Oh yeah, orientation day went fine. Tons of silly videos that i should've paid attention to, and everything.

Today was my first day, though. Moral of the story: CASHIERING IS DEADLY.
Learned it all pretty quickly. I have a bad habit of never asking questions, though. And then I had HER:

everyone has tests, she was the Final Exam for me. This woman comes up to my register, and big ol me with my TRAINEE tag starts quivering. She has an overfull cart, which i start to bag and untag. OHNO, she stops me and insists I use her reusable bags, fine. Eventually the trainer-manager comes over and helps me with getting things situated. I get it ALL rung up. it's been roughly 15 minutes. Now, our Devil Wears Prada Woman, decides to whip out DOZENS of coupons. Some even store-issued, which i've learned to despise, because you have to tag them in the system... She bought like 500 bucks worth of stuff... And I did nothing on my break.

*collapse* Dun have to do it again til Tuesday... thank science.

I got the job at TJ Maxx, going in on Thursday at 930 to get orientated, watch awful movies I'll probably draw regret not paying attention to later on, and sign form after form.

Took for friggin ever. Seasonal help, because it's a high-shopped-at store around here, possibly full-hiring after the season's over. I have a slight nag in the back of my head saying that this year is the year I'm swearing off of christmas, and this'll be the reason. I've never worked retail-retail before during christmas, Starbucks was bad enough. I dunno. It'll feel nice to have income once again.

Today is a good day  <3

Long Post Short: I don't feel like i've done anything in the past month. All of october is a blur. went to FurFright, first time evar, was very laid back, met some good friends, and made even more. Got nasty-ass confunk and was sick-ish, then Rourkie had the flu Vaccine and we decided to get drunk and he ended up bedridden with a temp of 102.8 and I played mama all week. Caught his nasty cough for a few days and I'm still hacking up lung-butter. basically was just being dicked around by Panera for a month, hearing minor news, and then losing hope. was a big game of cat and mouse. Though the day after the official 'no' from them, i applied at like 4-5 places and already had a callback and interview at one and it looks good that I'll be seasonal help.

In art-news, I finally broke my month and a half long artblock. which feels kinda nice, but I'm getting back to my lazy ways of never coloring and rarely inking, which i always want to, but i end up distracted in drawing something else or not enough patience to finish it. in retrospect it seriously bugs me that I never do. It's a fear of screwing up a drawing I like. My tablet decided to shit itself to death. A friend hit me on IM and was like: "lets draw PORN' and I'm like: 'FUCK YES' and then tablet's like: 'wait... what? Oh, I'm sorry, I decided to just not be recognizable' and we were all like Yosemite Sam and grumbled out curses at openCanvas.

Music discovered lately:
Moloko, awesome euro-synthpop. reminds me of Freezepop on Prozac with a lot more class... and disco.
Garbage, just... never listened to them, and I like it so far.
Owl City, I mean C'MON. Fireflies is an amazing song. reminds me of walking in the woods at sundown.
Phoenix, Listened to their newest album 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' and All I can think is: it reminds me of Of Montreal, but not as good.
Saul Williams, Good god, I missed 'good rap' so badly. concept-album rap...seriously sold me. 'nuff said<3

Broke my glasses the other day, accidentally lobbed my 35 lb Toughbook ontop of them. Lessons learned: Toughbooks iz heavy bizness. Glasses do NOT go on the floor. and epoxy works miracles, screw you superglue. after like 5-6 years of TLC, glasses are officially zombied. Also it looks like they were sneezed on with impeccable precision snot.

That's all folks.

Been busy lately! Boston, or more of Waltham, has been bustling. Had a few interviews at Panera Bread, which's an awesome 5 minute walk away. Second interview was a few hours ago, and hoping for the best.

Been busy playing the new Kingdom Hearts for the DS and it was pretty good. Finally got through Halo 1. Probably going to play Persona 3 sometime soon, Been meaning to play it for a while.

Haven't drawn as much lately, just been really tired, and sick as well. Nasty-ass headcold and whatnot.

