Excuse me for my lack of updates lately. In case you haven't heard we are striking and we mean business. Yeah all of us writers are sick of it. What are we sick of? Corporate America and all of it's greed! That's what! We won't budge. So we are taking it to the picket line. I haven't had much time to do anything else except eat some pizza provided by Eva Longoria and chant outside while holding a sign.

Alright, alright. Enough of that. I'm clearly not striking, but I thought it might add a little humor to an otherwise dismal situation: my lack of updates. But since I am on the topic of the writers strike, how about that, eh? I for one can't stand not to have newly updated Conan monologues and witty skits. The written material for Grey's Anatomy is slowly running out. My life is about to change. My grades will get better, while my entertainment will suffer. Is this a trade off I am willing to make? Bottom line: This strike has proven the point that the writers are the backbone of the show. Without them, the actors are just actors and not the characters they are portraying. How about we make a deal, ok producers? Give the writers some royalties. Without their work, you would have no show to broadcast online or sell in a nice packaged DVD box set at Best Buy. Please compromise soon for the sake of everybody involved (the viewers, the actors, the make-up artists, the cameramen, etc., etc.)

Now that I got that out of the way, what's new? I guess I should start and end with what inspired me to write in my blog anyway. It may not be funny and it may not make you laugh but it will be real. And you will appreciate it for that, right?

Tonight I got to thinking: what if life was like a well-behaved Microsoft word document? It's not always easy to write the perfect paper, just as life isn't always easily lived. But what if we were given some handy tools? A paper clip buddy that guides us along the way, never failing to alert us to the fact that we are starting a letter to someone or about to screw up royally. Not only could he alert us in real life, but offer a "how-to" of sorts to avoid failure. And if we did fail, or end up in a place we did not want we'd always have that un-do button. Sure you can only undo so many times, but some undos are better than no undos at all. What if life was like that? A couple clicks of one button that looks like an arrow pointing towards the past and voila! Everything is as though it had never been touched. Would we be more open to trying new things if we knew we could always undo them if the results were either unworthy or grammatically incorrect? Would being able to undo something so easily make us lazy in our analysis of what we should do when facing certain problems? Perhaps an undo button seems appealing because the easy way out can always be taken. We would never have to worry about what we should have or could have done. Or what if in life we could bold or italicize what we are feeling for emphasis? When talking about something truly important to us we would never have to wonder if our message is coming across clearly. All I am asking for is that life came with track changes. I could always fix certain things about myself, while viewing the old ways in which I did something. This way of comparison would undoubtedly lead to a better personality. One more thing, and this one is huge for me: grammar check. I'm sick of hearing people say "is" when they should say "are" or telling me they are "good" when they are actually "well". And if someone tells me they "seen" a movie instead of saw one, I may go insane.

Unfortunately, life is what it is. There is no undo button, and correcting grammar will still have to be done verbally and condescendingly by the present grammar Nazi. There isn't always going to be a paper clip popping up asking if we would like assistance. Sometimes when something is really important to you, the only way to make that known is by well, making it known. Sounds obvious enough, but it's the only way to emphasize it's importance. I've learned that communication is the key to success with relationships and the lack of it usually leads to a downfall. My only advice would be to take chances, risk making a mistake regardless of not having an undo button, tell people what you think and do it often. On top of all of this, find someone that can act as a real life paper clip (as annoying as it can be sometimes, you just need one.) Trust me, it's not always so bad to have someone in your life popping up uninvited, offering their help and pointing you in the right direction.

That's all I really wanted to say. I'm done.

I'll try to write soon.

and by soon I mean the next time procrastination creeps it's way into my mind.