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Date: 03 August 2006 22:59:18
Muchos on plate, however read this the other day and found it very moving, inspiring, sad and all sorts so thought I'd share.
http://i-strawberry.livejournal.com/46420.html
Been reading other threads at the moment, primarily concerning a young Brazillian musican who took his own live last week which is a deeply numbing thing to be a part of the reading of and must be doubly distressing to his friends, family and loved ones. It's been a very emotional week in these respects.
Keep trying not to dwell so much on the second thing so on to stuff. Typing away on a bus, as is my wont (and also as is the only place where I haven't got stuff to be done...) Brain somewhat overwhelmed by things that are time pressing atm. Tomorrow start doing FISH which is the Guildford Council Summer School for the fourth or fifth year in a row (can't remember... I've done, I think, four summer fishes and two Easter ones, something like that anyhow). Generally they are loads of fun, lots of work and leave me exhausted and massively grateful that I'm not a full time teacher.
Then, on monday, the arts centre hosts two weeks of Summer shennanigans, loosely entitled WYAC World. Basically we get 15 kids ((well, I now find out that it's 16 in the first week and 13 in the second, however one of our group members in the second week has aspergers and ADHD so in a lot of ways I'm grateful for the leeway (sp?)) in in each week and do the whole gamut of Arts centre stuff with them. Monday is percussion, rhythm, singing, tuesday dance and something else, can't remember off hand and haven't got the paperwork on me, Wednesday is drama and painting, Thursday is animation, Friday is tieing the whole thing into a ten minute performance... And then, the week after, we do it all over again.
During both weeks I'm in pretty much all of the time, bar the fridays which are both FISH related, so, three weeks FISH, two weeks World.
All told I'm shattered just thinking about the going into it, let along coming out of it.
Then, September is getting stuff ready for the next calendar year at the arts centre, back at college, then a journalism course, then musicianship all over again, sorting out the sponsorship for the proposed youth musical, then in October I'm doing a fair deal of stuff at the start and the middle of the Guildford Book Festival and then, I hope, throwing myself into the doings of the youth musical and a b-boy/hip hop/beatbox collaborative event we're participating in...
Busy, then. All of which makes it sound slightly bizarre that currently I'm slightly ahead in the writing of book 3, even after having a four day holiday with the fam. Bonkers. Anyway, in the book I'm at the third of the way through the narrative stage, just past the second big surprise and coming up the third one. Spoke to someone the other day and, again, was hugely gratified that, in book 2, no-one bar wifey had guessed the surprise that happened towards the tail end of the book ((which threw the fear into me, wifey normally not noticing narrative foreshadows. I always wish I could be there when people get to that part of the story, just to see their faces when what's said is said and, something that I hope is a good sign, I'm looking forward to a good few of those moments in Dr Sylver 3.
Also bizarrely I'm chasing work, sort of - kind of. Book 3 (or at least the book which I wrote between Dr Sylver books 2 and 3, completely unrelated to the series and a departure for me in style, had been described as unique and original and utterly appropriate to the audience at which it was aimed has recently been dropped by the mostly mainstream publisher that had picked it up. Hugely dissapointing, so now I'm trying to work out whether it can be mentioned to other publishers by me (although many have a no-submission policy, especially the mainstream publishers and that is specifically who I would like to have the book released by), whether I have to try and engage the services of an agent or what really. If I had any sense I'd leave the project for a few terms ((having finished my bus journey and been in work for the past three hours in the middle of that sentence just typed and seeing how much works on in the next term, not to mention the addition of a thorny problem that needs to be resolved between now and the start of the summer school..)) but there you go, if I can get something sorted out I will...
Anything else to report? Must, must, must add some images to the blog, shall get onto that later... Apart from that not much else, too busy to have anything interesting to report. Hopefully real life returns to this channel in the not too distant future. Sort of, vaguely, aware that I probably don't have time to do a sign language clas next term, which is a real shame especially as today I had my first dream in which the principle method of communication was sign language and, to top it off, I was actually OK and not at all hesitant. Not just one but two firsts then :-)
Currently listening to: Delirious?: Mission Bell. A tad conservative in comparison to Five Iron Frenzy which tbh is more to my tastes but was the first thing that the mp3 player latched onto so who am I to argue? Also I still think 'Paint the Town Red' is a top, top tune. Finished that, now onto the mighty 100hours: Stronger than my heart and now onto my third bus of the day and onto 100hours: Lift. Have you forgotten how good they sound? Man, I need to see them perform live sometime soon, I really, really do although, ironically, it looks like the next gig I get to go to would be the Delirious? tour. It's the circle of blog.... Currently playing: Exit: PSP. When time allows. Beginning to get that itchey feeling for new game hardware, this time for the Xbox 360 and some yummy Project Gotham 3 goodness but, since they've said there are some interesting plans for quarter 4 (which, yes, I know probably means a tackey new face plate or something) and the secondary fact that I have sqiddley dit time to actually play games, means that I probably shouldn't. That and the fact that the Nintendo Wii (stupid name aside) will be a compulsary purchase I should coco. Current socks being worn: Very plain grey socks.. Duller than dullness. What the hooting hecks happening? No wonder I feel somewhat tired: no cartoon characters on the sockwear :_)