Hang In There Writers!

My life is a strange and mysterious place. heh.

For the past month I have been like a house divided. I am completely split down the middle over remaining in Texas or going home to Washington.
I think I know what my heart wants to do...which is totally different from what my gut is telling me to do, so I have no idea what to do.
Everytime I think I have made a decision, it later gets upheaved!

Last night I had this crazy dream. I can't remember all of it, but the important part was this. I was out in the middle of this big lake. Swimming across I think, when all of sudden the water starting fighting me. Literally. On my left side the water started rising into a big wave as if to overwhelm me, and on the other side it started roiling around out of control. I was very close to drowning...and you won't believe what I did then. It was kind of odd.
I balled my hands into fist and I slapped the left one down onto the surface of the water and screamed "I AM ONE!" then I repeated it on the right side. I kept doing this, shrieking, until the water calmed down and I was slapping a serene surface.
My friends had already run away, thinking me lost.
I went to find them.

The part that strikes me about this dream is it's very real representation of the battle being waged inside of me.
*sigh*

Okay, in totally unrelated news....I am obsessed with the Writer's Strike.
Could any tv junkie not be? Aside from my general fandom though, I feel for these people. The AMPTP wants to hand them a shitty deal and thinks that they will just take it and cower back into their little writing caves.
The sheer audacity of those with money just blows me away.
Are we just supposed to roll over and die so they can make more money off of us?!
Yeah, in case you hadn't noticed, I DO take it personally.

My entire family is middle class America. I totally get how Unions are important in this industry. It is being displayed for me right now. If those were my family members on the picket lines, I would want them to get a fair deal.
What they are asking for is so reasonable!!! It is just freaking nuts that the AMPTP does not come back and negotiate. They haven't even been back to the table in 35 DAYS!!!! I mean, come on people!

Things are heating up right now because Tom Hanks gave a statement to Rueters, saying that the AMPTP should negotiate and get people back to work. He is the first A-lister to speak up and a lot of people are hoping that he is just just the beginning.
Then there is this whole fight over the Late-Night shows...Leno and Kimmel currently being at the top of the nit-pick list.
They are writing their own stuff and they are not supposed to be. The Guild is saying they are going to penalize them...which they should if they would penalize anyone else for the same thing...and many people are afraid that if they do that they might lost a lot of public support. Frankly, I think that in that case, the public should pull its head out of its collective ass, and realize that Jay Leno isn't Rah, and that the guild should not bow down to him. Grr.

Conan, just to give him a smidge of credit, has been improvising his shows, rather than writing a monologue. He is also a member of the guild.
Now, some people say that improvising is the same as writing, but I disagree, and in any case, it shows that he is still TRYING to support his fellow writers, whether he has been forced to go back on the air or not.
People are also saying they are getting tired of Letterman constantly commenting on the strike and the writers getting a fair deal, but I say; GO DAVE!!! Since the AMPTP own major media, who else is going to report on it?!?! You can bet your ass than CBS is piiiiissed at Letterman right now.
In any case, I wish that more fans were aware of what exactly is going on. We are so one way or the other these days.
I mean, either we are FREAKY activist: Don't eat veggies! They're alive!" or we are not activist at all.
There are some battles WORTH fighting!