Blah Tuesday Updates and Kvetching
Well, I signed the screenplay option yesterday. I wound up driving out to their office in Santa Monica and therefore didn't have to pay any notary fees. Just $4,679.85 in gas money.
So far I'm not coming down with any Superflu, Captain Tripps, or the Bubonic Plague, so this is good news.
UPDATE AND KVETCHING SUBJECT ONE: JOB SEEKING
I tried to apply online at Monster.com for a job at the WGA today. When it asked me if I wanted to submit a cover letter with the ap, I clicked yes and.... It jumped right to the page that says, "You have successfully applied," with either no cover letter, or the wrong one. When I tried to apply again, it wouldn't allow it. So I got on line with a fine gentleman from India who had to cut and paste my resume into a "new" resume, which gave it a new ID, and allowed me to apply again WITH a cover letter that time.
Countdown to the Abyss: 1 day after today. (The Abyss is the name I give complete joblessness.) I believe I will be getting a little money coming in soon for that option, through, so it's not a complete loss. But for the next five weeks that I'm unemployed I can't collect unemployment insurance because I apparently underreported some income on a film back in January 2006. Since the writer's strike is through and production jobs are starting up again, I don't expect to be unemployed for long, but it's still very anxiety producing to have no safety net.
UPDATE AND KVETCHING SUBJECT TWO: DULL BOY JACK (LONDON)
It's also been tremendously lonely and stressful in recent months because I'm spending all my time writing these several projects. I work, and write, and work, and write. Sure, I have some fun times. Tonight I'm going to Granada in Burbank for Mexican food with some friends. But these projects are HANGING over me and they never feel finished. So this past three day weekend I was just stressed out the entire time and I still didn't finish the steps I wanted to finish by Monday. Once we DO finish this stage of the screenplay, we'll get new notes and we'll have more rewriting. I hope they like what we're doing this time, but one can't predict such things. And my present experience has been that of various optioned projects demanding my time and energy for three years, and then getting dropped.
And the one person play is still killing me. I made some progress early last week, but haven't touched it since last Wednesday. But that's all that Bottleneck I keep writing about. Hoping and praying one of them breaks through and gets made so I am not going month after month working on the same damn things. (This would be completely fine if I was getting money from these projects. Then I'd have "free time." Now all the free time is spent working on these projects, or agonizing over them.)
Anyway, enough kvetching for today. Now I'm going back to the excitement of .....
My cubicle.
So far I'm not coming down with any Superflu, Captain Tripps, or the Bubonic Plague, so this is good news.
UPDATE AND KVETCHING SUBJECT ONE: JOB SEEKING
I tried to apply online at Monster.com for a job at the WGA today. When it asked me if I wanted to submit a cover letter with the ap, I clicked yes and.... It jumped right to the page that says, "You have successfully applied," with either no cover letter, or the wrong one. When I tried to apply again, it wouldn't allow it. So I got on line with a fine gentleman from India who had to cut and paste my resume into a "new" resume, which gave it a new ID, and allowed me to apply again WITH a cover letter that time.
Countdown to the Abyss: 1 day after today. (The Abyss is the name I give complete joblessness.) I believe I will be getting a little money coming in soon for that option, through, so it's not a complete loss. But for the next five weeks that I'm unemployed I can't collect unemployment insurance because I apparently underreported some income on a film back in January 2006. Since the writer's strike is through and production jobs are starting up again, I don't expect to be unemployed for long, but it's still very anxiety producing to have no safety net.
UPDATE AND KVETCHING SUBJECT TWO: DULL BOY JACK (LONDON)
It's also been tremendously lonely and stressful in recent months because I'm spending all my time writing these several projects. I work, and write, and work, and write. Sure, I have some fun times. Tonight I'm going to Granada in Burbank for Mexican food with some friends. But these projects are HANGING over me and they never feel finished. So this past three day weekend I was just stressed out the entire time and I still didn't finish the steps I wanted to finish by Monday. Once we DO finish this stage of the screenplay, we'll get new notes and we'll have more rewriting. I hope they like what we're doing this time, but one can't predict such things. And my present experience has been that of various optioned projects demanding my time and energy for three years, and then getting dropped.
And the one person play is still killing me. I made some progress early last week, but haven't touched it since last Wednesday. But that's all that Bottleneck I keep writing about. Hoping and praying one of them breaks through and gets made so I am not going month after month working on the same damn things. (This would be completely fine if I was getting money from these projects. Then I'd have "free time." Now all the free time is spent working on these projects, or agonizing over them.)
Anyway, enough kvetching for today. Now I'm going back to the excitement of .....
My cubicle.