read on the metro, don't lean on the doors

I went to a portfolio review in the end of October, and two editors, of the magazines Foto8 and Daylight, told me several interesting things, a few of which were that I need to see rejection as irrelevant, that multimedia matters a great deal, and that my portfolio wasn't well-organized, which makes sense, more or less, since my life isn't that well organized.  One editor also asked, 'What project are you working on now?' to which I had to reply, honestly, 'Well... nothing.' 'Why?' And it sounds like an excuse! It feels like an excuse! It IS in fact, an excuse! That my more-than-full-time job is not photography but something else entirely, that I live in Moscow and I don't speak Russian and I feel like real life (and photographic work with any real depth) in this city is completely inaccessible to me. And this editor said, 'Well, why don't you photograph that?' Huh.