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 (just the) "Pity Party" Entries My Brain Is Your Stock Market August 8, 2008 So my "good days, bad days" answer to "how are you" doesn't cover it anymore, now that I'm seeing some patterns, getting a handle on the specifics of my symptoms. I've just come out of a two week slump which was starting to make me think I was doing worse than ever. It's now been seven months since my head injury. I'm reading/flipping through Gail L Denton's Brainlash again. This year, it's the only book I've been able to (slowly, missing much) get through, cover to cover. I'm reading it again because (a) the library only had an earlier edition, and now I've got the latest one and (b) I don't remember what it said the first time around. While "good days, bad days" is generally true, there are also good weeks and bad weeks for my brain, and good and bad brain days within (and relative to) both of those. But, according to the books, this is normal, and I should view bad weeks as "resting on the road to recovery" rather than backslidery. Fair enough. So my brain's like the stock market. Fluctuates day to day, and even has longer periods of decline. But even taking into consideration the down-months and even down-years (talking about the stock market here, hopefully not my brain), there should be an overall uptick. So here's where I am, roughly...
Continue reading "My Brain Is Your Stock Market" Filed Under: Brain Injury, Journal, Pity Party, Writing Life  Server Move Almost Complete June 14, 2007 I try not to post about difficulties and frustrations until I think I'm through them. The past two weeks of moving servers remind me why: had I posted day-to-day it would have read like someone self-destructing. And who wants to read that? Aw, who am I kidding? Everybody does! The highlights:
Some of it can even wait until morning.
Well She Used to Have a Carefree Mind of Her Own May 23, 2007 So they've gone and canceled Veronica Mars and George Lopez, my favorite current television drama and sitcom, respectively. Usually I'd be a lot more appreciative of an additional hour and a half per week to play with. But everything comes at a cost, I suppose.
My Luck is Back in Balance June 22, 2006 Two firsts, two days before I leave for Clarion. 1. External hard drive failure. I probably have backups of the important stuff, but I gotta figure out what was on there before it died. I was moving a lot of stuff around, trying to limit it to what I needed at Clarion. This was a long process that now must practically start over. 2. I recorded for 4+ hours this week, mostly for the Clarion podcast, and it's all unusable. I accidentally hit a reverb/echo effect button meant for guitars and there's no way to remove it from the spoken word audio. I didn't discover it until I was all done, and was about to start editing. In 2.5 years of using this machine, that's never happened to me before. Crap. Crap. Crap. And I was just starting to feel like I was getting ahead, too.
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate. Blog Archives 2008 - Clever Label TBA 2007 - BadYearNoCookie 2006 - Clarion! 1st Pro Sale! 2005 - Peers and Peerless 2004 - Telltale Launch 2003 - Dog bites, acting out 2002 - In my mind, I'm going... 2001 - Marriage, Macs, 1st Cons 2000 - Setback, Milestones 1999 - Engaged, Graduated 1998 - Creative Independence    Powered by MT 3.35 MySpace Profile Technorati Profile |
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