I’m just … keeping busy.

I keep meaning to write movie reviews, I’ve seen so many movies already this month. But the movies I liked the most you probably won’t get a chance to see. Last night I watched Green Street Hooligans, and it was the best film I’ve seen since I watched I Love Your Work at the Scottsdale International Film Festival. So, Green Street is still playing in town at a couple of theatres for at least a couple of days, but I Love Your Work … not so much.

But now I’m late for work. Sigh. Maybe more later.

I’ve just stumbled across something for the first time that has been going on since before I was born. I’ve never heard of it before.

Also, as you may recall, I attempted to do exactly what they do there, on the same weekend, with the same rules for myself. Yes, I not only made up the same set of rules, but I implemented it at the same time (though shifted one day to suit my work schedule, Friday-Sunday rather than Saturday-Monday) and produced a work of approximately the length that their participants create.

Except that if I’d known about it, registered, and paid the fee, I almost certainly would have had that extra little kick of motivation I needed to get to the end of the thing. Not to mention that someone would actually read it, definitely, when I sent it in, and maybe I could have won - and the winner gets published.

I’m so clever. I invent things that people thought of before I was born. Things that are well known to people in whatever field it is my idea falls into. And then I do it the hard way, on my own, or not at all - not learning that it’s all been done before, usually better, until after the fact. Hooray me!

230lbs this morning.

Got to stop eating too much. Got to start exercising. Got to kill these voices in my head.

((Okay, I was kidding about the voices. Killed those years ago.))