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Honest Living!
2003-01-15 19:55:42
I've been drop dead exhausted the last couple days. Monday it was out of boredom, and last night it was due to the sudden call from the temp agency. Yup, I've been working. $11/hr, no free soda or popcorn but free tea and the joy of seeing the look of shock on the face of the dude sitting next to me when he realized who my sister was. Turns out the two of them went to high school together and she could tell enough tales about this man to ruin him.
I don't know any of them, though. It's just WEIRD to be near someone whose name I know from before I came out east. Especially when I know they're not a total asshole. I wasn't sure whether to think "It's a small world after all" or "sure thing". City life. It's crazy. But in the meantime I've got work tomorrow as well so it's another day to cash in on the system and maybe finish recovering enough to either 1)set myself up nicely for Katsucon or 2)import another round of manga from Germany. I'm thinking about going with 2 right now. My stock's running low, and it would give me a chance to import the XL DVD of Manitu.
Speaking of Manitu, it's 2 days until the Visions presentation of it. The current gropu is me, Anne, Chris (roommate), and Mikhail. Chris B. and his GF may be coming, ditto for Clark of GW fame. If we all get together it will be very, very cool. If not, it's a group of friends seeing an asskicking movie...which Chris (roommate) STILL hasn't watched all the way through even if he DOES have the subtitled DivX that I made.
AMVwise, projects are go again. I caved in and got a couple knockoff DVD sets on eBay (yes, I'm a hypocrite) and they should be here Saturday barring any customs SNAFUs or plane crashes. Saturday would be a great day for the arrival, too, as I'd be able to get up, go to the PO, and rip and edit all day. Of course, I'd be doing this for a May deadline...but that's OK, I can see myself pulling another Twilight and obsessively tweaking this one. I love it that much. I need to clear off a lot of HD space, though.
Ironically, my anime folder's still taking up the most space...yet i've barely touched it in a couple days. Between the exhaustion and time issues, I've only been clearing VHS backlog in the form of 2 episodes of Nadia every day. Since my VHS is going to run out soon, I'll be back on the digis within a couple days, and will also probably watch a good amount of stuff this weekend...and edit...because it'll be Tuesday before there's another mail delivery (Yay Yay MLK except that there's no mail that day...) and Wednesday has me back at work (already arranged this time).
Oh, resolving the panics of last week, all the packages I sent on Thursday have made it to their destinations. Everything is now truly out of my hands. I'm off to finish making omake for my Katsucon CD and watch anime now. -
*yawn*
2003-01-11 21:13:12
I'm writing out of boredome. How much does that suck? It's about 20 min. before Are You Being Served? is on and I don't really have anything else to watch until then, and nobody's on AIM or IRC to talk to, so it's me...alone...on Saturday night...again. There was supposed to have been a gathering in NoVA tonight, but it's been postponed. It may be tomorrow instead, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't happen at all. As I've said before, I think the gods of having a social life are out to get me. Anime night's cancelled for tomorrow too - nobody wanted to come.
Lessee...what else did I do today? Got up, took a shower, went to the Post Office and the bank (got my paycheck in and deposited it). Came home, read for a bit, listened to some Dr. Who audio drama, watched anime, burned off some CDs, read more Sherlock, and...that's about it. Damn I wasted the day, kind of like how I waste almost every day. I'm just making excuses now, really. I've got everything I need to work on one of my videos, I just need to get my ass in gear and DO IT. One thing's fairly certain, though. I don't think I'll be doing section 5 of the Katsucon video like I planned...I've been rewatching the show that it's from and I don't think the footage is there to pull it off. It's not really a loss as the idea was pretty damned tasteless anyways.
It's weird hearing from the people who've gotten to see previews of the Katsucon entry. A lot of response variety technically, but it's the thematic that I'm caring about - and how people are reacting to what's on screen, not just how it's encoded. Did you know that although you have two eyes, you can only focus on one image? That's a clue for the uninitiated. Speaking of Katsucon, it's only one month off. Kinda scary when you think about it. Where does the time go? This weekend's probably Katsu prescreenings, too. Even if the website's not updated, it's nice to know the AMV person does at least reply to emails.
I'm not as bored anymore and it's only 8 min. to AYBS now...and then COUPLING!!!!! and then 30 more min. of boredom before Dr. Who...but I'll get a snack or something then...or burn a CD or something... -
It's not work, really....
2003-01-09 20:47:19
Everything has been mailed out for grad school applications except for one recommendation form, and that has been re-requested from the professor via E-Mail. I also did four loads of laundry, including my pillows which hadn't been washed in.....well, let's not think of that long of a time period. They're a lot fluffier now too after their turn in the dryer. Didn't get my sheets done, but I can do those over the weekend.
Continuing to watch Nadesico, Miyu, Full Metal Panic, and Berserk. I should speed up Berserk so that I can start watching Nadia in its place, but it's nice to string it out a bit. The only show now that I'll be watching 2 of at a time is Nadesico, just because it's the only thing I've got in realplayer right now and it seems a waste to swap off programs if it's not for a full hour.
