Maddening Monday

Well it is another wonderful Monday at a job that it looks like I won’t have after Friday. Needless to say, it is very hard to get up in the morning and come here knowing that I probably won’t be here after this week.

I was told this morning by my boss that if they get the funding after we are let go, then we would just come back as if nothing had happened.

“It will be like you got a paid vacation, basically,” she said.

This is exactly where I won't be next week.

What? A paid vacation? Paid vacations are usually happy times where you do not have to scramble looking around for a job or worry about your future knowing that when it is all said and done you can go back to your job.

This would not be a paid vacation. It would be a nerve racking week or two where I am unemployed and looking for jobs, yet hanging my hopes that I might get called back. That does not work for me and I believe is indicative of the mentality the higher-ups around here are taking regarding this “unfortunate termination of employment” as they have taken to calling it.

Oh, and the assumption that I am going to get paid for this vacation would not be there since I would be unemployed, not just on vacation. I will stop; I think you get my point.

In “you would have to be dead to not have head something about this” news, the fourth season of Mad Men premiered last night and took my girlfriend’s attention away from me for a whole hour. Oh no! 

Actually, it was an excellent chance for us to catch up on our favorite cast of characters that do nothing but drink and smoke all day while making money and looking good. If there is a safe and effective way to travel back in time and take a job in an ad agency in 1960s New York City then I would love to know about it. Oh, and I will take the job. 

I bet that this is the best dressed cast for a television show ever. There is probably not one person on that show who would have trouble getting laid. I will take the job!

Handsome Devils

This show perplexes me so much because never has less seemed to happen while so much is going on. It is like each episode does nothing to advance the plot but by the end of the season you are nowhere near where we started out. And then apparently this season takes place almost an entire year after the last, which just confused me even more until I realized about half-way through what was going on.

All of the “action” flies under the radar, invisible to even the most discerning viewer. It makes for the most enjoyable and frustrating hour of television ever. Who would have thought someone would create a show that forces you to pay attention to the intricacies in plot and writing. Incredible!

I bet they need intelligent actors and actresses for each role. You know, to play out the subtleties of each episode in a real and convincing way. Someone who is not too over the top, yet still stands out, to give a sense of realism to the world the characters inhabit. It must be really taxing to actually get picked to be on Mad Men even if it is for the most trivial parts. The folks over in casting probably have to really dig deep to find such understated and brilliant talent.

I wonder if Snooki is available?