An almost midweek week-in-review
10 June 2010
Interesting week, these last seven days.
- Won a contest I didn’t enter – tangible prize and everything (yay!). The original contest I entered rolled into another contest, which was pretty cool. Thank you to Lee Crystal and Outpost 13.
- Played drums at church for the third time in 12 1/2 years. I had told the worship leader that I don’t like to play music that’s in 3/4 time, just 4/4. Well, there were three 3/4 songs, one 6/8 song, one 4/4 song (yay!), and one song that had a repeated pattern of five measures of 5/4 time and then one measure of 3/4 time. The worship pastor hates me. I know it, deep down he hates me. It was so stressful. I was told by many people that I did great, but I still want to crawl under a rock to recover.
- Finished Diamond of Darkhold (which finishes one series I’ve been reading), reading Jumper: Griffin’s Story (which finishes another series for me), and have The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner in the queue (which will finish that series, again).
- Decided I am going back to school next year for a Master’s… unless something unforeseen comes up. I have off-and-on wanted to go back to school for four years now. I’m finally at the point where I am willing to dedicate the time and energy.
- Made five commitments on my time this weekend, overlapping commitments. It will be interesting to see how I survive. Two weeks ago I didn’t have many weekend plans and it was the busiest weekend I can remember. Maybe the one will work the other way around.
- Finished one round of edits on a short story for the FSFW anthology. Some friends, C. Michael Fontes and P. D. Wright gave me a little feedback and, as improved as it was, there is still a lot of work to be done.
> “Decided I am going back to school next year for a Master’s…”
I decided that once*. The eventual result was FSFW
* See http://forum.mysteryandmagic.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=3&post=1435#POST1435
Good luck on the Masters! So much work, but I’m glad I did it.
Thanks for the encouragement. I’m tired of being the guy with 211 semester units (all undergrad) and just a BS. Time to stop going back to JC and picking up extra courses and actually go for a target. I know it is the best choice for me in the long run, but I also know the time involved in such a pursuit.
Congrats on your decision to go back to school. I did that in my 30s and it was an awesome experience. A person tends to be more focused as a returning student than in their teens/twenties.
As for weekends, keep your fingers crossed. My rather hectic plans for a trip to LA just changed, and I’m now looking forward to a quiet weekend writing. My whole body breathes a sigh of relief at that idea.
I’m glad you won the prize. I just thought it fair to put those who entered the contest that was canceled into the drawing.
Nice to hear your helping out your church. I do the same for mine. I’ve become the PC tech support. (Including building new systems and worrying about related security and backup.) I even run our church website. http://www.tylerchurch.org