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| Minesweeper: The Movie |
| 03.27.08 (12:35 am) [edit] |
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This is the inspiration for my own little preview based on a video game. The game I have chosen is a little more plot-driven than Minesweeper, however. And while it looks like a few people might have done my idea already, mine will be more kick-ass. If I ever get the pictures edited from my latest re-animation of Sven's Adventure, and get a video camera, I will start on. If I can get Ramon in the front office to narrate and say things like, "In a time when Manifest Destiny was perfectly acceptable..." Tomorrow, I go to history park to see if a customer's claims that it's really cool and that there's a conestoga there are true. (That is what will make it awesome). My neighbor's musical boyfriend downstairs is singing Muppet anthem Rainbow Connection. She finds it hilarious. |
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| Nob Hell |
| 03.26.08 (12:41 am) [edit] |
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What an awful day. I hate Nob Hell so very much.
It's pretty rude to go Subway, right in the middle of lunch hours, and buy unique sandwiches for everyone in your office and hold up the whole line. And then turn to see the line now out the door and laugh lamely saying, "Heh. Sorry!" If you want to get something for everyone in your office, get a couple of pizzas. Otherwise, let them get their own sandwiches. Let's see, I worked my favorite shift. I got rejected from another job assumably for not knowing Adobe Premiere. I was taught that the big boys use one of two products, neither Adobe. I still believe that is true. However, what I was not taught is that small-timers for whatever reason love it. Now I have to make a point of learning it somehow on my agenda. I got yelled at for being out of earshot when I took my late break at the same time I always do when I work this awful shift. I thought I could spend my 10 minutes of peace anywhere I wanted as long as I was back in 10 minutes. Evidentially, this is not the case. Yeah. That made the night awesome. I hate being there so much. The checkers are whiny when no one is up there to bag, "Ew! Do all this myself! Bagging has been beneath me for 20 years! Wah! I need help!" It feels like most of the time I am the only one there doing it and everyone else is hiding somewhere else in the store. And all the other bullshit about pay, hours, seniority, union contracts, status, etc. The right brain says, "I hate this! I wanna get out of here!" The left brain says, "Yes. This is most unfair, and unpleasant. However, let's consider that things cannot vastly improve until at least summer or fall and that we can't throw this job and the benefits (both medical and other) away in favor of another throw-away job that will get thrown away in a few months. And don't you want to go Disneyland in a month?" And the right brain says, "Whoo Hoo! Disneyland!!! But I don't want to stay in a crappy job in order to have fun!!" |
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| Commenting |
| 03.25.08 (9:56 am) [edit] |
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I have a feeling I am going to be preaching to the choir here, because I am pretty sure it's not the tBloggers who are the problem. However... Com'on, guys! Yes, I do have open comments. Mostly for the benefit of one or two people. But please, don't come on my blog, make random, pointless, anonymous comments on posts from three years ago. They will only get deleted, nobody else will ever see them, and they will only piss me off. If you are going to ignore the previous message, which I assume you are if you are posting on totally random pages from 2005, at least don't do it 20 times. I will not Google whatever bizarre phrase you've put in there. All of the comments will be deleted. And since there are from so long ago, nobody will see them anyway. Don't leave 20 random irrelevant comments on old posts, guys. It's not cool. Shit. My plan to stay up till all hours and wake up really late did not work. I hate my job so much. And as I go over "the plan" in my head, it looks like I'm going to be stuck there for at least awhile longer. |
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| Burton & Disney do Alice |
| 03.25.08 (12:22 am) [edit] |
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This is the movie that Tim Burton fans have fantasized about; what would Halloweentown look like in Wonderland? I'm thinkin' Spirals, Cross-hatching, and black, white, and purple.
Plus if Disney is distributing it, it will be merchandised to death like Nightmare. And in even more exciting news for wannabe stop-motion people like me, a stop-motion version of another Disney-Burton collaboration, Frankenweenie. Again, one of my art teachers who said, "Stop-motion is dead" and less than a week later the class saw Neil Gaiman give a talk and say, "They're making a stop-motion version of my book." Now, who will Johnny Depp play? Probably the Mad Hatter. What about Christopher Lee? If he could get Jack Nicholson in it too it would be killer...and/or Christopher Walken. (He likes them both). Will he bring back the unfortunate Paul Reubens? What about Danny DeVito? I also see Steve Buscemi will be playing the voice of a hamster. Listening to a relentless hamster futilely (but quietly, for now) gnaw at her cage attempting to escape, I have never pictured Buscemi as a hamster. A rat, like in Charlotte's Web, yes. I picture my hamster sounding more like Amy Sedaris. |
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| Happy Birthday, War! |
| 03.20.08 (11:25 am) [edit] |
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(One day late) Happy Birthday dear Iraq War! Happy Birthday dear Iraq War! Happy Birthday dear $3 trillion war built on lies that's killed 1 million Iraqis, 4000 soldiers! Happy Birthday to you!!! I won't go into to the hundreds of other things that could be done with $3 trillion, both silly like using it on something like education, or realistic like buying Disney World-type firework shows every day for the next 205+ years (the show they started when I worked there cost $40k). I will say, they could have given every documented person in this country a nearly $10,000 stimulus package. |
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| Birth Control |
| 03.18.08 (4:17 pm) [edit] |
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HOW HARD IS IT TO GET SOME FUCKING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS IN THIS TOWN?!?!?!?!?!?
