The Super Psyched Pants

You know who the worst people to work with happen to be? Doctors. Hands down, doctors are the most demanding people I have ever met. You know who's just underneath them? Actors, man. Actors.

Don't get me wrong, I like doctors and I like actors, but from my experience, if doctors are the most commanding, then actors are the flakiest. Sometimes they show up, most times they just don't reply to your emails.

I guess this is an odd way of building hype for a feature I'm trying to compile for USGamer.net over the next few weeks. I don't want to spoil it right now for the two of you that consistently read this, but it was supposed to be a big article from the perspective of lots and lots of people. Turns out that it's going to be a still-big article from the perspective of three people.

Trust me, though, that these three people are the linchpin of the story anyway, so they're really all I needed, but the original plan was something of a grand mosaic. But actors, I tell you. They're just impossible to get a hold of.

Anyway, keep checking back over the next few weeks to those hepcats at USGamer. It's a website you should read on the reg anyway, but since I'm one of their snazzy freelancer dudes, it just makes them that much cooler. You already knew that. What you didn't know, though, is how absolutely smashing this story is going to be if things go according to plan. Make sure you're wearing your super psyched pants when you read it. Trust me on this.

A Quick Plug

USGamer published a feature today that I wrote about a particularly passive aggressive 3rd Strike troll. You should read it, and then tell everyone else to while you're at it. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Go there right now.

Book editing is in semi-full swing. So, half swing. Mild swing, maybe. Whatever. The point is that I'm slowly picking away at getting one edit done so we can move this process along and hopefully have it self-published by the Fall, if not sooner. We'll see how that goes.

Work

Last week I made reference to my weekend freelance work. It turned out to be two things:

A: Project X Zone review for the 3DS, which will go up on the wide internets sometime later this week

B: Not weekend work at all, because it didn't show up to my castle until about 10:30 yesterday morning.

Truth B turned out to be a real bummer, actually. I had plenty of fun this weekend not playing the game and doing other things, but it would have been a nearly equally fun weekend of sitting on my couch, or in a coffee shop, or (likely) in a bar with my portable gaming device. As it stands, I had no choice but to stay up awfully late last night, and probably again tonight, so I can bum rush through it. I have confidence in my feeling toward the game at this point, but my editor was cool with the fact that it didn't show up until yesterday, making my Tuesday afternoon deadline unreasonable. He's a cool guy.

So that's that.