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July 22, 2004 - 10:31 am I really don’t have time to write this entry, but I also don’t believe in toil before 11am. I plenty believe in showing up to work sometime between 915 and 930, but if there’s an expectation of anything besides email checking, coffee drinking, and co-worker flirting, you have hired the wrong liberal arts degree. Besides, for some reason the songs ‘Female of the Species’ by Space and Skee-Lo’s ‘I Wish’ are both in heavy rotation on my iTunes, and I can’t listen to those and watch footage at the same time, and it’s obvious which must win out. Speaking of toil: Behold the fruits of my labor. We watched a cut of the first episode yesterday, on which I did a lot of work. So incredibly good. So good! I signed one of those pesky confidentiality agreements regarding the show, so I can’t give any details lest I be fined $50,000 for each item I reveal. If there’s something you absolutely need to know, though, I’ll squeal if you drop $51,000 into my PayPal account, the extra grand being just for my trouble. I really can’t wait til it airs. I’m so looking forward to seeing what kind of media coverage this generates. I doubt it’ll be quite as ubiquitous as American Idol or Survivor, but I’d love to see a New Yorker article eventually. “In This Issue: Something Bill Did!” To get even more exuberantly and wildly optimistic, I hope to one day say to a woman “Wanna touch my Emmy?” and not have it be the one Ray Romano threw at me. Update on the dream stuff of last entry: Turns out that she had a similar dream at the same time. Paranormal activity? Astral plane hijinks? Or, according to her: “not that weird”? And she’s right. Two strangers, simultaneous dreams, amazingly similar content? Yawn. In other news…Stuff: I Hate Doing It. I’ve been doing Stuff since Sunday. Had to work a weekend day. Then I had theater Monday and Tuesday. Theoretically, I had Stuff to do last night, which involved even more theater, and then a party afterwards. But why do so much Stuff? I am very happy with a night completely to myself that lacks any Stuff at all that doesn’t relate to a couch, a good meal, good viewing and maybe some sketchbook action and perhaps a small and modest contribution to American Letters if I have a good idea. So I worked late last night, and then went home to do nothing, which worked splendidly. The entire affair was helped along by my new favorite Ben & jerry’s flavor, Primary Berry (strawberry ice cream and graham cracker crust), a comfortable mattress and two terrible, really very badly done and geeky episodes of Star Trek. I didn’t interact with a single human being all evening, and it was glorious. More of that, yes, please.
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