Ever had one of those weekends where you just needed to chill out? Worked so hard during the week that by Saturday you're just fried and need some "me time?" Well-p, yours truly went through that this weekend. And I posting the opening picture 'cuz that's what I need some beach time knocking down some Budweisers! The 9-5, day job thing that all pre-pro screenwriters hafta do to make ends meet has become a stress filled 11-13 hour a day job Monday through Friday. AND lately the day job has wanted me to work Saturdays and Sundays too!
Now don't get me wrong -- I do actually like to work -- but just not to the point of absolute burn-out, and that's where my current job drives me towards. A little over a week ago one of the main guys in the department I work in went on an emergency leave. He has stage 4 cancer, and is in very bad shape. To make matters worse the company where I work was already short-handed, and the guy the lost was one of the few guys at this place who really worked hard all the time. They still haven't found a replacement for this guy, so the company has no real choice but to work their employees even harder, as business doesn't stop because of an illness.
I come home most days completely spent, shot, whatever adjective you wanna throw in there.
This work development has adversely affected my writing, and blog posting. Sorry.
Hopefully soon things will get easier, and I'll have more time to get back into content posts and the like. But just know for now, my time away from this blog really isn't of my choice; I'm just too tired to do other things.
You see where I work I'm the low guy on the totem pole. So guess what? I get all the hard and physically demanding jobs. I truly wish the area I work at could have been videotaped last Friday night. We got off a shipment at like 11 p.m. that's normally supposed to be loaded at 5 p.m. My supervisor was pulling people from all over the production floor to do jobs that trained people in my department are supposed to be doing. It was a circus. I was tasked with doing things that I normally don't do, so I was slower than the normal people who are normally tasked with this stuff.
I know I'm being a little vague here, but the point is: stress. I've got lots of stress at the day job right now. And most of that is out of my control.
They really could have used me at the day job this weekend, but after putting in 13 hours on Monday, then doing 10-12 the rest of the week I really needed a break.
So what's next for ol' E.C.? Well-p, I just submitted one of my scripts, "After the Glory" to Talentville for 4 reviews. Yeah, I wrote this scriptover 2 years ago, but since it still isn't bought or optioned, I thought, "Why not? Maybe this will lead to something positive." That's E.C. Henry, always the optimist.
Also still hard at work on my latest spec. Of which I'm up to 151 pages now. Yeah, I know, it's wayyy over a good page count. But right now it's all about getting it all out there, THEN I'll worry about paring it back.
Did go see "Trouble with the Curve" (Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams) at the Bonney Lake Multiplex last night, and was pleasantly surprised by it. The story was nothing special, but Amy Adams really can act and she and Justin Timberlake really carried this movie. Clint was surprisingly ho-hum in this one, nothing special, nothing fancy.
One last thing. I was there, at Century Link Field, for Monday night football when the Seattle Seahawks played Green Bay Packers. Y'know the game I'm talking about? Well if you don't it ended something like this --
The crazy thing about this play from a fan in the stands perspective was that they never showed the replay on the big screen monitors in the stadium. From the 300 level, surrounded primarily by Packer fans, all I saw was a pile of players, then the replacement referee signal, "touchdown!" It was surreal. Just moments before when the Packers stopped the Seahawkson downs around the goal line, I remember shaking a Packer fan's hands telling him that his team played a better game, and deserved to win the game. Packer fans are very passionate about their team, but their also quite respectful and honorable -- unlike Oakland Raider fans that think its Halloween 360 days a year and just seam to live to cause a ruckus.
I'll try to post something else during the week. Been thinking about exploring the notion of how "theme" plays into the romantic comedy genre. Or maybe I'll go all Jesus on you and talk more about having a personal relationship with God, which I think is the most important thing any of us can do; it's the reason we exist: to know and love the Lord. The gears in my head are always turning. I'm not a boring person. I just have a demanding day job that keeps me from the thing I love: writing scripts and posting on this blog-site.
Till we speak again. Thanks for visiting.
Sincerely,
E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
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