I'm terribly slow at getting my fiction submission-ready, so it'll probably mean a drastic change in writing habits, even though I'm pretty disciplined already. But I wrote the Raven Electrick sub, another 2500 word fiction sub, and the roast of a former professor all within three days at the end of Februrary, so I know it's not impossible.

For my 200th submission, I've decided to combine a previously published children's poem of mine and a photograph (right) I took on the Appalachian Trail outside Hot Springs, NC in '03, Photoshop the hell out of them (see the left-top of this post for the tentative result) and enter it into this year's Community Art Project. I've been looking for ways to be more artistically active in the community beyond just theater and I'm glad I caught this opportunity in time.

And speaking of community theater, Katja Hill, an actress and director who I worked with in Deep Dish Theater's Hedda Gabler and my own Tommy PSA is directing a staged reading of Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets as a fundraiser for Common Ground Theatre in Durham on April 1st, and she's asked me to take part. Few rehearsals and no required memorization means that I can actually fit it into my schedule. Didn't think I'd be back on the stage so soon, but I don't want to pass up a chance to work with her and Tom Marriott again.

And finally, in addition to this quarter's Writers of the Future and Community Art Project entries, I'm doing two multimedia projects, also due at the end of this month. The first is for Wizard Magazine: a superhero related short comedy film. Previous winners of this annual contest have leveraged the contest into comic book writing jobs. My short is a cartoon parody of Captain America set in the Vietnam war, and I'll hopefully explain more when/if it can get done. Let's just say I got to use my Sean Connery impersonation. No promises that I'll have the time or skill to add mouths.

And then, if there's time after all of the above get finished, and I don't get too far behind with Telltale, I'll push my limited science background to the test with the Pirelli Relativity Challenge.

Phew.

Oh yeah, the rain part. Rained yesterday, but didn't stop me from visiting Chapel Hill Comics at its new location on opening day, and a less-than-pleasant-customer-experience trip to Kinko's to get prints of the poem/photograph.

Cold and wet, but a good day.

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