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TO DO:
HOME:
- Dishes
- Vacuum
- Scoop litter
- Make bed
- Laundry
- Repaint bedroom, or at least paint an accent wall – maybe a mural?
- Install shelves
- Chuck that IKEA-looking piece of shit and find a real dresser
- Find something for wall over fireplace
- Remove yucky moulding behind couch
- Repaint window wall
- Repaint wall over fireplace
- Finish tiling bathroom
- Replace vile, 1970s, pre-fab kitchen cabinets
- And ugly tile backsplash
- Tile kitchen floor
- Buy flowerboxes for windows
Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement*
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
La vie c’est épatant
CURRENT (soon to be former) PROJECT:
- Review contract
- Haggle for best possible deal
- Scan innumerable releases & clearances into PDF format
- Replace & remix music tracks
- Redub final edit
- Send to distributors
Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
La vie je la comprends
NEXT PROJECT #1:
- Pester writer for final rewrite
- Call & book lead actor
- Create shooting schedule
- Budget for two different locations – compare cost
- Find money
- Find/hire creative team
- Shoot and have film in the can before Sundance deadline
N’allez jamais trop vite
Vous aurez tout le temps
Attention à la dynamite
Prenez garde au volcan, à ces gens énervés
Qui ne savent pas aller
NEXT PROJECT #2:
- Apply for every reputable screenwriting competition under the sun
- Find screenplay grant money
- Find topic-specific foundational support
- New Shooting Schedule
- New Budget
- Revise Business Plan and Offering Documents
- Producer query follow-up, round #2
- Schedule writer’s reading
- Find Yiddish lyricist
- Begin agent search
- Burn more reels
- Send more queries
Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
En flânant gentiment
GENERAL – WORK:
- Seriously look for barista / waitress job close to home
- Prepare self mentally for very real possibility of having to call temp agency
- Outline next screenplay that’s bubbling over in brain
- Write short story for Gina
- Finish next four half-begun TNB posts
- Start writing more short fiction
- Find outlets and be brave: SUBMIT
N’allez jamais trop vite
En aimant simplement
Pour avoir de la réussite
Soyez très très prudent
L’amour alors viendra
Se blottir dans vos bras
GENERAL – LIFE:
- Find free events in order to keep social life active
- Learn three new chords on the guitar and start learning to finger-pick
- Lose last 12 lbs.
- Overcome phobia of bicycling outdoors
- Call Grandma
- Be more patient with my mother
- Forgive my father
- And myself
- Drink less
- Love more
- Be less afraid
- Of everything
Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
En flânant gentiment
En souriant gentiment
En flânant gentiment
- Close eyes
Tout doucement
- Breathe.
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* Tout Doucement by Clausier/Mercadier
(click link to hear song)
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