Iffy at best

Nothing says, "I WUV U!" like a cool pair of argyle socks.

Last weekend rocked. Hard-Core. I checked out a digital projector from school and yesterday (Sunday) we watched all three extended special edition LOTR films. I bought the ingredients and we made pizza, drank beer and generally caroused. Good times. The girlfriend not only stuck around for the whole thing, but I think she had a good time! That chick is hot AND really f'n cool. Boy did I luck out!

But now it's monday. And monday's don't rawk at all.

I've been bitching about my boss way too much lately. I really wish there were other things in my life that were causing me stress/excitement, but that's pretty much it. I got my paycheck today and it sucked. Horribly. It was a LOT less than I had been expecting. I need to get my pay stub to see why though. What a thing to wake up to.

But in general everything's good. I don't wanna be at work right now, but hey, who does, right?

Me: It's a good thing Shakira's so hot or I may have mistaken her for a no talent hack.
Ahniwa: hahahahahahahaha

So salsa lessons start tonight. I really hope that everything goes well. I'm going to try and get off from Kumon a bit early today so I can make it down to the community center on time. Dunno how that'll work though. I just don't wanna be late for the first lesson, y'know?

Alright, I should stop goofing off and actually try to get something done. Like filing. And drinking more coffee. Sometimes I think that's the only thing that keeps me going. That and the love of a beautiful woman. And Brittney Spears tunes on the radio. Oh, wait, no. Those make me wanna shoot myself. At least it's not god-rock though. That was seriously getting under my skin.

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It's the one year anniversary of my boss's grandmother passing away. When I came into the office today she was putting some yellow daffodils in a vase and wearing a BRIGHT red sweatshirt (those two things having been her grandmother's favorites). Out of the blue she started telling me about their relationship.

Now I'm not an insensitive guy. I'll listen, I'll sypathise, maybe even empathise a little. But seriously, I couldn't care less in this case. I get the feeling that no matter what my boss says about anything, if she's crying, they're crocodile tears. Dutifully, I turned around in my chair and listened to her moan on and on about things, and then, at the end of the story, she turned it into a joke about how she's gained a lot of weight since then. hahahahahaha!

You just can't have any sympathy for an egotistical bitch. This girl wants everyone to feel sorry for her. If I ever complain, I'm usually just psyching myself up to the point where I can fix shit or ask someone for help. With my boss, she just wants everyone to take pity on her. I'm sooo not wasting my pity on her. There are way too many starving children in Africa (or so I hear) for that.

The job only lasts for another two months so there's not much more to bear. If I'm not already a full-blown alcoholic, I'm sure I will be. It'll be a miracle if I make it out of this office alive.


--SEVERALCUPSOFCOFFEELATER--

Our current list of awesome things to say when you're drunk:

1. Tumblebus
2. Monkey Bucket/Monkey Bunker
3. Globular Hob-Goblin Hemogloben

It's a short list as of yet, but I'll keep you updated.

There are few things in this world that really irk me like someone who is completely ordinary trying to be extraordinary when it's not remotely in their nature to be so.

Truly breaking free of mundanity is cool, but when you try to be bigger, better, even outstanding, and yet stay in the same dank, dark place you were before, that's just sad. This describes my boss.

I'm smarter than she she is. I'm much more well read. I'm cooler. I love movies that are deep. I can actually do my job. I dance. Ad infinitum. For all these reasons and more, she feels the necessity of putting me down and stomping on me every chance she gets.

This morning for example: I was 10 minutes late because of a bus problem. (I missed said bus.) She wasn't in the office when I came in but there were instructions on my computer that told me to run down to ITS to pick up some things. So I went.

When I got back to my desk, she was in the office again. She asked when I had gotten to work. I said 8:10. She said, "I was here at 8:10. There's no way you were here." I just stared at her, as if to say, "you callin' me liar?" She was. I didn't excuse myself. I just turned around to face my computer, silently suppressing my rage.

She then has the gaul to pull out a box of breakfast. Where was she when I came in? She was in the cafeteria getting something to eat. She sits her desk for the next half hour, eating her meal and surfing the web, giggling at emails and web sites and taking phone calls from friends on her cell. All while I'm doing work.

