One of the big problems with being unemployed is trying to wring a little meaning out of the weekend. How can you look forward to that break in the routine when you no longer have a routine? The answer: Create a mind-numbing, thankless routine of your own! Here's how I spend my average weekday: Drag ass out of bed at noon. Eat cereal. While eating cereal, watch another horrible episode of MASH. After contemplating Alan Alda's perpetual liberal outrage, peppered with sub-Groucho one-liners to help the medicine go down, take a shower. Spend as long as you want in the shower because you're not late for work. Run errands. Sometimes eat lunch. Sometimes skip it. Look for jobs on Internet. See jobs you could get but don't want. See jobs you want but can't get. Figure out how many more months you can coast. If you spend exclusively on rent, bills, and food, maybe you could coast six months. Think about all the music you want to buy and restaurants you want to eat in. Get tired of coasting. Look for more jobs. Find nothing. Listen to music. Wife gets home from work. Cook dinner. Eat it. Hang out with wife. Wife goes to bed. Get some writing done. Listen to more music. Read. Drink. Play Sims 2 or Hoyle Casino on compute-bot. Go to bed at 4 a.m. Repeat until Friday.
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Listening to: Oh No! It's Devo by Devo. I've always liked this album, but tonight it sounded like the greatest music ever made by man, machine, or man-machine. Will it ever sound as good again? Oh, the fleeting happiness of existence. Such is life. Such...is...life.
Currently reading: Poachers by Tom Franklin
Movies watched:
On the big screen: In the Realms of the Unreal (Jessica Yu)
On video: Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie)
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I liked all the movies we watched this weekend, but I'd like to make a special plug for "Tokyo Story" -- I think everyone should see this movie. I'm still thinking about it, and I think I'll keep on thinking about it for the rest of my life. It really changed the way I see myself, my family, and my interactions with other people. Really really really worth seeing.
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