Chapter 50.25: Eight More Weeks!

I'm facing a deadline. I told myself that I'd have my novel revised by the end of the year so I could show it to a young director who wants to consider it for a future film project. While I like the idea of the story being put to film, I'm not sure this is the time to start working on a screenplay. Yet, I need to revise the book for myself, too. I want to move on my second novel and also start searching for an agent. That's not a task I will take lightly, as there are too many sketchy characters working in the field. But I won't find anyone worth my time if I don't have a book worth a good agent's time.

And 2006 is fast running out of weeks.

Chapter 50.2: Ouch

What a beautiful autumn weekend! Perhaps I deserve what I got, but after jogging five miles Saturday morning, I spent much of that afternoon chopping away at some of the large branches that fell during the recent windstorms. (There's something oddly satisfying about whacking the hell out of something with a hand ax!) Today, I followed that bit of exercise up with a full day of raking leaves. I didn't realize how much a few trees can dump onto a small yard. My whole body aches. I'm almost looking forward to the work week to rest up.

Chapter 50.1: Next...

At least the junior senator from Massachusetts has apologized for his stupid comment. Now, if the Democrats are able to take control of the senate, let's see if John Kerry has any significant committee chairmanships come his way. I just don't see that happening, because he is responsible for the October surprise this year -- almost two years to the date of his failed presidential candidacy. Perhaps it's close to time for Kerry to put his name into the hat for the open president's job at Harvard.

Chapter 50: Taking One for the Team?

I've not yet read any articles about it, but apparently Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) commented that our soldiers are "stuck in Iraq" as a result of President Bush's policies. I've noticed that he's taking a lot of heat for it, but at my first blush, I wonder if he's essentially returning the nation's focus to the president, where Republicans are particularly vulnerable right now, in order to deflect anything away from the senate and house races that might hurt Democrats. Perhaps it's only a way for Kerry to keep in the public eye during an election in which he's not running for anything. Either way, short of an outrageous and almost instantaneously proven allegation, my mind is already made up on my local elections.