h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have this fairly cool but at the same time weird job as an assistant film buyer. Don't let the fancy title fool you, I'm a glorified administrative assistant. But I don't get anything on secretary's day.

Fairly cool in that I get to go to trade screenings for buyers for free and go to regular showings at our theatres for a buck. Plus the buyers get a lot of film related stuff and sometimes it passes down to me. Some of it is lame ("Bounce" stress ball), some of it is cool (limited edition seriograph print from "Titan AE"), most of it is tshirts my husband wears to basketball or work.

Plus, I'm a huge entertainment whore and I get to sit around discussing the merits and box office potential of "Big Momma's House" versus "Shanghai Noon" and get paid.

Lame in that on Monday, Tuesday morning, and Friday afternoons I am insanely freaking busy. Those are the big days in the life of film buyers and film bookers (bookers being the sales managers for the distributors/studios). So busy I often forget to go to the bathroom until I'm forced to practically run there for fear of repeating my embarrassing mishap from the first day of kindergarden.

Also lame in that on most Tuesday afternoons, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Friday mornings, I have NOTHING to do. Slugs are more productive than I am. Occassional bookings of screenings pop up, and the odd film replacement for a theatre manager that scratched the heck outta of print, but generally nothing.

So I spend HOURS surfing the web to my own amusement. Which sounds wicked cool but becomes insufferably boring on the 27th day that month.