Here's what's going on today. Mind you, I'm not asking for sympathy - I'm just venting.

I called in sick friday because I was hung over and uninspired to go to work. As most of you who've been following my life, you'd know that I'm not exactly in love with my job (and the people I work with).

Saturday the always lovely and outdoorsy bizbe and I went to this place Hawk Mountain. (yeah, they've got hawks there) The plan was to do some hiking, perhaps a little picnic, you know - basically enjoy nature.

What happened was more of a rock climbing expedition than a hike. We were climbing up 40-50 feet of jagged rocks with no equipment. It was kinda scary, kinda fun, and overall a good time. (even though the only "picnic" was a half eaten wendy's hamburger and fruit flavored water.

So needless to day on Sunday my ankle and back started to hurt. Yup, when you don't really exercise that much and then attempt to scale a mountain, it'll hurt the next day. Plus, my previous week of smoking and drink have finally caught up to me. I started getting sick, a chest cold of some sorts. By 7pm I've lost my voice and started getting the chills.

Which brings us to today.

Chest Cold: Violent coughs, chills, no voice.

Upset stomach: I took some anti-imflammatory pill which turns my stomach inside out. And I took them pills because...

Strained Back and Sprained Ankle: I need a cane to walk around today because my ankle hurts so badly.

Yup. That's a list of what I'm going through right this second.

And I'm at work because I called in sick last friday.

Talk about karma.

Yeah. Talk about karma mfoxm.

I got an email today from a former intern who wanted to know if I knew anyone at MTV because apparently they're hiring producers and anchors for a new mtv news channel. With the email from the intern was an attachment of the job posting. At the bottom of the posting the instruction was to send all resume and tape to this guy M.H.

I used to work with M.H. back in DC. We were both starting out as peons. He was born with a silver spoon. Mom had a hugh apt in manhattan and the family knew all sorts of people in high places. When I first met him, he had just graduated from George Washington U. and was pretty much doing the same type of things I was doing. We used to call him pip because he reminded us of pip from southpark. He was one of those geeky, kinda awkard, ambiguously gay kid who always got picked on. We were like the two up and comming kids doing pretty cool shit at the fox station in dc. Oh, and my boss now was our boss then and they are still good friends. But there was always this competitive thing going back then and I must admit I was kinda mean to him. Sorta like a rivalry type deal. And now, he's starting a network for mtv and I'm in philadelphia hating my job.

Bizbe says I should call him and see what the deal is and perhaps I could go work with him instead.

I dunno. He probably wouldn't hire me on principle AND I'd have to really swallow my pride to to ask.

Sucks huh. This is the kinda day I'm having.

Hope you people are doing better.

Oh, and feel free to sign the guestbook to give me your input on this deal. I could use the advice.