“Free” lance:

This morning Maggie pointed me to a very funny and dead on piece about the average day of a freelance writer. It reminded me of Fran Lebowitz’s legendary piece about a typical day of her life. Hers had a lot more smoking than this one, but you get the idea.

I wonder if those out there who work 9 to 5 jobs know what mutants us freelancers are, how we live in fear of never doing enough, of overcompensating be working way too hard and then dulling the aniexty with watery coffee, Homestar Runner cartoons and reruns of Law & Order. Of course, everyone on that show has a real job so screw them and their retirement accounts.

Er, right. I should get some work done.

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