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Classical @ 06:48 pm CST

damnit! i keep alt+t'ing to try and open new tabs on this pc of mine. damn you, macs and all your simple wonderful glory. i have to use macs at work and i love them so much more than windows, ugh...
once you switch, you can never go back, i guess. D: though i have been working with macs on and off for years in various classes and places, i still miss them whenever we have to part. :'(

in other news! cue happy little paycheck dance! -wiggle-
i got my first one today, and it will probably be all spent by the end of the weekend. XDD i have to buy fabric for my supa-secret cosplay thing, pay a wonderful artist for a commission, and i will definitely be tempted to drop money on some cds, because i am starved for new music.
though i really really really have to try to save at least $120 for CONvergence next weekend. part of which goes to the hotel room, and the rest is to spend on like, what, loads of erotica comics. [/not really] :B
but seriously, i doubt i'd actually spend that much unless i found something neat that i really liked. i do want to try and find some good (not-porn) comics, and i always end up dropping about $10 on pins for my bag. XD i hope i will be able to find another 'artists make lousy slaves' button, since i lost mine a while ago. :<

see, look, i just dropped almost $30 on a t-shirt. but i've had my eye on it forever. because it is psychonauts-fabulous. <333

anyway~ i'm off to plan my project out.

just a ramble.

Classical @ 10:41 pm CST

hmmmm, the lake house was pretty good.
there were some issues i had with the plot and this one really long and never-ending scene at one point, but it was enjoyable. i did not know keanu reeves could actually show emotion, haha. :D so it's like one of those movies that was good, not the best, but still buy-worthy when it comes out on DVD and whatevs.

umm. umm. and now i have my wonderful day off tomorrow. ...which isn't any good, because that means it's thursday tomorrow and the week is going by really freaking fast.
i kinda like working every other day. i have a day to get things done and recooperate while not having to worry about work later on or anything. i dunno how long this will last, because i just turned in my application to the dinner theatre today, so i might be working a job everyday now and sometimes twice a day, but i suppose that all depends on if i even get hired there or not. i'm uneasy about that whole thing... even though everyone seems to get hired immediately there, no matter who they are, i've applied to many, many places now and had three rejections from jobs that actually really needed help, so i just don't know.

however, i will be rolling in teh monies if/when i get that second job, liek whoa. i might actually be able to put some in that saving account i haven't made ANY deposits in yet for college and stuff. i just didn't make enough last year to save anything, because i was paying for gas and outings and everything.
i mean, my first paycheck is going to be about $225 on saturday (because he's writing them tomorrow, before i work friday). four days at work. that is the equivalent of TWO WEEKS worth of bakery hell, working fifty times as hard.
crazy. XD

anyway. -rolls around-
tomorrow is my day off, so i don't expect to do anything. which sounds pretty nice. i think i will probably spend most of it playing video games and drawing, after i pop down to MCAD tomorrow morning to drop off the rest of my PSEO papers. i got everything signed at the last minute, even though my dean isn't around for the rest of the summer. i have never been so thankful for that assistant principal i don't like. XD

speaking of, it's time to add some finishing touches to my personal statement thingie. so i guess i'm done.

jobness.

Classical @ 07:31 pm CST

okay, so now that i've had this job for a few days, i figured i could actually babble about it for a while.

so my father pulled some strings and got me in as a receptionist/secretary/administrator/intern at his ad agency. i get to basically keep everything looking nice on the outside to our clients and will eventually get to do things on the inside, which means working on the ad projects. yay design. :D currently, i answer the 'phone, send invoices and orders via fax and e-mail, file stuff, create databases, sort the mail, deliver messages... all that kind of stuff. all in the comfort of air-conditioning, no less.
i get 7.50 an hour, which is...gorgeous. and i was hired as an "indepenant contractor," so i am not an official employee of my father's company. while that means i don't get insurance plans (which i already get through my dad, anyway XD) or paid vacations and whatnot, they don't withold ANY amount of my paycheck for taxes. since i don't pay them because i am not old enough and don't make enough, that means i get to have all of my hard-earned paycheck right up front. :DD

now, i'm not really complaining too much here, because it is a very cozy job and i feel totally spoiled for having it XD, but to every good thing, there is a bad. it is the most godawful boring job on the planet. because the "intern" part of my job hasn't started yet, i only get to do this grunt work that anyone even mildly experienced with a computer could do. so, so boring.
currently i'm stuck typing in publication names into an on-line database and looking up contact information for these guys so we can send press releases to them for our clients. the reason i'm getting a lot of the computer stuff thrown on me is because the other two receptionists hardly know how to turn the computer on, let alone use it. i do everything they do about fifty times faster, harr.

