Day 406

There is a list on my desk of all the things I should be doing today and I am pretending like it doesn't exist. There was a time today when this wasn't true. I called my dad to find out that I owe the IRS like 500 bucks. I went to the Financial Aid office and found out that my check had still not arrived. I gathered books that I made faculty members donate for the silent auction I am hosting at the Halloween party. I even had a meeting with my advisor who told me two wonderful things: 1. She liked my script that I turned in. 2. She is super amazed at how allegedly productive I am and how by how much I write. To me this meant two things: 1. This was a good excuse for me to use the knowledge that my name literally means, "Industrious one." and, 2. I could take the rest of the day off. So, here are a few things I did on my day off:

-Watched Golden Girls while crocheting. Yeah, I know, I am turning into an old maid.

-Bought a season pass for the show Parenthood and watched 3 episodes in a row. Technically, this is work as I plan to write a spec for this show but really I just needed to be a part of a TV family today.

-Did not show up for one of my jobs. I did however see my co-worker and told her to tell people that I couldn't make it, "Just tell them I am very busy doing nothing."

-Did not go to a birthday party for my friend. Fuck it.

-Read outlines for people's screenplays and was so horribly bored I couldn't keep reading. Seriously, I am starting to think that I can only watch TV from now on, movie are too long.

-Read a book called, "Story" and loved it which reminded me of how I never really change as a person, as a teenager I used to skip class to read books now I just skip life to read books.

-Went to dinner and sat by my absolute favorite nerd in the world. He went on and on about how he was going to invent a version of the game Risk that is based on actual American colonization. I pretty much nodded along and stole his pomegranate seeds.

-And finally I hung out with my neighbor in the new living room I built him. We talked about dentistry and porn and punching security guards in the stomach, in that order.

-Finally, I pretty much just creeped people on Facebook only to find that a friend of mine had her name followed by, "misses Emily." I wrote a comment on it as I was so extremely touched that she wrote a message just for me. It wasn't until now that I realized that I personally know at least 10 other Emilys and my friend is more popular and well-liked than I am perhaps she knows at least 20 Emilys. Maybe I should update the song to, "You're so vain you probably think this Facebook status update is about you..."

-Alright, now I am off to watch an episode of Ab Fab and wish I was more of a bad ass and British.

Tip of the Day: Take the day off, you deserve it.

-Canadian Castaway
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