*sigh*

But it's over for today. Now I have to get off to my Russian class. Take care of yourselves and have better days than mine is starting out to be. Please.

--THEODDSARETENTOONE!--

I applied for this job as a sort of activities planner and community liason with our International Programs department here at the college. I submitted my application onthe 12th. Now, our policy (as posted on the web site) says that all positions are posted internally for 5 days and ONLY if there are no qualified internal applicants will the position be posted publically. I'm qualified for the position, I submitted my application the day after it was posted internally, and yet for some reason the job was posted on the web site anyway, which is considered an external posting.

I'm not too pissed off about that part of it. I know that I'm qualified and motivated enough to get the job and will do it very well. What I'm pissed off about is the fact that I fit the description and yet because it was posted externally I have to wait until Feb 1st for them to even look at my resume. Sometimes I really wonder about this place.

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In the near future I hope to get some pictures up on this page. I haven't really done much with it because I really only post here while I'm at work and definately not supposed to be posting. Right now my boss is at an eye exam so I can successfully avoid work without getting caught.

Anyway, I would like to do a set of photos of my life and the places I like to visit. We'll see how it goes.

I'm also thinking of setting up a comic blog. It would be a HORRIBLY drawn comic that uses toilet humor and none of my writing skills, but would be fun and have TONS of potential. If anyone has a better idea than just doing it in blogger format, lemme know.

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Thank god tonight is swing dancing. I have spent the last three hours making labels for file folders on the computer, printing them, cutting them out, attaching them to the folders themselves, then putting them in a filing cabinet. I am a damn work-study for the IT department without the study part. But that's not what I was hired as. Funny.

I'm really happy that i have my freelance drawing jobs now. Speaking of which, I had a meeting with the Tumblebus guy and he really liked the drawings that I did. He was nervous that I wasn't going to have the kind of ideas he liked but when I showed him the three sketches that I did, he said that they were right on and that I should do bigger versions for scanning and coloring. Wow. My weekend got booked fast.

Plus, next weekend I start doing salsa with the girlfriend. Whooooeeee! Busy guy.

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Well, it's about quittin' time. I'll write more when I can.

--STELLA!!--

Yeah, so it's been almost 20 days since I last updated. Sorry 'bout that.

Anyway, life is a tumbling tumbleweed of craziness right now.

I was hired to draw a freelance ad for a guy here in Olympia who is starting his own tumblebus (which, incidently, is a very fun word to say over and over again when drunk). So last week I drew a bunch of basic sketches for him. He kinda liked 'em but then said he wanted them more cartoony. I have a meeting with him tonight.

In other cartooning news, at Cafe Vita last night Tim and I were approached by the ad copy and publisher of Northwest Jazz Profiles (sorry, they don't seem to have a website). He was watching us draw through the window and then came inside. He introduced himself and then said that we should send him some of our stuff that he can use in the magazine. He wouldn't be able to pay us much, but hey, it'd be exposure.

So I was told rather abruptly last week that my tech job at the college is about to end due to budget cuts. Luckily, I applied for a job in another department not a week before that. I'm in the middle of a freak-out here because if I don't get this job I'm gonna be broke for a while, and that's no fun. Not with a new girlfriend and a dancing habit and a rather large sum owed to a best friend.

Alright, boss is back. Update more later.

--but4isreallymoney--

Well, not really. It hasn't actually snowed. But I'm still on cloud f'n nine!

If you check out Ahniwa's blog, you'll see why. That beautiful girl that I'm dancing with, she likes me. She really likes me!

So now I have a cute swing-dancing girlfriend. Hehe, RAWK!

Anyway, not much new stuff has been going on. Still listening to nothing but christian music at work, got my schedule changed a little bit because I'm now learning Russian and extending my hours for teaching little kids how to read, and I'm writing again. Nothin' like a little love to ease all kinds of stress in real life.

I've gotta get back to work for the next 20 mins. I'll try to post again soon. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

--pleasedontfeedtheanimals--