high on life...
Long post...
Someone remind me to kiss that black cat that was sitting on my stoop, I petted him as I left the house this evening.
Oh my god... I mean i'm speechless. For those of you who know me you are aware that my life was recently thrown out of balance by a recent departure from my last place of employment. It's been just over a week now. I have a whopping 26 dollars to my name at this point, but wow!, I could not be happier!! The world is a strange but beautiful place!
I've always been a proponent of "things will work themselves out somehow" but i never expected such a rapid response. It seems that as soon as I made my mind up that I was going to make a serious attempt to bid full time computer work goodbye and re-join the profession i love, theatre production, everything began to fall into place. If you are not aware I have a theatre degree and love design and production, even grunt stage work has a very satisfying ring to me. But over the past two and a half years I've been stuck in an office hammering out code for a underpaying under-appreciating company who's only perks were that the office was close to my house, some of my friends work there, and my manager was fairly flexible when it came to arrival time. That last perk i just mentioned however really seemed to piss off the owner and upper management which was their ONLY reason for letting me go on 29th. I'm not going to rant about that too much as it deserves an entire post, and this is a happy post! ;)
The crescendo begins on monday I call the Local IATSE 205 (Stagehands Union), whom i worked with for about a year during my last period of unemployment. I'm not expecting results immediately because the people have probably cycled alot and very few would remember me, and knowing the quality of your workmanship is critical to being placed high on the call list. But to my surprise after leaving the message with my information, I promptly get a call back within 10 minutes. It turns out the person doing the crewing now is Donnie, someone i worked closely with last time around, and whom happens to be dating someone else who knows me quite well, Melissa, whom i studied theatre with through college and even lived down the hall from in the dorm. He seems happy to hear from me and said he called Melissa with the "news" that i had called in. I didn't think it really "news worthy" but hell yeah, quite a response. And the world just shrank a bit.
It gets better...
So, today i got a message from Donnie saying i'd been placed on the call list for the load in for the National Instruments convention at the convention center (and the load-out). The call is a wopping 14 hour all day affair, which means lots of over time and potentially double time. Thank god, I'm so broke, and i certainly wasn't expecting to be on the first call available.
And yes, it gets better...
So i leave my house this evening, pet the black kitty cat whom i've never seen before, and head to the coffeeshop. I quickly get bored there and opt to join a couple acquaintances for some billiards down the street. I finish a beer and am thinking I should leave before spending any more money, but one more game of pool. I head to the bar for quarters, guess who is there. Donnie and Jessie from the union. I've never ever seen them there, and it's been over a year and a half since i've seen Jessie, over two for Donnie!! So as a professional decision, instead of quarters i get another beer and join them. We talk for a couple hours and a couple more beers, they relay to me that I should apply at the Paramount right now, because there is a position open that suits me.
But all in all, basically i've dropped right back into the theatre world where i left off over two years ago, within a matter of hours, with promise for even better work this time around, more in line with my interests even... which are lighting and rigging.
The chain of events and coincidences that lead up to this evening absolutely astound me.
After departing their company and returning to the coffeeshop, even though I was mostly by myself, I could not stop smiling, the world was hugging me and I was hugging it back. I made a wish upon a star, and even blew the crescent moon a kiss on the bike ride home.
EDIT: almost left this out...
So yeah, i can't afford my 825$/mo. rent even with the help of unemployment benefits. But I connected with my friend CC who owns a house in the hyde park area and has a NICE garage efficiency apartment (all bills paid) for 500$/mo. available right now (which I only discovered yesterday). And she 's willing to do month to month lease! Which is awesome considering the unknownable status of my location and employment at the moment.
Someone remind me to kiss that black cat that was sitting on my stoop, I petted him as I left the house this evening.
Oh my god... I mean i'm speechless. For those of you who know me you are aware that my life was recently thrown out of balance by a recent departure from my last place of employment. It's been just over a week now. I have a whopping 26 dollars to my name at this point, but wow!, I could not be happier!! The world is a strange but beautiful place!
I've always been a proponent of "things will work themselves out somehow" but i never expected such a rapid response. It seems that as soon as I made my mind up that I was going to make a serious attempt to bid full time computer work goodbye and re-join the profession i love, theatre production, everything began to fall into place. If you are not aware I have a theatre degree and love design and production, even grunt stage work has a very satisfying ring to me. But over the past two and a half years I've been stuck in an office hammering out code for a underpaying under-appreciating company who's only perks were that the office was close to my house, some of my friends work there, and my manager was fairly flexible when it came to arrival time. That last perk i just mentioned however really seemed to piss off the owner and upper management which was their ONLY reason for letting me go on 29th. I'm not going to rant about that too much as it deserves an entire post, and this is a happy post! ;)
The crescendo begins on monday I call the Local IATSE 205 (Stagehands Union), whom i worked with for about a year during my last period of unemployment. I'm not expecting results immediately because the people have probably cycled alot and very few would remember me, and knowing the quality of your workmanship is critical to being placed high on the call list. But to my surprise after leaving the message with my information, I promptly get a call back within 10 minutes. It turns out the person doing the crewing now is Donnie, someone i worked closely with last time around, and whom happens to be dating someone else who knows me quite well, Melissa, whom i studied theatre with through college and even lived down the hall from in the dorm. He seems happy to hear from me and said he called Melissa with the "news" that i had called in. I didn't think it really "news worthy" but hell yeah, quite a response. And the world just shrank a bit.
It gets better...
So, today i got a message from Donnie saying i'd been placed on the call list for the load in for the National Instruments convention at the convention center (and the load-out). The call is a wopping 14 hour all day affair, which means lots of over time and potentially double time. Thank god, I'm so broke, and i certainly wasn't expecting to be on the first call available.
And yes, it gets better...
So i leave my house this evening, pet the black kitty cat whom i've never seen before, and head to the coffeeshop. I quickly get bored there and opt to join a couple acquaintances for some billiards down the street. I finish a beer and am thinking I should leave before spending any more money, but one more game of pool. I head to the bar for quarters, guess who is there. Donnie and Jessie from the union. I've never ever seen them there, and it's been over a year and a half since i've seen Jessie, over two for Donnie!! So as a professional decision, instead of quarters i get another beer and join them. We talk for a couple hours and a couple more beers, they relay to me that I should apply at the Paramount right now, because there is a position open that suits me.
But all in all, basically i've dropped right back into the theatre world where i left off over two years ago, within a matter of hours, with promise for even better work this time around, more in line with my interests even... which are lighting and rigging.
The chain of events and coincidences that lead up to this evening absolutely astound me.
After departing their company and returning to the coffeeshop, even though I was mostly by myself, I could not stop smiling, the world was hugging me and I was hugging it back. I made a wish upon a star, and even blew the crescent moon a kiss on the bike ride home.
EDIT: almost left this out...
So yeah, i can't afford my 825$/mo. rent even with the help of unemployment benefits. But I connected with my friend CC who owns a house in the hyde park area and has a NICE garage efficiency apartment (all bills paid) for 500$/mo. available right now (which I only discovered yesterday). And she 's willing to do month to month lease! Which is awesome considering the unknownable status of my location and employment at the moment.