Fair and balanced “review” of “THX 1138” based on Thursday’s screening — click on the homepage button. [Nah, click here.]

Did I mention Jeff is leaving his job on Friday and starting a new career in real estate? I’ve no doubt he will succeed, but it is scary like you wouldn’t believe knowing that I will have to carry the mortgage, the monthly bills and the taxes entirely by myself for at least a few months. To say it adds a bit of tension to the relationship is to understate things just a tad.

Give and take. Ebb and flow. Come and go. Little o’ this, little o’ that. It’s the way life works, I guess.

Looking back, I find that many of the “executives” at Disney are among the worst-behaved, least-appreciative, most-demanding people in the industry, a hard-to-swallow fact that’s compounded by the fact that their company seems to be imploding on them and that they are precariously poised at the precipice (alliterative, no?) of obsolescence. Which is not to say Lucas may not cease to matter in a few years — sure, that’s possible. But viewed in the continuum of Hollywood, the Disney needle certainly seems to be moving back to the left, and no one there is willing to admit the mess they’re in. Which only makes their juvenile behavior, especially to those who work “for” them, even less tolerable. You can tell I have quite a high regard for the Mouse House these days. Now watch — I’ll go back. Heh.

I’ve spent most of my own day in a bit of a funk. I take a medication (no “THX 1138” comments, please) on a daily basis and have long done just fine on half of the recommended daily dose. Last night, for no reason whatsoever, I decided to take the full pill. I have regretted it all day, and been in a lazy, somewhat hazy mood, which I hate. The weather up here doesn’t help much, as it only turned sunny at about 3 p.m. We’ve had no summer. Jeff is at work, I’m doing all of our laundry so we can get through the week without worrying about it, and the dogs are bored silly.

So I got a double dis tonight.

One of them was this: A designer here asked me if I’d included chart designs in our meeting theme on the Mac. I said I included charts up the wazoo. Then he turned and talked to my boss right in front of my face about how it wouldn’t take him any time at all to make them better and more interesting.

Sigh. I think sometimes I try for the wrong people. After getting a great compliment yesterday about my work, today was a little let-down. Yes. Some people don’t deserve my efforts. They just take it and don’t give anything back, or they don’t take it at all though I’ve tried.

But the rest of this week should be good. I promise to post something more fun later on…