Film Project screenings last night. I volunteered to give out ballots and those little tiny pencils to everybody. It was a lot of fun and the films -- all nightmarish, time-constraint hellish things considered-- were quite watchable and most of them were actually pretty good. In my very opinionated personal opinion, while I liked quite a few of them, Dead or Alive: A Zombie Romance was probably my favorite. It was too fucking funny.
Which reminds me, in a round about way... the girlfriend says she has never seen the original Night of the Living Dead. It is really hard to imagine that, but that's what she claims. Since I happen to own that lofty film on DVD, guess what we'll be watching on Halloween? (Is that, like, a truly creepy film or what, gang? The first time I saw that movie, a million years ago in NYC, it creeped the shit out of me.)
Well, okay, on that lofty Autumnal note.... I gotta get back to work around here, gang. Thanks for visiting! See ya!
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