I have fallen in love with Nerve Magazine. Finally, some intelligent sex banter! Me thinks I must write something for them.

Reading the bios of the magazine’s staff was inspiring, daunting, impressive, and motivating. Of course the magazine is published in New York, like 85% of the nation’s rags, and of course most of the staff went to Ivy League East Coast colleges by Brown, Princeton, Duke, Exeter, etc, but one went to UC Santa Cruz.

Lotus seems to be at a big turning point, and there are moments when I wonder if that’s my cue to move on. It would be sort of a shame (just when I could finally get paid decent wages, I’d move on), but maybe it’s just a good opportunity to think about what I’m doing and where I’m going.

I still want to do this publishing course, but it seems strange to saturate myself in the Manhattan publishing world, when I’m just rediscovering my rural bliss in the woods. Maybe I just need to prepare myself. When I’m done in Olympia, where to next?

In the meantime, I’ve got a couple work leads in Seattle. Alan Pruzan, and old colleague at ENTROS just emailed asking me if I’d be interested in writing for them; and dear Courtney is working on getting me an interview at Real Networks as a music editor. Sigh. We’ll see what I can pull out of my ass this time. I always seem to be able to do it, somehow piecing together a decent career for myself, despite an inherent laziness and aptitude for working in my pajamas, so let’s hope my luck continues.

In other news, what a crazy freakin’ election. I really really was rooting (and voting) for Gore, but it looks like he may have been eeked out by a few hundred votes in Florida. Ug!