Hey buddy, can you help a fellow animator who is down on his luck?

So, last week I had a really great week and was all prepared to write an entry about how things were looking up and I was all set to really start animating. Then I came home and got a taste of just how really depressed my wife is - so I shelved that one. Then, because of my reaction to my wife, I was going to write a piece filling in the back story of what happened to both of us over the Summer. I was going to use it to explain why I'm so screwed up (and why she is so screwed up). Then my wife got very sick and I had to nurse her along over the weekend - no doctor visit of course since we don't have health insurance. So I got so steam back up, started animating again an was all set to write a piece about getting back into the saddle.

Then today happened.

On Mondays I go into work. Where I work is a newspaper - a tired, old, local paper that is sliding into oblivion because its readers are dying off and it has little to no relevance to anyone in the community. It is owned by a faceless corporation out of Alabama that doesn't like the fact that the paper actually makes a profit, because it doesn't make enough profit. The building is sick, waterlogged, and probably filled with asbestos (it's that old). On this particular Monday I was summoned down the hall to the conference room. If that sounds like a "Dead Man's Walk," you are correct. Corporate had called the publisher over the weekend and told him to chop four jobs in the art department. I, and four of my coworkers were given our two weeks notice (which seems strange, usually it's the other way around). So, on October 12th I will be unemployed.

Strangely, I'm okay with that.

It's probably because I never enjoyed the job - it was a serious grind, and the salespeople I worked with were more concerned about their bonus checks than pleasing customers. It's also because that place was killing my creativity. So I'm off into the great unknown. Maybe I'll find someplace cool to work...or maybe I'll end up at Wegmans. Either way, I have a film to produce and I need to get back at it.

Until next time.