7.19.01

oh man, the world hates me. today the dsl connection is down, so i’m stuck using earthlink at $4.95/hour for internet access. and i just found out that my health insurance company canceled my plan on may 1st and didn’t bother to notify me until now.

this post must be short, since every letter i type costs be an additional .0002 cents or something (based on a calculation of 60 wds/minute typing speed, average word length 6 characters). i just want to set the record straight: a concerned reader, writing in to berate me for my inconsistent posts, mentions that we are in the same industry. his return address, however, was hewlett-packard. unless HP has begun putting on plays as some sort of team-building occupational therapy, there’s been some misunderstanding here. folks, i’m a stage manager who’s trying to become a stage director. any work i do involving web design or computer code is a strictly mercenary activity, designed to supplement my meager stage manager/intern/assistant director salaries. (if you can’t tell, i can be deeply sensitive about being mistaken for a dot-commer, particularly last year when i WAS working for a dot-com and living in SF where everyone either believes that dot-commers are the anti-christ, or they are one themselves. i tried to pierce my eyebrow just so that i’d look more edgy and less like the nouveau-riche bringing high rents and moral ruin to SF, but the girl at the piercing studio told me i didn’t have enough eyebrow. my life is so hard.)