Back in the Saddle

Those of you feeling that I have been negligent in my blog posting of late should know that Friday I was without computer access as I actually worked. That's right, for one day I was gainfully employed. I stood in at the rehearsal of a forthcoming show on the style network called Craft Corner Deathmatch. I played the host. Basically the show pits two crafting enthusiasts against one another in a steel cage competition where the sarcastic host makes fun of them as they compete to the "death" for a $750 scrapbook related prize. The sweet smell of Emmy-hype was unmistakable in the studio. Or maybe it was the fog machine. Emmy-hype and manufactured fog have very similar scents. It's an odd marriage, crafting enthusiasts and steel cage match style combat, but I'm sure there were a lot of whole roasted peanuts and milk chocolate skeptics discouraging the creator of Goobers, and look how that turned out. I had hoped my performance as stand-in host might attract the attention of the executive producers potentially causing a host controversy to erupt, but as it turned out I was only there for the camera and lighting crews to get things figured out from a technical standpoint. If nothing else though, it was nostalgic for me to see the near side of 8 a.m.

As long as I'm typing about waking up in the morning, I think the snooze function on alarm clocks should be more difficult to enable. When you first wake-up, especially when you're very tired, your decision making tends to be skewed in a very more sleep-centric way. When the press of a button is all it takes to delay your miserable climb out of the warm comforts of bed, it's too easy. In order to ensure that you can afford to take those extra nine minutes of z's, I think the wherewithal of resetting your alarm should be required. The snooze is like a mindless reality pause. Just press it and pretend a little while longer that you don't really need to get up. If you didn't need to get up you wouldn't have set your alarm clock for that time. Be gone, you irresistible snooze button, you're crippling society's productivity. (I've taken to referring to myself as "society".)

I wonder if bookkeepers scoff at zookeepers seeing as how zookeepers only have two sets of double-letters in their job title-not to mention the whole elephant dung shoveling factor.

Friday night, the first of my group of close friends from college got engaged. That’s like, a major grown up move. Today is the 25th birthday of another of said group of college friends. Here’s to you guys BTer and Matty. I hope you know who’s who.

As important of a creative outlet as this writing is for me, one could argue that it isn't exactly my fast-track to finding work, so I'm going to go on an exhaustive job search this afternoon and maybe I'll write more later about how fruitful it was. Or if during my job search I think of anything worthwhile, perhaps I'll add that. Wish me luck.