Life Happens Faster Than I Can Blog

Big items that all deserve their own posts but won't get them just yet due to the lack of time:

1) I just finished the first draft of Lobsters vs. Butterflies: The Movie today. I have two months to whip this thing into shape for the good people over at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who are once again holding their open screenplay competition. Last time, I placed in the top thirty. This time, I'm entering a better script.

2) Princeton University has hired me to help them design a sociology experiment disguised as a video game. I just finished the first draft of the design document. I am now not only a game designer again, I am a designer of "serious" games. Given that the last game I worked on is about killing lots of people of various non-Caucasian ethnicities, I welcome this new shift in my career.

3) I am getting to the point where I can do a handstand without a wall serving as my safety net. I have muscles in my arms and shoulders that simply didn't exist two years ago.

4) I am about to start taking archery lessons. This is very bad news for all the baby deer. Heed my words, baby deer. Your cruel dominion over this world has come to an end. I will no longer tolerate your malfeasance, and I will not hesitate to defend humanity against the likes of you. You have been warned.

5) I am going to Vegas next week to celebrate the impending marriage of a friend. We're talking dinner at a Michelin one-star French restaurant, the kung-fu ninja Cirque du Soleil show, one dollar craps and blackjack, free drinks, and a suite at the Four Seasons.

6) I thought "A Crash Course in Women" would be an easy means of tiding my readers over during this incredibly busy period. Wrong. It turns out that for every entry in the series that is published, two are scrapped. The whole reason I began writing the series was because I felt that the story was unfolding faster than I could record it, and that I needed to get in front of it. Now my blog is stuck on part four, and my life is up to part nine and counting. My poor blog.

7) Life is pretty cool. And by cool, I mean totally sweet.