When my alarm went off this morning, I was in the middle of a dream. I was talking to Jean Stapleton, but she looked exactly like she did when I worked with her in “The Buddy System”, and she was a teacher at my elementary school. I was about to tell her something really important, and the alarm went off.
So the first thing I thought was, “damn. I was in the middle of a dream.” The Bangles did the rest, without any prodding from your humble writer.
My first day at G4 was awesome.
I was so scared on my way in, I can’t even tell you. I was absolutely terrified that I would mess up, or do something wrong, or crash the network, or just not fit in…but everyone there really is amazingly cool, and really made me feel at home. It’s weird…I’ve never sat at a desk before. Usually, for me, work means that I go to a set someplace, get ready, then sit around and read a book for a while, or play a game or something. I actually “work” for just a few hours out of the day…so I was really out of water, to say the least.
But it really worked out well. I had a couple of meetings, got used to my desk, watched a huge structure fire in Beverly Hills, ate lunch with my friend Travis, who was instrumental in getting me this job.
[Tangent: my friend Travis has really been amazing in my life since we started the whole “Mind Meld” thing for Vega$. That show would never have worked without his help, because I so didn’t know how to produce anything, and Travis did. He kept me sane and made that show come off without a hitch. Without Travis, the holidays would have been so much worse than they already were. The short version is, I owe Travis more than I will ever be able to repay, and I am eternally grateful for his friendship. If you have a friend like Travis, and if you do, you know it, consider yourself one of the luckiest people alive, and make sure that friend knows how important they are to you. Travis also has the coolest girlfriend, ever. She watches him play video games. For reals. Okay, end Tangent]
After lunch, I played my first ever game of Counter Strike…and I must say, I can’t believe that I’m getting paid to play this game. It is awesome. Yes, I know that I am a bleeding pacifist, but it’s just a game, folks, and it is REALLY fun. Especially when you’re playing on a LAN, and you hear the computer next to you errupt with gunfire, and across the office (we have the whole top floor of this building) you hear somone yell out, “Aw shit!”
Finally, I watched a beautiful sunset. There is something wonderful about watching the sky turn from silver to gold to red and finally to indigo and black. There’s nothing between our building and the sea, too, so when the air is clear, I get to watch the sun sink into the Pacific. I think I’m going to be really happy here. The only thing that I don’t like are the absolutely awful flourescent lights that sit above my desk. I had a headache in my eyes by 11 am. I’m told that everyone hates the floursecent lights, though, and I think we’ll be getting rid of them shortly.

ACME

The ACME show was awesome on Saturday night! All the sketches just killed, and I got, as Ed Marques put it, “sitcom-style exit applause” whenever I left a scene. A couple of people who read this site actually came to the show!! Kat came with Alex, and Dawn came with a whole OC posse. Dawn doesn’t have a website, and you’re sorry she doesn’t, guys. Dawn is a babe, and really nice, too.
I really, really miss the show that we did last summer. I made such great friends in that show, and things have been so busy and stuff since then, I haven’t been able to hang out with them at all, and, since haven’t been in the last two shows, I haven’t seen them every week. If you’re one of the pussies (that’s what we were called, like the “sweathogs”, but you can’t say it to your mom…sorry mom.), I MISS YOU GUYS!!
My friend Debra also came to the show, and she brought her cousin, who gave me a stile project T-shirt, which I wore proudly to the new job today. It was very funny to watch people look at it, and realize that they knew what the website was. I’d say the recognition was split about 50-50 between “That site is SICK!” and “That site is FUNNY!”
After the show, I went next door with the cast, and had a beer. We laughed like crazy, complimented each other on the great show, and talked about how much we needed to all get together.
I don’t know what’s more sad: not being able to get together, or saying we’ll do it, knowing that it’s not going to happen.

Return

By popular demand, I have brought this back. It will only be available for a short time, though, so if you’ve been beating yourself up about missing it last time, now’s your chance.