Today I got a job at Angelica's Kitchen, brainstormed short film ideas with my director friend Michael, went to a bbq, and hung out with my brother and his girlfriend. I could have done better.
My fatal flaw was subway arrogance. "Name a street," I demanded of a startled stranger. "I'll tell you which lines go to it, if the lines have an unusual weekend and/or night schedule, what stops come before and after that stop, and if you can get there from here." Then I promptly walked onto the D-train going North when what I wanted was the A train going South. I probably wasted about 3 hours in transit thanks to walking onto trains without actually looking at them.
The day could have been less productive. I could have gone to a party. I did get a job, and making money doing something that I like - even if it doesn't directly involve becoming more accomplished and impressive in every way than Jeremy Coon - is the most important top ten immediate steps. Right now I have to be an employee and work on creative stuff on the side. It's the only way. True, if I had no job I could just spend all my time working on musicals and comic strips and poems. But after a while of no food water shelter or friends, I would die. Vegan restaurant job + all my free time spent writing = there's no stopping me.
Carrie.anne tried to stop me tonight - she invited me to a party. It didn't work. Thankfully I'd had a conversation with Brooke earlier at the bbq that made me less vulnerable to such temptations. We discussed the merits of working the night shift at Anglica's (5 p.m. to midnight), a big one being that I could skip most parties that way because I'd be working (except those damn parties that start at "party o'clock." I hate those parties!). Brooke agreed: "You're 26. You've been to enough parties. It's time to think about your career." THANK you, Brooke! I'm so glad someone finally understands. Obviously she's seen Napoleon Dynamite.
You want the honest to god reason I didn't go to the party? I was chilling with my brother, playing that Japanese video game where you collect junk on a giant ball.
