{ feeling : sniffly
{ hearing : abx – billie “wildcat” jean

So, weird thing about Twitter is that I feel kind of dirty whenever I make use of it. It’s a new trend that I don’t quite understand but have been using as of late and as you can see, linked to on my sidebar just now.

Why do I not fully embrace? It’s just really … Blogging but shorter and more semi-nonsensical? Letting people what you are up to, etc. despite how ridiculously boring and lame it is? Bah, I don’t know. Trends, they happen to everyone I suppose. I guess part of it is because I am one of the few people I knows that doesn’t own a phone with the internets. I wants to fit in with technology?

Anyways, feel free to follow my ramblings. In other today news, I may play some Harvest Moon on the Wii pretty soon. Haven’t decided yet.

That was pretty boring and lame FYI right there. Twitter worthy?

{ feeling : itchy
{ hearing : some late night news

This shits been in my head all day.

That is all.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : some local band on wgn

Tiffany L—— im so glad that the premire of transformers 2 is OVER!!! fucking douche bag customers i hate you… i am so proud of my understaffed IMAX team for pulling this shit off…. i want to see AMC SEAT AND FEED A SOLD OUT SHOW OF 500 PEOPLE WITH ONLY 4 WORKERS AND 1 SUPERVISOR!!!! fuck you AMC, KERASOTES, MUVICO, CINEMARK, LOWES and all you other pussy ass movie theaters!!! LONG LIVE IMAX!!!!!!!
_{8 hours ago}

Just saying, it’s true.

{ feeling : ok
{ hearing : some local news on abc

Look! It’s a new layout. It’s super simple but I like it a lot. I retired the doodle/picture bar because I kept forgetting to do anything with it. I feel kind of bad because it took a lot of work on Joe’s part to make it work. But I have other links above now? Neat! Maybe. Kind of boring, har.

Nothing new otherwise. Transformers Part Deux is out tomorrow but I didn’t watch it or care to watch it.

I’m required to watch the movie so I know what it’s about but seriously, I don’t need to watch it to know what’s it’s about. Giant transforming robots based on an 1980s children cartoon. Oh yeah, it’s the sequel. Need I say more?

I’m just happy it won’t be dead as hell but slightly scared of any sort of asshole customers I encounter. We get a lot of those with these kind of movies.

Star Trek customers were basically the best customers I’ve gotten since working at the IMAX. Most were super polite despite terrible circumstances and they were all older crowds but not the jock kind. Robots with identity crises will definitely get those. Harry Potter crowds are iffy because sometimes children are in there.

Children and family customers are almost as bad as jock asshole ones. Mostly cause we get those kind of parents who are … … Let’s say, suburban for lack of a positive adjective. Jock assholes usually come drunk and that includes mean drunks so … Yes.

Um, what else? It’s hot. I hate hot. Um … That’s about it.

{ feeling : sickish
{ hearing : keri hilson ft. kanye west & ne-yo – knock you down

I said something dumb earlier and Joe corrected me but the gist of it was that I was trying to say Kanye West is the Lil’ Wayne of 2009.

I think I said T-Pain for some reason and he said Lady GaGa is the T-Pain of 2009.

Anyways, Kanye! I’m pretty sure that part is true just because when we’re sitting in the car, every other song that comes up features him just like how Lil’ Wayne had the same thing going on last year-ish. Not mainly him, featuring him. Hey, I ain’t complaining. I’m in that group that loves him, not the one who needlessly hates him.

Why Kanye has to be my writing prompt two entries in a row? I have no idea.

So, graduating feels like nothing new. It feels like every summer since graduating from high school … And I guess every summer before that graduation from high school, har.

This is probably why I haven’t written since.

Basically, I’ve been in Chicago. I haven’t spent a summer in Tokyo. I haven’t gone skiing. I haven’t gone on a group picnic or wedding. I haven’t gone to Rome or indulged in Apple products or downtown apartments. I don’t like large social situations or drinking so you bet I haven’t been out in the club. I love Chicago and all its ups and downs so I haven’t even been complaining about weather, transit, and the Olympic issue.

I’ve been working and being broke. Whining about my personal issues, not the city’s. I was working pretty damned frequent to cure the broke but then my hours were severely cut due to tight budgets that have lasted seemingly the entire 2.5 years I’ve been at IMAX, Chicago. Now it’s more like … Working a little, searching for jobs that don’t exist due to massive hiring freezes, reading a little, gaming a little … And a little Maury, Cheaters, and every other trash TV show in between.

