Random Musings of a College Dropout

My mother is a new woman. Not only did she get a completely new haircut, she took control of the situation with my father. My parents have been going through a separation for about five years now. Over here you need to be separated for four years before you can get divorced. My mother has been... Sign in to see full entry.

okay, so the tree is up, decorations adorning it. The Christmas present are wrapped, some only-really only half way through the shopping list and the grocery list is being made with my usual requests for rum and chocolate. (Really it isn't Christmas for me unless there is rum and chocolate.... Sign in to see full entry.

I would have added an entry sooner...if my internet was working. (GRRR..ok I'm over it) I have been thinking about the this whole book deal gig again. I have sent off an enquiry letter to another agent and I'm awaiting any type of response. But the longer it takes the more I wonder if I'm really cut... Sign in to see full entry.

As wonderful as this book opportunity was, I, in the end, didn't take it. I read the contract they sent me by email. It was by email-I was expecting a hardcopy and I wasn't expecting it so soon. That made me feel like something wasn't right. So I googled them, the agents. What I read about them was... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Update: The agent is NY is very interested. The review was positive and the most delicious words I have ever read in an email were written to me: ''We would be proud to represent you'' Delicious right? All I need now is a critique done, to see what needs a-polishin'. But even so, the beginning... Sign in to see full entry.

Okay I know I haven't been around as much. I know, I know, I'm sorry for that. The only time I get to write daily is after I get back from work. And we all know what happens to me when I get back from work, so I'm not going to open up that pandora's box. Sugar sips cup of coffee to focus herself. I... Sign in to see full entry.

I have come to realize that the music I listen to has one thing in common. A saxophone. Or at least, a pretty large big band in the back ground, with a saxophone as part of the wind section. 'I must have been a saxophone player in a past life,' I tell myself, 'Or at least married to one.' I imagine... Sign in to see full entry.

The girl I work with today had a dilemma. She and her boy had been going out only a few months and now he was proving to be uninterested in her blaming it in college work. A couple weeks before today she had said to me that she sent him a text message to check in with him, see how everything was,... Sign in to see full entry.

Nothing makes you hate people more than working in the service industry. Nothing makes you want to curse yourself for not taking a sick day than a customer who thinks they are completely right and you, the sales person, is a compulsive liar.Let me tell you this now. I may get paid to smile, I don't... Sign in to see full entry.

Book update: the agent in NY is interested. I feel nauseous because of that. It's only the beginning and I may need to try and try again but this is the furthest I have ever come and hope that the manuscript will no longer just be sitting there collecting dust. Those 500 hundred words took, oh...a... Sign in to see full entry.