End of the Year

Well, the end of the year funk has set it - Christmas has passed and New Year's is looming. Between those two signposts there lives a time of quiet dread - where you review your life and decide what to resolve to do in the next year. Those resolutions are, by and large, laughable and disposable - you can promise to work out, to save money, to be nicer to people, to dance like nobody is looking, etc, etc - most of those will have been tossed to the side by the second week of January.

I know a few things to be true:

1) I do not want to be here this time next year - when my lease is up I wanna be prepared to move somewhere...anywhere

2) I'm sick of talking the talk about wanting to do something in entertainment (writing/acting/directing, etc) and want to start walking the walk - I am definately not getting any younger and am probably already on the far edge of the median age for those who work in the industry anyway

3) I am prepared to move to California - this has been a recent development. My friend CH tried to get me to move there years ago when she was there and I was never in the mood for it - it always felt wrong. Now I have a few friends who live there and would be okay with moving there

4) I know that I know nothing about writing for television (which, I think, is what I want to do most) and so I know that in order to learn these things I'm going to have to teach myself. Failing that, I need to do long distance networking via some of my friends in Los Angeles...

Other than that, everything else is up for debate.

In other news - it is freaking cold today! I'm one of those whiners who complain about how it doesn't feel like Christmas at 70 degrees but now that it turned low 30's overnight...well, shut my mouth and turn up the heat!

Also, have discovered the Scissor Sisters and am loving their album Ta-Dah - can't wait to collect 'em all :)