Beyond Aurora Studios / Interview Eve / Jaci's Departure / Dad's New Job
I mentioned in my last entry that my brother and a couple of his friends are rumbling to start up their own media design company. After weeks of discussion and desperation, we've decided to name the business, "Beyond Aurora Studios." You may recognize the Beyond Aurora name from ten years ago when my friends and I set out to make a simple video game and never actually got it done. Back then, I bought the domain name and I've never given it up even though nothing's ever happened with the game. However, the name was put up for discussion and, unlike all the other names we thought up, "Beyond Aurora" was something we all liked and, best of all, getting the domain name was no problem since I already own it. The only sad part about it is that now I have to wash the domain clean of all the stuff from those days when the game was being made. In its place will be the website for the new business. So it looks like things are moving right along! Up next, business cards and hopefully clientele!
On a much more personal note, a shift in my mood has occurred as of late. Sometime in the last month, a mysterious log jam in my head finally broke and I realized that I really want to move and get a tiny place all for myself as fast as possible. I think it has something to do with the talks with my brother and his friends about the new business. It excited me to hear about the money making potential and I began thinking about what I'd do with steady income. I'd pay off my student loans, move out and live comfortably. To make that happen in the short-term, I've accepted that this economic climate is going to force me to look at taking service or retail-industry jobs that I wouldn't normally consider considering my secondary education and artistic qualifications. Such thinking would normally depress me, but now, I feel excited about it. I feel like it is the next step.
Then, out of the blue, I got an interview which is coming up tomorrow afternoon doing web stuff part-time. As I normally do with any interview I go on, I'm trying to keep calm about it and trying not to spread it around that it's happening. People congratulating me on landing an interview only adds pressure and I'd rather go in there independent and calm and composed instead of worrying about everyone else's reaction. So until tomorrow afternoon is over, I'm keeping details under wraps.
Recently, Jaci, my college sweetheart who has for a year now been preparing to move back to South Dakota from Boise to be closer to her family, had a change of heart and decided to stay in Boise for the foreseeable future. She figured she could take classes at Boise State and that it wasn't the right time to uproot and run back home to the Midwest. Suddenly, earlier this week, word came along that her twin brother was getting a divorce and Jaci has once again changed her mind and decided to move back to South Dakota to be around her family during this crisis. So sure of her decision is she that she's already given notice to her boss that her last day will be May 28th. For me, it's kind of a shock; I was getting used to the idea that she'd remain relatively close as Boise is a simple plane flight or road trip away. But now she's really and truly leaving.
In other job news, my dad landed one! Full-time engineer with a local outfit checking microchip wafers and whatnot. He's finished his three days of training and the real job begins next Thursday. At which time, the schedules around here for everything are going to be crazy. His work day is something like 4 PM to 4 AM three days a week with a fourth day alternating every other week. It's not the greatest schedule, but as I alluded to above, beggars can't be choosers right now. This March will be known as a great month of upheaval for my family. Hopefully it'll be positive upheaval. But I guess at the moment I'll take any upheaval that comes along.
On a much more personal note, a shift in my mood has occurred as of late. Sometime in the last month, a mysterious log jam in my head finally broke and I realized that I really want to move and get a tiny place all for myself as fast as possible. I think it has something to do with the talks with my brother and his friends about the new business. It excited me to hear about the money making potential and I began thinking about what I'd do with steady income. I'd pay off my student loans, move out and live comfortably. To make that happen in the short-term, I've accepted that this economic climate is going to force me to look at taking service or retail-industry jobs that I wouldn't normally consider considering my secondary education and artistic qualifications. Such thinking would normally depress me, but now, I feel excited about it. I feel like it is the next step.
Then, out of the blue, I got an interview which is coming up tomorrow afternoon doing web stuff part-time. As I normally do with any interview I go on, I'm trying to keep calm about it and trying not to spread it around that it's happening. People congratulating me on landing an interview only adds pressure and I'd rather go in there independent and calm and composed instead of worrying about everyone else's reaction. So until tomorrow afternoon is over, I'm keeping details under wraps.
Recently, Jaci, my college sweetheart who has for a year now been preparing to move back to South Dakota from Boise to be closer to her family, had a change of heart and decided to stay in Boise for the foreseeable future. She figured she could take classes at Boise State and that it wasn't the right time to uproot and run back home to the Midwest. Suddenly, earlier this week, word came along that her twin brother was getting a divorce and Jaci has once again changed her mind and decided to move back to South Dakota to be around her family during this crisis. So sure of her decision is she that she's already given notice to her boss that her last day will be May 28th. For me, it's kind of a shock; I was getting used to the idea that she'd remain relatively close as Boise is a simple plane flight or road trip away. But now she's really and truly leaving.
In other job news, my dad landed one! Full-time engineer with a local outfit checking microchip wafers and whatnot. He's finished his three days of training and the real job begins next Thursday. At which time, the schedules around here for everything are going to be crazy. His work day is something like 4 PM to 4 AM three days a week with a fourth day alternating every other week. It's not the greatest schedule, but as I alluded to above, beggars can't be choosers right now. This March will be known as a great month of upheaval for my family. Hopefully it'll be positive upheaval. But I guess at the moment I'll take any upheaval that comes along.