18 posts tagged “broke as a joke”

I figure today was my last day of slacking off before school gets out (well, maybe I'll slack off just a little during Thanksgiving) because I have got a ton of stuff due...

2 experimental drawing projects
3 paintings
1 edition of prints (7 colors, edition of 10)

On top of that I'm (still) stressing about money and (still) trying to find a job... jeez. If I hadn't had passed my advancement I'd be in a bad spot right now.

Gonna go see these guys tonight. Never really heard any of their stuff before, but I think it'll be good.

Looks like I'm gonna be up all night finishing up my project for my egg tempera class... oh boy. You know, I really didn't think this semester was going to be this stressful. Kind of a nice change of pace, but jeez. Also, I still don't have a job, but right now I'm not sure how I'd balance it out with school anyway. Not to say I'm not worried about being fucking broke though. Cause I am.

bleh, back to work.

tired as fuck right now... didn't eat a lot today, went out on a field trip, sweaty, mosquito bites, stressing over money, boring homework blah blah blah... I really don't want to go to school tomorrow, but I have to go get shit sorted out with scholarship money and transcripts and gasoline and whatever etc etc god dammit

ahhhhhhhhh that was nice. Now I'm gonna take a shower and go to bed.

Aaron, Dan, Greg, and I went dumpster diving last night on a hot tip from one of Dan's friends and scored at least 50 tape decks, and a couple boxes full of cassettes. Interesting cassette-based art project to follow.

Went to another figure drawing class tonight (I usually go tues/thur) to make up for some absences in my regular class. It was actually a lot better than my usual class - cool teacher, lots of girls (oo la la), and the real difference - no slacker/druggie kids bringing down the general vibe. I swear I never want to draw in my regular class because there's always this feeling that no one in class wants to be there, no one seems to be trying. Brings me down. Tonight, everybody was all working hard and making conversation and the teacher was showing me a new technique and stuff... so it was cool, but also depressing because I only have to go two more times. =/

And as long as I'm being depressed, I'll mention how I spent the last of my tax return today. Little bit of groceries, a visit to bandito's burritos, and two CDs - I figured I might as well buy something fun before I went broke again. All in all, I made it stretch a little longer than I thought I would, which is still a little shorter than I'd have liked, of course. Hopefully the Holiday Inn puts me on the schedule soon... not only do I need money, I need a reason to get up on the weekends so I can get my sleep schedule back to normal. I've been staying up till at least 4 all week and it's really making my whole "start doing good in school again" thing really hard.

Grilling out tomorrow with Russ, might go see Tokyo Police Club afterwards if I can find someone to go with me. BFA grad show Friday, Aaron is graduating. Saturday I want to see There Will Be Blood at school. The days are just packed.

My uncle helped me out with my job search, apparently he has connections at a Holiday Inn nearby and put in a good word for me there. I went and put in an application and had a little interview with the manager today, he seems like a pretty cool guy and was sympathetic to my situation, even told me to call the corporate HR offices for Murphco and file a complaint about being wrongfully terminated. Anyway, if everything goes well, I might have a front desk job there within the next couple of weeks, I guess he'll be calling me.

Now in the meantime, I am going to be broke as all hell. I basically ran out of money today.

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Generates band name, album title, and album cover from certain parts of random searches on wikipedia, quotationspage, and flickr. What's interesting is that it actually comes up with cool stuff every now and then.

My Band:

Grandeur - Part of the Precipitate

The first week back at school is over now, thankfully it didn't turn out to be too traumatizing. I've got a couple hangups that still need to be sorted out with my schedule and scholarship money, but other than that, everything is going pretty smooth... Except for my crippling lack of money which is keeping me from getting all the art supplies I'm going to need this semester. That's actually one of, if not the most stressful thing I've got going on right now - working my budget in a way that I can get the bare minimum of supplies I need for each class. For instance, I have brushes, but no paint. Or, I have newsprint, but no drawing paper. But hopefully I'll have a new job by the end of the month *crosses fingers* and all these worries will be behind me. It's so weird, I wasn't this stressed out years ago when I was unemployed after AMC. Probably a sign of maturity.

Saw Fred Armisen tonight, very funny, my only complaint is that there was no seating and everyone had to stand up for the entire set. I came really close to catching a copy of his DVD he threw out to the audience, like, I had it in my grasp, but lost it to some big guy in front of me. Bastard.

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I don't know how many people read this blog, my guess is maybe three or four, but in case there's more of you out there and you didn't already know, I've got a design up for voting on dbh.com. Do me a favor, go sign up and give me a vote. I might not win with this one, but I could use some 'street cred' over there to get my momentum going on later designs, at least. Feel free to vote for other designs, too, the dbh system is a little weird, so you're not really voting against me.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/5393

After a hard days work, the new computer is up and ready to go! Spent most of the afternoon putting it together, and most of the night installing drivers, getting all my spyware/virus protection going, fixing all my settings like I like em, etc. And playing through Portal again to see how my video card performs (very nicely). Kudos to Jon for picking out all the parts! Now to send for my rebates, because I am seriously as poor as I've been in years.

In other news: I saw a girl nearly get hit by a bus today. She was jaywalking at the intersection by the fine arts building - the new parking garage there makes traffic go stupid at peak hours - she crossed in front of me (my lane was stopped at a green light) as the bus came down beside me in the turn lane (which was still moving). The bus slammed on its brakes and managed to create enough time for her to see it and jump back. It was a really close shave - she was maybe a foot away from the side of the bus after she jumped back, and even put her hand on the side of the bus to steady herself. Funny thing is, though, I think it scared me more than her - she looked like she had shook it off by the time she got to the other side of the street, I sat there wondering what I would have done if I watched somebody get mangled around a bus tire.

School is just about over, which means I am just about to go out of my mind. I've got three big projects coming up, and I can't start on two of them yet, and I don't have any ideas for my other one yet. I'm not totally worried yet, but I can feel it coming on.

I NEED A HAIRCUT

Well it's pretty much go time over here for the BFA thing tommorow... gonna try to wake up early and go with a friend who's also applying so we can get spots next to each other, and in a good location (gotta beat the crowd). Then I'll have to run over to the copy shop and get a couple posters printed out that I forgot about today... really hope I wake up on time.

I wanted to get another little circuit bending project done in time for the entrance, I ended up with a jerry-rigged little thing that I didn't really even do anything to. It was originally a little toy harmonica thing, I took it apart and found that if you just mash the area the buttons touch with your fingers it'll freak out from the inaccurate body contacts (or something like that) and then you can manipulate it a little further with a knob that was originally built in to control the tempo of the sound clips. It does sound cool, though, and I hooked up a 1/4" jack to it so I can record some stuff later, but I am a little disappointed that it's not any more impressive than it is. I relocated it into a new, bigger casing and its all melted holes and rubber bands right now, kind of pathetic. But I figure having a couple bent toys might help me stand out from the crowd a bit? I don't know anyone else doing it at school.

Saw Spoon tonight, they had a good show but their two boring-ass-one-man-and-a-guitar opening acts can bite me.

Also, while running errands and picking up art supplies today I realized that I am really really close to being completely broke - moreso than I thought, that is. My bank account has kind of gone from bad to worse in this last week. Which sucks since I've got to pay the cable bill soon. But we get paid early this week because of the holiday Monday, so hopefully I'll have enough on my check to cover me for the next week at least - my last check was a total joke. Maybe after this BFA thing I'll see about picking up extra hours on Tuesday and Thursday mornings before school. I'm not 100% worried, I've got a good deal of savings hid away as backup, but I'd really rather not have to use them. We'll see.

Anyways, off to bed after I finish a drawing here...