I have quite a few projects that I spend a lot of time not working on and feeling guilty about not working on.
I've got my
read-through of The Hobbit, which is now all recorded but that I'm still painstakingly cleaning up (at an average rate of about 1.5 hours' work per minute of audio). I've been sporadically cleaning Ch 12 for almost a year now.
If I'd have known it was in such bad condition, and wasn't so happy with the vocal performance, I probably would have just re-recorded it. But yeah, once I finally finish that, I'll have the remaining seven chapters, and then I'll want to go back and re-clean chapters one through eleven to my current standards. And maybe once all that's
finally done, I might start in on The Lord of the Rings.
Then there's that
webcomic that I might be doing with my roommate. I've been doing designs and he's been writing and we've been discussing the story quite a lot lately. I don't know if it's any closer to actually happening yet, but we work on it quite a bit.
I've been making
custom DVD covers for missing Doctor Who stories. I've done four out of the nineteen so far and plan to do the next soon. But it's hard to get motivated 'cause it's a large time commitment both to watch the reconstructions (which can be tedious) and to make the actual covers.
I've been transferring home movies to my harddrive so I can get them on disc. I've finished with the Betamax tapes, which were the worst, because our old Betacam couldn't white balance properly, so every scene is either badly purple or green-tinted and often fluctuates wildly between the two sometimes dozens of times per scene. So I've been doing my best to try to correct the colors.
Example.
Then I've done some of the VHS tapes, which is much easier, but now I've got a few dozen hi8 tapes to transfer and nothing to play them. I've been looking into ebay-ing a digital8 cam, because they were backwards compatible with hi8 tapes and have firewire ports, so they can convert the analog signal to digital without me having to run it though my miniDV cam, which is how I've been doing the rest of it all. But I've no money right now, so I'm stuck on that one.
There's a few other long-untouched projects that I still consider to be "on my plate" as it were, but I doubt they count. Then of course there's the biggest guilt-causer: the JAQ book, for which several people already gave me money
two years ago and for which I
still need to finish several illustrations. At this point I should just commission someone else to do them, but yeah, no money, so...
Which brings us to the non-project subject of I Need A New Job, 'cause I'm too disabled to go back to the retail job I was doing for the last eight years, and I've spent the last ten months on leave of absence, but I was only able to do two months of needed physical therapy, so now I'm two months out from running out of leave and not only am I not any better, I'm worse off and several thousand dollars in debt. So I am working on, not even climbing out of that hole, but groping in the dark for a hand-hold. EDIT: Turns out writing out this whole post has just served to stress me the fuck out about everything, haha whoops
and blah blah blah i'll shut up forever now