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December 17, 2002
watching dust collect
So, work this week has dried up like Joan Collins' face. We have work coming down the pipeline, but for now, it’s been a bit of a dry well. After the hellacious start to the month, I am welcoming the respite, even if doing nothing fundamentally irks me more than the fact the “Big Country: Greatest Hits” has the nerve to exist.
So how have I been filling up the time?
Mostly I have been doing a copyedit on what has been written of “the novel”. You’ll notice that I have not mentioned this bad boy in about 3 weeks because, well, I haven’t touched it. I justified to myself that 50,000 words in 30 days while maintaining work AND a life was a bit too daunting. Plus, really, every article I read about any author contains the fragment: “…the culmination of years of back-breaking work…” so I didn’t feel so bad.
The first third took a lot more out of me than I was prepared for. Writing 2,000 odd words at a time took a lot of effort, especially since inevitably it was the last thing I did that day. Also, as my harshest critic (even here, believe it or not, given some of the slop I write), getting anything into MS Word was a labor.
But, given some free time at work, I printed out what I had, and lo, it didn’t terribly suck. I even forgot certain passages that I had written, which meant I came to them, for all intents and purposes, with a fresh mind. It definitely gets better as it goes on, as I read myself figuring out where the darn thing is going. The beginning definitely needs work, but I need outside opinions on what to fix; I am way too close to the words to really hack away at the legs they stand on.
What else have I been doing?
---Reading Gina’s website
---Listening to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Original Broadway Cast Recording
---Wondering why no one ever commented on my supermarket article, which I really liked
---Feeling my beard grow back in
---Learning the lyrics to "The Ketchup Song"
friday night it's party time
feeling ready looking fine,
viene diego rumbeando,
with the magic in his eyes
checking every girl in sight,
grooving like he does the mambo
he's the man alli en la disco,
playing sexy felling hotter,
he's the king bailando et ritmo ragatanga,
and the dj that he knows well,
on the spot always around twelve,
plays the mix that diego mezcla con la salsa,
y la baila and he dances y la canta
Chorus:
aserejč ja de jč de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva,
majavi an de bugui an de buididipi,
aserejč ja de jč de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva,
majavi an de bugui an de buididipi
many think its brujeria,
how he comes and disappears,
every move will hypnotize you,
some will call it chuleria,
others say that its the real,
rastafari afrogitano
he's the man alli en la disco,
playing sexy felling hotter,
he's the king bailando et ritmo ragatanga,
and the dj that he knows well,
on the spot always around twelve,
plays the mix that diego mezcla con la salsa,
y la baila and he dances y la canta
Repeat Chorus
This might take a while.
Posted by Ryan McGee at December 17, 2002 03:43 PM
Comments
The Ketchup Song? Dear heavens, Ryan, how low will you sink?
Posted by: shannon at December 19, 2002 02:05 PM