Author: Teel

Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.

Renewal

So, I just took a nice little walk down to the rental agency now handling the lease on the house I live in. There, I filled out the form to request that my lease be renewed for another year. The current lease ends 6/30/2002, so I knew that within the next 15 days or so I would be receiving notice that I would have to renew or leave, and how more much they expected me to pay to stay. I decided that this year I would pre-empt them. Partially because I wanted to ask to be able to paint the interior walls of the house, and the current lease says I’m not allowed to. Partially because since moving to Tempe I haven’t lived anywhere longer than about a year, and I really like it here, and unless they raise the rent an insane amount, I’ll still be able to afford it, with or without Angela paying half. So, now I’m going to go program the VCR to tape TV for me while I write, write, write. Yep. That’s what I’m going to do.

Novel update – 4.2.1.0

Nothing. I keep writing nothing. Getting no pages done. This afternoon I came home from work and .. I don’t even remember if I looked at my mail at first, but I decided to lay down for a short nap. I set an alarm to wake me up after 30 minutes, and two and a half hours later, my phone rang; Angela couldn’t get in the front door because I’d locked the deadbolt. The three hours I’d thought I could get some writing done in, I slept through. Then I had to choose between two shows; normally I’d watch one and tape the other, but I didn’t want to miss Dinotopia, so was already taping that. A little more TV. Then grocery shopping, now sleep. No writing. Except this.

That comic I posted earlier? I actually wrote a week’s worth of comics while I was watching Sunday night TV. Multi-tasking. Except I can’t seem to type or even really concentrate on coming up with ideas for the novel while I watch TV. So, you may see some more comics as I continue to watch TV and continue to feel bad about lost productivity while watching TV. Tomorrow, at least a few pages. I’m sure of it.

I hope.

I like this story

From a site I’ve never seen before today (go read the whole thing): “The short version of the story is this: I met a girl in 1987 who I thought was amazing. Fifteen years later, today, I kneeled on the uppermost knoll of a hill we’d bought together, and asked her to marry me. She said yes, and subsequently, we were surrounded by 85 cows.”