Worked last night and couldn't keep my head up so slept all day. I did manage to get down to the Labor Commission where I picked up my settlement check for $74. The investigator gave me the good news that they had fired my bos $10,000.00 for retaliation. I looked at my check reduced from $1,080 in unpaid wages to $74 and the Investigator wondered why I wasn't thrilled with the news. I get abuse, racist comments, retaliation, physical threats and $74. The US Gov gets $10,000 because I survived to take even more abuse. There's something wrong here. I re-read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
When a book has been filmed by everybody from Mickey Mouse to the "Fonz" (The American Christmas Carol - I'm NOT making this up) it's sometimes shattering to go back to the source material. The various scenes have been so implanted in our minds that's seeing the original inspiration is daunting. Like I had the thought once. Hurry it up, I don't NEED all these adjectives. Which I suppose is not the best way to approach a classic.
I thought about what Dickens would have thought about all the adaptations and decided he'd have been totally stoked. Dickens wrote for the money and with the current laws he'd be filthy rich and probably directing sexy pot boiler TV shows.
I had a friend, Tom Tyron, who started out as a pretty boy actor and then at the peak of his career became a best selling novelist because it was easier and he could make more money.
No luck on the job hunting today, how could there have been. I'm going out tomorrow to retail stores, which should mighty interesting.