Unemployment sucks. Well, no it doesn’t. Not really. Now I have time to do the things I daydreamed about doing while I was at my job. So now it’s time to do them. And just so we’re clear, what are these things that I would rather have been doing while I was wearing a lab coat? OK, well there are things I want to do and things I need to do.

The things I want to do are: 1) work on the screenplays/stories I’ve been toying around with for the past year; 2) learn how to play the guitar that I bought almost two years ago; 3) play video games; 4) catch up with my Netflix queue; 5) watch porn; 6) get caught up with my new reading hat*.

The things I need to do are: 1) buy wall mount shelves; 2) sort through my magazines; 3) get some sort of appropriate storage for the bare hard drives that are laying around; 4) set up my new laptop as a Final Cut Pro/Adobe Creative Suite station; 5) set up my Mac Mini as a proper media server; 6) cancel my magazine subscriptions; 7) take care of a few loose ends that are still hanging on from LA; 8.) install wall mount shelves.

It took me a week to finally send my passport in to be renewed, but I’m glad I got that taken care of so I can have it in the event I decide to go to Australia in January. My plan to visit NY in December was effectively castrated. Perhaps I’ll visit in January the week before Obama’s inauguration. I think that might be a better idea than visiting during the holiday season. Plus it’ll be closer to my birthday time, and I can celebrate my birthday in NY and treat myself to a tour of Alex Grey’s gallery, which I totally missed out on the last time I was there. I hope Net of Being is still on display. What else do I want to do in NY? See a few musuems (MOMA, Natural History, Ellis Island), see the Statue of Liberty, visit Ground Zero, jog/do yoga in Central Park, visit Columbia and NYU. I think I can do all that in a week. Definitely have to play video games with Saro too. We always talk about that shit, but I don’t think I’ve ever played with the guy.

I gave myself a week from today to write the script for the Drunk Darth Vader Attack sketch. That’s going to be my project for the week. In addition I’ll add one thing from the “need to do” list. Let’s see. Hmmmm. Buy wall mount shelves. Yeah. That’s a good one. Note that “buy” and “install” regarding the shelves are two separate action items.

Yes, I realize that this was neither acidic, nor a dream. But you have to write a lot of nothing before you can get something.

* I took most of the books off my shelf that I’ve already read, leaving behind the ones I haven’t read. I then wrote down the titles of each on little strips of paper and placed the strips in a hat. You get the idea. The first name drawn was Stephen King’s “The Stand.”