6 posts tagged “work”
Goodbye, Barnes and Noble. I no longer work there, which makes me wonderfully happy. That job had such potential to be a fun place to work, but unfortunately it was ruined for me. It doesn't look like I'm going to have as much down time as I thought, which is good. I have a job interview on Monday at a clothing store. I'm not really stoked on the job but seeing as how I'm moving to Atlanta for school in a few months, I just need a paycheck coming in until then. So it'll do. : ] In the downtime I've been hanging out with Mister Christopher. We have a couple of bicycles to work on and fix up now.
and turned the front fender the around where it's supposed to be. It is ridable, but there are some customizations that we've talked about trying. Oh, I am so very excited. I will keep you all updated on how it's coming along as we put in more work : ]
Laziness is the only excuse that I have for my lack of updates. Apologies. While I've been away I have been up to no good as usual. I chopped off all my hair [see photo] and have been obsessing over drawing and working on my new comix project - to be explained in detail soooooon. Work has been out of control lately,so I've taken it upon myself to do something that I never do and call out for the weekend, meaning today and tomorrow, and have a little stress-free fun with Mister Christopher! I've also been applying to art schools all over the place. I'm leaning toward Atlanta at the moment, but I'm questioning what I want to get out of it. Normally, I'd immediately say "animation" but there is absolutely no demand [meaning no work available] for animation majors. I'm thinking that I'll just have to feel my way through it once the time gets here. What is an aspiring comics genius to do? : ]
So here I lay in bed, trying to wind down for sleep, and filling my ears with Band of Horses. Why do I feel so uncomfortable and anxious. I can't put my finger on it. Jealousy? Uncertainty? No, I'm used to those feelings by now. I don't know what it is. . .Work was tame today, and by tame I mean mind-numbingly tedious. I stared at the floor a lot. It was a slow day, slow as in everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. In frames. I could almost feel my mind slipping away as I received six boxes from the UPS lady [red lipstick lady, not brown ]. Lunch was okay. I had chicken tortilla soup and a white chocolate peppermint frappe. I pulled out my obby journal and sketched the woman sitting two seats down from me. She had fingers like a spider's legs and teeth like a jackal. She laughed a lot at whoever was at the other end of the phone line. And emphasized her syllables in a way I've never heard. I decided that I liked her okay - as far as strangers go, she was pretty interesting. Jennifer came in about twenty minutes earlier than her scheduled time, and I was happy to have some living company. apart from the mindless customers that shuffle their little steps, eyes wide and confused. We talked about weekends, and embarrassing moments. I clocked out at my scheduled time but returned to talk with Jennifer for about two hours, though I really had no desire to do so. I just didn't want to come home, come home to this cold bed that I'm currently occupying. I was home by six thirty and I showered longer than normal. I was only on the couch for about eleven minutes before I started shaking uncontrollably from chills. I put on more clothes, some blankets and a heating pad - none of which helped at all. I undressed and ran a tub of steamy hot water and just sat in it until the shaking stopped. A good half hour it took. And now I feel sick and hungry but too sick to satisfy myself. I'm exhausted, but can't sleep. What kind of sense does that make?
colored a chunk of my hair blond and turquoise.
I find it refreshing and fun.
Life is so funny to me sometimes, in a "I wonder if there is such thing as coincidence" sort of way. A few weeks ago my friend, Robbie, gave me the Bat for Lashes record [Fur and Gold] when I asked him to give me some new music. After rolling it around in my car and on my computer [and totally falling in love with it] I found something familiar in the song "What's a Girl to Do" and it turns out that Mister Christopher had actually sent me a youtube link to the music video for that song [very eerie, so good] a little while before. Hold that thought. Still in search of new music I picked up a Kenna record [Make Sure They See My Face] Saturday after choosing to play it at work and being really into it. I haven't had time to do any real research on either of the artists, still letting them grow on me. Last night at work a guy who I knew was vaguely familiar to me came over to the music department while Kenna was playing and asked me if I'd chosen that record to play. I had. After talking about the record for a while we remembered how we knew each other. He'd visited Barnes and Noble about a month before and he and I had a pretty interesting conversation about comic books. He hung around and talked to me for a while, and we formally introduced ourselves. His name is Eric. He left and I continued about work. Not even five minutes later he returned and said that while we were on the subject of music had I ever heard of a band called Bat for Lashes. I laughed and asked him if he'd been spying on me. He laughed when I explained my the odd series of 'coincidences'. He then told me he'd be back to find me when he made more interesting music and comic book discoveries and continued to say that I was charming and adorable - which made me blush like a little girl.