In my effort to keep costs down, I decided to get rid of cable and dsl. Dutifully, I called both TimeWarner and Verizon. No, not only have I not gotten rid of either, i have kept them. Verizon offered me DSL fo 29.95/mo for 6 months and TimeWarner gave me DTV for the same price that I was paying.

I now have 200 channels. There is the scotch tape channel, mountain goat vision, and operations for men. .

I woke up feeling slightly sick. Was it today or yesterday I woke up sad about Herb being no longer with us. Then I heard on NPR a talk with people who have changed careers: an investor banker who moved to Louisiana to become a catfish farmer and now runs a book shop in Minnesota. A lawyer who is now a trucker. Each of them harbored secret dreams: is being at camp as head counsellor my secret dream? Or is it an effort to run away from my dream - of forging a career as a director?

Saw Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Kirsten Wilson is in it.
. I think she could be a huge star. Thought the movie was pretty frigging ok. Not great. What was it about? He's crazy? He's in love? What's the struggle? Between Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore? I just have not been having fun at the movies.

Last night's monty python was the famed bicycle tour. Today, Ian McNaughton, the director of the python episodes, has died.

Do not be daunted. Kick some tuchus. Read John Guare's Landscape of the Body. Slight. How do you make songs like that work in a straight play? And there is something so darn light about it all. It just doesn't seem to matter much.

How I did with last year's resolutions

• Floss Daily - YEP. Still doing it.
  
• Workout aero 3X NOT EVEN CLOSE
  
• 15 lbs by feb 15. SURE SURE
  
• Vitamins (B Complex, Magnesium, Multi C) -I GAVE IT UP, BUT NOW I'M BACK!
  
• Attack Anxiety - EH
  
• Celebrate Special Occasions (36 Birthday -- Double Chai) -COULD HAVE DONE BETTER
  
• Moisturize - DONE
  
• Charity -- which one? What can I do? ONCE, HERE AT GOLDMAN SACHS.
  
• Be more rigorous with how time is spent. NO. Didn't do so good.
  
• Um -- get a job that has meaning -- NO NO NO
  
• LIFE UPGRADE! (New Apartment) NO
  
• Be Honest and True to Yourself and Others DID MY BEST. CAN DO BETTER
  
• A piece of fruit each day. ONLY WHEN I ATE THE BANANAS
  
• Complete task list SOME DAYS I KNOCKED
  
• Address book -- Print it out -- Make sure its accurate and updated - THINK I'M ALL RIGHT HERE
  
• The List is Life (this means see a lot of movies that are on a separate list) I DID ALL RIGHT.
  
• Sleep fewer hours -- sleep better! DEPENDS ON THE SEASON
  
• Quicken - get it done. YEP
  

Gonna give this another go. Since I have been so impressive in the past. It's the day after New Years. I want to figure out how to be productive and creative while waiting. I bought Bartleby the Scrivener. Apparently the first temp in history to put it to his bosses. Also, wondering what Einstein really did when he was a clerk in Switzerland. Did he really spend his days day dreaming about Physics? Or was he really in love with the woman at the grocery store across the way?

Tonight: to see a movie. What? Frida? About Schmidt?

Read the Simulacra by Philip K. Dick. Hilarious. The country is run by the First Lady, Nicole Thibodeaux. But she's really the fourth actress to play the role. The President is a robot, or simulacrum. Bertold Goltz, a jew, is running a fascist rabblerousing neo-nazi organization, but he really is one of the nine people who run the government of the USEA. Kongrosian, a musician, believes he has phobic body odor, and possesses psychokinesis. And two guys who blow jugs are auditioning for the presidential talent show. Nuts. But could make for hilarious theater.