Hump Day? Not for this guy.

Ahh Wednesday. Hump day. When you can look over to the end of the week because you're had a really hard week at work. You see the weekend and all the debauchery that ensues just around the corner. Good times. Maybe you even do a hump day happy hour just to tie you over because the week is sucking that bad. Well, that's what working folks in DC do and what I did when I would be like, "good god where is the weekend." But what alas do I do now you ask? Ahh nothing. Hump day doesn't mean crap when you have no hump to climb over when you're not working. It's been two weeks in LA and no work and I have to say I wish I needed a hump day happy hour right now.

My Wednesday started out grabbing lunch with two friends. One who is actually moving back to DC and another who is a freelancer and is currently not working much. I poked their brains for job ideas and how to best go about this LA job search. Got a couple of tidbits and the appreciation of the website Linkedin which is what one of my friends relies on quite a bit and how she branched out from news. The other just does news freelancing and it's good to see news is dying everywhere. She's barely gotten any work this month. These are things I already knew as all the Nets are letting go of people and my fellow freelancers back in DC have started posting the "Will Work for Food" or "my local bar is getting tired of me" on their facebook pages. Nothing like realizing you spent a decade in a business that apparently you can't make a decent living in (at least if you are to buy a place. Or god forbid get married and have a family on. Of course that's not a concern for the Captain Hair right now). I'm starting to feel more and more like a guy who's plant has shut down and has to find a new career. These are not good times.

So what to do on a raining Wednesday when your ankle is messed up and you can't go hiking or hit the beach? You've got it. A movie. And what type of movie should you see when you're looking around thinking, my god what the hell am I doing, you have it a sad but yet uplifting movie like Defiance. Nothing like watching people actually struggle in life (or at least re-enact what the real people who struggled went through) to bring you to a proper frame of mind. I'm not a Jew in Belarus in 1941 being hunted by Nazis so I'm trying to survive in the woods. Needless to say my life isn't that bad. I won't ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it but it's a good flick and gets my recommendation. A couple of cheesy lines but it was enjoyable and well acted not to mention shot well so I enjoyed it quite a bit. You should check it out. Not to mention it brought me back to the fact that, "hey I've only been here two weeks and was laid up on the couch for one of them mode" which is a good thing since things can always be much much worse in life. Not that I'm complaining. I'm just getting tired of my daily scan of job sites and rental sites and I personally lack patience. But I'm not digging ditches and there are millions of Americans in a much much much tighter spot and are trying to support their families right now. I'm just trying to support my broke ass. So cue the Jimmy Buffet -

In the middle of late last night I was sittin' on a curb
I didn't know what about, but I was feelin' quite disturbed
A street sweeper came whistlin' by, he was bouncin' every step
It seemed strange how good he felt, so I asked him while he swept

Chorus:
He said, "It's my job to be cleaning up this mess
And that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the rest
And that makes a day for me."

I got an uncle who owns a bank, he's a self-made millionaire
He never had anyone to love, never had no one to care
He always seemed kinda sad to me and I asked him why that was
And he told me it's because in my contract there's this clause

Chorus:
That says, "It's my job to be worried half to death
And that's the thing people respect in me
It's my job but without it I'd be less
Than what I expect from me."

Now I've been lazy most all my life writin' songs and sleepin' late
And any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake
If street sweepers can smile then I've got no right to feel upset
But sometimes I still forget
'Til the lights go on and the stage is set
And the song hits home and you feel that sweat

Chorus:
It's my job to be different than the rest
And that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the rest
And that's a rough break for me

Chorus:
It's my job to be cleaning up this mess
And that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the rest
And that makes the day for me

Amen Jimmy Amen. Now I just need to find mine.