I feel like THIS - :D :D :D (well, mostly end-of-entry feelings, not beginning)
I feel so much better when I bring my laptop to work with me. Even if I haven't used it at work (YET - tempt me with MOAR boredom and you will SEE), I somehow feel like I'm wasting less of my creative life or something, plus I'm able to catch up on things on my lunch. TODAY IS SO SLOW, I LITERALLY HAVE NOT DONE A THING EXCEPT ADJUST ONE PAGE MARKER IN EXCEL.
o1. Molly, Jason and I tried a new trivia place ever since the Pi incident that incited a nerd riot in our group. We went to Green Mill, it was harder and the ~prizes~ sucked in comparison but it wasn't too bad, the food was loads better and we had fun. I got a text from Ali saying that her on-and-off boyfriend of 5 years broke up with her. I called her instantly and she was just bawling and it was so sad, I felt so bad that I couldn't be there for her (she's getting her teaching degree in Iowa). And he was such a dick about it, too, she'd had a horrendous week and they hadn't seen each other in awhile; they were supposed to go get dinner with his mom or something but Ali couldn't go because she had so much work and she just wanted him to come over and spend time, she said she didn't even want to vent or bitch, she just wanted to be around someone who could make her forget about shit and be happy. So he came over and she asked if he was going to stay the night and he was all, "No, I came here to break up with you." Who the fuck does that. UGH UGH UGH and all of his stupid statuses on Facebook are about basketball and Californication and stupid shit like he's not even fazed and I want to go off on him but I won't. I just klsdfhkljas could kill the fucker. But again, I won't because even through this, I genuinely feel like they're supposed to end up together.
We went to MOAR trivia on Friday night, as part of our Find A New Weekly Trivia Place Because Your Normal Hosts Are Douchebags plan. It was hard but somehow we won? BITCHIN'. ALSO, Ketel One & Tonic = A+ and in this case, particularly strong.
o2. I needed to go shopping for work pants on Saturday, Jason was going to come with but before we got out the door we got in a fight, over money, and it sucks but it's been a thought in my brain for awhile now. One of his movies fell through and he was going to use that income to pay a nice new apartment's rent for an entire year up front. Well now he can't do that and he already got rid of his old one. So he was looking for a new place and complaining about how he wanted the big nice one with the balcony and it's kind of like... I don't know. Either get a normal job so you can have your nice balcony, or don't get a normal job and settle for an apartment that's not as nice as what you want right now. Maybe I operate too much in the Transcendentalist mindset but hearing him complain about it frustrates me. Film is so sporadic and flighty and he's so averse to having an office job. He picked up on my upset and I ended up telling him that he's somebody I can conceivably see a future with and I don't want this to be a part of it. I had enough money issues in my childhood because of my parents and I don't want this to be a constant struggle in my life. I KNOW I'm getting ahead of myself with that thought, which is why I'm not breaking up with him over it, but I still have to think about it because in life in GENERAL I don't want to waste my time or get even more attached to something if it is going to be a problem later. I feel bad for him, I do, but I can't be 100% sympathetic because I work all day every day so I can buy things that I want. I don't WANT to work, I'd love to sleep all day but I made a choice. IDK. Anyway. It ended well, as usual, it was just sad.
o3. We went shopping and I FINALLY FUCKING FOUND WORK PANTS, YOU GUYS. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THEY FIT AND THEY ARE LONG ENOUGH, I HAD TO GO TO A TALL STORE BUT STILL I AM JUST HAPPY TO KNOW THEY EXIST. ONE PAIR EVEN NEEDS TO BE HEMMED, IS THIS FUCKING REAL LIFE.
o4. There's a man living in a glass box in the middle of the mall as part of sponsored effort to lose weight. He's a theater actor (he's not acting in the box, though, he's legit overweight lol, I'm sure they chose him specifically because he's a fun performer and is comfortable in front of people), I shot one of his productions this winter, he is such a nice guy and so much fun; my cousin mentioned that he was living in a box so when we were at the mall I saw it from afar and was like, "OH MY GOD IT'S SCOTT!" We went to creep and he totally recognized me and waved loads, he's got this adorable little apartment with glass walls. There are television screens with numbers so you can text in and vote what exercise he should do next! lolll so much fun, he blasted Single Ladies and did Beyonce's dance, like, LEGIT SINGLE LADIES CHOREOGRAPHY, OKAY, and there were little kids up front doing it with him and it was the cutest/coolest, okay. Just in the middle of the mall, making everyone dance like that. ♥ ♥
o5. SATURDAY NIGHT I HAD THE BEST LOW-KEY DATE EVER: we bought a tactile Tetrisesque game at Marbles, ~The Brain Store~ (after playing in it for over an hour), and played it all night long in our underwear to an 80's playlist on shuffle. Yeah. YEAH. No but it is so much fun: you each have your little Tetris grid and all of your pieces, BUT THE COOL PART IS THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT LITTLE MAPS YOU CAN SLIDE UNDERNEATH THE PLASTIC GRID WITH DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES. Like for one of them, there are dots with "-5" on them and you have to cover them up or you get docked. Another one has pairs of shapes and you have to either have both in a set covered or both in a set exposed because if you have only one showing, you get docked like whoa. IDK IT IS WAY COOLER THAN IT SOUNDS.
