Jill and I would like to take this opportunity to stress to you how strongly we feel that we should have written a hot teen series like Twilight or Harry Potter. We totally could have, except we haven't. Why? We have families, jobs (Jill), school (me) and quite frankly, making canned Hormel Chili over Trader Joe's brown rice for dinner just about sends me over the edge, so a hot teen series is completely out of the question. I can barely write a grocery list; and if I do, I forget to actually take it into the grocery store...therefore I am always missing some essential ingredient (lately, sour cream) just when I need it the most. But I digress. The purpose of this blog is to get Jill and I to write. Daily. For the next 365 days, we need to write. About nothing, about something, about my fervent hatred of all things Twilight. Jill likes Twilight, so she'll have to find something else to hate. Which I'm sure won't be a problem.
I graduated from Arizona in 1993 with a creative writing major. Essentially this major allowed me to drink heavily 6 nights out of the week and then sit in front of a computer for 15 hours straight and crank out a story. Did I ever think of writing for a living? No. I took the first job I was offered (Pay Per View Manager, Tucson CableVision) and spent the next year pretending I cared about pay-per-view boxing. I moved on to recruiting, equity trading (all the more ironic since I didn't learn to add and subtract fractions until my first day on the job), and a big corporate financial services firm. Now I'm taking math and science at PCC in order to become a nurse. I really enjoy the classes, but I'd also like to get over my aversion to write something other than Facebook status updates.
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