Day 5, In Which I Wear Pants

Welcome to a shitty picture of me in interview attire. I can't even tell you how surprised I was that these pants fit. The last time I wore them was in 2004 when I was eating chicken breasts and working out everyday. Sure they were a lot more roomy back then but the mere fact I can button these pants closed without popping a vein is amazing. I confirmed a 1:30PM interview with a dude at an internet startup last night around 1:15AM. I am convinced that computer people run on a vampire's schedule. I had not planned on being up until 2AM, but I was busy doing what I said I would not do - EDITING. I stopped myself before I lost too much of my word count but I went from 6,014 words to 5,559 words then back to 6,014. I deleted and rewrote 455 words. This took 2 hours. I wasted 2 hours to be back where I started but I feel somewhat better about the changes I made. I'm just glad I stopped when I did or my word count would have decreased to something ridiculous, like... 18. When I looked at the clock I figured I'd just throw some coffee down my throat in the morning and I'd be fine.

My alarm went off at 8AM and I immediately reset it. I had given myself some wiggle room in the morning and predicted the resetting of the alarm. I know me so well. I managed to crawl out of bed at 9:30 and didn't even need the assistance of coffee. I hopped on the bus downtown for a meeting I had set for 11AM to test a new blog feature the fine folks at Freebase are working on.


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Built to Spill

Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their most recent...

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Musical Genres: Indie rock

Place Musical Career Began: Idaho, Boise

Active as Musical Artist (start): 1992

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Demos were done on wordpress and it made me want to move out of blogger. Another project I can take on to procrastinate from writing. While I'm at it, I should start going to Bikram 6 days a week again.

Afterwards, I had timed it so that I would have room to grab lunch and make it down to Bryant St. for my interview but I received a voice mail while I was at Freebase asking to reschedule.

This cleared up time for me to wander around the FIDI in search of VEGAN FROZEN YOGURT.

Which I couldn't find. They've either closed or I am stupid. I didn't remember the address but I had a general idea of where to look on Sacramento and well, I didn't see it so I went home to take off the interview attire and get down to writing.

I started but found my brain wandering. I fiddled with the playstation controlers. I made some popcorn. I read. In an hour I wrote a paragraph. Then Blinky decided she'd rather be on top of my laptop instead of at my feet and she would not stop until I gave in and cuddled.

I needed to leave the house.

I made my way to Haight St. to Coffee To The People. I've written there before and I remembered they had decent vegan treats to fuel myself if need be. While I did putz around online a bit I managed to get another thousand words or so done. I can't say that my plot is going anywhere but in reading some Nanowrimo tactics to move things forward I've realized that I can kill someone off if I want to keep things moving. (thanks d@n) Sweet.

I'm going to give it another try tonight and see if I can squeeze anything else out of my brain. We'll see.