watched
- The Hunger Games
- Everything Must Go
- started rewatching X-Files from the beginning (something to do with the fall-ish weather brings it out)
- Paranormal State (season 3, 4 and 5) – that show is always so sad. But I like it.
- Ghost Hunters International
- Santa Sangre
- The Informant!
- Stephen Colbert interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Paranormal Activity 3
read
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
- Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
- Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
- Vanity Fair magazine: August and September 2012
- The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
listened to
- I should be writing podcast. I don’t love it yet. But I don’t hate it either.
- Writing Excuses podcast. I love it. I need it to be longer and more often, because with as much as I drive I can listen to an entire month’s worth of archives in a single day.
discovered
- I can set up multiple IDs for my Amazon affiliate account. I’m sure this is old news to some of you, but I love that I can now track which affiliate sales stem from which of my sites.
- a new word: Quiff hairstyle. LOVE it
- new-to-me blogs I’m enjoying: five-sixteenths, Coffee and Sunshine, rukristin papercrafts, Writing to Reach You (what do they all have in common? Quality, original content)
- I will never again sleep past 430a if the cats have anything to do with it….. That’s a whole story though. Look for it soon at ThoseCrazySchuberts.com
- red grapes. You don’t want to know how many I ate this month.
wrote
- Only a couple Project Life updates: weeks 17 and 18; weeks 19 and 20
- Weekend project: READ an ebookÂ
- Weekend project: WRITE
- all about one of my favorite podcasts: Internet Marketing for Smart People
- 5 easy ways to stay inspired while blogging
- Photography FAQ: What kind of camera should I get?
- and Photography FAQ: How do I start learning to use my camera?
- a seed of inspiration: Storyology
- all about our weekend trip to Big Bear: Part 1, part 2 and part 3
- Minibook: Big Bear weekend trip
- the perils of the suburbs
- Schubert HQ: our front yard landscaping progress
- and around here this month ….
QUESTIONS:
What blogs are you loving right now that I should take a look at?
Does anyone have any other writing-specific podcasts to recommend?













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