Account Ability

This check-in post always seems to happen right after I hang up the phone with my brother Eames. He functions as my other half in the creative process. (I think I have effectively stopped nightmaring about his death. And am focusing on appreciating his pulse. Which is good.) He made my day yesterday, when he texted to suggest we start helping our youngest brother, Sean, with SAT prep via group skype... and make weekly conference calls to our nana & g-ma/g-pa. Awww, isn't he sweet? I accused him of turning into Michael Bluth, which is quite possible because he's been marathoning Arrested Development lately. Like I have been marathoning Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It is my soulmate of a TV show. I have never loved a series with more of my heart muscle. I would marry it, if I had to marry a TV show. Have you seen it? It's on Hulu. The theme of The Creative Process is at the core of its winning premise. Checkitout if you feel the spirit move you. Can't say it helps me in my journey away from Procrasti, though...

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I find it challenging not to start every sentence in a blog with the pronoun "I." I am constantly finishing a sentence, and then going back and changing the beginning. I make that my personal challenge - to start most sentences NOT with "I." I have ignored that instinct during this commercial break to prove how annoying it feels to start every sentence with an "I." And scene.

So...

1. Eames is going to get back to me tomorrow on the quote for a prototype for our bible verse in the shower stickers.

2. He decided to co-write the rest of my screenplay, and is going to try to establish a system in which we are both seeing the same computer screen & can write together while I'm in DC and he's in LA.

3. My professor is finally sending me her feedback tomorrow morning. I kindly cornered her after class tonight. She said the words "It's a good paper. You'll be fine for the ESRI Conference." She implied I wouldn't be fine for a non-student-research venue, and confessed all proposals are accepted. But she said it was a good paper. Clinging to that.

4. My uncle is coming to pick up all my cousin's furniture & decorations from our apartment, so she can move home to CA. Which means I will need to do some art projects to put on these walls... I have a 3'x5' hardboard I want to paint & graffiti write some of those Oblique Strategies @ creativity onto. That is my first step. More decorating projects to come.

5. My classmate Justin agreed to partner with me and prepare an analytical response to a case study for a contest. If it's acceptable, we will present our response via PowerPoint at the ESRI conference, and answer panel questions. Scary but exciting. My comfort zone continues to expand...

6. The Volunteer Coordinator position for GW's International Education Association became open last week, and I was elected to fill it. New responsibility. I hate responsibility. Avoid it at all costs. At least I used to. This is the new me. Full of energy and hope and excess initiative.

7. I skyped w/ Eames & Steve about their screenplay, they revised it, and I will read the new copy this weekend before a second round of edits.

8. I need to come up with questions for my interview w/ Eric @ One World Education on Friday. The goal is to write an article about the curriculum this org develops for a homeschool mag. It's time (tomorrow) to research potential magazines to query & other articles published about OWEd.