I had a long day of actual work yesterday. I had to slug it down to Laguna Beach to meet with an eclectic florist. It was fine. I was concerned about the drive home in the dark. I got back okay, but it was stressful. I had two more power list items to do, but I scrapped them to finish the report for work and watch the end of game 2 of the World Series. The Nats won big. Then I watched Rachel Maddow and as much as I could stomach of Sean Hannity before putting on The Invitation on Netflix. Good movie. It reminded me of a Hitchcock film in a way, like Rear Window, where everyone thinks the protagonist is slowly going crazy but his paranoia is validated at the end.
I didn’t work on Lucky Day yesterday. I’m a little concerned that I won’t have the outline done by November 1. I suppose that’s okay. I suppose I just need to have a good chunk of it written so I can start into NaNoWriMo. I can flesh out the rest during the month, potentially.
I also didn’t read. That’s a bummer because it doesn’t take very long to read a chapter. I think I’m about halfway through The Phantom Tollbooth. I got a notification from the library that it’s due soon. I’ll need to renew it so I can finish.
I was able to exercise. And morning pages got done. I also wrote a Facebook post thanking an author I reached out to for his time. It was a good karma post. Gratitude and all that. I also need to post something at least once a week.
I’m scheduled to have lunch today with a producer I worked with a while back. He’s at MGM now. I have to race from either Long Beach or Lawndale from a 10:00 AM client meeting to make it to Beverly Hills at 11:30. It’ll definitely be cutting it close. I was thinking I should remember to snap a picture and post about it on FB. Something along the lines of “Non Novel Writing News (NoNoWriNew?).” It’s silly, but it’s all I got. It’s just a general lunch. He’ll probably just want to know what we’re up to.
I’m going to try to reduce the pressure I’m putting on myself to complete so many tasks. But there are so many tasks that need completing. I feel the weight of everything in my chest. It’s part financial pressure and part bruise from a broken heart. My blood pressure is high, or at least it was from my last visit to the doctor in August, but my cholesterol is okay I think. I took a baby Asprin yesterday. I don’t know if it helped.