I'm moving. Tenatively soon. TO Boston. Yup.

One, I'll be living with friends who need another person in their apartment. All furnished.

Two, the Job market  out east is ACTUALLY GOOD. I've been desperately looking for a job for almost 3 months here, and found absolutely NOTHING. Not even a Nibble.

Three, lover. Rourkie's out there. As much as it seems like we're moving too fast, it doesn't. It's feels like almost narcissism how much we have in common and let's leave it at that.

I've made good friends in the Midwest, people I'd call my family that are in no-way related via bloodline. I've lived my entire life surrounded by corn and soybeans. I'm ready for a change. I will miss it, and I'm going to come back one day. But I need a change in scenery. I want to go to the beach, and actually hang out with friends, and have fun windowshopping when i'm completely broke and do D&D til 3 a.m.

It's almost official. Soon, but dunno when. Could leave this weekend or next. It's been fun~

A friend of mine hacked my 2 month old PSP. Slapped Final Fantasy Dissidia on it, and a few emulators....

I haven't put it down YET.

Dissidia... is a little confusing to pick up. I don't play many fighter games, let alone 3D-arena fighters. It's fun, awesome storyline extensions, and an interesting level-up system. THe voice actors are spot-on. Kefka especially. GOOD SWEET GOD, he's so insane. <3 Kuja, however.. sounds friggin emo. T.T Also, I'dve rather had Seymour from FFX than Jecht. Seymour was soooo much better. Oh well~

On a side-note. I tried to update my ipod touch on my laptop and just bricked it. because apparently an ipod touch can only be updated via USB 2.0. So.... fuck. BACK TO MY OLD IPOD<3 I forgot how much awesome music I had on that baby.... sad occurence, but kinda nice. getting back to my musical roots for a bit.

Well, I'm gonna conk out. Art-updates should appear soon on FA and DA. 

Week 2 was just as good as week 1. we went out, we kissed we schmoozed, went to more D&D, met more friends. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera! A few ups, a few downs, but all in all was still an amazing time~

I finished Bioshock, saved all the Little Sisters and everything. forgot how amazing that game really was. and now, the second one comes out soon~  *fwee!*

Rourkie inadvertantly got to spend a bit more time with me, and we hung out with his pals a bit more. Watched the '7 faces of Dr. Lao' which was FRIGGIN AWESOME. I highly reccommend finding it.

Shawni finally warmed up to me and even gave me a few licks here and there, allowed me to play with her a bit and generally started listening to me. crazy ass dog.

Rourkie gave me an external DVD/RW drive, and let me borrow his copy of 'The Dig' novel. the novellization of the old LucasArts game, which I always wanted to play. and it's friggin amazing. Many thanks, despite I'd already given him enough thanks to sate him for life about it.

We did go to Cambridge and dick around Harvard and the Squares. a lot of kickass stores that we didn't have a lot of time and other agendas at the time to go see.

But there's always next time~

(also, return flight went perfectly fine, SO much better than the first! THink I'm losing my fear finally~)

Oh Varerrie Praaaame~

I'm going to mention this RIGHT NOW. I fucking HATE flying. It's combonation of my worst fears. Falling, Flying, and Death.  Fun~

I left on Wednesday last week, Eric took half a day to sate my fears of not making it on time, I was so nervous about airline security that I literally could NOT eat anything and was shaking profusely. The hour waiting for the plane to get into terminal was a nervous, and grief-stricken-yet-anxious wait.

Got into Boston ontime, and SERIOUSLY hungry, not eaten anything for about 18 hours at this point. To be greeted by the comforting arms of my soul-benefactor of the trip.

