Okay week

Career: Got denied from both positions I applied for, so a little bummed about that. But I did setup a meeting for next week about another position

Writing: Nothing

Reading: Finished Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut. It was fine, but I didn't like it as much as other Vonnegut books I've read. It's about the lowest ranking memeber of the Nixon administration that sent to jail because of Watergate and he recollects about his early life as a young man at Harvard and about the working class and labor unions in the present day at the time of the story. It's fine, but not a lot happened in it for my taste. It also lacked a lot of the dark and detached sort of tone of the Vonnegut books I've liked (i.e Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Craddle).

Art: Nothing

Like I said okay. See you next week

Cool little update

Career: Didn't apply to anything. Haven't heard back from the two positions I applied to I mentioned in the last log

Writing: An iota of work on outlining a novel. I have a few ideas percolating from just that little work, but I haven't put those to paper yet

Reading: Finished The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien. It's a memoir of the author's time in Vietnam peppered in with some fiction he wrote. It's okay. I remember seeing kids in high school having to read it for class and that's what prompted me to buy it a while back. I am glad I read it but I'm not over the moon about the book.

Art: Nothing I did but something cool happened to me. I got scouted! Saw the message this morning, and honeslty was shocked. My art is a bunch of crappy MS Paint doodles. People who get scouted have legit talent. I did see in the message that if I submit enough low quality stuff to the portal I could get unscouted so what better motivation to learn how to create art. Learning basic fundamentals would be a good start. But enough about my self-doubt and lack of talent because I want to express me gratitude. To whomever scouted me, thank you so much! In a way I feel as though I've been knighted. I'm glad that inspite of, or maybe because of, the simplicty and crudeness of my art, people enjoy it. And that one of those people took the time to scout me. It's humbling to know someone likes my stuff enough to do that for me. I am honored and privileged to be scouted. And I'll work to retain that honor and privilege. Thanks again for scouting me!

A good week I'd say

Career: Applied for two positions at work. One I'm not expecting to get and one that looked more attainable. Let's see how those pan out.

Writing: Finished the outline to my novella. I've written part of a chapter, but plan on scrapping that and going along with the outline. I think I'll write better with a skeleton of a story to put muscles and tendons onto.

Reading: No reading

Animation: Nothing

Like I said a good week, not a great week. Speaking of week, see you this time next week. Week.

Decent week. I'll think I'll pare down on some of these goals for the time being until I can think of other and how to best maange my time. Got to find ways to put at least a little bit of time into stuff so it'll eventualy snowball in terms of progress and accomplishment.

1. Career: Applied to be in a program at work and attended a meeting about information about another program. Also checked out grad school. I think I'll have to bite the bullet and eventual go to grad school.
2. Writing: Wrote a little bit more on a novela, but I'm stuck. I should circle back, write a synopsis and general plot outline. Keeping the stuff in me head and not on paper doesn't work out. I also think I should exercise in some way before writing because trying to write while just sitting in a chair like a bump on a log is not inspiring. I also need to listen to records and not to Youtube, because YouTube distracts me way way too much. Going to be raiding a notebook I have with stuff written in it to start up more writing projects. Getting it off the notebook and/or out of my head and onto the computer will make my brainspace so much neater.
3. Reading: About two thrids of the way through No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Excellent so far. I love the scenario the protagonist falls into and how the antagonist hunts him down, more so out of principal than desire for money or murder. Plus llewelyn Moss might have the most Welsh name in all of American fiction.
4. Art: Nothing on the animation front, but made an MS Paint doodle of a pirate flag. People seemed to really like that one as it's easily the most reviews a piece of mine has even gotten. Maybe there's a pirate trend going on I'm not privy to?

Also tried to setup FightCade. I think I did get it but I think I'll need to do more testing on it. I'm woefully inept when it comes to computers and dowloading stuff like that, despite the videos I've looked at. My ineptitude causes intimidation, but I think I might have it down pat. I just wanted to go online to play Third Strike and Marvel 2. I'll get shalcked, but losing can be fun, too. See you all next week.

