Friends of mine are off to Burning Man. The idea of Burning Man sound interesting, but I don't think I could take the living conditions. I love the desert and all, but camping for a week in it does not sound like my idea of fun. Besides, my idea of camping is staying at Motel 6. I guess I'm getting old because the thought of car camping in the hot desert and being surrounded by people on Ex and other type of hallucinatory drugs, just gives me the willies.

I think they're shooting that new ABC drama, MDs near my neighbourhood. On the way home from an even tonight, the police had some streets blocked off and I saw huge trucks loaded with camera equipment. The producer said in the paper, he sets alot of his stories in San Francisco because he went to SF State and did his residency here.

I live here, so my screenplay is set in San Francisco, and so is my novel. The short story I'm working on is set in Pacifica and Death Valley. I used to live in Pacifica and I've been to Death Valley. It's fun to set stories in place you've either lived or visited. One of my completed short stories is set in London and San Francisco, and another one is set in Dallas, Texas. I started a story set in West Virginia, while I was visiting there, and hope to finish it one day.

It's great that movies and shows are filmed here, but they do mess up traffic. When the Hulk was filming here a few months ago, they film production crew really messed up traffic. They never usually film in my neighbourhood, but the UC San Francisco Hospital building is here and that's probably where they're filming. I'm going to have to watch this TV show now, just to see my neighbourhood. My neighbourhood main street was in that Keannu Reeves movies, "Sweet November". There's a scene where Charlize Theron and the scottish guy are walking down the street, and you see a Java Beans sign in the background, that's my neighbourhood. Seeing that in the theatre was so cool, because I had no idea that they filmed a scene here. I saw it and said to my friend, oh my god, that's near my apartment. It was so cool!

Life is full of strange coincidences sometimes. Check this series out. I had a crush on this guy in my screenwriting class in February. Screenwriting Marina hottie boy, my nickname for him, ends up writing a screenplay about a giy who used to play football at Marshall University in West Virginia. I don't think the Screenwriitng Marina hottie boy played football there though, but played for some school in his home state of Pennsylvania.

In July I went to West Virginia for two weeks on vacation wtih a friend, whose family is from there. While blogging one night in West Virginia, I received an email from someone who used to live there. That person is now a blog friend, and I have her blog linked on my blog. This new blog friend just happened to have gone to Marshall University, the school screenwriting marina hottie boy talked about in his screenplay.

This new blog friend lives in Columbus, Ohio now. Ohio is where Paul, my boyfriend who died in May of this year, was born and is now buried somewhere in Dayton. Ohio is also where my first love, who I've been thinking about since April, went to school after he transferred from my college in Grinnell, Iowa. I wonder if Oberlin College is anywhere near Columbus or Dayton?

Screenwriting marina hottie boy is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. He looks almost exactly like my first love, only he's taller, bigger, played college football, isn't as articulate, doesn't play the violin and bass guitar, and isn't jewish. Pittsburgh, PA has largest museum dedicated to just Andy Warhol. I went to LA to see the Andy Warhol exhibit.

And last but not least. The VP, who I'm meeting with on Monday, works out of his home in Pittsburgh, PA.

Signs was all about coincidences and how they might or might not all mean something, depending on whether you have faith and believe in God. I grew up catholic, and I believe in signs from god. In fact, I crave signs from god. I ask for signs, coincidences, sychronistic events, and you know most of the time, I get an answer. It's a spooking thing. I'm not sure what all these coincidences I've written about mean for my life right now, but they're interesting to note. They also make me curious to know what other coincidences are coming next, and what they might mean for my future.

This song keeps popping into my head at odd moments. I like the words; they lift me out of the melancholy mood I've been in these last few days.

The Middle
Written by Jimmy Eats World

Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head
You feel left out or looked down on
Just try your best, try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away

It just takes some time, little girl
You're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right, all right

Hey, you know they're all the same
You know you're doing better on your own
So don't buy in, live right now
Yeah, just be yourself
It doesn't matter if that's good enough for someone else

It just takes some time, little girl
You're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right, all right

It just takes some time, little girl
You're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right, all right