o6. Watched The Prestige on Sunday; loved it, okay. Also, Californication - how did nobody mention that they did a 50's fantasy sequence as well?! Was this before or after House or kind of at the same time?! BECAUSE THEY WERE *REMARKABLY* SIMILAR. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU SCREENSHOTS BUT DON'T HAVE THE EPISODE ANYMORE AND DON'T FEEL LIKE DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW. MAYBE LATER, AN ANALYSIS OF SORTS.
o7. Went to dinner with my mom and grandma last night, I got there and my grandma was like, "Liss I'm so sad you don't watch Grey's Anatomy. Because I went on youtube looking for videos like you make and I saw one to Chasing Cars and it was so bad and I wish you liked it because I want a good one of Callie (and whoever) :( :( :(" IT BROKE MY HEART, OKAY, and then she was fangirling the entire night about Sara Ramirez and "how do I get her album?! They said it was on iTunes and I don't know how to do that..." So I just bought it for her and burned it on a CD and she was SO excited and amazed, you guys, it was the cutest damn thing ever. She thought she was only getting The Story and I was like no, I got all of them and she was like, "YOU DID?!?!" like it was sheer fucking magic or something. OMG. ADORABLE. Then we spent hours on Failblog dying of laughter to the point of tears.
o8. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART. I GOT A NEW JOB TODAY. I've been hired to produce, shoot, and edit a viral ad for one of my company's real estate properties! We've been talking about it for a week but they were still kind of tied to some other editor but they said that she was old and they wanted someone younger and more on the pulse. I had no idea what would happen but today John came by and was like, "Do you have time to meet in about 5 minutes?" 5 turned into... longer than 5 but he came by again and was like, "Okay, hi, the deal is, we want to hire you, so - that's what we need to talk about." *INTERNAL SCREAMS* They got a budget approved and are going to pay me an editing rate outside of my regular work there and if it works well and they like the result (they will), they said they have loads of other properties that need ads. And! They keep talking about needing new photos too! And how awesome would it be if I could do enough of their media work to the point where I wouldn't even need to work 9-5 there anymore?! Fingers crossed!! ♥ I'm going tomorrow morning to look at the building and then I'm doing headshots at noon! Weather depending, of course.
o1. Molly, Jason and I tried a new trivia place ever since the Pi incident that incited a nerd riot in our group. We went to Green Mill, it was harder and the ~prizes~ sucked in comparison but it wasn't too bad, the food was loads better and we had fun. I got a text from Ali saying that her on-and-off boyfriend of 5 years broke up with her. I called her instantly and she was just bawling and it was so sad, I felt so bad that I couldn't be there for her (she's getting her teaching degree in Iowa). And he was such a dick about it, too, she'd had a horrendous week and they hadn't seen each other in awhile; they were supposed to go get dinner with his mom or something but Ali couldn't go because she had so much work and she just wanted him to come over and spend time, she said she didn't even want to vent or bitch, she just wanted to be around someone who could make her forget about shit and be happy. So he came over and she asked if he was going to stay the night and he was all, "No, I came here to break up with you." Who the fuck does that. UGH UGH UGH and all of his stupid statuses on Facebook are about basketball and Californication and stupid shit like he's not even fazed and I want to go off on him but I won't. I just klsdfhkljas could kill the fucker. But again, I won't because even through this, I genuinely feel like they're supposed to end up together.
We went to MOAR trivia on Friday night, as part of our Find A New Weekly Trivia Place Because Your Normal Hosts Are Douchebags plan. It was hard but somehow we won? BITCHIN'. ALSO, Ketel One & Tonic = A+ and in this case, particularly strong.
o2. I needed to go shopping for work pants on Saturday, Jason was going to come with but before we got out the door we got in a fight, over money, and it sucks but it's been a thought in my brain for awhile now. One of his movies fell through and he was going to use that income to pay a nice new apartment's rent for an entire year up front. Well now he can't do that and he already got rid of his old one. So he was looking for a new place and complaining about how he wanted the big nice one with the balcony and it's kind of like... I don't know. Either get a normal job so you can have your nice balcony, or don't get a normal job and settle for an apartment that's not as nice as what you want right now. Maybe I operate too much in the Transcendentalist mindset but hearing him complain about it frustrates me. Film is so sporadic and flighty and he's so averse to having an office job. He picked up on my upset and I ended up telling him that he's somebody I can conceivably see a future with and I don't want this to be a part of it. I had enough money issues in my childhood because of my parents and I don't want this to be a constant struggle in my life. I KNOW I'm getting ahead of myself with that thought, which is why I'm not breaking up with him over it, but I still have to think about it because in life in GENERAL I don't want to waste my time or get even more attached to something if it is going to be a problem later. I feel bad for him, I do, but I can't be 100% sympathetic because I work all day every day so I can buy things that I want. I don't WANT to work, I'd love to sleep all day but I made a choice. IDK. Anyway. It ended well, as usual, it was just sad.
