A Fly on the Wall

I’ve been a bit mute on the blog lately. I’m afraid this is my quintessential: I’ve-been-busy-yada-yada blog. Haven’t you noticed that almost every blog that is generated via someone with a full-time job has these types of posts? Well, here’s mine.

I’m writing this right after sending off one of my freelance-writing assignments, and while on hold with Western Union (I’m wiring money to Mexico! More on that in a minute).

Most of you have probably read (or heard me blab about) my latest clips, but I’ve contributed to PortlandFoodandDrink a couple times recently, wrote a few more music reviews for VenusZine, and have started copywriting for a childhood friend. God bless Facebook! I was reunited with an old friend through the social-networking monster and turns out she owns an awesome graphic art/media firm who just so happened to need a freelancer (Yes, please! Hire me!).

And let’s not forget the side projects or pitches that never go anywhere… actually, scratch that – I’d rather forget about those.

Moving on to Mexican paradise. Who says you can’t plan a vacation during the economic apocalypse? Yeah, a lot of people, but not us! Yes, Casey and I have just wired our deposit for our seven-night Mexican adventure. I’ve never done anything like this, and I’m friggin’ ecstatic. I never studied abroad and if I board a plane, there’s a family member involved with the destination. Being the freelance-work-horse that I am, I kind of feel like I can never really take a vacation (must. always. keep. pitching). But slowly over the years of working myself stiff, I realized I actually want a piece of the cookie-cutter American vacation experience. I want to go to the sun when it’s rainy and hellish. I want to “sit on the beach with a margarita,” and I want to swim in a pool.

But before I do any of that, I just have to do one small thing: apply to graduate school… again (sigh). I have a feeling I’ll be “a bit mute on the blog” again.

–Catherine