Ya’ll, I have been wildly naïve to the world of unemployment claims until this year. I had never tried to claim before. If it was just a few weeks between gigs, I planned for them – and I usually went to my parents’ house, so my expenses were minimal.
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a production company. They were doing a telethon and needed another sound engineer. This was the first live job offer I had gotten in seven months. I was wondering what this moment was going to feel like, and maybe because it happened so much sooner than I anticipated, I just didn’t feel mentally prepared to handle this situation. The situation of simply discussing the details, negotiating, and then accepting or declining the offer. I have done this thousands of times. I did not expect my mere act of participating in the offer conversation to be rusty, but it was, I guess because I had a lot of new things to consider.
It has been four months since I have written anything.
Filmmaker Rick McKay was a complex chap for sure, not to mention a supremely gifted contributor in this insane business we call, ‘Show.’ The news earlier this week that he’d passed at only sixty-two still hasn’t quite sunk in. We’d also not spoken in several years as I’m not shy to divulge that we’d clashed several times in our nearly eight year journey together.
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