And we're off...

This is something new to me.  Blogging, that is.  I've avoided it since its inception because it seemed like a fad, or just really lame - perhaps this century's "You should check out my screenplay,"  a statement I've heard from far too many people in Hollywood whose main occupation is definitely not writing.  And for a few years I was one of those non-working writers, frustrated with the fact that I definitely did not move across the country to coordinate travel for "talent" or plan parties for washed-up producers of hit 80's sitcoms.  I left my family, my cats, my boyfriend of the time (eh, I needed an excuse to break up with him anyway) for Hollywood because I knew that if I wasn't going to be the next tap dancing sensation, the only other alternative was to be a screenwriter.    And after four consecutive years in college without dance, well, I had to choose B.  

I'm now working from home,  transcribing movies for foreign subtitling and dubbing - a sweet, well-paying part time gig that should allow me plenty of time to further my career.  However, I'm having an impossible time focusing on due to the abundance of other people's blogs to which I'm addicted.  Jezebel, Consumerist, other people's myspace pages, Defamer, Go Fug Yourself, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Curbed L.A., Eater L.A., Gridskipper, Salon's Broadsheet and Machinist, argh.  It's gotten to the point where my husband needs to turn off the internet in order for me to get any work done.  I'm not completely useless; I have some of my own projects in the works.  But too much of my time is spent staring at a computer screen, ingesting other people's opinions about what's going on in the world today. 

So really this blog is all about increasing productivity, using my brain, putting in an effort, etc.  We can't spend our entire lives absorbed with what other people are doing, so if by some chance you're not me and you're reading this, don't stick around for too long.