25 posts tagged “whining”

Staying up late because I don't want tomorrow to come and make me have to go to work. I have a feeling it's not going to be a great shift tomorrow.

Spent the morning finishing up a drawing for the show today, then headed off to the warehouse to hang it. Spent most of the rest of the day there. First Friday was lots of fun, even though none of my closest friends were there since most of them are out of town or working this weekend; I hung out with lots of outer-circle folks instead and still had a pretty good time, so no loss. The turnout was huge, I guess because it was the first FF of the fall semester. It'd be nice if it that many people showed up every time, but it'll probably start to wind down as the year goes on.

Almost went to a house party after the warehouse closed, but went home and passed out for an hour instead. I woke up and realized I had only had one meal all day, so I got up made some supper and watched the last half of Trains, Planes, & Automobiles on TV. Just been postponing the inevitable since then, staying up messing around online. Yawn.

Heard this at St. Michael's last night, capped off a pretty tiring school week:

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.

Came down with the flu Saturday night, I feel horrible - can't get any sleep, sore throat, chills and fever... ugh. I think I can trace it back to some girl in my life drawing class who came in sick last week. I figure whatever she had was just lingering on me until Saturday afternoon when I went skating with Jon, Garrett, Russ, and Joe. I guess my immune system dropped from being so tired, because it really hit me out of nowhere right after Jon and Garrett left. And whatever I've got, Russ and Chance have it, too.

This sucks even more than it usually would, because I'm missing a lot of school stuff, including a group presentation that was due today. Plus the house is a wreck and I'm too sick to clean up.

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

Went to the party Saturday, they changed it again and anyone could enter. What a hassle.

Saturday I took my bike to the shop to get a new tube installed after an earlier botched attempt to patch it with the help of Hailey's roommate. Apparently patches don't really work on skinny tires like I've got. Oh well, it only cost me 8 bucks anyway. While I was at the shop I got some new bar tape to replace the crappy old foam handlebar grips. I'm not sure how old the foam was, but it was all dried out and turning to dust, and would get a gritty black mess all over my hands every time I would ride my bike anywhere. I wrapped the handlebars Sunday afternoon; it didn't take very long, was actually fairly easy and the final product feels great - nice and soft and cushy on the hands. Plus the nice soft and cushy feeling of a job well done. The brakes are a little messy, they don't have a housing or anything to make the tape look all nice and solid in the middle, and I couldn't get the wires to go under the wrap, so they're still flying free - I think they're too stiff to be wrapped, but maybe I was just doing it wrong. Never rule that out.

new tape

Picked up my new glasses Sunday night, wore them all day yesterday, they look good and are fairly comfortable despite not being adjusted by any professionals yet (I need to go back home for that). The legs don't curve around my ears as much as I'm used to, but that's probably not going to be something that gets fixed when I get them adjusted. I'm just going to have to get used to the sensation of constantly feeling like they're about to fall off. I'd take pictures, but I'm feeling pizza-facey today.

BITCHING ABOUT HOUSE-RELATED STUFF:
The A/C is still broken, I don't know if I've mentioned it here or not, but it's been one thing or another for the last month. First the duct behind the intake panel thing froze over for a few days - like, a solid peice of ice blocking the entire duct while the rest of the house was 85 degrees. So we got a guy to come and fix that. Now it won't turn off and it isn't blowing cool air. It's a lot cooler outside lately (finally), so I'm worried a lot more about the former than the latter since it's no doubt running our electricity bill through the roof.

Also, the internet keeps going out -maybe four or five times an hour when it's really bad. Called Comcast today, the lady checked it remotely and said it looks like we've got a weak signal, so they're sending a technician out sometime Thursday morning. Hopefully we don't need a new modem or anything, I don't know about the other guys, but I don't have the money for a replacement. Speaking of which, I need to go pick up my check, hopefully I've still got a job after not showing up for work on Sunday...

Well I'm swamped with homework and the cable bill got lost last month and we gotta pay double now. But I'm cool...

Left work early today, running a fever and sick to my stomach. Went home, took a tylenol, ate lunch, and slept for five hours. Good as new (I hope).

School starts back up Monday, so I had to put in my two weeks' at the OAG. They really only need full time workers, and that just can't happen with my school schedule, so my last day is this Friday. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. I wrote one hell of a notice of resignation, too.

Had a really good time in Crestview the last two weekends, but I swear I'm staying here this Saturday and taking care of all my errands and chores and getting some sleep one last time before school. I need to go to the bank, wash my car and put in new wipers, do some laundry... lots of crap has been building up while I've worked six or seven days a week for the last month. Also, I'm really toying with the idea of cutting all my hair off Saturday... Mitch just got a fucking buzzcut today, so what better time? Everyone will be too busy giving him lame comments about his hair to worry about me, right? He lost six more inches than I've got, and he's had it long since middle school - I figure if I just keep him around as a decoy, people should leave me alone.

