| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. For as long as she lived, she had no idea there was anything sexual or seedy about being called "Lolita". |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes (although obviously I can't eat fried chicken nearly as much as I'd like). If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Church's (that's right, I said Church's) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi. Better yet, how about not showing up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you or take a long time to return your calls. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? (Exception: I will happily take all calls related to business or to share fun/exciting/major news. I'm just not one for jawing on the phone just to be jawing.) |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. I'm always on my laptop and connected to the internet as I work and when IM's pop into my screen out of nowhere, they break my concentration and often startle the sh*t out of me in the process. So don't do it. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. I had a bird (a Roller pigeon that I rescued in LA on New Year's Day in 2004) named B-Bird (what? that's a good name!) who passed away in February 2009, which broke my widdle heart in half. He loved me so, as I did him. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs and cat, we'll be instant friends, and if you ask about B-Bird, I'll probably hug you (unless you smell...wash first). If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| What’s your back up plan? |
| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
The more I live, the more I see the need for creating my own wealth. It’s great to have a job. Heck, I have one now, but companies (not all of them) have shown over and over again that they care about the bottom line and not the people who work for them. Here are the statistics on the latest casualties from the Corporate World.
Drug firm Pfizer cuts 10,000 jobs
The shake-up comes as the world's biggest drugs firm faces rising competition from generic drugmakers.
Pfizer said it planned to close three research sites and two factories in the US, as well as a factory in Germany and research sites in Japan and France.
The company earlier reported a sharp rise in full-year profits to $19.34bn, from $8.9bn in 2005.
I’ve had the experience of enduring a layoff and it’s no fun not knowing how you are going to take care of your family. It was out of that experience that I decided that never again will I rely solely on someone else’s vision to provide for me.
It’s important to have as many streams of income as possible. I currently have two, but I’m working on two more.
If you only have one, it’s high time you gave some thought to your own back up plan.
Full Story: Pfizer cuts 10,000 jobs |
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i'm feelin' ya chief...
back in jan. 2002, i experienced going thru my first layoff. after working for nearly 17 years straight, and then being laid off, i didn't know what to do....
....but party!
i had a nice severance package, along with an extended unemployment benefit$ from Gee Dubya and i just did the damn thing. traveling from nyc to california (2x), oregon (2x), north carolina (6x), mississippi, atlanta, miami....just rollin'.
but as in all things, it eventually ended and i wound up working at lowe's home improvement at night to concentrate on getting in screenwriting career in check. left lowe's to now pepsi and life's a little better but it's not end of it all....not yet anyway. hollywood awaits!!!!
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Yeah Lance, you need to get "Pepsi Free" and get yourself out to Cali.
Last week was a hard one. My contact over at Irish Dreamtime quit and left me hanging. Then I got into it with my agent, which pissed me off.
People are so goddamm touchy out here.
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i'm feelin' ya chief...
back in jan. 2002, i experienced going thru my first layoff. after working for nearly 17 years straight, and then being laid off, i didn't know what to do....
....but party!
i had a nice severance package, along with an extended unemployment benefit$ from Gee Dubya and i just did the damn thing. traveling from nyc to california (2x), oregon (2x), north carolina (6x), mississippi, atlanta, miami....just rollin'.
but as in all things, it eventually ended and i wound up working at lowe's home improvement at night to concentrate on getting in screenwriting career in check. left lowe's to now pepsi and life's a little better but it's not end of it all....not yet anyway. hollywood awaits!!!!