I could tell you about my day, but I think I covered the same ground yesterday. Only today, it started even earlier. That invoice I was typing yesterday afternoon? The Boss thought he’d sent me the last page before he’d taken off on his rounds of the bars (or whatever it is he does after hours). So he had to call me at 8:01 am today to ask me why I hadn’t typed it and faxed it back.

He might not have believed me when I told him that I never got it. Sometimes I think he deliberately puts everyone (even me!) in the worst possible light, because that’s how he sees the world. I didn’t do the work, so I must have been shirking. It couldn’t be that he didn’t send me the work to do.

Whatever the case, he sent it this morning and I was up working on it for two hours before I even had time to take a break, much less a shower. It sort of colored my whole day, because I depend on waking up slowly and easing into the day. I get even grumpier than usual when I have to work on his schedule instead of mine.

It’s not that I think I’m entitled to sleep late on work days, even given the fact that I work semi-full days most weekends. I’m not saying the Boss should leave me alone all morning, just that I would prefer it if he did, and I’d be a lot happier and better able to cope and less stressed. But other than that, I’m fine with the early morning phone calls. Bring ’em on.

It’s a good thing I decided not to talk about my day, isn’t it? On the other hand, what else is there? What about this: I heard today that Dan Curtis died. That’s not necessarily a household name, but he had a big influence on my childhood. Every day in junior high I would rush home from school to watch Dark Shadows, and I have Dan Curtis to thank for that. He also directed Winds of War and War and Remembrance, along with my favorite TV movie of the 1970s, When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

Or I suppose I could have mentioned the admirable stand of the Senate Judiciary Committee in rejecting the House’s cynical attempt to criminalize not just illegal immigrants but anyone sympathetic to them. That move by the House backfired to such a degree that it brought out spontaneous nationwide protests the likes of which haven’t been seen for decades. It’s been a long time since I stood up and cheered at the evening news.