14 posts tagged “lame”
Boy, work was shitty today. The damn tropical storm had the automatic doors all confused and first they broke and wouldn't open, then once we fixed them, they wouldn't stay closed. So all night the damn storm was just blowing into the lobby, throwing papers around and getting everything all wet. Thankfully I got off early, went and hung out with Dan and Kristen and Hailey for a while.
Also, I'm trying not to think too much about it, but Joe said that while the power was out for a bit here at the house due to the storm, he caught two guys fucking around with the front door. He went up to the window with his telescoping nightstick and scared em off, but what the fuck?? Definitely arming the alarm every time I leave the house now, and I'm contemplating putting the webcam back up in the hallway as a secondary measure. Hopefully it was just a one-time thing due to the power outage or something, and they won't be back, but I'm definitely gonna get all paranoid about being robbed for a while again.
I really, really, really don't want to go to work today. I did not get a solid night's sleep at all, which I blame on the time change coming back from Crestview and the fresh install of Empire Earth II on my computer.
Also, it looks like the tropical storm going over Florida is coming back for a second pass and is set to go straight down the panhandle. I'm not that worried about it, but I guess people are making a big deal about it cause it's the first big storm in a while. It's not even that big! weather.com forecast for Saturday: Showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. Yeah, I'm not gonna sweat that.
I got an email yesterday about a new personal webspace system they started at FSU, so I went and set mine up. I think it's pretty okay. (click)
Well, today was a bust. Stayed up late last night with Dan and Kristen, and my throat started feeling scratchy so I drank a mug of theraflu and slept all day. Then work calls and wakes me up, I'm already supposed to be there. Goddammit. I forgot to check my schedule yesterday while I was busy slacking off. So I go to work sick, leave feeling sicker, have some soup and call it a day. Maybe tomorrow I'll do something besides sleep or sit behind a counter.
ugh. Last night I stayed up late working on a project for that god-forsaken experimental drawing class, then after school I made a conscious effort to stay up and went out with Dan and Russ to go Goodwill hopping just for something to do. A little later, Russ gets a call from Jon, who had got a call from Mom, who had got a call from my uncle, who had got a call from my manager, saying I was scheduled to work today, where the hell am I? Apparently I had set my phone to 'silent' instead of 'vibrate' at school today and no one could get in touch with me. I could have sworn I didn't have to work today...
Anyway I drive us all back home, change clothes and go to work - no sleep, no supper. The night auditor shows up late (again) and I'm stuck there till 11:30. And for some reason I have work at 1:00 tomorrow instead of the usual 3:00, so I can't sleep in. Awesome, good thing I decided to stay up past 1AM despite being tired as all hell.
Man what a shitty waste of a day. I stayed up all night doing bullshit then I slept past my morning class. Then I continued to waste my life away well into the afternoon. I've got a BFA meeting to go to and put some work up for First Friday in about thirty minutes, so that'll be something to do, and I need to get a CD cover ready to go before the guys show tomorrow. Then maybe I can get really plastered somehow or suffer some sort of head injury and pass out around 11 or 12 like a normal person might.
I got a studio today! Sweet! There's nothing in it and I can't get in the building by myself yet, but I've got one now, damn it.
But what else did Chris do today?
- ruined a good shirt
- skipped class
- went to goodwill
- insulted some friends
Stupid project I've been working on for 4 weeks is due tomorrow, can't wait to get that monkey off my back. You know what, let's get another music video in here:
Chance, Russ, Joe, and to a much lesser extent, myself, spent the better part of the day today trying to beat Super Mario Bros. 3 without using the flutes to warp past everything. After about ten hours, they had got all the way to Bowser's castle with almost 40 lives left, and were having a hard time beating Bowser at the very end. So I got on to have a try. But first, and thinking it wouldn't have an effect, I went into the inventory and used the third flute, which sent Mario back to Warp Zone, effectively ruining an hour's worth of time in World 8.
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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.
Aw, dammit. I bricked it. You can turn it on, then the LCD counts up from 17 to 31. Thats it. No noise, nothing. I am really really disappointed...
Why did it die? Not sure, but I can guess: I blame my bad soldering skills. I may have even overheated it and let the magic smoke out as I put a wire on the last pin. Tried a couple things to get it going again, but nothing works at all. A sad day, indeed.
Fucking school. I am really just being stretched all out lately... I feel like I have no free time, and what little I do have I am wasting on stupid shit, and I've been broke as shit for the last week now. Well, I mean, okay, it's all better than that (except the money) but I feel so much pressure and I feel like I keep having little failures... ugh. I blame the BFA thing, but I'm really honestly not as worried about it as I was the last time, though, so just imagine how I felt then. I keep saying I don't care at all, but I really would like to get accepted. Thing is the odds are completely against me - there's probably nearly 50 other kids trying out, and I'm fairly sure there aren't too many slots open this time around.
bleh... off to school. Slept through my first class today, I should make an effort to go to my others, eh?
LATER THAT NIGHT: okay, so I meant to make this a friends-only type post, but its not as whiny as I thought it was at the time, anyway, so I guess I'll leave it, probably too late anyways. I turned in the BFA application today at school, talked to a couple teachers, I think I'm gonna have some fun, just have a good experience with it or whatever. I've decided that having a goal to work towards is better than just sitting on my ass all day anyway, so I definitely condsider my efforts time well spent, regardless of the outcome.
and here's something a little more upbeat to level everything out here:
