In which I skip out on Instagram and Facebook for the month of March but still allow myself the internet.
Today’s “bad news-good news” cycles goes thusly:
Bad news: I got a rejection email from The Sun.
Good news: It’s not taking them as long as it used to.
I choose to see this as good news (the rapidity with which they politely blow me off). I am not sure why, but it works for me. And maybe someday I will be published in that beautiful publication. Truthfully, it’s the act of submitting that holds more power for me these days (although, if I am honest – which I always try to be – publication would be lovely. Let’s not kid ourselves any).
So the rejections pile up, and
But it’s the shadow I am now (and always have been) interested in. It shifts, though, and is hard to catch (I think there is a cartoon about that,
Anyway. Today is the last day of 47. Tomorrow I am officially in my late forties. Two years from Fiji (is how I am choosing to look at that factoid). Twenty-two years from taking up smoking again, and 32 years from smoking heroin in a shack on an island.
It’s good to plan ahead.