I know Febuary is the shortes month of the year, but to me it feels like it drags on forever. Plus, we had Leap Day which prolonged it by a whole nother day. March is finally here! I'm looking forward to leaving Febuary and Winter in the rearview and moving toward Spring, March Madness, and baseball.

I can't believe I did nothing to commerate 02/24/2024, the 42nd Annual Chris Chan Love Day. I'm such a naive slow-in-the-mind for missing it. In honor of this True and Honest occasion, I'll link a few of my favorite Chris Chan videos:

Chris' message to Ivy (warning: extreme cringe)

Rollin' and Trollin' (I can't express how badly I wish this video was real)

I'm workin' on it! (Everything about this video is comedy gold)

Electric Hedgehog Power (Chris Chan goes into supermode)

The story of Chris Chan is a story I discovered in 2017 and I've been following it ever since. Even with the mountains upon mountains of evidence verifying the veracity of it all, I still have trouble at times wrapping my head around how all this stuff can be real. But you have to take a deep breathe and accept it, because it is real. As always, go out and zap to the extreme!

Going to make this informal. I applied for another job and I did finish reading Lord of The Rings. But that's it. I didn't work on writing or animation or nothing. I want to do these things, but being at the begining intimidates me and I push it off. The lack of progress is frustrating, but the intimidation of starting remains. Just bums me out. I'm not going to delve further at risk of this becoming a diary entry, but does anybody have any takes on starting a project and maintain concentration on that project because I'm at a loss? Any former procrastinators want to chime in and give some advice to a current procrastinator?

Some progress, but not a lot.

1.Primary

a. Writing: Nothing. I got off track with the sickness I had about the week before this most recent one, and I didn't do a thing. I think I just need to outline more stuff and work on multiple things at once. Something about the prospect about focusing one on thing is very daunting and kinda dull.

b. Career: I applied to 3 more jobs. I reviewed this applications with me superior at work, and was informed those jobs had too high a rank for me to qualify. I'll pay more attention to that in the future.

c. Health & Exercise: Same with writing. Gotta get back into that.

d. Animation: Not a darn thing. I have to stop focusing on one thing and jump around

2.Secondary

a. Building: I finished me set of Beaver Stadium last Sunday. It's pretty cool.

b. Reading: Read through more of Lord of The Rings. (Spoilers) I got to the end of the Battle of Pelennor Fields. It's so amazing. The destruction and how dire Gondor's situation is is gripping. Denethor's detoriarating mental state and his suicide via fire is disturbing in an interesting way. If you aren't hyped when Eowyn kills the Witch King, I don't know what to say to you. (End of Spoiler) I also read more of this book about unleashing your inner artist. It mentioned how to produce anything and to get inspired, you need to constantly show up to create. I feel very necessarily called out.

c. Programming: Nada

d. Music: Nada

3.Tertiary

a. Videogames: Nada

b. YouTube Watch Later: Nada

c. TV: Nada

d. Music: Nada

4.Miscellanous: Nada

Piss poor week in a lotta respects. I need to re-establish routines and create some new ones. Something about focusing one on thing feels intimidating to me. I think it's because I feel it will take forever and then I have to do something else that would take forever. I should start dabbling in multiple stuff here and there. Get at least a little progress on stuff down so I can eventually get snowballing on multiple things. That should work more. My mind is so unfocused that I should just lean into how it actually works instead of trying to reign it in to focus on one thing at a time. Until next week.

Going to make this one quick and informal. I've been sick all week so that's sapped a lot of my motivation and I've taken medicine that is quickly putting me to sleep. I want to post something before I'm too tired.

1. Career: Applied to 3 jobs, and got denied by 1. Bummer because of the 3, that was the one that interested me the most. Just gotta keep applying
2. Writing: Did some character outlines for a novella I want to write.
3. Execerise: Stopped doing the curls across my body and starting lifting them behind my head in a way that exercise my triceps. I like that much better.
4. Building: I started work on the Beaver Stadium set I have. Got about halfway through it. Should be done tomorrow.

That's everything for this week. Being sick just sucked all the wind out of my sails, but heres to healthy week next week.