with my wee attention span, it is so hard to focus. i am kinda glad that i don't get to make a claim to the desk i use, since i share it with the lady who works the other two days of the week, because then i would be tempted to fill it up with desk toys and then get soooooo easily distracted. i can do this kind of thing for maybe three hours straight every day, but then i need to do something different or go to lunch or take a bathroom break or SOMETHING.

jeez, i didn't know so many magazines could ever EXIST. there are hundreds and hundreds of the most goddamn obscure publications out there... like practical oil analysis and microlithography world.
i shit you not, those are real publications. and there also people getting PAID to write about these things and put together magazines about them. srsly, wtf.

however, it allows me to put together a list of the funniest names i come across. i think today's winner was the national association of tower erectors. XD XD

so while this is a million times better than that goddamn job at the bakery last summer -shudder-, this reaffirms my promise that i will never, never put myself in an office cubicle for the rest of my working life.
i guess i'd rather have a boring job than a stressful one, but i can't stand either for too long.

and...that's about it. working three days a week isn't too bad. i'm still working on getting a second part-time job at the dinner theatre where everyone else works so i can be with those guys (this job will hurt my social life considerably, since everyone can only do stuff during the day usually, and i work on the day that everyone has off) and get more monies. and uhh... ... ... stare at the gorgeous redhead that works there, too. just a bit. i guess.
but umm... this will be the more important job, since it's something i can actually add to my resume. i am an actual intern, guys. ;D put that in your college resume and smoke it, baby.



... yeah!
first paycheck will be a-comin' this weekend (payroll is every 1st and 15th). i believe that adds up to about $280 or so. which is yum. most of that will be going directly to CONvergence, since i have a room to pay for (i think?) and stuff to buy before and during there. X3
i am planning on putting together something small (and pretty lame XD) for the con, cosplay-wise. but it will be awesome to me and maybe some of my friends, if they don't think i'm a total dork. had i been able to get my hands on money earlier, i would've done something more complicated... i wanted to put together a lulu (ffX) outfit. *_* but that'll have to wait until next year, methinks!

anyway. so that's where all my money is mostly going. the next payout and whatever remains here will all be going to new york, too. so umm... buy me cds. XD



by the way, wee!calvin pwns you all.

<3333

music?

Classical @ 07:28 am CST

so here's the deal, guys:

i am very broke.
i also really really really want music.
i am also very bored.

so i was hoping i could do some commission work or sell some of these hats in exchange for some cds. or itunes gift monies, whichever.
i totally need to update my music collection. _D_ there's a bunch of new releases i am missing out on, several missing cds from my collection of favorites, and just some brand-new and interesting music i stumbled upon that i all would like to own.

wanting really badly:
Beck - Sea Change
The Subways - Young for Eternity

also wants:
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Pulp - This is Hardcore
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soliders
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Snow Patrol - Songs for Polarbears
Snow Patrol - When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight

... D: pllleeeeeeease?
so go! e-mail me if you'd like to take me up on this offer. generally it goes: one cd in exchange for one hat or one ink + color commission.

portfolio review = done!

Classical @ 02:46 pm CST

uggggh, i am so sleepy.
i was up until six in the morning today, working on artwork. i got four hours of sleep, woke up to put my portfolio together, and then go to this portfolio review.

it was a bit scary. ;m; i didn't have two pieces totally done, so i only really had ten pieces when they wanted twelve.
but umm.. the lady was nice, as before, and my portfolio got accepted. so whoo.

now i have to figure out where the hell i'm going to get this one form i didn't find out about until today. then i send that in with my statement of interest and i should be set!
hopefully they'll actually have room for us, though. i can only take one of the four classes the first semester; thus, it's going to be a bit competitive for those empty spots in the class.

