Negative Nellies

It gets on my nerves to be around someone who is in a really negative headspace, especially if I know that person is chronically that way. But even being around someone in a temporary foul mood who can't stop with the negative pronouncements makes me a little crazy.

I think that's a lesson to myself, both to a) be compassionate when others are in that kind of mood and b) when I occasionally get in one of those moods, to be as gracious as possible about getting over myself and not inflicting too much of my negativity on whomever I'm around at the time. It's OK to be in a bad mood once in a while, but it's no excuse to be a jerk.

Why, god, why?

In addition to doing some journalism freelancing, I've also been making an effort to submit fiction for publication (and payment) a few places. Both of my last two tries have been fails. In the first case, I realized 10 days after I thought I had submitted that I hadn't gotten the promised email confirmation. They didn't receive my submission, and now the submission deadline is past, and I can't attempt to re-submit until July.

In instance #2, my yahoo email crapped out JUST as I was sending a different story submission to another paying market.

*cries*