Met the roomies, and they're a wonderful pair. Met some the best friends on a D&D Night and had fun just watching and listening to them play and dick around in a dungeon. (holyfuck, Dracolich....) Spent some time to myself a few days, me and Shawni. Shawni's the dangerously adorable Chow-Shiba mix. She's heavily territorial, but so damned cute, that you wanna pet her... but she disagrees. Though in the past week there've been snaps, no drawn blood or small pains that i couldn't shrug off. We've grown to be decent chums in a week~

Though our weekend plans on Cape Cod were smushed by an overzealous Tropical Storm Danny, it was still time well spent. Also, I finally got to wear my kickass new sweatshirt that i luff so much~  Nearly got sick at a fine New England cuisine: Friendly's. Now, I rarely bitch about food, ever. It may come out rough, but the service was so DAMNED PEPPY, you'd think our waitress was a head Cheerleader. screwed up my drink and sundae. JUST ME. oh well~ No big deal to me.

Yesterday, we spent watching Forbidden Zone with Doc and the guys. Doc, being a 4'8" older gent. He's downright adorable. I'm working hard not do make any short-jokes, which's tough to do.  But, nonetheless, not a single person I've met in Boston i've disliked yet!

Well, that's one week. Let's see how Week 2 goes! I have to go to sleep now, seeing my body THINKs it's 3 but it's really 4.

I don't even know how I'm still up. Color me excited. It's officially official, going to Boston in less than a week.
Tickets confirmed, half-packed already, I can't wait.

On a side-note: I finally walked into a Torrid store today, thinking 'hey, plus-sized Hot Topic' because like my ass needs any more black canvas pants. QUICKLY realizing it's a girl's clothes-store, and high-tailing it out, but a small pink sign saying' now hiring' caught my eye, and being the unemployed fuck I am, i went back in.
I WISH i could've taken a picture of the woman that i'd asked for an application. largest, wide-eyed stare EVER.
She calmly explained what I had to do to be employed, but i just got this unblinking stare which said: "you.... wanna work... HERE?!' and I Do. something about working for a women's clothing store, just makes me feel really.... fuckin gay. i mean vomiting-rainbows-and-unicorns-gay. So I'm filling out their application tonight. :3

Another side-note: Been in a strange mood to play an SNES Final Fantasy (and NOT Mystic Quest). I have NO idea why, but I want to. I blame the Dissidia Demo I've been playing. Also, almost done with another Megaman Battle Network game, 2 down.... 4 more to go. T.T Oddly, enough. I've been going backwards in the Battle-network storyline. Kinda liking number 5 right now, I can see why a lot of people liked that one. Joined up on Nintendo's official website, and registered my DS and games I have, their rewards systems actually pretty cool. Wish I'dve joined earlier. oh well.

I'm beyond psyched for the Trip next week. I'm almost done with my... 5th sketchbook for the year. Already bought the next one~ Have to think of a Welcome-page for it.

Been finally catching up on Metalocalypse, and all caught up on Venture Brothers Season: 3. Also: watched Wristcutters, a decent, but kinda morbid love-story about suicide-victims in Limbo. awesome concept, but just kinda petered out into cliches, IMO. saw Sex-Drive, which's basically Road Trip, but with more sex-jokes, and a lame love-story thrown in. It was okay, i laughed a bit harder than i probably should've in retrospect, Mixed feelings about it. I thought they tried too hard to make it over-the-top.

I picked up the first compilation of the Lucifer spinoff of The Sandman comics. It's deeeeeeelishus<3 Well worth the 7 bucks I spent on it. It makes me wanna do fan-art. Though I've GOT to do Spider Jerusalem stuff sometime, too. Which reminds me, I still need to finish Transmetroplitan, sometime too. <3

Wow, first time i've actually updated and felt like I wrote something worthwhile, in a long time. I'm happy, I don't write enough, and it bugs me sometimes. Happy Friday, bitches<3

Pretty good chance... that I'll be going to Boston, Massachusetts for a week at the end of August.

Kinda spur of the moment kinda thing, and staying with good friends for Labor Day.

A little tenative at the moment, more word on it later, but I've got a good feeling about it.

I have a MIGHTY NEED to dance throughout my apartment, knocking shit over and being rowdy.

