Just a random post…
June 15th, 2009
Hello, all! Hope everyone’s day is going well. I’m a bit tired but doing good. This upcoming work week is going to be hell on me. Heh, yesterday was hell on me. I’m not cut out for manual labor and that those few in and of themselves sum up the greatest understatement of all time- honestly. That aside…
I have tomorrow off and then I have the next seven days on. I knew it was coming, this is summer after all and the tourists have slowly been filtering in. I should be happy but… I’m not. I know I need the hours and every hour I work is money but I don’t look forward to all the aches and pains, the working up to my elbows in other people’s food, the cleaning and scrubbing, the lifting and running. It’s all a lot to go through and each time I find myself wondering how I’ve managed to make it through the day.
Then, aside from the physical aspects of my job, there’s the stress. Constantly alert and listening, trying to stay one step ahead of everything else. Fixing the machines, counting the plates, trying to estimate and predict what we’re going to run out of or need next. It’s… tiring… In fact, writing about it is tiring too so I’m just going to stop.
I’ve been working on a new project. Well, not working on it per se so much as tinkering with an idea or two… or five. I’ve been thinking about taking my best writings from my blog here and putting them somewhere else, a WordPress.com blog perhaps, so they get a little more attention and when I want to show off my writing I can just give people that link so they don’t have to sift through all my bloggy stuffs. I don’t know yet though.
It’s not like I’d have to give it much of my time, just upload new bits of my writing now and then (with my desktop blogging software that’s no problem) and make sure my stuff isn’t stolen. Another perk of putting some of my stuff up there- uncluttered by other things is that I could use it as a writing portfolio of sorts. Hmm.
The more I think about it the more I want to give it a go.
I’m curious to know what others think of this idea.
i always just note with those is that if you ever want to send it out for publication you should take it back down from the internet :)
but i also LOVE self-publishing so go for whatever makes you happy!
@ Jessie
I’m still making up my mind about this one. I ‘know’ the chances of making a living off my writing are slim so I don’t really write for that but I do write to share it- that’s the whole purpose to me so I suppose if I can’t get published elsewhere and lack of payment isn’t an issue… the self publishing is starting to look better and better with every keystroke I make. :) Once I make up my mind though I might just have a bunch of new writing to show off to you. ;)