HOME:

• Dishes
• Vacuum
• Scoop litter
• Make bed
• Laundry
• Repaint bedroom, or at least paint an accent wall – maybe a mural?
• Install shelves
• Chuck that IKEA-looking piece of shit and find a real dresser
• Find something for wall over fireplace
• Remove yucky moulding behind couch
• Repaint window wall
• Repaint wall over fireplace
• Finish tiling bathroom
• Replace vile, 1970s, pre-fab kitchen cabinets
• And ugly tile backsplash
• Tile kitchen floor
• Buy flowerboxes for windows

Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement*
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
La vie c’est épatant

CURRENT (soon to be former) PROJECT:

• Review contract
• Haggle for best possible deal
• Scan innumerable releases & clearances into PDF format
• Replace & remix music tracks
• Redub final edit
• Send to distributors

Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
La vie je la comprends

NEXT PROJECT #1:

• Pester writer for final rewrite
• Call & book lead actor
• Create shooting schedule
• Budget for two different locations – compare cost
• Find money
• Find/hire creative team
• Shoot and have film in the can before Sundance deadline

N’allez jamais trop vite
Vous aurez tout le temps
Attention à la dynamite
Prenez garde au volcan, à ces gens énervés
Qui ne savent pas aller

NEXT PROJECT #2:

• Apply for every reputable screenwriting competition under the sun
• Find screenplay grant money
• Find topic-specific foundational support
• New Shooting Schedule
• New Budget
• Revise Business Plan and Offering Documents
• Producer query follow-up, round #2
• Schedule writer’s reading
• Find Yiddish lyricist
• Begin agent search
• Burn more reels
• Send more queries

Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
En flânant gentiment

GENERAL – WORK:

• Seriously look for barista / waitress job close to home
• Prepare self mentally for very real possibility of having to call temp agency
• Outline next screenplay that’s bubbling over in brain
• Write short story for Gina
• Finish next four half-begun TNB posts
• Start writing more short fiction
• Find outlets and be brave: SUBMIT

N’allez jamais trop vite
En aimant simplement
Pour avoir de la réussite
Soyez très très prudent
L’amour alors viendra
Se blottir dans vos bras

GENERAL – LIFE:

• Find free events in order to keep social life active
• Learn three new chords on the guitar and start learning to finger-pick
• Lose last 12 lbs.
• Overcome phobia of bicycling outdoors
• Call Grandma
• Be more patient with my mother
• Forgive my father
• And myself
• Drink less
• Love more
• Be less afraid
• Of everything

Tout doux, tout doux, tout doucement
Toujours, tout doux, tout doucement
Comme ça
En flânant gentiment
En souriant gentiment
En flânant gentiment

• Close eyes

Tout doucement

• Breathe.

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* Tout Doucement by Clausier/Mercadier
(click link to hear song)