Been on a huge music-kick lately. Been so sick i hardly wanted to move, let alone eat. So i downloaded music I lost when I put on OS 3.0 on my ipod 'tootch' Found a ton of new, better artists instead of finding my old stuff.

INCLUDING:

Apartment 26 - 'Music for the Massive'
Cash Cash - 'Take it to the Floor'
Cobra Starship - 'Viva La Cobra!'
The Cure - 'Pornography'
Depeche Mode - 'Violator'
Firewater - 'Psychopharmacology'
Great Big Sea - 'Fortune's Favour'
Horrorpops - 'Hell Yeah!' and 'Bring It On!'
Julien-K - 'Death to Analog'
Jonathan Coulton - (pretty much a smattering of all of his stuff,)
Tool's 'Aenima' and 'Lateralus' albums. (shush! I've been meaning to listen to them for YEARS now)
Rabbit In the Moon - 'Decade'
Junkie XL - 'Booming Back At You'
Madonna - "Confessions on a Dance Floor'
Marilyn Manson - 'Lest we Forget, The Best of'
Mastodon - 'Crack the Skye' (shut up craig, it's good.)
Matchbook Romance - 'Voices'
Muse - 'Absolution' and 'Origin of Symmetry'
Perfect Circle - 'Mer de Noms' (again, shut up craig.)
Radiohead - 'Kid A'
Shiny Toy Guns - 'We Are Pilots' (Le Disko<3)
Venetian Snares - 'Infolepsy EP' and "Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett'
Voltaire - 'To the Bottom of the Sea' and 'Ooky Spooky'

And this is just within the past month and a half. Certified audiophiliac.

I mean, SERIOUSLY perky nipples.  Must've been pinching em for the (probably) months it took Michelangelo to sculpt his chest.

Centuries old dick:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/michelangelo-sculptures-11.jpg


Discuss!  :3

Half of the characters from 'The Plague Dogs' look healthier than me.

It started a whole 2 weeks ago, around july 10th or so. I woke up with a nasty sore throat, scratchy voice, and slight drippy nose. Great, summer-sickies are wonderful. It evolved from there, turning into a near debilitating Swollen glands, Niagara Nose and fucking Aches EVERYWHERE (mainly from shitty sleep).

It started dissipating when I went to my Moms last week, took Nyquil from Moms cabinet and it seriously started clearing up, to the point where i'd barely noticed the hacking coughs and lung-butter. On my way back, I stayed in Chicago with a few friends, went clubbing, and thought nothing of it.

HOLY FUCK, My body hates me now. I woke up this morning with my uvula (dangly mouthpart) swollen to twice it's size, even worse cough and more lung-butter! With a headache that could kill small children in its wake. I woke up early, immediately looked online for 'swollen uvula treatments' agreed with all of it's causes, and followed its instructions, Mainly fearing my Strep throat/abcesses reoccurring. Also, no medical insurance helps, Nows a time when I want National Healthcare to pass. I drank easily a gallon of water and around 20 coughdrops per hour today. had ice cream for lunch, because it felt the best.

My mother harping on me about jobhunting today didn't help, she just started pissing me off, actually. I'm near bed-ridden all day, and the last thing I need is her nagging at me about something I physically cannot do currently. Grarglesnarl.

SIDENOTE: I've been in the mood for doing Coheed and Cambria fanart, but can't find a good idea.

 Finally started to seriously bust my ass in internet jobhunting, and found like 4 applications for nearby stuff. Sadly, the only thing I feel will actually give me a position is a Starbucks. My new Wifi Card arrived in the mail yesterday though I HAVE to wait til I get to my mom's and use her ethernet, my toughbook is without a CD Drive, So I can't use the driver disk. 

I've finally started drawing more, I had a nasty artblock ever since I'd moved out of Eau Claire. Just slowly chipping away at it. Started finding some 'fetish-fuel' movies, which really helps. That and new music for me also is a huge plus. Also, going out to Thursday Night Coffee, and meeting up with old friends and new. It's not as bad as it used to be, but there's also like 2 people from old Coffee, so that's it too.

