😀 Guess whose screenplay’s a finalist in a contest! It’s me, it’s me! Finally someone else likes that screenplay I wrote in ten days. Finally someone read it without just saying ‘you’re demented.’ 😛 Hehe, just kidding. Well, about the demented part. I really am a finalist in a screenplay contest. It’s not a really big one, but it’s still fantastic. If I win it’ll be $400 and something awesome to tack onto my resume. It’s just really nice to know someone likes what I’ve written, and likes it enough to compare it to the other finalists.
What I really want to happen, though, is to be one of the prize winners but for a different reason. Nowhere on the entry form did it ask for my age, and I’m peachy with that. I’d just love to know what they would think if they knew all that demented stuff came out of me. I thought the entire thing up when I was 15, finally wrote it when I was 17. I want to have it made by the time I’m 21. And I don’t care if they call me demented, it’s all symbolic and important. It’s about three people in a mental hospital, so of course it’s going to get a little deep and depressing. It’s my psychological study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mmm, yummy stuff that. 🙂
I don’t think I’ll win the Grand Prize, though, cause it’s a contest run by a fairly conservative group of people from the same church I go to. And, um, I swore a few times in the screenplay and I’m not sure they’ll appreciate that. It’s important swearing, but it’s in there and there’s no way to take it out. Nu huh. I like those words right where they are.
I also applied for a job today, isn’t that happy news? I was futzing around on my friend David H’s company’s website and decided to sign up for an email notice for when they had vacancies. I wasn’t expecting to hear anything, but this morning I got an email from them saying there was an opening for an Artworker. I sent my CV/Resume right over and now I’m all happy about it. I don’t know if I’ll get the job or not, but it’s loads of fun to think about. The company’s based in a cute little town on the Southern coast of England. It sounds like they have loads of fun there. David keeps telling me funny stories about company trips and such. It sounds like what ArsDigita tried to be but aD failed miserably in the end. However, Design Group has been around for forty years. I think they’re doing okay. 🙂
Wish me luck on those grand two bits of news. Cross your fingers, knock on wood, rub a buddha belly or a bald man’s head!
And now it’s time for me to grab something to eat, put on some make-up, and head out to that Sigur Ros concert. Hoorah!