Bonus Saturday

So, I was supposed to do my post on thursday...

Yeah so it's saturday now, but I swear I can explain...

In short, I've been busy.  REALLY busy.  My typical day begins at 7am and I don't get back to the house until 10pm (on good days); and I'm not talking about Mon-Fri I get up early and don't get back 'till late, I'm talking about every day.  I won't go until exact details of my schedule, but let's just say that between tutoring, reading, and working at the restaurant, I've been contemplating cancelling my NetFlix subscription (total 1st world problem, I know) because I haven't used it in two months.  I don't recall the last time I sat down to play a video game (which is good), or went to the theatre (i've been to two movies in the last month, at least).

The crazy things is: I don't mind being so busy.  I feel like I'm constantly setting goals and achieving them.  In the last month or so, I've read about 8 books, not including the 6 novella-length comic book trades, and I've completely re-written an old story I wrote a while ago.  The trouble is I'm too busy doing the things that's preventing me from diving head-first into my writing career.

First, I REALLY hate my restaurant job.  Granted, I've had worse managers, worked longer hours in worse conditions, and have had to work with some of the dirtiest dirt bags ever, but I'm working really hard for pittance pay in something that is very much unrelated to what I want to do.  People (not my father) have said that I'm a pretty smart dude.  Working in a restaurant... well, let's just say that it doesn't necessarily attract the biggest and brightest minds of our generation, and the disparity between my intellect and the people around me has never been so... stark, I think.  Last Sunday, I actually contemplated asking the manager if I could just not come in that day.  While it's certainly not the #1 most dreaded thing I've ever experienced in my life, I don't recall having to drag myself into work as much as I have with this job.

Second, my tutoring job is... alright.  The kids are cute, and listen to me (mostly), and they seem like they are getting better at English.  The problem is that while I'm getting paid significantly higher than my restaurant job per-hour, I spend time outside the tutoring sessions preparing lessons, and I spend money out of my own pocket to have enough teaching materials to keep my students invested.  I could ask the parents to help buy the materials, but I feel that it would be better if I could own the materials myself so that I can use them with my other students (and not one specific family).

Paying the bills is great and everything, but I need to do some more research on entering contests and fish for more literary agents, and yet I haven't found any time to do it.  I still need to read Nicola Morgan's "How to Write a Great Synopsis" for the Caledonia Novel writing contest, and I need to parse out photos on my laptop for my daily photo posts, as well as continue to manage my twitter account to grow a following, not including reading all of the blogs and articles I find on there to help me write better.  Not to mention that I haven't worked that much on the sixth revision of my novel.  Not to mention all of the day-to-day chores I haven't been able to address yet.

My car looks like the nest of a homeless person, and I still need to send in my insurance info to the hospital that fixed my hand, while also getting the appropriate documents for my car, while still paying my speeding ticket (I was late to one of my tutoring sessions), while still looking for a job that will replace my other two jobs. 

There's just not enough time in the day, and I'm actually thankful that I introvert hardcore enough that I don't need much social interaction, otherwise socializing would also cut into the precious little time that I have.

I'm seriously contemplating taking the month of November off to participate in NaNoWriMo, and I think that the break would be good for me.  I've been also thinking about future living arrangements, something that will get me out of the house so I can work, allow me to work late at night, and be okay for me to knock out for a few hours if needed.  Not too sure what the solution will be, but I'm always open to suggestions.

I think my next post will be a short review of the Harry Potter series.  I'm expecting to recieve a lot of hate for it.  Sorry!

Thanks for reading, and hopefully I'll see you next thursday!