As I’m getting deeper into things I’m getting so much busier with school, work and the internship.

I finished work on the website for the Children’s Musician and got word today that he’s happy how things turned out, that it all makes him look really professional, which is awesome. That’s one of the best things I could hear.

I’ve started a new project. It’s probably the most difficult thing I’ve had to do. I have to design… a cocktail napkin. Yeah. Sounds funny, eh? Right now I’m making a post to take a break from sketching, because this is really racking my brain. Everyone is talking about being secretive when this project comes up, so I’ll keep the details to myself. They said they’d have to make some faxes from outside the office, register a domain name under someone else’s name… things like that. Sounds like it might make the news or something. haha. SCHWEET. Things just keep getting better and better here. The experience is soo sooo awesome.

Anyhow, school is almost coming to a close. I have about 7.. or 8 classes left maybe. I dunno. I still haven’t checked the school calendar to find out when exactly the term is over. To think that it’s my last class is awesome, but I still have the projects class in the spring so it’s not quite the same feeling as it should be. The projects class should be a pushover after this internship.

Work is work. They keep scheduling me crappy hours and times I don’t want to work and I just go and get it over with. I can’t wait for the day I don’t work there anymore… PERMANENTLY.

Life outside of those 3 aspects has been pretty rushed. A lot of people need me to do computer work and I’m trying to fit it in with the little time I have. It all wouldn’t be so bad except that a lot of what I do is in Cincinnati… so tagging on an hour of driving time each way adds up to a good portion of my day. Tonight I have to go to Uncle Joe’s to fix something on his computer really quick, then I’m heading to Aunt’s Reenie’s for some more compter fixing action, where I will be staying the night. Rad.

This weekend should be fun… just like last (although it seemed short). Last weekend Joe and I went to Mike and Doug’s to watch the Jets in their first round playoff game. We ate a bunch of junky food and drank some beers. Then the Jets won. That was rad. Probably the most involved in a football game I have ever been. Hopefully this weekend is just as fun.

Anyhow, got some more work to get done before I get out of here.

See ya.

So wow. A bit has changed in the past few weeks.

I’ve quit Wendy’s. Forever. I wouldn’t work there again if I was flat broke and starving. It’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it while I was there, but after a billion years there, it’s taken me nowhere. It seems as if while I was there, I lost the desire and motivation to accomplish anything else in my life.

So after about a week and a half of being unemployed, I started working at Cast Fab (the iron foundry I worked at last Spring) again. I know, some people think I’m idiot because they think that’s the wrong path for me to take, but I’ve thought about it and I think they’re wrong.

I have two goals in my mind right now, and I think this is one of the best options I could have.

Goal one is to start a career in graphic design. In my week and a half out of work, I applied to a number of places and got no response. There were also a number of places I didn’t apply to because they were more into Kentucky, and Cincinnati is one drive, but Kentucky is an extra 30 minutes to each drive (with traffic, yes seriously, 10 miles is 30 minutes.)

Which leads me to goal two. Move to Cincinnati. I realized that it would be easier to accomplish these goals one at a time. It would be great to get a design job and then have the money to move to Cincinnati, but I felt I was limiting myself by not wanting to go too far South.

So with me working at Cast-Fab, I’ll have solid hours, a steady income, and good money to start working somewhere. If I’m feeling adventureous, I can spend my days at interviews and such… although I may be a bit tired, I don’t think it’s too hard of a feat to wake up a bit early or stay awake a few more hours to go to an interview or something.

So yeah. That’s the big things going on right now.

As far as school goes, I wasn’t able to get a co-op for the term. That would have made me completely done with school. I’m taking the portfolios class right now because I wanted help putting my portfolio together. The unfortunate side of that is that I have to do so much extra stupid work just to do that and it’s really pissing me off. I haven’t been doing the work, and chances are I’m going to get a bad grade in the class because of it. Luckily, the class isn’t required for me. I’m half tempted to just drop it. It’s one day a week, but it means that I’m going to not get much sleep on Tuesday because I have to go to class instead.

I really want to start being more frequent with my updates. That would be great.

I have some homework to get done before I enjoy my day today and I think it would be best to do it.

See ya.

WOAH! What an exhausting week it’s been so far.

This is the first time since Sunday that I’ve gotten to just sit on my butt for a little while and do nothing. I was playing Counter-Strike, but my mouse battery died, so I decided to do something that I only needed a keyboard for while it’s recharging.

I got my first paycheck from Cast-Fab from my two days of work last week. God I love getting that kind of money. My bills are now caught up (as far as I know!) and I’m going to start putting money aside for my intended move to Cincinnati.

Yesterday I helped Laura shoot some video for her premiere class. My acting skills aren’t too hot, but I did what I could for her. Look for her epic film about love, anger, frustration, and pickles to hit the internet soon. haha.

Tuesday was my odd day. I got home from work, slept about 3 hours, went to class, then came home and slept some more. It was weird. I feel like my day was entirely wasted (probably because it was.) and it was exhausting.

It’s really messed up working third shift. I’ve completely lost track of the date, yesterday always seems like a week ago, the only time I get to see the night sky is if I go outside for some fresh air during my breaks, and the social life drops to 0.

I have this weekend off, and I was told I SHOULD have the following weekend off, so two more nights of work and I’ll have some time to enjoy whatever it is I want to do.

So yeah. I wish I had more to say but nothing has really been going on.

So whatever… see ya.

Yeah. Nothing to really post about. My life currently consists of going to work, getting home and taking a shower, sleeping… then figuring out what to do in the 3 hours I have before I go to work again. Sometimes I have to work Saturdays. Unforunately, this week is one of them. So I’ll be happy for Sunday night, but it’s going to suck because nothing will be going on.

