Just one more week and I’ll be in another city. Another few cities, actually. I will have my assignments written and downloaded onto my tablet. I’m also making it a rule I’ll make for myself the most obvious—no working on holiday. Well…of course, threaded discussion. Okay. Okay. An hour a day for my final course project but – other than that – NO REAL WORK!! Now, what will I be doing in Zealand?
So, right now, I have to edit all my short stories from my 2020 Short Story Project for my 2025 short story collection. I have to say…it has been a humbling experience to know that my stories were decent but needed much improvement. I have to thank experience and higher education for that. I’ve always been told that 20% of creative writing is taught while the other 80% is improved through experience. So? Why am I saying the obvious? Well…I’m back in school.
In three more days, the students will be home having a long well-deserved rest as they bring in the Chinese New Year. They are extremely excited and they should be. They have been working extremely hard for these last five months and – let me tell you – World Literature and Economics have been a real doozy for them. I can attest to the World Literature part; teaching it has been quite a welcoming challenge. But, now, it is time to enjoy the next marvel…Philadelphia.
For thirteen days, I was in the “Comital City” and fell in love with everything about it. The people. The food. The history. Everything about Barcelona was what I was missing in China and what I wished America could be. I still do, actually. However, I will not focus on that. Instead, I will gush over what I did in the lively city. But where do I start? Oh! I know! I’ll start with my living arrangement.
My summer was going great. I got to visit friends. I was making enormous progress on my LGBTQ Crimeverse. I was relaxing with my gaming time while checking in with my family. Then, I got some bad news…like a few hours ago.
The Chinese government is a fickled thing. They have laws against discrimination against the LGBTQ community, and, yet, they have laws banning games and media that have feminine men in them. Yeah…talk about hypocritical. They don’t even allow any PRIDE Parade anymore because it was “going against the harmony of China”. Nevertheless, I’m still swelling with PRIDE. Let me tell you why.
With only a few days before the release of the first short story from this project, there is one more thing I want to do. I would to like to provide thanks to a few people that has helped me with staying focused and calmed during this project.
There is so much work that I have completed for my pending release of my SS Project and my teaching responsibilities is actually stabilizing it now that the summer vacation is coming to an end. So, I go back to having two days off a week and I think I can get all of this short stories typed up and send off to editors before the end of the month. But that’s a story for another time. Right now, I want to get into the second part of what I happened to me.
I am so proud and excited to announce the grand opening of a new podcast that my good friend, Brett Walker, has released to the public.
To carry on with Pride Month, I would like to shine a spotlight on LGBTQ+ owned business.
This time around, I want to focus on this new wrestling company that I found out about through Paul Charles, aka the Gay Comic Geek. The models/wrestlers are all phenomenal in both their craft and outside endeavors. The co-owner of the business is Ethan Axel Andrews and he’s as sexy as he is talented. Seriously, he’s really hot. As of recently, he’s decided to step down so he can continue being an independent freelance wrestler which I 100% respect. You have to go with your passion.
The Underground Championship Wrestling, or UCW, is a new wrestling company that “features plenty of body strikes and punching, classic gut work-overs, and also plenty of good old-fashioned dirty tactics like ball grabs, hair pulls stuff like that (that makes it more fun for us!). It’s “anything goes” in our “ring”, we do whatever it takes to win by submission, pin, or knockout.” (This is literally from the site.)
Well, new for me, anyway. It has actually been around for about eleven years so I’m really late to the party. Better late than never, though, right?
Plus, you have to see what they wear. Usually, it’s speedos and singlets which is hot. But, every now and again, they will don jockstraps and body oil for special matches. The best part is that all their matches can be bought and downloaded at a very cheap price
I got to view some of the content via screenshot and I was instantly impressed with what I saw. Unfortunately, I can’t buy any of it because I’m still working out the kinks of transfer water over international waters. The only thing I could do was subscribe to their newsletter. I also managed to do the next best thing: I started following the sexiest models on Instagram. One of them, Gabe Steel, will be utilizing his good looks for some of the book covers.
But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself.
Now, please, don’t forget to follow me on my social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads) which are on the right side of my web page. Also, I do love hearing suggestions of what books to read outside of my norm (Science fiction and fantasy) as I am a part of the Goodreads’ reading challenge for 2020. My goal is to read 100 books this year and I’m already at 77. Probably end up reading 120 before the year is out.