By 5 p.m. that night, you are Woefully Unemployed again. And so, sometime around 4 a.m., you fall asleep watching Animal Planet.

You wake up later that morning, and... no. No, you don't. Morning and you won't be meeting on this day. It isn't 'til hours later that the afternoon sun pokes at your retinas, demanding you throw back the scratchy wool blanket that is your eyelids. You glance at the clock, knowing before you even register the time that there will be no shower today. There will be no hairdryer. There will be only Bear Pants. That is, if Bear Pants will have you. But that is why you love Bear Pants... for Bear Pants will always take you back.

You and Bear Pants hit the couch. Curl up under the afghan. Turn on the UPN. Kickass, "The Fifth Wheel" is on. Only "Elimidate" could make this day more sublime. From Unemployment to Freelance to Unemployment, you have been laid off over and over and over.

And next week, if you're lucky, it'll happen again.

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