I would like to say that Live It, Love It’s TMI Thursday entry, while potentially unsettling for some, just cracked me the hell up. I won’t give it away, but here’s a snippet:
It was absolutely awful. I was getting closer and closer to hysterics as I started imagining having to go to the E.R. and (gulp) explain what had happened.
Any time a story includes that, you know it has to be good, right? If I’d been drinking anything, it would be all over my keyboard and monitor right now. It’s completely SFW, but if any of you menfolk are squeamish about a woman’s funky fresh flow, I’d skip it. This TMI Thursday is something I learned about at the recent blogger happy hour. I’m not 100% sure I want to participate, but I will definitely enjoy reading others’ contributions.
going out for co-worker's birthdays seem like such a good idea. especially when its flip night and you get all of your drinks for free (because we're ballers like that).
but when it comes time to wake up at 6:30 to go in for your internship and you still smell taco bell on you breath, waking up doesnt really happen.
suddenly your 8:00am court turns in to 1:00pm court.
Do you remember a time when your work was fun? Do you remember when you looked forward to going to wok? (If you don't remember these things, then you'd better start taking a closer look at the career you've chosen for yourself!) When you remember these good times, see if you can make a list (preferably written) of all the things that have changed since then. You might consider making two lists: one list of things that have changed for the worse and another list of things that haven't changed but should have (like a raise you didn't get or a promotion you were passed over for).
You may not be aware of it, but, if your list is quite extensive and if you're feeling restless, irritable and discontent with the current state of your career, this can prove to be very damaging not only to the future of your career, but also to your relationship with your spouse and your family, and even your health. Everyone's job description has changed over the past (relatively) few years. Downsizing — if it hasn't dumped you on the open market — has forced everyone with any responsibility at all to do more with less. Have you discovered that you've become your own support staff? Do you find yourself working later and later to try to catch up with an ever-increasing backlog? Are you and your laptop now joined at the hip, or do you find yourself handling business at all hours away from the office on your Blackberry or iPhone? If so, you have a lot of company!
Today's Thursday, November 20th. I have ten days to find 30,000 words within myself. Sounds like the odds of a bad sweepstakes. Today was supposed to be a 5,000 word day. Instead, I slept. And now, at 9:30 am I'm ready to venture out into the 25 degree (feels-like 14 degree) weather and do Hill Sprints (capitalized because it is a proper noun, trust me).
At 1pm I start my 10 hr shift. Every 30 mins is spoken for and that by design at the beginning of the month.
No rest for the novelist. I wish noveling was all there was...
I read roughly three chapters of the novel to E the other night. She said, "Not to insult you, but that sounds like something you didn't write- it's really that good." Can I say, I took her comment as a huge compliment. I'm still wearing the badge around the house. Showing the dogs and glancing in the mirrors and microwave door at my reflection.
Well... I'm still alive, the Sun's still a blazing glory, and I haven't dropped off the face of the Earth yet, even though I keep looking for the ends. But, I've finally come to the conclusion that the Earth IS ACTUALLY ROUND and limitless. Who'd'a'thunk? :) Things have been incredibly Amazing, and incredibly bizzy, and time has been flying by as fast as cats on a polished hardwood floor. Geesh, it's already THANKSGIVING, and I'm wondering where the year went? It's been a most extraordinary year though, and lot's of crazy stories to tell around the campfire someday. However much I'm enjoying this really Late Indian Summer, I'm still missing the SNOW. If you know me, you know that I LOVE THE COLD --> WHEN THERE's SNOW ON THE GROUND. Otherwise, it's just cold. So if anyone knows how I can get a hold of Jack-Frost or Ma-Nature, gimme their number or e-mail address, and I'll write a strongly worded letter. :) I can be very persuasive when I try. ;)
You ever have one of those mornings where your body seems to take over all functions and you run on automatic? You manage to get up, clean yourself, get dressed, grab all necessary items, make it out the door and maybe you’ll actually wake up when you’re already a few stops in on metro or bus. Now, you ever have a whole week of those mornings?
That’s kinda what it’s like sitting down to my desk in the morning. Opening my e-mail and seeing what transpired in the 15 or so hours that I’ve been away from here. Usually someone or another hunts me down in the morning and my first response is “What did I do now?” I actually find this throws them off just enough to let me get the social upper hand or at least time to stall.
The current issue of H magazine has a nice piece on the history of Vanity Fair portraits, including this heavenly image of a 20-year-old Rob Lowe all but having sex with the camera, shot by Nan Goldin (who's my friend's cousin and does he have stories!). Vanity Fair -- featuring the work of Edward Steichen, Herb Ritts, Mario Testino, David LaChapelle and Annie Leibovitz -- has certainly provided some of the most memorable celebrity photos in recent memory, including Demi Moore pregnant, Demi in nothing but an artful coating of paint, Brad Pitt on a beach and Madonna as Marilyn, and Madonna pigtailed on a pink floating ring.
The article ties in with "Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008" now on display at the L.A. County Museum of Art (through March 1), which is the only exhibition of photographs from the magazine’s historic archive, ranging from the early days (1913-1936) to the contemporary publication (1983- present). It also coincides with the magazine’s 95th birthday, as well as its 25th anniversary. As Graydon Carter, editor in chief, told H, making his selections was no easy task. “We had a remarkably vast archive to choose from,” mentions Carter. “David Friend, our editor of Creative Development, and I went through all 570-plus issues of the magazine…and selected several finalists. We focused on classic pictures; photographs that defined the subject, photographer, or time period and surprising, lesser-known images that felt especially fresh upon re-discovering them.”
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