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You cut-ah my hours, I stake-ah you heart!
Jun. 9th, 2007 01:38 pmAnd Nosferatu jr. (my boss, more about that in a moment) has done it again: he cut my hours down to one day next week. I've got a few options:
--Just go in on the other days like it was a normally scheduled day and hope he doesn't send me home.
--Confront him -- which I'd rather do with a few wooden stakes and maybe the paintball gun loaded with holy water and garlic that Kincaid used in "Blood Rites" -- and inform him that I need about twenty hours a week to be able to pay my expenses since I am *NOT* getting a handout from mommy and daddy like most of the kids that work there.
--Use the time off to work on finishing "An Issue of Blood", since I'm almost through the rough draft on that one, post it here for your consideration and beta-reading, then start sending it the rounds of the fantasy mags.
In the meantime, I've been having a mini vampire-movie film festival of sorts. Recently watched both "Underworld" movies (first one's better then the second; the script on the second kept derailing itself), "Van Helsing" (A little silly, but it doesn't take itself seriously: great art design, witty script, great VFX -- all around great flick to just sit back and have fun watching. Plus: Hugh Jackman in a mantled leather duster and a fedora; if there's ever a big-screen version of "The Dresden Files", the casting directors gotta get him to play Harry.), and of course: F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (Seriously: put the same vampire makeup on my boss, and you'd swear it was him. Made it even scarier to watch.).
--Just go in on the other days like it was a normally scheduled day and hope he doesn't send me home.
--Confront him -- which I'd rather do with a few wooden stakes and maybe the paintball gun loaded with holy water and garlic that Kincaid used in "Blood Rites" -- and inform him that I need about twenty hours a week to be able to pay my expenses since I am *NOT* getting a handout from mommy and daddy like most of the kids that work there.
--Use the time off to work on finishing "An Issue of Blood", since I'm almost through the rough draft on that one, post it here for your consideration and beta-reading, then start sending it the rounds of the fantasy mags.
In the meantime, I've been having a mini vampire-movie film festival of sorts. Recently watched both "Underworld" movies (first one's better then the second; the script on the second kept derailing itself), "Van Helsing" (A little silly, but it doesn't take itself seriously: great art design, witty script, great VFX -- all around great flick to just sit back and have fun watching. Plus: Hugh Jackman in a mantled leather duster and a fedora; if there's ever a big-screen version of "The Dresden Files", the casting directors gotta get him to play Harry.), and of course: F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (Seriously: put the same vampire makeup on my boss, and you'd swear it was him. Made it even scarier to watch.).