Act III

As Antonio finishes out his program at community college and looks forward to transferring to Berklee College of Music this fall, and as we wait for answers from the last three universities that Maggie applied to—naturally the ones that she actually WANTS to attend—I am on the precipice of Act III of my life, and that is the hard one, evidently.

That’s number one. Number two is spend as much time working on the third act as you do on the first and second act combined. Most good screenplays and good movies fall apart in the third act. It needs to be better and more intricate.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) May 19, 2021

Eight months from now, my life may look entirely different. Both of my children will most likely be moved away, though in that halfway way that being "away at college" is not quite entirely gone. We may sell our house to pay ridiculous cost of private university tuition. Or we may sell the house to follow a new job, if the company we work for cannot be saved, despite Jose's Herculean effort to do so. I may need to get a full time job and spend the next 10–15 years paying the aforementioned tuition. Or I may finally get my shit together and start finishing and selling books and pay the tuition that way. 

all of my plans for the future involve me waking up tomorrow with a sudden sense of discipline and adherence to routine that i have never displayed even once in my life

— Rachel McCarthy James (@rmccarthyjames) October 21, 2020

Don't you hate it when the internet sees you so clearly?