I should be able to walk into fucking Walgreens, go to the feminine hygiene aisle and pick me up three or 4 little 28-day packs. I should not have to be told "You don't have perscription coverage here," or "We don't take HMOs" or "We're not taking new patients, right now" or "It's going to be 3-6 months before we can assign you a doctor." IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS COMPLICATED, PEOPLE!!!!!!! nothing has gone right today. nothing. nothing ever goes right ever. i just want one little lousy thing in my life to go right. just one. |
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| 03.18.08 (1:11 pm) [edit] |
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Expect one thing based on precedent = Thing is told to cost exorbitantly more than previously expected and changing it is out of my control= Feel angry and negative, yell at husband = Hate everything, wonder why nothing ever goes right.
OK. I'm glad I cleared that up. |
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| Future Video Project |
| 03.18.08 (10:40 am) [edit] |
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I think I know what I want to do for a mini-video project, since all my other ideas suck, are complicated, or I have no idea where to begin on writing them.
Actually, this idea would require the cooperation of, while not a lot of people, several people. Hmmm... It's unfortunately not very brilliant. It's funny. It's kinda dumb. But anyone who was in elementary school in the early 90's and remembers having Computer Lab Tuesdays will enjoy it. |
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| College Statistics |
| 03.15.08 (8:45 pm) [edit] |
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So, my dad, in an effort to prove that my college education was not a waste of time and money, found this calculator. It says a person my age with no degree can expect to earn $26k/year with no degree. However, a person with a degree can expect to earn $49k.
Do you know how ecstatic I would be to make $26k?! That just depresses me even more. That a person my age who didn't waste 4.5 years of their life pretending to care about art history and oceanography should be making $11k more than I do now. I seriously need a new job... |
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| 03.14.08 (11:47 pm) [edit] |
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Like, cool wish i could feel nicer more often. i like fleetwood mac. i dont love them. they are nice. I am drunk. i wanna go karakoinking with friends more often. I made my husband proud tonight. |
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| Value of a College Education |
| 03.12.08 (10:44 pm) [edit] |
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I had my interview today. I am not getting the job. I have about a "intern level" experience but not what they wanted. But they liked that I was "aggressive in pursuing the job."
I would consider doing another internship. But most internships require that you be enrolled in college and getting credit for the work. I am not sure if this is law or guilt. However, it would require me being enrolled in a university, not a community college, which would at minimum cost $600 unless there was a 1-unit option available. And right now, I can't afford to pay to work and not be paid. Which led me to wonder why the hell I went to college in the first place. When one needs experience, it makes one wonder why I had to take Logic, European History, and Human Biology when none of those add up to experience in an industry. I have yet to see the benefit of this thing I wasted 4.5 years and $20,000 pursuing. I work at a job where high school dropouts, and former drug addicts are making more money than me. My husband has worked 2 jobs since college, neither requiring his college education. I thought that the reason we do that is to be hired in "good jobs". I thought that was what we paid for. Nobody said, "But, once that's done, it won't be enough. So you'll either have to pay more money on for more education, or settle." I wish they had. I wouldn't've wasted time with Karate. Even if I wanted to be a substitute teacher, that would still be a significant investment of money that would not guarantee that I would ever work anywhere. Parents lie. High school lie. Colleges lie. |
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| Interview Tomorrow |
| 03.11.08 (8:31 pm) [edit] |
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Big interview tomorrow which would save me the pain of having to continue looking for a new job and working at my current one. So, let's hope it works out. Interviews are the second step towards rejection. I haven't had any other bites except for this one. Just got a form rejection letter from a summer camp job. No explanation about why. Just, "Nope. Tough Shit." I took an hour filling out your damn online form answering your questions, the least you could do is say in a sentence why I was rejected. It just feels like there is so little out there. It's either nothing that interests me or nothing I'm qualified for. I've tried to call the local radio station on two different numbers now. The first number was a residence. The second was dead air. Job hunting sucks hard. It doesn't matter if you're looking for a crappy retail job or a real job. Everything sucks: applying, never hearing back, calling back but never getting an answer, form rejection letters, interviews, false hopes, it's all just awesome. My head aches. |
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| Update on Scores |
| 03.06.08 (11:52 pm) [edit] |
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So, apparently my calm "Everything is taken care of for Graduate School" should have been correct. At 5:00 am (because I woke up at 4:20 unable to sleep), I called the testing company, they said the school got the scores. I called the general graduate office of the school, they said they got the scores. So I sent an e-mail to the department basically saying, "You should have it, a guy, and incidentally, I have attached my scan of the scores that is more or less my receipt for the scores."
