August 30, 2011

• A List…

  What I’m learning recently…

  1. It’s easier to go potty if you go naked all the time
  2. It’s really hard to learn to pull underwear up and down… so just go naked
  3. The older you get, the harder it is to do everything
  4. Conflict is like a rollercoaster, with ups and downs
  5. If everyone is nice, that’s nice, but it makes a boring movie
  6. I can remember what movies some obscure Asian American actor has been in (and have seen them), but I have NO clue about his co-actor
  7. The idea is often better than reality, and making reality match the idea takes skill and talent, and sometimes I have neither
  8. We didn’t used to worry about Hurricanes so much before Katrina- they were a fact of life in the fall… now, we all go a bit crazy
  9. I hate painting ceilings- actually, I already knew that, but painting my parents’ new house reminded me
  10. I still jump when my father calls my name- irregardless of what I’m doing- and then I find myself holding an end of something, climbing a ladder, stuff I’ve not done since I was a kid
  11. If you have the beginning and the end of a screenplay, the middle doesn’t write itself
  12. I hate gardening– why does the outdoors have so many bugs?
  13. The more I learn, the more I don’t know
  14. Character drives conflict so move your character to place where there’s more people and watch the conflict level rise- get your character out in public- he/she’ll hate it as much as you do
  15. Just when I think I’ve learned HOW to do something, I discover the missing piece… and I have to learn HOW to do that too!
  16. People I admire are often hated by others in the same field for no apparent reason
  17. Losing sucks… even if it does make you a better writer and a stronger person
  18. So does accumulating rejection slips
  19. Xanga is always here. People talk about it dying and going away, but it never does
  20. If you say “help”, people will quit talking and pay attention to you, but while it works for a 21 month old, it’s a bad strategy for adults- even though some adults use it way too often
  21. It’s nice when you can clean out your basement and garage by taking boxes to your parents, but you hope that they don’t save them for your next move because you’re a little sick of moving right now
  22. Cars always require a bit more $$ than you have at the time
  23. Cars pretend to be cheaper than flying, but they lie
  24. Bug spray is the required perfume in the summer in Ohio
  25. Just because your lawn mowing kid went away to college doesn’t mean the lawn will mow itself now!

  You? What’s new?

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