I don’t know why I’m doing this, but I am. To get it down. So I have some kind of focus or something.
Things I’d like to get done before the year ends:
- Write a new draft of that book-like thing, and see if I can convince anyone to look at it*
- Submit queries to some agents about the above thing (like maybe 20 queries before year’s end)
- Get in touch with Jonathan Coulton and see what he thinks about touring with these guys
- Put on this benefit show in the fall (with those same guys above and maybe Isabella and Her Dinosaur; what about the Bitter Poet?) on behalf of Vela
- Have a reading for Everything’s Going to be Okay and decide if it’s worth putting on somewhere (like maybe at CPT)
- Run this race with Tom
- Travel somewhere with my dad for a week or two
- Focus on my two favorite people as much as I can, especially during these occasionally bumpy times
- Plan a bike trip to Scotland and the Edinburgh Fringe, maybe for 2019?
- See a Major League Soccer game or two
- Stay gainfully employed
- Visit a college campus or two
- Try not to be a jerk
- Collaborate on that old piece about Robert Smith with Jessica for FronteraFest (assuming she’s still up for it)
- Keep trying to figure out why I am the way I am and why I do the things I do**
**That last one may be the most important, I don’t know. But I can’t focus on it ALL the time. Plus it’d be sorta narcissistic, so just keep it simmering
* If you happen to read this, and happen to be interested in reading a chapter or two here or there, please get in touch with me and I’ll gladly and gently send you a small file (and maybe buy you a cup of coffee)
