Salon.com > Liz Hackett http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 13:00:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Arrested development http://www.salon.com/2001/05/01/development/ http://www.salon.com/2001/05/01/development/#comments Tue, 01 May 2001 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2001/05/01/development 5:30 a.m. Rudely awakened by jarring buzzing noise. Have programmed alarm clock to Draconian AM setting in the hopes of going to power yoga class. Unplug alarm and throw at wall. Go back to sleep.

8:30 a.m. Wake up in cold sweat. Have had bizarre dream in which I am a contestant on a CBS reality show, "Stop, Drop, and Roll!" On show, contestants are taken to a variety of exotic locales and then set on fire. If they can extinguish themselves in less than 10 seconds, they win a Chrysler. Decide that this qualifies as a workout.

8:31 a.m. Enthusiastic about gymless day. Stand up.

8:32 a.m. Sit back down. Pick pieces of alarm clock out of foot.

8:40 a.m. Drive to office. I am becoming increasingly worried about the impending Writers' Guild strike, afraid that I will lose my job in two weeks because of it. If no scripts, development executives like me will have nothing to develop.

8:41 a.m. Stuck at stoplight of Olympic and Bundy. I invent a new reality show: "Staring Contest." TV contestants stare down the viewers at home. Possibilities for cheating are endless. Scrap idea.

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