Where did you get that coat??

i just had to take a second and post this.

If you want your very own coat like this:



Go to www.muchhalas.com and tell Simone that Justina sent you.

Sugar has a new theater!

Pre and post photos people! I'm not gonna give it away, but here's my new playground! (I'm not even gonna show the bells and whistles we got. You'll have to wait)

Before improvements:




After improvements:

I'm having a party on the 30th.

If you want details, it's gonna be all top secret. So get on the email list at splitid.com and you'll get an email.

If you're already on the list, I'll email you.

If you know me personally (which I think is all of you except Jack Mercer), then just call me and say "Wha? Party? Awwwwwwesome."

This space reserved

I got a whole thing about buying make-up called "buff beige" and my racial identity issues....It's all right here (taps head).

So watch out for the latest Justina neurosis....fear of having jacko-itis.

Here's me at Sugar Shack

photos are so much easier than writing....

check me out....

what happens when you know killer designers...

Do I have to call all these people back?

I have 20 messages in my voice mail.

Don't even talk to me about emails.

And the DMV doesn't have the paperwork on the car I sold so I owe registration unless I can go into my storage boxes and find the paperwork.

And I gotta find a job.

And I gotta now make a July 14th deadline with a screenplay.

I have no idea how to catch up with all this.

What gets done when a writer "writes"

1. laundry
2. fifteen unheard voice mails
3. solitaire high score
4. three really good leads for potential at home income
5. one sitcom

Exes

Sometimes cultures think they're evolving by taking long kept rituals and rites and tossing them out the window. Usually, it is replaced with a ritual that adds more freedom of choice. A ritual that lets the human who is living with the consequences make the decisions.

This is a bad thing.

Example: arranged marriage.

Why did we let this go?

When you pick your own spouse and do mating by trial and error, there is one fatal flaw.

You get exes.

I have an ex from about fifteen years ago who I adore. This is because we don't talk to each other. I have successfully expunged all exes from my life (a few I miss, so if you're an ex, please don't think I don't like you, I just think I still like you because you're not in my life).

If someone is not good to date, they're likely not all that good in the friend department. If someone chooses to stay friends with exes, aren't they actually claiming friendship as a demotion?

Wait, I gotta make sure. Okay, if I broke up with someone because they were selfish and manipulative, then I wouldn't "promote" them to friend. If I broke up with someone because they were selfish and manipulative, then I should demote them.

If I become friends with this person, then I'm demoting them to friend.

Oh....wait. If I broke up with someone because we're "different"...not bad...just different...then, hm....then they could be laterally moved to friend. But if I like someone, and we're having sex, I think that makes them a good candidate for mate-dom.

Different? Why dump a person for being different?

Okay, I'm really not getting why exes should stay friends.

Wait...wait...I got an ex who's cool. We really just didn't work sexually. Hm...But that was ended early. Early is good. Almost makes them not an ex, right? Er.

I got another ex who's okay. But I won't give details so all my other exes will think they're this paragraph.

Okay, so exes who are exes purely from being sexually imcompatible are cool for friendships. That's a lateral move.

Exes who are exes because they aren't one's vision for a lifemate..well, that's lame. This is lame action. Change vision, people! Date the nerd/geek/slightly anti-social person!

Exes who are exes because you find out they told you things you found out were lies and you watch them manipulate a situation so they look innocent when they aren't...well, that is an ex worthy of expungement. Or one who borrows your car and dents it and you find beer cans in the backseat...that one isn't good to keep around. Or the one who comes home from vacation with some woman's underwear...Why be his friend? Someday you gotta be the friend who covers his tracks for him. And that's a pretty high form of dysfunction. How about the ex who dumped you? Well, then you did something right?

I wouldn't know, I haven't been dumped before.

Okay, once. But it was because I was a nerd.

People. Date the nerds in your life.

Spelunking

I'm in my cave. If anyone is wondering why I haven't called, I've written about 50 pages in the last three days (one screenplay act, one screenplay rewrite, and a sitcom rewrite) and I'm not letting up.

I swear I'm fine.

I'm just catching up from the break.

i hate sitcoms

i have spent the whole day writing a crappy sitcom.

it actually might be genius, but i've struggled and spent hours eating cookies and needing a shower and struggling some more and finding everything not funny and even more plain bad.

this is the second worst part of being a writer. the worst is when someone says your writing isn't good. the second worst is when you say your writing isn't good. the latter is much more common. even if everyone thinks your writing sucks, i'm sure the inner critic talks much more than all those people.

i have enough experience to know that in a few days, with some time away from it, i'll love it. or at least might love it. could just think it's okay. but i will likely find it better than how i feel about it now.

but i am not there.

i blame sitcoms in general.

my brain is mush and i'm bleeding from random parts of my body. i think i scratch while re-reading.

i'm hungry and dehydrated. time for some chinese food and sleep.