what a shit week. let’s hope it gets better when the rents bring my new bed tomorrow after over a month without one. or when i get to go home this weekend and see my kitty. probably won’t be that great when i’m at the ortho or dentist or the wedding all by myself, but…oh well.
went to the d____ street fish market* specifically to get the only item i ever order from that restaurant: the blackened chicken sandwich. and: they’re OUT OF CHICKEN. wtf. how are you out of chicken? that’s like being out of butter or salt or TUNA. i mean COME ON!!!! so i had pasta instead. it was good, but it sure wasn’t blackened chicken. what now?! i have to call restaurants ahead to see if they carry chicken!?
*name has been omitted to protect the not-so-innocent
i forgot – tuesday a ton of terrible things happened
my plan to get more sleep has failed. i was up half the night with a stomach ache somewhere between “i want to throw up” and “why does it feel like someone is reaching under my ribcage and squeezing my stomach as hard as they can? (and this person is the strongest person on earth)”
i stayed home most of the day trying to find a comfortable position so i might get a few precious hours, hell – minutes of sleep. it didn’t work. writhed in a chair while watching ds9, which is pretty much what i did all night too.
this week sucks.
office is going to summer hours – starting at 9am instead of 10am. it’s killing me. i was just getting into the work-every-day pattern, and now a proverbial monkey wrench has been thrown. plus i have to get used to getting up even earlier due to moving downtown – i can’t just take a 10 minute walk down the street to work anymore. plus i’m in college-town withdrawal. what will i do without 80 restaurants all within walking distance?! einstein’s, 24hour burger king, panera, noodles, thai sookdee, al’s….
also the earlier work day results in extreme hunger at odd hours. like 10 am. i’m going to try to hold out until noon, but this plan seems doomed to failure due to the fact that i’m already lightheaded and am having problems concentrating…and staying awake. i have learned from eric that od-ing on coffee is not the way to go here as it will just shorten my attention span. and why is it so COLD in here?!
but otherwise things are fine. carry on.
walking to the el it wasn’t raining. when i got on the el it wasn’t raining. when i got off the el it was pouring and i had 5 blocks to walk in my white tshirt and no umbrella because it’s still packed and i can’t find it. i hope i dry off before the client meeting.
all of the posts from my previous site have been moved over. the only thing that isn’t up are the pop-up windows about the calvin & hobbes quotes and etc. these might….never….be put up. who knows.
today my parents and i spent the day packing, with more packing planned for tomorrow. thankfully i get to miss my parents arguing about the best way to pack glasses while i’m at the (ugh) doctor. why must these things always happen at once? plus, turns out that the moving plans just keep getting more and more convoluted. i did however get someone to take over my eac membership, so that’s good. i also finally activated this credit card so i can now cancel it. that’s ethical, right? i mean i KNOW there’s nothing wrong with it, but i still feel like it’s a little underhanded.
anyway, people move out tomorrow, they paint the apartment tomorrow night and we move in on tuesday. i hope it goes well. i hope my dad doesn’t strain something since he refuses to lift with his legs.
ok, so obviously i’ve been extremely busy in the past month, and specifically the past week. i’m busy onlining ‘the caseys’ and finishing up classes. graduation is in less than 3 weeks and my last final ever is tomorrow. after that i only have two papers left to write. this saturday is the studio22 premiere and after that’s over, my life will get 200% less stressful.
last friday i saw ‘finding nemo’ and it was AMAZING!! it was actually better than ‘monsters, inc.’ i think. it was so funny and touching and suspenseful and action packed…plus, sea turtles! it was beautifully animated and albert brooks and ellen degeneres were perfect as the leads. go see it NOW. NOW, I SAY! NOW!!!
right now it’s midnight. where am i? that’s right! WORK. i have just finished making 6 mark overlays for our promo commercials. oh boy.
further proof of my nerdity (besides making up words like ‘nerdity’): i’m tired today…er, tonight. know why? was i up with a hot date or seeing a movie or drinking or dancing? no. i was up until the wee hours last night reading my…
wait for it….
that’s right, i was reading my JavaScript book.
oh dear god.
i should go home soon i think, since i have to make some changes tomorrow – i mean, today. eric and mike, i hope you’re having a real good time. jerks. 🙂
ever want to know what happens during an autopsy? includes cute illustrations. no, really.
mike and eric, those lucky bastartds, are on their way to l.a. for e3 to try out video games and have fun and merriment in the land of sun and parties and earthquakes and landslides and flash floods and plastic and….oh wait. maybe that isn’t something to be so jealous about. no…yeah, i’m still at work and in class while they’re driving down the coast in their convertible so…yes, they are definately having a better time than i will be since i have papers to write and interviews to conduct and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
‘the matrix: reloaded’ opens this week!! YAY! jim bought 35, yes THIRTY-FIVE tickets for friday’s showing. all of compositing + the office are going. ‘yes, sir – how many tickets do you want?’ ‘mmm…you know, how about you just give me a whole theater?’
last night we went to lou malnotti’s for pizza and it was SOOOOO good. mmmmmmm. i almost can’t believe that that building, where yesterday’s used to be, is the same festering hell-hole that i spent two weeks in two summers ago. the ceiling was caved in, the smell was horrible, it was damp and 100 degrees, insects and god knows what else scampering around, high voltage film equipment stung in the basement which was rapidly flooding up towards the breaker box when it started to rain and since none of chicago drains AT ALL the streets were flooded and we were trapped there with a mass electrocution ready to happen at any moment while the director went insane and started swimming in the streets.