Life and Juggling

If you had asked me during my senior year if I'd still be involved in theatre in college, I would have most likely told you no. But here I am almost 25 and I am working at a University production service. Sure I'm married and still writing. I even manage to play a fair amount of video games. But there are times where I have maybe a day a week off. Don't get me wrong, it is fun at times. Its just that I wish it could be a more regularly scheduled thing. Yeah, I know, its theatre and that’s just not how it works, but why not? Yeah, I chose this job so I don't have a lot of room to complain, but honestly sometimes it sucks. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't married, but I am and I want time with my wife. That’s why I need to get published, so I can spend more time with my wife and less time working the problem is that writing takes time, and when I am so often pressed for time it becomes hard to dedicate much time to writing. Especially sense I still need to sleep and eat. If only there was a way to eat while sleeping, enough to hold me through the day. In high school I wrote a paper comparing life to juggling. In juggling, especially with objects of various size, you have to understand the weight of each object and the amount of force it takes to get that object into the air. Though admittedly far more complicated life is very similar. Each of us must strive to discover how much weight and importance each aspect of our life should have so that we can give it the appropriate amount of time and energy. It is something that we must make second nature. Just as a juggler judges, without a moments hesitation, the forces required for each new object as he lifts them. It is something I haven't mastered yet, but am working on.

P.S. I didn't draw the picture,

April 4, 2009

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

This is a video that David Levine shared with me after a Facebook conversation we had about Muses. It is really interesting and I found it inspiring. So here it is.

Character Without A Story

Joe

Walking onto the stage arms spread wide, cane held a loft in his left hand, he eyed the crowd seeking to catch every eye. A tall man of average build, his mop of fiery red hair was only upstaged by his burning goat-t and brows.. The black button up shirt, trousers, and mirror shined shoes only worked to make his hair seem to dance like flame. His cane tapered towards one end with gold end caps and adorned with a swirling red orb on the top. After a moment, when the crowd quieted, he threw his cane high into the air. Spinning himself around, he caught the cane in his right hand and brought the point down hard against the stage with a resounding “crack!”
“Ladies and Sirs!” he shouted, “Sirs and Ladies!” Quieting only marginally he continued, “Tonight you will see daring feats of courage and exotic dances that will tear at your soul. You will hear a song to boil your blood, and finally, a tail of such astounding danger and mystery that you will not sleep peacefully for the rest of your lives.”
He bowed deeply, one leg stretched behind him. His cane held outstretched and his left arm folded behind his back. He held this bow, his face not a foot from the stage floor, for what seemed like forever before he stood back up and strode off the way he’d entered the roar of the crowd pulling at him to return to the stage.

Five Movies That Describe Me

Stranger Than Fiction
It reveals my semi-compulsive tendency and also my tendency to not only treat my life like a novel but also to view my life as a novel. I have some weird structures to the way I do things: like jelly beens, which I eat in twos; or skittles, I eat one of each color until I can't then I eat them in order of the color with the most left, I also do that with M&M's. I also do the whole step counting thing, sometimes with out knowing it.


Dan in Real Life
It is just really kinda scary how similar it is to our family. Watch it and you'll see.


Tron
Enough said.



Stargate
There are three movies and a ten season TV series all of which are just what they are. Think Daniel Jackson.



Martian Child
A quirky author whose only fit is a child with an extremely overactive imagination. I'm not sure how else to explain it.

December 16, 2008

Lego Creations

This is a Lego creation that I made about a month ago. It is the combination of a Lego creations set and some various castle pieces that I had on hand.

New Blog

Jess thought that if she made a joint blog for us that things might actually get blogged about. So she did with the encouragement of Jason who was in Utah doing research and spent some time visiting with us. Visit it and enjoy. She has already posted five times today. Post title is the link.

October 24, 2008

Caption Cal

The Standard Examiner in Ogden does a weekly caption contest. The image appears in the paper and, after a week, the winner of the contest's caption is used with the image in the next week's paper. Jess's biological father and his wife enter quite often and so they asked us about a caption for this image and we proceeded to submit it. We won so we got a t-shirt and a copy of the comic.

October 20, 2008