and now that i'm not scrambling to finish artwork for that thing, i can actually get back to this one commission i still have to do and send out a letter to a friend with some arts in it.

but first! sleep. or maybe that's a bad idea, because i think if i fall asleep now, i'll wake up at ten or something and be unable to go back to bed.
so maybe video games, instead. <3

oh! and apparently i am employed.
my father said a while ago he might try to get me an internship at his office, or something of the like, so apparently that came through. today. so i start tomorrow.
thanks for the warning. >_>

however, it's only three days a week (monday/wednesday/friday) during normal work hours, so it's not really fulltime. i think i will have to try to pick up some time at the dinner theatre, now that it's the only job i can work in the evening hours.
so umm, cheese, get me an application.

ACT!

Classical @ 01:43 pm CST

whooooo i got a 31 on my ACT.
english: 31; math: 31; reading: 30; science: 33

XD i blame that last one on physics. though most of it was chemistry-related, there was one whole question on energy. plus it really wasn't knowing chemistry... it was more being able to read graphs.

i always get so low on the reading thing because you only get 35 minutes to do it. there was...four short stories to read and ten questions to answer on each. 35 minutes? i don't think so. so i had to rush.

now i await my writing score. which...sounds scary. XD i don't think i did very well on that.


anyway. now i have this to flaunt at colleges. :B

on the job front!

Classical @ 10:14 pm CST

so i think hell got a little colder.
i applied at target.

i'm actually thinking i would like the job i'm applying for... working in the back stockroom where being unsociable isn't a liability in my job. i think i figured out why my two applications were flops: i was being all "uhh... -quiet-" when applying for jobs where i would have to actually talk to customers and pretend i care. XD
so uhh... we'll see how that goes.

in other news, let's see if i can get into a last-minute spot in MCAD's summer expressions program tomorrow. XDD; yeah, the chances of that are zero to zero, but my mother was all "try it, lols! we'll pay for it!" so i'm going to attempt to take advantage of my parents being umm...giving.
it would definitely give me something to do... but i probably wouldn't be able to work until late july, then, heh.
i'm thinking i might try to sign up for one of those nifty classes with scott mccloud otherwise, though. <3

and yeah. i had the house to myself today, and i have it for tomorrow and most of saturday, whoo. i also get it most of next week, because my family is going up to the cabin for a bit. if i end up doing some program or getting a job, i wouldn't be able to go, anyway... not that i wanted to in the first place. :B

and OH GOD, there is so much music i want to buyyyyy. beck, the subways, the rakes, the cloud room... holy crap.
... and i wish again that i had a job. )<

bad news.

Classical @ 02:30 pm CST

._.
didn't get hired at the theatre. i'm fucked.

panic! (at the disco)

Classical @ 05:55 pm CST

hahaha, laaaaaame title.

butbut!
whoo, fastest grilled cheese sammich ever~!
i dunno, i'm probably slow on finding this out. i wrapped the sandwich in a pocket of wax paper and stuffed it in the toaster.

...only downside is that it smoked a lot, torched the paper, and now my kitchen smells like burnt crayons. but uhh... it tastes pretty damn good. and it didn't take forever like it normally does.

oh well. +3 amazing.


so umm... amc theatres called me back! i had an interview with them last night.
i am really really really eager for this job, at a lack for better words, but it's really my last hope. i don't expect that any of the other places are going to even call me back soon here...
in any case, i get paid 6.75 an hour and have GREAT hours. i can ask for full-time hours any week, if i wanted to. it sounds like i get to switch off working consession stands and usher work, so that's pretty awesome.

they said they had two more interviews that night and a couple tomorrow, and then he'd be making the 'phone calls out. so i am really anxious to find out. T^T i'm praying that the fact that they told me about training and everything (which would be this weekend) means i have a good shot at being hired.

maaaaan, i need this job. even though i am sooooo impatient to find out, i am happy that i will have this week free, at least. 'cause i have my first-ever real official portfolio review next week.
NERVOUS AS SHIT. i have to finish up two pieces and do another in order to meet requirements...but even then, it's really lacking in the observational work. maybe i'll reorganize my sketches and do some more and bring that along with me, too.

waah.
oh yeah, also discovered by accident that my computer has two more USB ports that i didn't know about. i bumped my chair against my harddrive and a panel that i didn't think was supposed to come off came off and wow! ports.
which is great, because i am so tired of switching out my only open port in back between my scanner, camera, and ipod. now i have plenty. XD

stuuuuuuupid.

