1 post from December 2008

I took a few days off after completing the first draft of my novel, or at least I tried to. Soon after the month began, I realized that my first student loan payment was going to be due this month, plus I had to get ready for the money pit that is the holiday season.

I've been looking for a job for awhile and recently I applied to some more, but to no avail. I started looking for some freelance work, just something to hold me over the winter at least. I looked through a bunch of jobs and found that a new tech site called zMogo was looking for a few people to write editorials/reviews/articles/etc. about the tech world. I've been writing for zMogo for a few weeks (my postings) now and it's been a joy. I have about 16 articles published so far and I've made a few bucks to go towards my bill payments.

Doug Zanger from Xhang Creative (I had an internship there over the summer) contacted me and wanted me to do some work for him too. I was working on some radio spots for him during my internship for Freeplay Foundation, a non-profit that delivers radios to third-world people in remote areas of the world, and he wanted me to continue that work for him now. It felt great to get a call back from someone I did work for previously. I'm in the middle of the project right now and making a few bucks off of it.

I've also just started an internship at GotGame. The internship was originally supposed to be about writing editorials for the "news" section of the comapny's website, but that has changed. Now I'll be getting great experience writing actual news articles derived from press releases that will be available to me as soon as they are released.

So I've got a lot going on right now and it feels good. I'm still looking for a full time job, but at least I have something to keep me busy for the time being.

This month has been full of other events too. My birthday came and went, my girlfriend's birthday was a blast (we stayed at an odd little cabin up in the mountains where we went sledding and cross-country skiing...I'm never going cross-country skiing again), I sold my first items on eBay, and there's still Christmas, my mom's birthday, New Years, and who knows what else to go.

So there's an update for ya. Oh, and I've made it to book 5 of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series and it's as epic as anything I've ever experienced.

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