Go figure I'd check my yahoo account and there'd be an email staring at me, saying "Escape to Hawai'i."

Teases!

Tell me about it.
I went to a Hawaiian BBQ place here in Burbank and instead of playing the usual Hawaiian music overhead, they were playing the Tracy Chapman song, "Give Me One Reason".
"Give me one reason to stay here and I'll turn right back around..."

:D

Regarding the biz - maybe I'm still too naive, but I think that there are at least SOME people in this town who've made it by being nice instead of stepping on adam's apples. I'm moving foward with the understanding that I simply don't want to be a big CEO or an A-list director if it means I have to sacrifice my own ideals. And there are certainly companies that are better to its employees than others, from big studios to small firms.

That said, I am also observing that even the tangential participants in the industry (read: marketing) have to give a whole lot of time and energy to it that would be difficult to sustain in the very-long-term. I've spoken occasionally with EH about it, and she's said something very wise, that perhaps the industry isn't as ageist as much as very fast-paced, and people who grow older and wish to spend time doing other things may, in fact, prefer not to stay at the office until midnight two nights in a row. (Hell, *I* prefer not to. I'm so tired today!) Or go see plays every night looking for talent. Or keep up the evening barfly act looking for connections. There really are more important things than that, and I suspect that as they get older, more people realize this.

Back home? Or back from home?
 

Brad don't move til after April please. I would so have to find another dog sitter and i don't want to find someone i don't trust nor board the doggies either...i'm in a delima then.

I too suffer from depression but i've lived here all my life. I almost relocated in 95 to Georgia and would never have found happiness with Matt nor my life that i live now. I think moving to Hawaii would be running away from what lies deeper inside but that is just me.

You can ride but you can't hide away all your problems. Only you can decide what is best for you. To me home is where i lay down at night where my sweetie is where my animals are. What makes me happy. But you have to do what is right for you in the end.

But please give me notice so i can make other arrangements if necessary about April then.

Well, I may have the decision made for me. Apparently, my company is laying off people today. Writer's strike... I've already heard of 2 people that are now gone.
Ugh. My stomach totally hurts. (Psychosomatic, of course.)

UM ... the strike will be settled in days! The DGA made a really good deal, and the WGA is going to have to accept that or something very close ... and they know it.

Their membership was very supportive of the strike, and that support is now strongly behind accepting a deal along the lines the DGA made.


It's all over but the signing. Two weeks tops.

My source tells me I'm staying put. Which is a good thang.
Whew.
Lots of people getting let go though.
:(

That is so not fun to be around. Let us know how it turns out!

A couple of people here are sympathetic to the people that got released. But, and this is the Hollywood attitude that bugs, some are like 'Glad it wasn't me' and 'Well, I didn't like him anyway'.
Ugh

Well, I still have a job. What a weird, sad, crazy day...