Signing Off

Check out the WGA's blog with all sorts of interesting tidbits about this strike.

I read an article yesterday about entertainment bloogers going on strike as well, in support of the writer's strike. I thought that was funny. But then I thought: "Hell, no one reads this blog anyway and I'm hard-pressed for a reason to actually keep it going. Why don't I say that I TOO am striking in solidarity to cover up the fact that I really don't feel like writing on here?"

Good idea.

So yeah. That's where I'm at.
Maybe when the strike's over I'll have something new to write about. Maybe not.

Adieu...

Didn't Even Have To Use My AK

It was a good day.

Thanks to my landlady's tendency to hold off on cashing the rent check until the week before the next one is due, I have narrowly avoided financial ruin.
This afternoon the first check from my handful of freelancing gigs arrived in the mail.
I hurriedly went to the city and deposited it into my account.

I've been checking my balance daily for the last couple weeks, waiting for the rent check to clear. I've mentally taken it out already, so with each day I was prepared to find my pre-vized $1.95 ending balance become my actual $1.95 ending balance.

After depositing my check, I passed by a sushi bar that was closing for the evening. They were selling their remaining boxed suhi meals for 50% off. I was able to get some spicy tuna, salmon, and vegetable rolls for a total of $6.25.

I have a paid focus group on alcoholic beverages to attend tomorrow evening and a friend called and said she has some work for me next week.

Not exactly a windfall, but anything is welcome at this point.

NaNoWriMo Is Here

Yes. November is National Novel Writing Month and, as I haven't been working regularly and find myself spending hours and hours in front of my computer at home whiling away the hours, I decided I'd join in the fun and try to get something productive done.

I was also asked by a friend a few weeks ago if I'd like to join her writing group, so I'll be working on stuff for that too.

Originally I had intended to use NaNoWriMo as an excuse to finish my years-in-progress New Orleans novel, but since they frown on bringing previously written material to the table I figure I'll workshop that book in the writing group and work on a completely new novel this month.

Ambitious? Yes.
But why not give it a shot?

Cops and Luchadores

Last night I edited a trailer together for the film I was editing this spring/summer.
I was just playing around with some new film filter plug-ins for Final Cut. The film is supposed to be a Mexican action film from the 70s, and I think the trailer looks pretty close to something like that. Aside from the font I used in the beginning.

So True

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Dwindle, Dwindle, Little Star

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference.

It appears that one of the things I cannot change in my life is the always prevalent lack of money. In 33 years I still have not learned a damn thing about money. When I have an income it just passes through my hands like water. I get overzealous and say things like, "I am going to pay back my debts and get back on top".

Unfortunately, poverty is always lurking around the corner, and if I kept my wits about me when I was flush I would laugh and say, "My student loan lenders can continue to go fuck themselves. Who do I look like, Warren Buffett?"

It's never a smart move on my part to think I'll have money next month. Because, as the years have proven, I most likely will not.

I should stop buying things I don't need, yes. But those are the only things that give me enjoyment in life. What's the point in living if you can't own the Super Deluxe Special Edition Boxed Set DVD of your favorite movies?

Mystery Solved

The riddle of the employer who set up an interview with me without my knowledge has been cracked.
Turns out a friend of mine had sent my resume to the executive producer over at Time. She hadn't told me this before. They're staffing up right now and she told me to "impress them". I was also told that they really like her so I have a leg up already, which basically means that if I fuck this up I must really suck.