I spent last week in Cincinnati, house-sitting for my uncle. It was nice and quiet the whole week, which felt good, but I was happy to get back home. Nothing beats sleeping in your own bed.

This past Saturday night, I picked up an XBox off of ebay for $57.06! HOT STUFF! So after picking it up, I went up to Mike and Doug’s for their last night in the apartment. It was a really fun night, but it was also pretty freaking weird.

So yeah. Funny thing is… that’s really all that’s been going on. Sigh.

See ya.

I totally meant to make a post about two weeks ago.

Then I got sick. Really sick.

Around the middle of August, I had a serious appetite loss. The lack of food was giving me headaches at work and when I started forcing myself to eat despite not feeling the slightest bit hungry, little did I know that it wasn’t the end of the problem.

On my birthday, of all days, I went to the docotor because my throat was sore and it hurt to swallow. I got diagnosed with strep throat, was told I had a fever of 100.5, and put on antibiotics. The dco said it would be about 24 hours before I started feeling better and that I should take the night off work because I shouldn’t be around people until I’ve been on the antibiotics for a while.

So I spent my birthday sitting around, miserable, not able to eat and lucky if I could drink more than a few drinks of water without feeling like I was choking. My throat was nice and swollen. I would go to bed and it would take 2 hours to get to sleep, and I would sleep for a whole 30 minutes before waking up and laying there for another two hours… 30 minutes of sleep… repeat. It hurt so bad. The worst part was that my mouth just kept making saliva because my throat was dried out, but I didn’t want to swallow it because it hurt. One night I laid in bed and nearly cried it hurt so much.

Two days later, I felt much, much worse. I could barely talk, I wasn’t able to eat or drink… taking my antibiotics was a struggle. So I went back to the doctor, and this time I was told that I had mono, and it just hadn’t developed enough to tell it was mono.

So to shorten things up, I spent the week of my birthday sitting around feeling like crap. It was the sickest I have ever been, and I wanted to throw a huge party when I managed to eat a piece of toast after having nothing to eat for about 3 days. After going to the doctor a second time, I was given some hydrocodone (vicodin) to help me sleep. It was awesome. Take one, I was out like a light for a good 6 or 7 hours, and it took a good 3 or 4 more before things weren’t all screwy. I can see how people get hooked on this stuff.

But I’m better now, and a fat stack of pancakes has NEVER tasted so freaking good.

Yeah.

In other news, work is quite mundane, gives me no free time and bums me out because I can’t hang out with my friends, but I’m making some good money and I may be able to pay off my car in another couple of months… which still has about 2 years left on the loan.

Not too much more is happening. Once again, not much time to do anything.

So with that said…

See ya.

On Saturday October 15th, I moved into my new residence in Cincinnati. I’m joined by Mike, Joe and Doug.

It’s exciting living on my own again. (I’d consider the dorms more of a test run, anyway, since there’s no bills and a meal plan.) I really hope we have a fun and exciting 12 months ahead of us and I can’t wait to see what is in store.

But I hope that I’m less busy and can handle it. I know it seems like I spend a lot of time doing nothing, but that’s not as true as I’d like to think. It seems like every time I start to get caught up, something new comes along and I either can’t say no to it (because I enjoy a challenge and I’m too much of a sucker sometimes.) and I don’t have a choice and it’s forced onto me.

Last week I was asked to house-sit for my aunt for a bit while her family is out of town. That’s really no problem, but it’s across town and it’s like I’ll really just be going over there to sleep during the day. Then on Wednesday… or maybe it was Tuesday, I was going to the grocery store with Mike and a girl backed into my car… I wasn’t mad at first, but now I’m starting to realize how much time I’m going to have to put towards getting my car repaired and it sucks, but it’s really time that I don’t want to spend doing. I didn’t need that.

Last week I also realized exactly how much I hate working third shift. Living in Franklin it wasn’t that bad, because the E-men wouldn’t really hang out until the weekend. But with us living together, we hang out by just sitting around the house. So when everyone is home from work and they sit down to play a game or watch TV or something… it’s time for me to go to work. So after this week (since I’m not going to be around much) I’m going to start looking for a new job. I’d like that. I know that simply being in the Cincinnati area will make the quality of jobs better and I’ll be more likely to get a job with a pay rate similar to the one I’m getting now, but without the dirty factory part of the job and especially without the third shift part. I want to go to movies at night. I want to sleep at night. I want to get home in time to sit down to dinner and enjoy the daylight before the sun retires.

I’m completely moved in, but I still have some things in Franklin that my mom would rather me take with me than her have them sitting around there, so really it’s a matter of going there to get those items and probably throwing a lot of it away and stashing the rest in my closet.

I built myself new DVD shelves because the one I had in my room just wouldn’t fit. My walls are slanted where the roof starts to come in and the shelf I had is not only 6 feet tall and wouldn’t fit in the room, but wouldn’t fit up the narrow stairway to my room. Now I have 2 4 foot shelves that go right up to where the slant starts and are about as big as they can get and still fit up the stairway comfortably. Smart planning, eh? It’s has already sunk in that this place is now my home, and although a few situations are still somewhat akward, I’m enjoying it. Like I said, I can only hope the whole year is this enojyable and that everything goes smoothly.

It’s now 1AM and I think it would be good for me to go to bed “early” (according to a third shift schedule) so I can get as much done as I can on my longest day of the week. (which is only long because I normally don’t spend half of it sleeping!).

Pics of the room coming soon.

See ya.