View from the top… of my computer

I can’t believe this is the first post of 2014. Dang! What have I been doing for the last 4 months? Oh, right… I’ve been:

Looking for a job
Building up more freelancing gigs
Taking writing classes at UCLA
Worrying about money
Waiting for editors and HR peeps to get back to me
Trying to date guys who aren’t either married or (recently) recovering from a substance-abuse problem
Not sleeping
Watching a lot of Tyler Perry movies on Netflix
Still waiting for editors and HR peeps to get back to me
Selling stupid crap on eBay
Obsessively cleaning the floorboards in my apartment
Wondering if my landlord will take rent in the payment of puns
Taking meetings with people about jobs that never go anywhere
Writing my first spec script
Repeatedly listening to a Spotify playlist I made called “Happy Happy Joy Joy”
Thinking about what will happen if I run out of money and have to move back home with my parents in Cleveland
Mourning the fact that I’ve already seen every episode of Law And Order: SVU
Wondering what kind of guys are on OKCupid in Cleveland
Constantly picking up the leaves that keep falling off my money tree plant
Wishing I wrote Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love“
Making a lot of lists

Wow, I really am busy… and tired… and in desperate need of a vacation from my own brain.

Le sigh. 

If you’re still with me, then check out a couple things I’ve recently written on the interwebz. First, thanks to my amazing friend Lisa, I’m a daily contributor to MTV’s Shows blog (aka Remote Control). I also wrote my first piece for PureVolume.com about my pals in Taking Back Sunday.

Hopefully, I’ll have more to share with you soon, both personally and professionally. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with the new video for Bleachers‘ “I Wanna Get Better,” directed by the incomparable Lena Dunham and featuring my teenage spirit animal, Arrow DeWilde. If I could shoot this song directly into my veins, I would.

As always, for more consistent musings, follow me on Twitter and Instagram at @redpatterndress and @geekgirlsunite.