Fast approaching

freelance work (crossing fingers). self-pimpage has kept me busy this past week: going for a voice talent audition, texting and emailing contacts in the publishing world, trekking all the way to the hinterlands of bf homes paranaque to let myself be raked over for a contractual stint, even sending a couple of stern ym's to my regular raket supplier who ditched me after i was late once. (i know, i know, ako na nga yung late, ako pa yung may ganang maging stern.)

i'm quite optimistic about my prospects in the next couple of months, not even counting the two big things that i'm expecting in the third quarter. i've managed to put myself at top-of-mind of some of my old contacts, and have made new ones, which is always good.

a very nice woman who interviewed me today used to be a freelance writer until she went full time with the company that she presently works for. it was nice talking to her -- she knew all about what i am just discovering -- that it's fun to work for different people and things, and even better to have time for everything else you want to do.

something she said perked me up: when you're a freelancer, she said with a conspiratorial grin, "there's always, always something to do. you just never run out."

the many-headed behemoth. this is the same old, lumbering behemoth, except that it now seems to have multiple heads that don't know what the other heads are doing. two of those heads are talking to me and saying different things. ang gulo. this second head seems to be a little faster though, since it has already pinned me down for an interview while the other has yet to sort out its schedule. i'm now scheduled for two interviews, for two different positions at two different departments.

could my lovely little career as a freelancer really be fated for a swift end? if the behemoth really gets its act together, could this really mean...

an office job? aieeeeeeee! *breaks out in hives*

my artwork published in a book. i've been invited by 7 shots road manager/poet/fita fighter kooky tuason to create artwork for her upcoming book of poetry. it'll be like a neil gaiman-style comic book, with one writer but different artists interpreting the poems, benefiting the women's crisis center.

i said yes almost without thinking, but when i went to kooky's site i realized that it was going to be a bigger, more exciting thing than i thought! i had been totally unaware that this girl texting me was the one behind romancing venus, an album of her poetry set to music and recorded by celebs (check out the press here). when it sank in, i started getting really excited.

kooky sent me a poem of hers to interpret (by next week! aackk!) and thankfully, ideas for the collage are starting to come together bit by bit. i'm excited to start working on it, and just a wee bit apprehensive -- this is the first time my collages are going to come out in the open, and for such a big thing too. wish me luck!

oh and do check out kooky's site. if not for the fact that what she's doing is cool and is for a worthy cause, then simply because the site is super funky. :-)

malaysia (truly asia). ah, the perks of having a nerdy workaholic boyfriend. marlon got assigned a malaysian brand and will be flying there first week of september to get himself oriented. we both thought it would be fun if i went along. :-)

anyone know good places to eat, sightsee and go shopping (for really cheap) in malaysia? i'm hoping we get to see another city aside from KL, because i've heard it's almost exactly like singapore except for the petronas towers. hehe.