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--Introduction to episode 30: It's Almost Here!
--Discussion of the Time Spiral previews from this week and purple cards as rumored on MTGSalvation.com
--A blast from the past story: Demonic Hordes
--Music by Hungry Lucy "In the Circle" and by The New Autonomous Folksingers "Pitcher of Beer." Music available on the Podshow Music Network at music.podshow.com.
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A Room of One's Own
Though before Labor Day, my wife and son had gone down the shore on a mini-vacation and I didn’t join them until that Friday night (right before Labor Day). I had three nights that I could paint away. Those were rough days: I’d leave for work at 6:50 a.m., get home around 6 p.m. and paint until 9:00 p.m. After I cleaned up, I’d sit down and have dinner at 9:30 p.m. Long, long days.
What I realized though is that gone are the days of working late at home. With the office being right across from my son’s room, I couldn’t make a lot of noise banging, scraping, and the like. It’s funny because back in the winter when we were working on our library my son would come to the top of the stairs and yell: “Daddy, stop making all that noise!” Heck, since he’s now sleeping through the night, it’s best to turn the power tools off and pick up at the same spot the next day.
In the eight months that we’ve been at the new house, we’ve remodeled the basement (man, that took a lot of work), the front living room (turning it into a library), our son’s room, and now our office. We still have the master bedroom, and the fourth bedroom, the back living room and the dreaded kitchen and dining room—so basically we’ve a lot of work yet to do. I had originally thought that I wouldn’t work on remodeling my office until after we did all the other work, but with how hard I’ve been working on writing, getting published, and on my regular job, I really wanted to have another blue room. A room of my own. My wife had put together a sign with cool marbles and the like on it that reads: “The Blue Room.” I used to have this hanging in my old office (which also had blue for the wall paint). But the room I put together now has a new desk, with editing space for me and all my work tools (books, pens, paper, envelopes, etc.). The picture that I’ve shown of the “final” office still has the old, beat up blinds (new blinds will be going up later) and I haven’t hung up any of my artwork and photos. Still, we’ve come a long way from having bare walls that were ripped up and needed spackling to where I’m at now.
What’s the next project? Not sure yet. Maybe that dreaded kitchen. But in the meantime, I’ll be happy to be able to record my podcast in my remodeled office (of course I can also do that in the basement on the PC there) or I can finish a story that I’ve been working on. I’ve written four drafts of a story that I had in my head a few weeks back, but now I’ll be able to sit down and give it one final read and fix a critical scene, adding some content to beef the story up emotionally.
What I’ve tried to focus on is to strengthen not on the look of the room, changing the colors to blues which I find calming and creative, but also to add functionality to the room. There’s a lot more desk space for me so that I can put out manuscripts that I’m working on without cramming them on a small side table.
I’ve written stories and articles in all sorts of situations so the “Room of One’s Own” is a bit of a trick you see—I can be on an airplane, on the train, in my office, on a laptop in another room—it doesn’t matter as I can write wherever I want. But the sanctuary of having a room to think in is extremely important. Peace!
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