approaching vapid with periodic bouts of genius
Yep, another 14 hour day with one small meal break between 12 and 12:30... gotta love being me!
Okay fine so I do.
I am eggfuckingzausted but I thought a little updatarooney would be nice.
I asked my friend Cat who got married in June how she's been doing lately and her reply was "Well, I don't get out of the house much, now that I'm a wife." That was my favorite comment of the day.
My new job as the Web Dept Manager at my office job has a bit of a learning curve associated with it, but it's going well.
My "side" job which was supposed to be me taking care of an easypeasy teeny little nothing of a project turned into an all out Murphy's Law cum-guzzling Suckfest of a sanity-killer (and was taking mucho time away from The Dude, uh, NOT okay) and today I mentioned to my "side" boss that I needed help with one part of it. Within 30 seconds of me telling her how horrifying this job has been she was like, "I'm taking this project away from you. It is simply not cost effective for me to have someone who I'm paying hourly to work on this, when I can have someone who gets paid by the product increment to work their ass off for MUCH cheaper. Give me a week or so and I'll find a much easier project for you to do." HAAAAALLLELUJAH!
That? Was beautiful.
Two of my favorite people at work are gone, one's last day was Friday, and one got fired (fired!) this morning.
Silver lining? Because my friend got fired I get his computer. This is ridiculously cool. Right now AS WE TYPE I'm typing on an old, dirty, gross, half-broken old-skool PowerBook. But in two short weeks I will be updating this diary on a sleek (oooooomm ohhhh yeah) shiny (mmmmm Ohhhh Yeeeaaaaahhh) 15- inch (oooooommmm ohhh yeaahhh) recently purchased (ooooommm so beautiful) 80 gigabyte (mmm even more beautiful, heh heh heh) DVD-burning (Bowm Bowm) PowerBook G4 (Chick... chicka chicKAHHHHH... Oooom Bowm Bowm. Chick... Chicka chicKAAHHHHH...)
Bowm bowm.
Chick.
Chicka chickaaaahhhh...
Whew is it getting hot in here?
So tomorrow morning I have a doctor's appointment to see if I have a kidney infection (EVEN FUNNER!) and I have to walk around Boston filming stuff with the school's Bolex. Oh, did I mention? I'm taking a film class. Like, with real film, not video. You know, F stops and lab fees and black and white 16mm reversal Plus-X Kodak film.
I shot my first film the weekend before last. It basically involved making my roommate run while I tracked him with the camera by hanging out of my boyfriend's car while he drove. Oh yeah, on the hottest day of the summer. Meh, they all got free lunch. Tonight I edited it for the rough cut, and the machine on which I edited it SCRATCHED the goddamn film. Yay for the ancient art of cutting and splicing. Actually it's fun. Even when you have to skip dinner to get enough time to do it.
Things are going happy fun well with The Dude. I'm so not used to... how do you say... successful, healthy relationships, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I keep expecting him to be like "Yeah, I changed my mind" but instead he's all dropping the L Bomb LIKE IT'S HIROSHIMA up in this bitch and making plans with me for OCTOBER!
AND! AND AND! I'm totally not running for my life! Cuh-razy! It is so cool!
I'd like to thank my dear friend Violet for saying "Trust me, once that wall comes down you'll never miss it" and of course Paul McCartney for singing pretty much every word in the song Hey Jude, which I quite by accident recorded for my Audio Production final when the whole crazy mess was starting up, and realized how FUCKING INCREDIBLE that song is.
I'll post the recording when I can sneak back into the audio suites and tweak the levels one more time, then re-bounce it to disk. (Pro? Yeah, thought so.)
Speaking of crazy, (we totally were) my 25 year old roommate is in his room currently, working on his like, 4th 19 year old of the summer. At first it was funny, but it's bordering on creepy now. I'm going to have to talk to him tomorrow. OK it's not that it's creepy...
No, it's creepy. :)
OK time for brushing of the teeth, reading of the James Frey (last person on earth, hi nice to meetcha) and sleeping of the sleeptitudes.
Goodnight!
OH MY GOD I forgot the BEST PART of the WHOLE DAY! I am TOTALLY wearing grown-up-size Superman underoos I got at H&M! I was SUCH A SUPERHERO TODAY!!! I like, FLEW over the Pru to get to work. Totally did.