Classical @ 03:45 pm CST

-is making a really disgusted face- you'll have to believe me on that one, really.
but seriously. i have this bad impression of a lot of the graduating kids here and i also dread the hell the school administration is going to bring upon returning students next year. i really wanted to take a picture of the school and write "MORONS INSIDE" with an arrow pointing to it.

so, last day of school. life gets fucked up and turned upside-down so all the stupid can spill out.
pidegons in the hallways. (foiled) snake-releasing attempt (can't pass off a holey box as cupcakes, stupids). goldfish in the toilets. planned food fight with eggs. our lunch got shortened and became a hassle... i spent fifteen of the twenty minutes we had trying to make my goddamn ramen. i had to eat in the next class.
and apparently they were also going to dump marbles in the hallways for the end of the day. that is where i went from amused to annoyed, because that...crosses the line. that is fucking dangerous.
in any matter, the staff were FREAKING OUT by the end of the day, so a lockdown commenced and everyone was kicked out of the building five minutes before school actually got out. sucked for the one class who happened to be outside at the time and had no bloody idea... so all of our stuff got locked into the classroom and it was a pain in the ass to get out.

jeez.
though, for that lockdown thing, i'm slightly happy that we got let out later, just because i missed the swarm of dumbasses out of the parking lots. i think there was an accident two minutes after the cars started leaving down the road, bah.

in short, hell will be upon us next year. there is no doubt in my mind that the administration will be cracking down on our asses just because a minority of the graduating class decided to screw things up for everyone. this is also partically to blame on the administration itself, because everyone fucking hates the principal and the vice/assistant principals ('cept mr. ungar, because he's cool and an oldbie) because they...just...suck. ridiculous rules that no one really followed, anyway.

stupid, stupid, stupid.
it is nice to be away from all that mass stupidity for a bit, though. i look forward to a mildly-relaxing summer, as long as i can get a freaking job here.

on a lighter note, the day was nice otherwise. spent a whole class having a drawing war on one of the lone uncleaned whiteboards with emily and alexa. XD and i look forward to the burning fest tonight in my backyard--gonna roast all my physics homework and make me some s'mores.
weather looks fabulous for tonight, as long as i take care of the misquitos here!

anywaaaaay... it's about four, so things should've cooled down by now. it's probably safe to run to the store for soda for tonight. -frolics off-

gross level up! +5 exp

Classical @ 09:19 pm CST

okay, no.
i just picked pads OFF of my laundry. USED ones. because my sister had used the dryer before me and apparently a couple of those were in there.

gross. gross. gross.
i am washing my clothes again, because i do not want my sibling's dried crotch blood on my goddamn clothes.

she is never going to have a boyfriend at this rate. no male in their right mind would want to enter her room, because there are used bloody pads lying all over the floor. even i don't want to step foot in there, because i will walk out with pads on my fucking socks. and this comes from me, the girl who occasionally will announce "HEY I'M BLEEDING FROM THE CROTCH :DDD" to various female friends and strangers.

ARG.
being the nice older sister i am, i have dropped several hints about this one. hasn't picked up on them yet, apparently.


in other news, still no job.

i think i will have to go pick up some more applications. i HAVE to get a job now that i'm going to new york this summer (after a big stink about it that i made that i feel REALLY bad about, because i would've had to miss CONvergence otherwise, but i know it made me sound pretty selfish). even if i somehow manage to get this uncertain job at electronics boutique, i will have to find another part-time job in order to get my damn full-time hours. i need more than 15 hrs a week at minimum pay, damnit.
=_= i should maybe try the movie threatres, even though i've heard such horror stories about those kinds of places. heh... though rumor has it that the unbelievably gorgeous redhead from last year was working at one of them.

i think i will have to make another marathon run tomorrow and just pick up some more applications. and just fill the things out on the spot, because i am so tired of this. you'd think that if these places -coughebcough- really needed workers, they'd at least get back to you when they SAID they would, if not in a prompt manner?