In the meantime, sunday night anime at my place is looking....non-existant. The gods of social living are against me. Only a month until Katsucon, though. Let me stay well fed and sane for those 72 hours. Please?
I accepted a job for the last week of break, even though it pays less than I'd usually deal with. Still, it's 3 days of work and I know it's coming so it's not a problem. Tomorrow is another day on call, meaning get up at 7:30, eat, check the net, get halfway dressed, call in around 8, and then finish getting dressed if I get to go work.
Shit. Just got an IM from a friend of mine from middle school. He's one of the few people from pre-university that I keep in touch with, and he's getting sent to Saudi next week with the rest of his Marines division. Fuck. Now I'm going to worry. If this shit's hitting the fan as nastily as it could, bad mojo's rising and it's going to suck...and it's coming up faster than I'll be graduating and hopefully flying off to Canada for the next two years. Yes, I do worry about conscription. I also worry about what kind of a stupid fuck cuts taxes right before going to war. That's just really, really fucking stupid.
It's that time of night where IM's pick up again, so I'm outta here. Catch y'all later! -
I gotta go my own way...
2003-01-08 22:18:48
Tomorrow is a day off. Banzai! I will do my laundry (further depleting what little is left in my checking account) and finish off graduate applications. I'll get recommendations sent from the career center and then compile everything and send it out at the PO. Lot of work, but rewarding and important work, even if it is the sucky kind.
Downloading lots of anime right now too. Gao Gai Gar, SD Gundam, couple other things here and there.
Not much else going on. Burning anime cd's for someone, thinking about going to bed, and the joys of doing laundry and running errands. Ah, the simple pleasures. -
Honest Living!
2003-01-07 19:56:27
Work and stuff. Work. For what is effectively the last week, I've been working for a lobbying firm in downtown DC. As I've said before, the pay is nice, as is the free soda (which tastes better than the office Brita - I think the filter needs to get replaced), and lately there's been popcorn and chocolate on hand as well. Paying $4.50 for transit every day sucks, but that's the price of doing business. Most of the work hasn't been hard, just doing data entry, making mailing labels, and doing a 500+ item mailout. Tomorrow will be my last day there, it's corporate retreat day so while everyone's off in a hotel meeting room to be away from the clients, I'll be the only person in the office manning the phones.
Yes, you read that right. A downtown DC office suite and just me there for 8 hours. I'm not sure if that's incredibly cool or incredibly suck, because not having people around will be boring. On the other hand, once I finish the tasks they've given me (condensing notes on each of the clients and what the firm did for them in December as well as updating the office's directory of contact people at the clients), I've got the rest of the day to sit around. I'll probably take a couple VCDs with me, as well as the usual 3 discs of mp3 and books. Then I'm turning in my timecard and going to Visions to pick up tickets for Manitu.
Thursday is a no-work day. I don't care if they call me, unless the pay is phenomenal, I need the day off to work on applications and do my laundry, which is now a larger pile than my laundry bag will hold. The truly annoying thing is that I don't think my direct deposit is 100% yet (they don't think so either) so I'll have to either go down to DC just to get my check (and maybe get lunch on my Cafe Mozart certificate) or tell them to hold it until Friday or mail it to me. I can use the cash ASAP, but that's a lot of commute (an hour each way) just to do a 5 minute errand. Yeah, will tell them to mail. It'll take a day to get to my PO box from DC and I can deposit it Friday afternoon or Saturday if there's a bank open nearby.
I'm looking forward to having a paycheck again. They're good things to have.
In other news, I got my GRE writing score, a 6.0, in. For those unaware, 6.0 is the best score acheivable on the analytical writing section, and proves just how worthless the vocabulary memorization section (verbal) really is. 2 applications are done and submitted (even though I fucked one up) and the third isn't online, it has to be typed/written and mailed. I could take it with me tomorrow, but it's editable PDF and it would be a waste not to take advantage of being able to type instead of write.
What I need to do now is get transcripts, print writing samples, and take care of all that good stuff. That'll take a couple hours, but is easy enough to do, it just needs to be done when people are open. The same for the above-mentioned laundry.
Cooking can be done anytime, though, and the soup that I made turned out quite nicely. There's still another 2 days' worth, so I guess the cost of ingredients was well spent. My loaf of bread from Trader Joe's reminds me why I hate most American bread - tastes...blah, and sucks the flavor out of what's put on it. Ah well, only half a loaf left, and I could always just french toast the rest if I had some Vanilla (which I don't), but I should be working again soon, so all should be good.
Anyhow, going to watch some anime and relax. Since I don't have to impress anybody tomorrow other than with professional courtesy on the phone, it's dress-down day as far as I'm concerned. While this doesn't mean that I can show up an hour late, it does mean that getting dressed in the morning requires less work (no tie!). I'm taking my camera to work tomorrow, too. Being on the 11th floor has its advantages, one of them is a great view of the area around McPherson Square, so I'll turn my flash off and take some cool pictures (hopefully).
Maybe things are starting to look up again.
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