Been having some weird-ass dreams as of late, little stuff. like my old Highschool merging with a local Mall and going to classes in stores, like US History in the aisles of Abercrombie. Which is odd, I really wouldn't know what that store looks like on the inside, I've never even been 15 feet close to it and it's raunchy smell. Had another dream where I was playing the role of Fiver in the book 'Watership Down' in vivid first person. which is a bit more scary than you'd believe. Red Fields...

But onto the meat of my post: Later today, I'm leaving for visiting my Mom's in Illinois, closing out an old bank account, getting some online stuff taken care of. (because I'm in an all Mac Household now, which a lot of my online jobhunting stuff DOESN'T LIKE, and frankly I don't like either.) Visiting old friends and family, getting a breath of fresh air, and well... more jobhunting!

So I'm kinda anxiously awaiting going tonight, it's just been awhile. You know, I always kinda lose contact with people when I move, and it bugs the crap out of me. I never really know if they're doing okay. Mom's making it apparent that she's missed me. I missed her too, and My stepdad, too. 

Side-thought: I'm glad I own a toughbook though, if someone tries to mug me in chicago(all 30 minutes of being in chicago,tonight ),  i can beat the fuck out of them with it! (Thanks, jesse~ It's one of the best lappies I've ever owned<3 )

ta-ta!<3

If there is someone on your friends list you would like to take, strip naked, tie them to a bed post, lick them until they scream, then fuck them until both of you are senseless and unable to fuck anymore, then wait about five minutes and do it all over again, then post this exact sentence in *your* journal.

 I've been on a movie-watching spree lately. In the past week: The Warriors, Green Street Hooligans, a Fritz Lang Silent movie called: Spies, Pineapple Express, Grandma's Boy, Public Enemies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and UP. 

the beer, is well... delicious. you should drink more.

and the employment part is: I FINALLY got my new ID for the state of WHEEE-Sconsin. and my picture turned out okay, but they somehow made my face look HUGE. And as for jobhunt: I'm looking into a temp agency, tomorrow. FFffffffff, it's money.

 I'm still waiting for the aliens to invade, and Bill Pullman to be President. I mean, surriously.

Also: HAPPY FRIGGIN BIRTHDAY, ROURKIE<3    (first!)

This last weekend I went to the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago. I mainly go for the fact that it's FUN. It's all the things I like in a busy outing. Went with some friends from the area that I had not seen in almost a year and a half.

Had Breakfast at a small Cajun Diner, and it was DAMN good. Got out there around 10:30 A.M. found a decent spot, and Eric went to get some sunscreen, because we're all pretty damned pale kids. FIRMLY applied to my arms and neck, BUT I FORGOT MY FACE. So i have lovely red-face and raccoon marks from my glasses. All in all, the parade was a blast! I almost lost my voice because I was cheering so loud~ I forgot how many friggin people are really in Chicago! Was the first time I was actually on the first part of the parade route. (Halstead and Buckingham, for people who know where that is!)

We were planning on going clubbing, but since all of us were sunburnt, we just went back to the apartment had pizza and beer until we collapsed. Eric and I took the Amtrak Train back yesterday. which was nice~ I hadn't been on it in a while. Had some Dinner at Saraphino's, and Coffee at a lovely little place on Kinnickinnic. Also bought a CD i've been looking for for a year and a half! (Crispin Hellion Glover's 'The Big Problem?')

twas fun! I'm glad I went~

I know it's a bit  of a stupid move right before moving, but it was CHEAP.

I bought myself a Slim-line 'Darth vader' edition White PSP. I've been wanting one for YEARS.

And I got Final Fantasy 'Tictacs' with it~ (I originally bought Ratchet&Clank: Size Matters, but the disc was ALL SORTS OF FUCKED, so we begrudgingly drove all the way back and switched it out. I also got a well-needed Memory card<3)

I have something to play on the ride tomorrow<3

A SPOT ON simulation of a sine-wave synthesizer. It's fun, easy to use, and DAMNED catchy<3

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix