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Jenna
appears every Friday.
August
25
Sheila
is my best friend now. It's not just because none of my
other friends will talk to me it's also because we have
so much in common. Simon, we both like summer days and puppies,
we are both sensitive, intelligent and we share keen insight.
The only thing different is that she isn't an artist which
is great because then I don't have to compete.
It's
good to find a constructive way to work through the pain
of our breakups. (Although once again, my pain is way worse
because Simon cared more about me.)
She
recalled that Simon said to both of us that he wanted to
be friends so she cooked up a great scheme. She said "Oh,
he wants to be friends? Well we should keep in contact just
like friends do." So we've been emailing him about
40-50 times a day with messages like "Hey Buddy! I
just had a Pop Tart for lunch and I'm thinking of having
ravioli for dinner." We subscribe him to magazines
we think our "friend" would like and boy do we
take advantage of that "tell a friend" thing on
web sites.
I
confided my plan about becoming a best selling author, luring
Simon back and then dumping him and she was all for it--except
she said it made no sense to lure him back, my success would
be revenge enough.
She
is into Phrenology and according to the bumps on my head
I have a very bright future ahead of me. I really didn't
need the bumps to tell me that but it was nice to have it
scientifically confirmed.
August
27
I've
really got to give serious thought to my writing career.
Sure, it's fun going out to bars with Sheila and talking
about the bad things Simon did and emailing him every ten
minutes but I really must concentrate on the one thing that
is going to bring me success.
That
is so me. Fun loving party girl always up for a laugh or
an adventure but deep inside a serious scholar dedicated
to art.
If
I really, really want to make it as an author--and all I
need is the confirmation from Pandora's Box Press--I will
have to get my priorities straight.
1)
Lose ten pounds for the book jacket photo.
2)
Get some more highlights put in.
3)
Look into getting some fake glasses
4)
Practice being interviewed in front of the mirror.
5)
Memorize some anecdotes.
6)
Write.
August
28
Sheila
says it is our responsibility to make sure Simon doesn't
hurt anyone else so we've been staking out his house in
her car.
Sometimes
he doesn't get in until 4 o'clock in the morning and it
has been really hard for me to get up for work.
My
mother is making my life miserable. She is so obsessive.
Her only child is going through incredible emotional upheaval
and all she can do is yell at me for falling asleep at my
desk.
August
29
Wow.
I'm beginning to think I should have waited before I sent
out my query letter. I just wasn't prepared to have so much
thrust upon me so soon.
I
received a letter from Pandora's
Box Press in response to my letter.
I
don't know about these people. I don't like to be mean because
it really isn't in me but I don't know if they are playing
with a full deck.
I
can see them framing my letter because I'm sure they did
that with letters from William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway
and Judith Krantz but the laughter thing has got me wondering,
as well as the nail polish remover comment.
Maybe
they are "in" jokes. That's got to be it, why
else would they even bother putting them down? Maybe they
want to include me.
I'm
not so crazy about them dancing around the payment thing
either--but---BUT-- I can't believe that they are also interested
in a work I haven't even started yet!!!
I
should be really careful about what I write because I can't
have publishing houses asking me to write a book about every
paragraph I scribble down.
I
wasn't planning to write a book about me, Simon, David and
Sheila but I guess I could. In fact, it could be easier
than Jayde because I don't have to make up new names or
plots! I could just record everything as it happens (occasionally
adding some literary stuff.) Wow this could really work
out for me!
They
suggested I get an agent, I have no idea how to do that
and also I will have to write a synopsis. (?)
It
looks like I'll have to make-up with Irene she'll know what
to do, it shouldn't be too hard we've fallen out hundreds
of times before.
Sheila
is on her way over, we're going to track down Simon's old
girlfriends and maybe have some pizza.
Whoo
hoo!
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