I'm not really a big caffeine drinker, although I do usually have a single cuppa or Diet Pepsi per day. However, as Reg decided to come over just as I was falling asleep last night, yadda yadda yadda, I came in to work late and had a big cup of coffee. It's quite lovely how you burst out the other end of clarity when you drink that shit.

So I had to make a lot of copies yesterday, so I was busy thinking. Lots of thinking. Although it was mainly just reflection. Even though I wasn't actually thinking about my novel, the simple process of thought put me in a good mood to work on it later. Broke past 23K last night, yay. Will try to work more on that, apply for jobs, and finish my income tax tonight.

I hadn't checked my email for that stuff all week, so I went for it. Quite a few mails, and even a couple of positions that didn't require seven (SEVEN!!) years of experience in the industry. And then I went through Monster.com and applied to almost every job even saying "BS in Computer Science required," since that's why I got that damned thing, right? To get jobs? Finally I went to Volt and put my resume up there. I actually worked with them before, when I was first thinking of moving out here, but nothing ever surfaced. They mainly, as I recall, tried to put me in contract positions doing testing at MS, but everyone I interviewed with said I just wasn't experienced enough, despite knowing my shit. Ah well. I got more experience and an MCSD now baby. Of course there's also this damn non-recession.

And then of course watching The Royal Tenenbaums totally made me want to get into script writing again, but last night I sort of passed out around 10:30 so that was a washout. Oh well.