Hello World! Happy New Year!

Wow, an unintended break.  It's been almost 2 months since I last posted.  I didn't intend to stop blogging, I just got distracted and before I knew it, 2 months had gone by.... During that time, a Russian economist has declared that the US is disintegrating, 2008 turned into 2009, YouTube changed from 4:3 to 16:9 and then went HD.  SAG is still threatening to strike - they  might as well threaten to go on a hunger strike because that's about how self-destructive it would be. 

So what have I been doing?  At first, I went into a creative mode where all else was consumed by my obsession over making an animated book trailer for my novel, WAR GAMES.  Then, I remembered I had never done animation before, ran into technical difficulties, and I geeked out.  Right now, I'm somewhere between my creative mode and geek-out mode (I know, some might say I'm always in this state).  I just bought Cinema 4D from someone on Craigslist who may or may not be part of the Russian mob; I also bought one of the last Comic Book Creator programs despite the fact that it looks like the makers are going out of business; ordered a new over-the-top mobile battlestation (aka "notebook computer"); sent out some DVDs of TOOTH FAIRY to film festivals; killed my power supply in my desktop which is now open under my desk with its guts spilling out; got a new terabyte (!!!) second hard drive for my desktop and a 64G (!!!) USB drive for Christmas (I hear other girls want jewelry as gifts -- can you imagine?); got my butt kicked clear across silicon valley by a group of graduates of the Stanford EE masters program in a game I never heard of before; and I ate a pound of Trader Joe's milk chocolate with almonds.  There you have it -- now you're all caught up.

Happy New Year!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com