Kind of actually looking forward to school, though I'm really dreading my graphic design class, since I have a feeling it's going to be just as bad as my first one... Uh yes, question in the back? Yeah, uh, I don't know how to work any version of Photoshop, Illustrator, or any page layout programs even though this is my chosen major and my future job field. Ah, no biggie, we'll just take all our class time teaching you the basics while people who have actually taken the time to learn this shit ahead of time get the shaft while we walk the class through fucking free online tutorials.

And don't even get me started on how much I hate the idea of teaching about these programs anyway, since they're all destined for obsoleteness, when we could be spending time talking about actual design principles and business practices. I could rant on how shitty my major is here, but I'll just sum it up with GEE I REALLY WISH I DIDN'T GO TO STATE COLLEGE SOMETIMES. My only comforting thought is "at least I'm not a sculpture major". If my 3D design classes are any indication, those guys have got it fucking rough. Wow.

And while I'm bitching, let me just add that all the other college kids who left for the summer are back in town and traffic in Tallahassee has turned back to shit, like always. So that sucks.

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...I sat here trying to think of something cool I'd seen online recently that I could put here, and then I remembered... I haven't. Sorry, everybody. Maybe next time.

So I've been playing around with Cubase since I got my midi/usb adapter, but then I realized my soundcard is a piece of crap and I get so much latency when I try to use midi instruments that there's like a entire second's lag between me pressing the key and the sound playing. So that's impossible. But I realized that I'm an idiot and that I can just run the mono output straight into my headphone jack and record that... so I kind of could have saved myself the forty dollars I spent on the adapter. But I really want to use midi for drum beats and crazy synthesizer stuff! ughghh

But I guess I'll just have to put off getting a new soundcard until I get a new computer built (sometime soon, hopefully).

Haven't done a lot of drawing lately, I'm usually too psychologically drained after 8 hours at work sitting under florescent lights and looking at a computer screen reading about guys beating their wives. Ah well, not much longer until school starts and I can cut my work hours back. Way back.

Andrea left rice in my rice cooker for so long it all turned to mold and stained the white scoop purple. Yes, purple. I had just left it all sitting there on the counter thinking she'd get around to cleaning it (she always leaves rice in there, but she's usually pretty good about cleaning it up soon after), but she never did and now, a month later, she's left town for the week. The whole thing was disgusting and fuzzy and green, but I really wanted some rice last night and broke down and cleaned it myself. The batch of rice I made afterwards smelled so gross I had to throw it away. I washed the pot again, hopefully all the residual stink is gone now. The scoop is a lost cause, though... it's clean, but permanently stained with purple and black spots.

But that's not the only rotten surprise I found last night: Russ had a bag of potatoes in the pantry, I guess they finally turned and liquefied some time this week, because they were leaking stinky brown juice all over the shelf. That was a fun one to clean up, too.

After all that, I went ahead and threw out all the old bread and other questionably aged items in the kitchen as a preventative measure. Now if only Joe would wash all the dishes he's got in the sink...

OTHER STUFF:

Talked to the lady who got beat up at Disney World on the phone today at work. She was nice enough, but she talked my ear off for nearly half an hour about getting her claim filed ASAP. I'm workin' on it, lady. Didn't you learn your lesson about cutting in line? ...wow, that was tasteless.

Mike and Jamar and having a joint birthday party (didn't I just go to one of those?) this Friday... I might be able to go... but I don't know if I want to spend the money and burn the gas. I guess we'll see how desperate I am for some fun come Friday after work.

OMG WTF

If my new job was any harder, it would be punishment instead of just work. Good lord. People, please tip your servers. I don't care where you're eating or who's serving you, tip them because they deserve it whether you think so or not.

I'm not going to get into details (aka bitching and whining) about the new job; instead check out my schedule for the next few days: starting with work today I'm going to get all three days of training at Osaka's out of the way in one go, take Thursday off, work the weekend back at the Bistro, go back to Osaka's Monday through Thursday, and take the weekend off and go home. And if I somehow don't make any money in that period I am going to flip out, because it's going to be almost two weeks straight with one day off since Thursday last week. Now I know there are people working two jobs with a much heavier workload than this, but for me this is almost overwhelming.

So many people are so far ahead of me in Pokemon now. I just know it.

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Shane officially moved out last night. I miss the big guy already. He'd better bring me back one of those big furry hats like he said he would, though, or our friendship will be officially over.