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In Which I Attempt To Blame My Laziness On The Cat 2

Jan

26

2010

I’ve gotten into something of a winter funk. It started out with the aforementioned really awesome stomach bug that left my innards out of sorts and me curled up in pain for a week, and continued into a solid week of pouring rain in LA. Rain in L.A. somehow seems much more depressing and draining ...

Time Killing Whilst Unemployed

Apr

12

2009

When you’re unemployed, there is an awful, awful lot of time to kill, and you quickly become aware of what ways you best tolerate killing time without falling into a paralyzing boredom. I’ve divided my potential time killers into three categories: I. Things I Will Do To Kill Time: Read entire contents of internet by ...

One Week

Mar

17

2009

It used to take me at least two weeks to start losing my mind and climbing the walls after becoming unemployed. My last day was last Tuesday, and I’m already starting to feel like the walls are closing in on me. I really ought to consider a career where I don’t bounce between fourteen hour ...

Miscellany From The Last Day of Shooting 4

Jun

28

2008

A few bits of errata, Laz style: — Because we were on a Wednesday-Sunday shooting schedule, I had taken to calling each day “Fake ____”. Like Wednesday was Fake Monday, Thursday was Fake Tuesday, Friday was Fake Wednesday. Today, the last day I have to deal with this shift, I found a flaw in my ...

Crickets

Jun

14

2008

Ah, the dulcet tones of the Production Office when there’s a 10am call and a projected exceedingly late wrap – The fridge sadly cranking along, two keyboards clacking away as two sets of hands type bored IMs to friends lucky enough to not be stuck at work at almost 11pm on a Saturday night. You’ll ...

Spring Cleaning

Jan

16

2008

Here’s how bored I am right now: I cleaned. And not just “sprayed some Lysol over the bathroom” cleaned. Like, threw out tons of shit I don’t need anymore. You know how, when you move, there’s always a few boxes that never actually get unpacked until you move again, and you wonder, what’s in here ...

Unemployment Update

Jan

4

2008

Sweet God, I’m already so fucking bored. Maybe I should consider this unemployment program in India, at least that’d be a change of pace. Courtesy Dave Barry’s Blog.

Castening: Day 2 1

May

11

2007

Yesterday, I was bored. Today, I’m restless. Tommorrow, I think I’m going to hit full-on Marge on a plane “LetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeout!” mode. This is going to be a looooong summer.