It’s been slow. I feel like if I come back here, I should have something worth mentioning but so far, nothing.

I finished my first Chuck Palahniuk yesterday? Only me would be pretty proud of finishing a book this week. Fuck it, books are awesome. I’m going to make it so I finish a book or two or three a week. Started a book called Hairstyles of the Damned today by a guy named Joe Meno who I realized only today lives in Chicago and actually works at Columbia as a creative writing professor. Small world, har.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : abx – hot doesn’t run on cold

The following was written earlier. It says that but I cuts it cause I feels like it. I have to finish some homework because I totally slacked off yesterday!

{ feeling : scared
{ hearing : girl talk – give me a beat

So there was no blog yesterday because we had a test run of Star Trek last night. I’m not sure about my coworkers but I enjoyed it thoroughly. I imagine it’s going to be busy at IMAX for its two week run either way.

I have too much to do so I will make this brief.

I learned this last week that I really suck at interviews because my introverted personality but was noted that my work is good so some employers may understand that?

I watched a Boston Legal episode about an exceptional girl with broken nerves that had left her unable to smile and sort of thought the same sort of deal but no where near close.

I also learned that I sound like a valley girl with my incessant use of the word “like”. Y’see, I knew I did it but I didn’t think it was that bad, but when you are forced to watch a recording of yourself at an interview, you get these realizations I suppose?

While I’ve been trying a tactic semi-suggested by my professor: wearing a rubber band around your wrist and snapping it every time that word or a similar “uh, um” is uttered, no real progress has been made because I tend to forget to snap.

Everything is coming so fast. I’m worried but not at the same time. As much as this has been the worst semester for me in terms of getting shit done, I feel that I’m better off than a lot of seniors I had shared classes with last semester. I’ve gone to more than five classes during these 15 weeks and as half-assed all my work has seemed, I did in fact try my best with what little motivation I had.

It’ll be fantastic when it’s over so back to work I go.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : the simpsons

That is all for now. I don’t feel like doing much today. It’s kind of bad. I am in a generally kind of fail mood right now. TTFN.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : wgn stuff

Ok, not exactly the same place but definitely the same place?

Not much right now to update with. What I learned though is basically, my printmaking teacher doesn’t care about my problems but has the skill of making the phrase “Life is hard. Tough shit,” sound longer and nicer than it actually is.

It wasn’t so much nice as it was lacking of sympathy. He acknowledged this and fully acted as such when he was completely devoid of emotion as I started to cry right in front of him. That’s ok, it only took me two to three hours to grow the balls to actually address my concerns to him in the first place.

Life is hard! Tough shit!

Three more weeks of it and I’ll be done. My portfolio is near done but lacking photo documentation of packaging work. Who knows if I’ll have that done any time soon.

I’m slowly but surely getting things done. My typeface is pretty much done; I am just going to do a couple more rounds of kerning.

Kerning is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font. That is what Wikipedia says. I think it sounds about right.

I’m both excited for free time but scared about my future because I lack one beyond IMAX at this point. The economy is fail. I was talking to my coworker about this. As much as we’d love to get out of this lovely world that revolves around our singular six story screen, and we are easily replaceable. Moving on to better things is easier said than done.

I wonder how you can differentiate swine flu with a normal cold.

Life is hard! Tough shit!

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : southwest airlines commercial

The end of my college career is ending (maybe) soon. I hear about that graduate school thing but at this point, am not interested in more schooling. So let’s say end for now?

Since I am a poor blogger, I am going to make it so I have to blog these last four weeks. Same time next week? Alright.

What is left during these last few weeks?

• Authoring Interactive Media
• • Final Project: Chicago Freight Brand Identity & Working Website
• Advanced Typography
• • Digital Journal
  • Independent Project with Final Typeface
  • Final Typeface with Type Card
  • Completed Final Typeface
• Professional Portfolio Development
• • Finished Portfolio
  • Business Card
  • Leave Behind
  • Prep for Industry Night
• Contemporary Issues in Printmaking
• • Final Project: Two Prints Reacting to Walter Benjamin
• Publication Design
• • Indexhibit Website
• Art & Design Internship
• • Two to Three Page Paper

Possibly too much? Probably not. I have just been in this perpetual slump this semester. I haven’t really inspired, etc. Of all the things I did semester, I think I’ve only been happy with one of my assignments. I just haven’t been into it even when this is the last time I’ll have to do it for a grade.

I hope I can get things done. I didn’t really get anything done this weekend. I hope to get out of the funk soon because the sooner I’m out of this funk and done with work? The sooner I’m done.