Not much to blag about right now. Wait I lied.

I'm sitting in the nursing computer lab on campus, because I have to, 'cause it's my job. It's pretty boring right now, but it'll pick up in a couple of hours. Around lunch time. A few gaggles of nursing students will come in talking loudly and being annoying. I will have to ask them to keep it down. A few will come up and ask me how to print with Word 2007. A couple will be on their cell phones and I will kindly ask them to take their call outside. (I don't know how they get reception in here. I have to go all the way down the hallway for mine to work.) It will be a good time.



I have six hours left on my shift and only one show to catch up on. Speaking of shows. The WGA (Writer's Guild of America) strike is very sad. I hope the studios give in to their demands, because I don't want the Office to be cut short this season. From what I gather the studios won't agree to pay residuals on the episodes and webisodes they put online. For instance, if in five years the Office is over and all of those writers are out of work, they would get a check for all of the reruns that NBC put online. Right now NBC puts the episode up with advertising, they get the money from the advertising, but the writers get nothing. The people who created the show get nothing from the online reruns. The Office writers, last year, wrote and shot webisodes, for which they won an Emmy; and they didn't get paid for it. Those are still online with advertising. They are not receiving any compensation for those.  Production on a lot of shows have stopped completely. After next Thursdays episode of the Office that's it. No new episodes are being shot. The studios are being stingy and they need to pay the writers what they deserve. If the strike continues any longer the quality of television will go down considerably.

Please support the WGA. These are middle class writers, they don't make millions. They deserve compensation for what they create.

How the writers' strike affects 'The Office'.

This is a very good video explaining what the writers receive now and what they want, and why.