I have been neglecting my few readers lately.

Here’s the latest (for those who care):

1. I spent 4 hours in a photo studio Sunday taking pictures of models. When I walked in, I had to inform them that I was a photographer–not a model. Apparently it’s not easy to tell. Now that I have almost 200 photos that need post work, I’ll be stuck to Lightroom for days.
2. My sister and her family returned unscathed from Southlands Mall in Aurora, CO where a tornado touched down Sunday–perhaps while I was blissfully taking photographs.
3. My novel has been edited. It may not be perfect (although I doubt there are errors), but I’m not going to spend years of my life perfecting every sentence. That’s just nuts.
4. My dog is still driving me crazy. Long ago, in a galaxy not far from here, he was trained. Now that training is mostly non-existent. Perhaps the dog was taken over by an alien dog being.
5. Had I been able to catch my black cat flying across my desk, I would have taught him a lesson too. After the flyby, I spent 20 minutes cleaning up the water the cat spilled from my full glass.
6. For some unknown reason, another cat continues to poop under my dining table. Sprays and carpet cleaning have not stopped him. Removing the dog has not stopped him.
7. My last job interview resulted in a rejection email a week later. No explanation. Phone calls have proven ineffective. NEXT!
8. Novel is being marketed. Now I wait.
9. I have editing to do on a friend’s autobiographical stories. I have avoided doing much for a couple of months. It’s not like I’m getting paid to edit. It’s major editing. The few stories I have edited are almost entirely red (editing feature is ON in Word). I spent an hour on it today with the author.
10. Against my better judgment, I lent my Indiana Jones (Crystal Skull) DVD to a friend. Any bets on when it comes back? How many times will I have to call to remind him?

That’s all for now. I think 10 is a nice round number. Not too many to read, and it looks like I have been up to something.

Well, I got my answer about the job interview last Tuesday. They’re not hiring me. I’m disappointed because I thought I answered everyone’s questions and represented myself well. I’m getting tired of continually sending out resumes and getting rejected. Frankly, I’m not sure how my web presence helps or hinders–thus I’m not listing the company name here. I do know that one of the people had done some Google searching on companies. While he didn’t say that he typed my name into Google, he probably did. He likely knew far more about me than the resume told him. So I’m back to searching for a job–which I’ve been doing while waiting. It has been a lean couple of days though.

It has been awhile–again–since I last wrote. I’m going to catch up on everything that has been happening. In the last two weeks of May, I had two phone interviews each week with two different companies, and one in-person interview. I’m waiting to hear more about that interview since I was the first person they interviewed. My critique on the novel came back, and now I’m waiting to hear from my agent. Lots of waiting right now. I’m feeling rather itchy about the waiting.

I also received an unexpected email last week about some flash cards that I wrote and never heard back on. Although the email was about getting paid, I haven’t heard anything further for at least a week. I’m sure that I’m not missing the emails. It had been months since I first heard anything, so I had given up ever getting paid on the work I did. Another week of no responses to my two emails doesn’t sound good if I expect to get paid.

I have been getting to a movie nearly every weekend, which I’m enjoying. The latest was “Up.” Now if I could just come up with an idea for my next novel…