Long Time Gone

Keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

and coming up lacking. sometimes. i just have a few more lessons to learn, clearly, which i am doing. so much less pain than in the past, though; such smaller errors and i catch them sooner. still some fine-tuning left to be done.

Yes, it's raining that hard.

April 15 is tax day!

I still think Lorne Michaels shot himself in the foot with his "purge" of many popular cast members (Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, the departures of Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, and Jimmy Fallon) and the immediate promotion of several relatively unknown players to key roles. These new people haven't had the chance to become favorites with the audience. This is made all the more clear when I watch reruns from the Jimmy Fallon era. That was my favorite.

I still have way too much on my plate, and my meltdown from the past couple of weeks is still underway, apparently. I'm just not getting the support I need. Sometimes I feel utterly defenseless and just really need someone to rely on completely, and that person doesn't exist in my life, yet.