Paradigm Shift! Sorta...

I know it's been a bit since my last post, but things have been a bit uneventful. The only thing that's happened lately is a bit of a shift in focus for me.

See, my family went out of town for a week and some. So I've been looking at my writing while I've had the silence and focus to do so, getting myself back into editing duties pro-bono and entering a flash fiction competition last week. Three winners will be selected out of a pool of 19 writers, all of whom showed their faces to compose a 500-word piece of fiction on a theme presented on the spot, with a 90-minute time limit. I turned mine in with 5 minutes to spare, and I'll know if I'm one of the three selected in about a month's time. I'll make sure to keep my readers posted.

If I do win, I get a cash prize, my story gets posted in CityLife and I'll have to read my fiction piece in front of an audience at the Vegas Valley Book Festival in November. So wish me luck, and I hope this leads into other, possibly bigger, things for the Ram!

As far as the Remixology competition, I wasn't selected. But I figure I could use the winnings from the writing contest to help me out in the next one. I haven't given up, just on a mixology competition hiatus.

Anyhow, that's all I have for now. Again, I can use all the luck y'all can muster for me!

Supersonic. Or, Rather, Ultra.

Not much changed in the job department.  Still no word back from the lounge about the supposed new position, despite several attempts to contact them via email, Facebook and phone, but until he actually gives me any official word, all I can do is bug them.  And I will keep pestering them until I get a reply, whether the answer is good or bad.

Those of you who know me best probably know I have the patience to do this for years, if necessary.

I have a few extra hours at the store, at least.  That means I have a whole 9 hours of work this week, possibly more if I'm able to pick up a shift on Saturday.  It's a start.

This has been a busy week, otherwise.  Job fair yesterday (where I ran into one of the administrators over at Crescent and decided to ask about reinstating myself on the job placement list), interview with a staffing agency tomorrow (for office, writing and bar work placement) and had a venal and arterial ultrasound on my leg today to see what could be wrong.  They found nothing, of course, so that's partially good news.

With some of the stress off my mind, I've been able to focus on a couple of mixology competitions.  I'm looking into two different contests right now.  Of course, I'll have to do these using Crescent School as my sponsor since I have no idea what my employment status is at the lounge, but the administrator at Crescent seemed more-than-happy to allow me to use their facilities for the competitions.  Thank goodness for being a decent student in the art of the cocktail!  I may even be a bit of a show-off and dabble in molecular mixology for these contests.

I'm also finishing up with the prologue to what should turn out to be a 22-chapter high-concept fantasy novel, should each chapter go according to plan.  In addition, I'm going to start working out the kinks in a cyberpunk story project I've been researching for years.  I thought about making this project a novel also, but I thought it'd be more fun to write several short stories (or, perhaps, a few novellas) based in the same fictional city.

Until the next update, wish me luck!