The mistake was on the testing company's fault, who sent a bunch of the school's scores to one department. And although the company said they fixed everything, apparently they missed a few. So, until I get accepted, the scan I sent is good enough. Well, that's a relief. I went to Mount Shasta with my husband on Wednesday. I almost didn't go because I would not have known anyone we were going to see. I'm glad I went though. I had fun. We went to a mall in Oregon, and I bought a very discounted copy of America: The Book with no sales tax. And this afternoon the bunch of us went sledding which was fun. Still nothing about that job. I'm trying to be like all cool and whatever about it. But I really really want to get out of Snob Hell. (That's what it's called henceforth). I just hope I got Sunday off so I can take everyone on my famous San Francisco tour. |
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| Crash |
| 03.04.08 (10:48 pm) [edit] |
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I have this horrible feeling everything is going just come crashing down; this potential job, grad school, everything!
I feel sick. |
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| Lousiness |
| 03.04.08 (9:00 pm) [edit] |
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Too much bad stuff: We'll start with the most pressing. As it turns out, my initial calm that "Everything was taken care of with graduate school" was wrong. Of course it was wrong. Nothing can be cool and just happen. Despite that my score report says, "The department at the school you chose to have your test scores sent to got there" I got an e-mail saying that they did not have them. I have until Monday to get this cleared up. I have evidence that they are the ones who fucked up, but I got a feeling it will still somehow be my fault. I've got a feeling I am going to have to spend more money; either on gas, mail, a phone call, or another report (the latter of which will not get there in time, unless I still prove they fucked up). So yeah, that's awesome. And the other fun thing today. This comes in the category of work bullshit, of which there is an excessive amount of lately. Instead of promoting someone to work in the deli (ie ME, as has been rumored, or someone with more seniority) and potentially make more money, not have to work in the rain, the bastard hired someone completely new and put them in it. Let me say that again: rather than promote someone who has been with the company for awhile, whose work ethic has been observed first hand, which is how it's supposed to work, the asshole, for a second time did not promote someone deserving of the privilege. Instead, he brought in someone totally new. This contrasts with last time when he finagled out of promoting anyone by semi-legitimately importing someone with some seniority from another store and moving the one guy already making the same amount of money over there. Fortunately, nobody likes the person they got in; she's a dumb and not at all friendly woman. I say fortunately because one day, she's going to get shopped, get a lousy score, and no bonus for him! Wow. Just wow. I'm sure this was the easier and possibly cheaper way for him. Knowing what an asshole he is, I am not surprised. I should call the union, there must be a reason I'm giving those impotents $30 a month. And because I might be trading in this job for one that pays $15-25 an hour doing something good, I am not flaming, hopping, spitting, screaming, crying mad. I just roll my eyes knowing that if not this job, then another one. There is some hint of a light at the end of this tunnel. Let's just hope it isn't an oncoming train... The job you are excited about today is the job you'll hate tomorrow. |
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| 03.03.08 (8:16 pm) [edit] |
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OMG! I actually got a letter back from someone! What do I do?! What do I do?!
First off, write them back. Second off, assume nothing will come of it. It sounds great. But you don't have a lot of Adobe experience and stuff should not happen quite so quickly. Yack! Edit: I know why I am so freaked out. 1. If I get hired my quick knowledge of Premiere or After Affects might be discovered. 2. The thought of leaving my crappy but comfortable job is scary. 3. I have no idea what to expect. |
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| Job Searching |
| 03.01.08 (10:12 am) [edit] |
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I hate job searching. You send out it seems like 100 applications. Nobody ever calls you back. The most you can hope for is an automatic e-mail. After a few days you decide to the "aggressive" thing and give them a call. If you can even find a relevant phone number, you are directed to a full voice mailbox, you leave a message, and of course, no one ever calls you back. Or you go down there in person, and the "right" person is never around and you can't see them anyway like the Wizard of Oz. It's amazing anyone ever works anywhere. And then, my parents want me to be a substitute teacher. They got the idea from my stupid aunt who I guess said that they were looking for substitutes even without passing the teaching test. So they've made it sound like I should just show up at a district office with my, thus far useless, college degree, and they will find me work, posthaste. The reality is of course much different. First, for most districts, I still have to take the test: $41; then I have to be fingerprinted: $125; then I have to buy my own lisence: $55; knowing that you still won't be guaranteed work after spending about $220 and going through all that: priceless. And since I just had to spend an entire week's pay on shoe inserts that are only helping a little, the idea of spending nearly another week's pay to only possibly work does not interest me. How about instead, for only a relatively small investment of $150, I make tens of thousands of dollars a year selling knives that can cut a penny in half door to door! Great for all those times when you think, "This casserole could use some copper, but not too much!" I don't even know why I am going to my parents for job advice anyway. My dad has been with the same company for 30 years, and my mom hasn't worked in about that long. That's the funny thing, isn't it? We want the most prevalent adult figures in our lives to have the answers. I just want to run away from everything. I just want stuff to happen. |
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