Wheee. I ordered my bridesmaid's dress for Y's wedding. I'll probably have to hem it and/or take in the waist, a fine little project for the new sewing machine (which is all set up now, but not used for anything real yet).
Today is clearly going to be a "stop thinking and get going already" kind of day. Two reasons: first, I am overwhelmed by my reading about the publishing industry. I see it now: I will not, no way, be able to run a cute little quality magazine with a hundred local subscribers and break even and not spend too much time on it. Getting started is hard... there are numbers to be crunched, and then all these things I never really thought of like maintaining mailing lists. My best option may be to start very slow, put out one trial issue and then the next year go for 5 or 6, with the goal of becoming monthly after a few years. See now... that's a more reasonable plan for a magazine. But all this talk of years and years depresses me. How do people scrounge up enough faith to put in time (and money) like that?
Second reason: stupid existential angst plus bad dreams about the world ending. Ugh. Stoppit, brain. I'm going out to lunch with
aykroyd in an attempt to shake the mood.
Today is clearly going to be a "stop thinking and get going already" kind of day. Two reasons: first, I am overwhelmed by my reading about the publishing industry. I see it now: I will not, no way, be able to run a cute little quality magazine with a hundred local subscribers and break even and not spend too much time on it. Getting started is hard... there are numbers to be crunched, and then all these things I never really thought of like maintaining mailing lists. My best option may be to start very slow, put out one trial issue and then the next year go for 5 or 6, with the goal of becoming monthly after a few years. See now... that's a more reasonable plan for a magazine. But all this talk of years and years depresses me. How do people scrounge up enough faith to put in time (and money) like that?
Second reason: stupid existential angst plus bad dreams about the world ending. Ugh. Stoppit, brain. I'm going out to lunch with