School Daze

I began this blog while sitting in the bright sun in the open quad of the community college where I’m currently working, during my lunch break.

Sitting here I think about how much has change. You see, this is the same college I attended oh so many years ago (don’t go there, you can figure it out.)

Since I was there several building have been torn down and new ones were built in their places. I spent many long days in the library. Wish I had this new library back then. The buildings they replaced didn’t fit with the original pre World War II architecture, but they tried very hard with these new buildings to make it match. Most of it looks like it belongs here now.

The new cafeteria and student center is fantastic as well. Imagine dinning hall from Harry Potter, but with out the floating candles.

What I was also seeing across the campus were all the students. College students are college students no matter what year they are from, but I kinda wish I had attended school this year and not when I did.

There are more geeks and nerds on campus and I would have fit in so much more.

Back then I would have been laughed at for having a SUPEMAN t-shirt. Now it's a norm along with others. Standing in line for lunch the other day I over heard a girl talking about her character in WORLD OF WARCRAFT. A couple of very muscular, could be football players, guys were playing a game of MAGIC THE GATHERING in the middle of the cafeteria.

Some girls, and some guys, go about with hair brightly colored that they look like they stepped right out of a Japanese anime.

Another girl went past me on her skateboard dressed in Steampunk gear.

I want to go to this school and not the boring one I went to.

Okay, I’m being silly, but I really haven enjoyed being back on campus for the last few months working on the school’s alumni newsletter. Maybe I’m being sentimental, but this job ends next Monday.

Looks like might be continuing part of the assignment, but not on campus. Not around all the cool kids.

Can I go back to school?

No. I don’t want to go back to school. I want to work. I want to work at a television studio.

A change in the weather, a change in the Deadline.

Hey, look, it’s Thursday evening and time for my weekly brain dump of a blog.

Thanks everyone who has been taking time out of your busy schedules to read my rambles. I really appreciate it.

This blog was always supposed to be about my writing and about my career. Sometimes, however, it became a place for me to vent and complain. I don’t want that to happen regularly.

A few weeks ago I wrote about my job search and how it hadn’t been going well, so I have been devoting a lot of my time to writing and drawing the webcomic FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY, my novel, my serial REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST, and this blog and pushing to keep a deadline for each one of them as if I was on a paid assignment.

It looks like my deadline schedule is about to change.

I have a job.

(I can hear you all cheering out there. No wait, that’s a cricket outside my office window.)

Yes, that’s true, I have a job. Or rather a short term, part-time job between now and this coming February, but it is a job.

I praise God for this job as I would any other.

Being a part time job of only twelve hours a week I should still have plenty of time to write. Hopefully I will find someone who will pay me to write, but I’m still going to write no matter what.

Which brings me to the shifting of my deadlines. I don’t want to really change anything, but know something has to give a little.

Each new page of the webcomic will still be posted on Sundays, and this blog should still be able to make its appearance each Thursday (as you can tell it doesn’t take much brain power). As much as I don’t want to, am going to post the serial every other week. Not only will it ease up my schedule, but I’ll be able to improve on the story.

I intend to post the next chapter this following Tuesday, and then two weeks later.

Thank you for your understand and support. It’s really been great to know that people are out there reading my stories. Know any publishers or producers you could point my way? (Seriously: Does anyone need an assistant for a couple days a week?)

Would love to hear from you either here in the comments section or at my Twitter account: Kevinpsb00

Thanks, have a great weekend.

I wish there was a lot more to post. Some great message to send out, but there's not.

For a writer the hardest thng to do seems to be to write.  I had hoped to write something related to the "Why we Write" essays done for the Writer's Guild strike support.  But after starting it three times i end up so off topic that it wasn't worth it.  In the end I will have something to say about it all, but not now.

Right now my main focus is looking for employment. A "day job" to have while I keep writing.  Not having much luck there either.

On the side, along the struggling with an animation saple script, I am working on a non-fiction book that may hopefully work as a Bible study guide.  I'll let you know how that goes.