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Signs You Have Lost Your Damn Mind

Jun

10

2008

You work a fourteen-and-a-half hour day and as you blearily walk to you car, you think, “Man, that could have been a LOT worse.”

Weekend Wrap-Up 3

Jun

9

2008

I hopped the redeye to Cape Cod Friday night, and watched some Jons get married on Saturday. It was wonderful in so many ways. The place Joel found us (thanks, Joel!) was fantastic, right on the water looking out into Nantucket Sound. It was a really gorgeous place to stay, it was incredibly fun to ...

A Brief List Of Things I Am Doing Instead of Posting 2

Jun

1

2008

1. Killing fleas. 2. Washing all my bedding. 3. Working. 4. Itching. 5. Working. 6. Eating. 7. Itching some more. 8. Working some more. 9. Driving. 10. Killing a couple more fleas. 11. Applying calamine lotion. 12. Working. 13. Going to the gym. 14. Itching. 15. Wishing Chaplin were not so susceptible to fleas. 16. ...

Oh, Yeah… 2

May

18

2008

I suppose I should say something here before it starts, since I will likely be sucked into a black hole for a couple months once it does: I’ve got a new job starting Wednesday. I’m leaving the HBO pilot I’m on as a PA up in Santa Clarita to work on a Fox pilot as ...

Duly Noted

May

11

2008

I took my current job just under 2 months ago. Since then I have driven over six thousand miles, almost all of it either to, from, or for work. I have bought 28 26 tanks of gas to accomplish this feat, at a total price of $1031.28. I am really starting to wish I had ...

Tail of the Tape

May

2

2008

Hours worked this week: 76.6, for a six-day week. Miles driven for work this week: 841. And I didn’t even drive anywhere Sunday. Days I still managed to drag myself to the gym: 4, exactly as planned. I now know I can do this and am not allowed to make “But I had to work ...

Reader Alert

Apr

22

2008

Posting’s going to be pretty light this week, as I’m trying to keep up the exercise even as we ramp up towards the first day of shooting on the pilot Friday. At this point, I’m spending maybe half an hour each day at home that is not a) doing physical therapy or b) getting ready ...

When People Ask Me What It’s Like To Be On Set

Apr

18

2008

I’m going to start pointing them to this Dave Barry column, in which he recounts his experiences being an extra in a Jennifer Aniston-Owen Wilson comedy: As an extra, you do a lot of standing around. First you stand around waiting for the set to be prepared. Then you stand around on the set while ...

A Twist In Time

Mar

24

2008

Why is it that almost leaving work at 6:00, then getting stuck with an extra errand and not leaving until 6:30, is much more frustrating than just working straight through until 7:30 or 8? Stupid dangling of a chance to sit in traffic earlier than usual…

Good Grief

Mar

20

2008

I worked two days last week. Mileage take? $58.08. Maybe with all the runs I’ve been doing this week, I’ll actually manage to make up for the $150 in gas I’ve had to buy in the last 8 days since I took this job.