May Day

It's May and that means the count down begins: In less than two weeks, I'll be moving to California. D'oh! So far, the only glitch has been the title to my car lost in the mail for a few days. It showed up the day before the last day I had to run to the DMV to register the car in order to stay on schedule. So I spent the day at the DMV on Friday, where there was another hiccup. My insurance company put the wrong vehicle indentification number on my temporary ID card (well, actually, it was half right). Thank God for cell phones and fax machines. They were able to fax another copy to the DMV with the correct VIN #. Then, this weekend I picked up my car in upstate NY and dropped it off at the transport company this morning. Next up is packing. Blech!

And in other news, my co-writer and I of the family comedy placed a conference call to an agent, who basically said what I thought he was going to say: the producers of the same titled script and premise as ours, who are looking to hire a writer to develop their pitch, probably will only consider writers with a track record. Another words, produced writers. We asked him to check and get back to us. I also spoke to my manager friend and he said he would do the same. Followed up with both on Friday, but I have not heard back as of yet.

I can understand why the producer would not want to consider new writers. And I would think the sitcom star would go to his sitcom writers. However, I personally think it's in their best interest to consider our script and us as hired writers because A. we already have a finished script, whereas, all they have is a pitch and B. we can be paid peanuts because we're new. It's a win win for all involved, as far as I'm concerned. Now if we can only get an answer and get somebody to go to bat for us ....