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February 26, 2008
Stupid Socks
So, I hurt my back picking up a pair of socks on Sunday. How lame is that? I'll tell you how lame - it's all the way lame. Thus now I'm moving around at a snails pace and spending a lot of time on my back. My office chair is apparently secretly some kind of torture device and I just never noticed, because any time spent in it leaves me feeling particularly nasty, so I've relocated down to the dining room and its nice, firm, straight backed (but well padded) chairs. It still throbs a little, but at least I'm getting work done.
Every year I actually watch the Academy Awards. I really do. Have for years. Don't really know why. This year I was out running my weekly Call of Cthulhu/Adventure! game, so I didn't watch it until later that night on Tivo. Now that's the way to watch the oscars - mostly in fast forward. Saturday I'd gone to see There Will Be Blood, and I'd already seen Michael Clayton and No Country For Old Men. I really like all three of the movies, but maybe just because I'd seen it so recently I was really rooting for There Will Be Blood. That movie just blew me away. So did the other two come to think of it, but there was just something extra special about There Will Be Blood. Plus it's based on an Upton Sinclair book called Oil! and I really like the idea of book titles with exclamation points in them. I think I'll have to write one some day.
Speaking of writing, I'm off and running on my new novel, which is set in a video game company. It's nothing like Geek Mafia really, in that it's actually set in the company and focuses on a low to mid-level employee and all takes place in one long night. There's a lot more to the idea than that and I'm purposefully not telling you the actual big hook that gets it going. This is an interesting experience for me because I'm working on it as part of my MFA program and this is the first time I've ever shown anyone any of my ideas or chapters before I've completed a first draft. It's kinda exciting that way.
And hey, Lost is awesome this season. Just awesome. So awesome I might even buy the video game that comes out today just to get more Lost in my daily diet. Although the fact that I can't find any reviews at all is probably not a good sign. I'm going to wait for at least some hint that it's ok, but I'm willing to buy it even if the average rating is only around 7 out of 10, which is my low threshold for games that have a topic that especially interests me (whereas there doesn't seem to be a score high enough to make me buy a racing game that's not Mario Kart). Well, my back needs a break - not that kind of break! - so I'm signing off.
Go see There Will be Blood!
Posted by rdakan at February 26, 2008 10:39 AM
Comments
Hey,
it's good to here your writing a new novel, I just love your books, do you have a title for this one yet?
Sorry to hear about you back, another victim of sockterrorism it seems.
Glad to hear the new season of lost is awsome, I can't wait till it's aired in Belgium.
I hope you publish your new novel aswell, not just for your MFA program but for the the public.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Kurt at March 2, 2008 06:54 AM