Is it July already? What the ( Read more... )

It's weird not going into an office every day, or having a steady paycheck, but I have to say, I really don't miss dealing with the office politics and general BS that goes on in my (former) division. My manager and the creative director, with whom I worked closely, were both freaking out last week about the safety of their own jobs and also ( Read more... )

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Was talking to a girlfriend the other day and the subject of Actor Guy came up (okay, I brought him up). "I'm over it," I said, trying to sound blase, and I was struck at how unconvincing I was, even to myself. Shit, I'm totally not over it, I realized. STILL.So annoyed about that. I'm feeling a little burned still from the whole thing and not ( Read more... )

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.”
--Joseph Campbell

There's an old saw about the Chinese word for 'crisis' containing the root word for 'opportunity.' It may be a bit of wishful thinking, but it's not totally wrong either. The root word is close in meaning to a crucial ' ( Read more... )

Been slowly getting my head around my imminent change in job status. I've been talking to friends, family and my therapist, and the consensus thus far seems to be that I should take a little time to think hard about what I want to do next. That, while I should look for work, I shouldn't be panicked about it, and should consider what I would ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Steven.  We raised glasses of champagne to you today, and had a beautiful cake.  It was a tiny group -- just those I could pull in at the last minute, since I've been spending all my free time at the hospital with Mom.  Still, it was great to be with four other people who knew you, remembered you and missed you, especially on such a ( Read more... )

Feeling so very tired. Had a busy and rather tough weekend, mostly with family. My mother has deteriorated very rapidly in the last few weeks, with a precipitous decline in the last seven days. It appears that she now also has Parkinson's in addition to Alzheimer's. It may be that she's had Parkinson's for a long while but that it went ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I spent the day with Mr. Drama.  We started off with a late brunch at Salt's Cure, a fantastic butcher-turned-restaurant in West Hollywood where they make everything from scratch (including their own bacon, ketchup and hamburger buns).  Neither of us had been there before, and were feeling celebratory upon having a day off (and it being ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting 2013 so far. It started off with a lovely New Year's Eve celebration that started off classy and ended up not-so-classy (maybe a bit slutty?), and since then I've managed to read my first book of the year, finally hang something on the walls of my home (at last!), register for an improv comedy class, and be hit in my new ( Read more... )