This is interesting. The senior vice president of business development and network operations for my company left me a message asking to meet with me when flies out here the week of August 26. I've only ever talked to to this guy on the phone, since he works out of our Pittsburgh office. I wonder what he wants. He said our president, whom my boss says is a tight-fisted freak, wants him to discuss the client projects that I've been working on. Great. What does this mean for my job?

It's all my boss' fault. Since he and his wife had another baby, he decided to only work part-time because his wife makes more than him when she works full-time and she wanted to go back to working full-time. So now I'm reporting directly to the CIO, which is okay since we have a good relationship, but what does it mean for my job. I hate changes at work. Whenever there's a change, it's like the suits take it as green light to make changes in the organization. I hate that.

I've been so comfortable here at this job and the job market is so bad out here now. Honestly I don't think my job will change that much. My projects are in demand by our clients, so they can't get rid of me. But they can make my work life less comfortable, and that's what I'm afraid of.

I guess change at work is inevitable. I've stayed longer at this job than I've stayed at any job since 1997, which I thought was a good thing, but maybe not. Maybe I've gotten too comfortable and I'm now afraid of change. When I was changing job every 18 months, I wasn't afraid of change, I was used to it. I've definitely gotten too comfortable here.

Wow, the commenting thing is so cool. Thanks to all who leave comments, because they're all so helpful.

So now I have a suggestion of how to add images to my bloggie, but now I'll have to figure what to add. I'm thinking the most fun thing to do is go through my own collection of photos and see if there's anything in there that would be fun to see on my blog. The first picture that comes to mind is the picture I took of wellies from London. I love my silly green shoes. I wish wearing Laura Ashley dresses with wellies was still fashionable, because I might just wear that look again. Okay, so I haven't worn any Laura Ashley in years because it's just not my style anymore, but it was a cute look.

Speaking of fashion tastes changing. I don't know if it's me or Nordstrom, but I so do not like their clothes anymore. I used to buy the majority of my clothes at Nordstrom. I couldn't walk into that store without spending a ton of money. But now it's a different story. When I was in Nordstrom on Monday and I left without buying anything. Nothing appealed to me. It's really sad, I think. I think I still wear the same kind of clothes I've worn when I used to buy all my clothes there. In fact, I pretty much wear the same type of clothes I wore in college, which I know is another issue altogether. What has happened to Nordstrom? Or is it me and I'm just growing old and not caring about my fashion sense anymore?

I try to keep up. I went on shoe shopping expedition last year to find comfortable shoes with two inch heels and ended up with two pairs of dress and two pairs of casual shoes. I can't wear shoes unless the heels are 1.5 inches and up. I seriously hate flat heeled shoes. They make me feel like I'm wearing old lady shoes and it freaks me out. And what about my trendy turqouise jewelry that I shopped all over the SF Bay Area for in July?

I don't wear up to the minute trendy wendy clothes; I never have. God, I finally broke down and bought a pair of cropped pants while I was in LA and I only bought them beacuse they were on sale for $18 and were in black linen and I've been wanting some new linen pants.

Maybe Nordstrom is too hip and trendy for me, like the Gap. Now there's another store I can't shop in anymore because I hate their clothes. And what's up with peasant clothes. Okay, I know the whole peasant look is in, but god it's so retro. I never liked the style when it in, whenever that was and I'm certainly not a fan of it now. Plus, most of the new clothes is made of polyester and I hate wearing polyester. Polyester traps smell and every time I wear a polyester piece of clothing, I feel like I'm wearing a stinky polyester bag on my butt. Yikes!!!

I'll have to figure the fashion thing out because it's bugging me and I'm a hankering to change my look. It's been awhile since I've updated my look, but it feel like it's about time to do it again. And my goal for a wardrobe update is "I want to look expensive and I want to look like a lady who lunches." I won't give up my baggier than baggy embroidered jean overalls that I bought for less than $20 at Target because well, that's my weekend slob around town look. But I think I need to look a little more coordinated, never mind that I've never looked coordinated in my life. I just want to look that way just to see what it's like.

I was bored and I changed the look of the blog page. I'm not sure the yellow works but it's definitely a sunny, bright and happy colour. I wish I could add a graphic or two, but I don't think I can do that while my blog is on blogspot.com. Oh well, yellow is okay I guess for now. I wanted to add a turquoise colour too since turquoise as you know is so in right now.

I went to my regular informal Tuesday screenwriting group tonight. I usually just sit by myself and write, while the rest of group discusses their plans for when they sell their first screenplay, which camera angles to add, indie versus commercial mainstream Hollywood films, etc.

I'm so new at the screenwriting thing that I never feel like I have anything good to add to any discussion. Plus, I know I'm a total scumbag when it comes to money. I'm like, I'm selling my screenplay to the highest bidder and that usually means Hollywood studios, who will probably never ever make my script into a film, but may pay money just to have it as a future project. Hell, I'd even sell into television since one of my reviewers said my script felt like a TV script. You know, unlike most writers who write screenplays, I still have fantasies about writing a TV movie of the week or Hallmark family drama or Lifetime movie. God, I love these kinds of movies and watch them all the time. I would be so proud to have one of my scripts be accepted by any of these television companies.

So I've been going it on my own, which feels kind of lonely and antisocial, but tonight when I stopped by to say Hello to the bigger group, I found out that a fellow screenwriter was told to write the backstory for each character in his screenplay. I felt so damned validated because that's exactly what I've been doing. And backstory for each character in your movie no matter how minor takes alot of time. I can only do one a day and I'm doing it for every character even the minor ones who have only two or three lines. I thought I was going to start writing my screenplay on Sunday August 11, but these character interviews are taking way longer than I thought they would.

So I'm thinking maybe my gut instincts about my screenplay and what to do aren't so off base after all. Plus that book I've been reading by Richard Walter, who teaches UCLA, has been invaluable. I mean Richard Walter should know about screenplays since some of his students have written scripts like Highlander, Backdraft, etc. In the interview I heard with him a few months ago, Walter said that he taught screenplay writing to at least half the screenwriters that have movies out this year.

I really like Richard Walter and plan to follow the advice in his book. In the book, Walter says to read Aristotle's Poetics, which I bought a few month ago on a recommendation from some other website about screenwriitng. I read Poetics in college years ago, but don't remember any of it. I guess I'll be ploughing through Aristotle for the next month. How fun. Maybe reading it wil make me feel like a shallow and vapid 18 year old space/basket case again. Maybe not.

Check out my friend's blog page and site http://hooray.blogspot.com or www.hoorayforanything.com. The link is at the left under Hooray for Anything. He is a very funny writer. He's snarky as heck but wickedly, wickedly funny, so funny that it makes me even laugh out loud and there are very few writers published and unpublished who can do that.