Actually, some big stuff has happened! My sister had her baby, and he is CUTE AS THE DICKENS. Seriously. So cute. With his big ol’ head and his little tiny fingers. Babies are lucky they’re so cute, because they’re not very good at hunting or gathering, or balancing a checkbook, and if they didn’t have the power to bring adults to their knees they probably wouldn’t get very far in life. Seriously, though, babies are like cynics’ Kryptonite. Their cuteness defies your wry observations about how rotten the world has become.
OH. While we’re on the topic of “how rotten the world has become,” did I mention that my company is shutting down? Because it is doing that. Our parent corporation decided that they “don’t want a production company anymore,” so they’re canceling our award-winning and long-running (MORE THAN A DECADE, PEOPLE) series and we’re all out on our asses by the end of Summer. So much fun! I get to be unemployed again, just like about a million other people in Los Angeles, against whom I get to compete for a continuously narrowing pool of jobs. Hooray. Can one survive on swallowing their own pride? Because that will be all I can afford to eat for WHO KNOWS HOW LONG.
Now, in the meantime they had put me on a two-hour special that is theoretically supposed to deliver at the end of June, giving me an out date of sometime in mid-July, and TODAY I found out that, oh, wait, they might be scrapping the project all together, which means…??? !!! @#!$%@! WTF? HA HA HA. HA! HA! HA! AM I FIRED OR WHAT?
No, seriously, that’s a question. I don’t know if that means I’m possibly going to be shitcanned any day now, or if this is a false alarm, or if they’ll move me onto something else for a while, or what. BUT (and here’s the thing,) I have been making plans with the specific knowledge that I was to have at least five more paychecks coming my way AND I WOULD LIKE THEM PLEASE THANK YOU.
Either way, I have seen the writing on the wall, and I am SINCERELY hoping that the writing says “This way to some more money!” With, like, a big arrow underneath pointing at a bunch of flour sacks with a $ emblazoned on them.
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