Today, I embraced the vacuum of middle management achievement. I mean, I guess I've always been a little bored by my job, but today...

The world is no better off now than it was when before I went to work today. In fact, you could probably go back to when I started my job two and one half years ago and say the same thing. There's been no tangible improvement at least. I have nothing that I can point at and say, "That's cool. I did that."

Screenwriting certainly gives me that feeling. I can point at a completed script or even a completed page and say, I did that. There it is. Right in front of me. Tangible.

I guess that my world has been tangibly improved by my job. I have a bigger house. Good neighborhood. More stuff. Well-fed kids. These things are important. Probably more important than I'd care to admit.

I just wish I could get the good paycheck and still have something tangible at the end of the day.