16-Nov-2006

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!  There.  I feel better.  I have been working on this pilot outline non-stop all morning, and, as you can probably tell, I'm about to go all trichotillomania on my scalp.  I think it's ready.  Maybe?  Fuck, I don't know.  I keep making changes, then remembering stuff.  I think a lot of this is because I've never written my outlines for other people to read.  They are usually scrawled, longhand, on a legal pad or a steno notebook or the palm of my hand, and I almost always get tired of writing them by the time the third act rolls around, so I just go to script.  But I have to learn to do formal outlines.  It doesn't help that New Boss keeps coming by my desk, asking what I'm working on (and at one point I had printed out a hard copy and was reading it over), then trying to grab said hard copy from my hand when I tell him he can't read it.  I ended up literally rolling up the pages and beating him with my homemade weapon. I'll let him read it when it's ready... as a script.

I tried to explain the whole proofreading/double-checking everything to him.

Me:  So I'm reading it over, just checking to make sure everything tracks--

NB:  So you're like Santa Claus?  Checking it twice?

Me:  I thought you said I was anorexic.

NB:  (triumphant) You're Santa-rexic!