o3. We went shopping and I FINALLY FUCKING FOUND WORK PANTS, YOU GUYS. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THEY FIT AND THEY ARE LONG ENOUGH, I HAD TO GO TO A TALL STORE BUT STILL I AM JUST HAPPY TO KNOW THEY EXIST. ONE PAIR EVEN NEEDS TO BE HEMMED, IS THIS FUCKING REAL LIFE.
o4. There's a man living in a glass box in the middle of the mall as part of sponsored effort to lose weight. He's a theater actor (he's not acting in the box, though, he's legit overweight lol, I'm sure they chose him specifically because he's a fun performer and is comfortable in front of people), I shot one of his productions this winter, he is such a nice guy and so much fun; my cousin mentioned that he was living in a box so when we were at the mall I saw it from afar and was like, "OH MY GOD IT'S SCOTT!" We went to creep and he totally recognized me and waved loads, he's got this adorable little apartment with glass walls. There are television screens with numbers so you can text in and vote what exercise he should do next! lolll so much fun, he blasted Single Ladies and did Beyonce's dance, like, LEGIT SINGLE LADIES CHOREOGRAPHY, OKAY, and there were little kids up front doing it with him and it was the cutest/coolest, okay. Just in the middle of the mall, making everyone dance like that. ♥ ♥
o5. SATURDAY NIGHT I HAD THE BEST LOW-KEY DATE EVER: we bought a tactile Tetrisesque game at Marbles, ~The Brain Store~ (after playing in it for over an hour), and played it all night long in our underwear to an 80's playlist on shuffle. Yeah. YEAH. No but it is so much fun: you each have your little Tetris grid and all of your pieces, BUT THE COOL PART IS THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT LITTLE MAPS YOU CAN SLIDE UNDERNEATH THE PLASTIC GRID WITH DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES. Like for one of them, there are dots with "-5" on them and you have to cover them up or you get docked. Another one has pairs of shapes and you have to either have both in a set covered or both in a set exposed because if you have only one showing, you get docked like whoa. IDK IT IS WAY COOLER THAN IT SOUNDS.
o6. Watched The Prestige on Sunday; loved it, okay. Also, Californication - how did nobody mention that they did a 50's fantasy sequence as well?! Was this before or after House or kind of at the same time?! BECAUSE THEY WERE *REMARKABLY* SIMILAR. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU SCREENSHOTS BUT DON'T HAVE THE EPISODE ANYMORE AND DON'T FEEL LIKE DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW. MAYBE LATER, AN ANALYSIS OF SORTS.
o7. Went to dinner with my mom and grandma last night, I got there and my grandma was like, "Liss I'm so sad you don't watch Grey's Anatomy. Because I went on youtube looking for videos like you make and I saw one to Chasing Cars and it was so bad and I wish you liked it because I want a good one of Callie (and whoever) :( :( :(" IT BROKE MY HEART, OKAY, and then she was fangirling the entire night about Sara Ramirez and "how do I get her album?! They said it was on iTunes and I don't know how to do that..." So I just bought it for her and burned it on a CD and she was SO excited and amazed, you guys, it was the cutest damn thing ever. She thought she was only getting The Story and I was like no, I got all of them and she was like, "YOU DID?!?!" like it was sheer fucking magic or something. OMG. ADORABLE. Then we spent hours on Failblog dying of laughter to the point of tears.
o8. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART. I GOT A NEW JOB TODAY. I've been hired to produce, shoot, and edit a viral ad for one of my company's real estate properties! We've been talking about it for a week but they were still kind of tied to some other editor but they said that she was old and they wanted someone younger and more on the pulse. I had no idea what would happen but today John came by and was like, "Do you have time to meet in about 5 minutes?" 5 turned into... longer than 5 but he came by again and was like, "Okay, hi, the deal is, we want to hire you, so - that's what we need to talk about." *INTERNAL SCREAMS* They got a budget approved and are going to pay me an editing rate outside of my regular work there and if it works well and they like the result (they will), they said they have loads of other properties that need ads. And! They keep talking about needing new photos too! And how awesome would it be if I could do enough of their media work to the point where I wouldn't even need to work 9-5 there anymore?! Fingers crossed!! ♥ I'm going tomorrow morning to look at the building and then I'm doing headshots at noon! Weather depending, of course.