`Nother hectic day at The News Station, and day 76 in a row for me. I'm not admitting burnout yet, but I am feeling the drag. But after 2-and-a-half months of full-time work for part-time pay a couple admittedly stop-gap solutions have arisen. One is that an old TD of ours that left for college will be back for the summer and allow me a five day work week for a few months. The other is that even...
Originally published at The Dialectic . You can comment here or there . As a Young Adult author ( now listed with an ISBN on Amazon , w00t!), I appartently have to be sparing with how many times I drop the “f bomb” in public forums. I’ve been making a concious effort not to swear on my blog so that I can save my allotment for where it really counts: the fiction.
So I hope you’ll indulge me...
... mother f*cking time. and yes, i know what it is. so you don't have to diagnose me. but it was close to unbearable, as it always is. but i didn't let on till we got home and appartently i was making some bad faces because he asked me if i was ok about 15 times. i told that should probably go home, and thanked him for the wonderful night, via sweet texts. the next day was filled with the ...
ya..my laptop is dead I'll be offline this weekend whiel I try to restore whats left of it....appartently it just happens with the model of dell laptop I have. Nothing i did it just happens!....
my Grandfather has been Halucinating and we dont know why. He halucinated pretty heavily when he was in he hospital but we figured it was just severe lack of sleep. It didnt really seem to be happening but appartently he just wasnt telling us. But he gets really confused. My mom said that the other day he tried to let the dog in and couldnt understand why he couldnt find her.... She died about 20 ...
... and i had both been caught in traffic just an hour apart, things were under control. So I was a wreck for hte rest of the day, as far as my neck and back and eyes were concerned. But, I appartently endured a trial by fire and came out on top and, to the best of what i heard from my co-workers, other leads, and my boss made a positive impression and even impressed a couple people. that was nice...
...in the bakery section of the store. tonight david overton was supposed to be coming on the annual corporate inspection. last night all of the managers pulled all nighters to get the store looking perfect. appartently they didn't know david was going to be on the inspection. so all this work goes into making the store perfect and thirty minutes before the big boss is supposed to arrive, a car...
..., that wasn't right and then i said jaime and whats his face's wedding AND I REMEMBER WHAT HIS NAME WAs... and then my mom was like Bruce and i was like i was just about to say that. we were appartently about to go to Jaimie and Bruces 2nd wedding or whatever that is called. and i looked at my dad like pleading with him to let me not and he gave the look that said you know you have to go, i don't ...
so there was this thing downtown toronto called "harry potter festival" and it was the biggest festival in canada.. appartently. which i dont agree with but whatever makes business. anyways it was cool.. there were some games, face painting, future telling, wand making.. and then at midnight the book was out. but i did not stay that long. anyways so i took beth (my little sister) so the festival...
...I'm secretly a little pleased that I am seeking these things out. I like that about me, the tireless ambition and the doe-eyed enthusiasm, even if it does get me some strange looks (because appartently being enthusiastic isn't "cool"). It gets me strange looks but it also gets me gigs. So tomorrow afternoon I'm making phone calls and sending emails and scheduling an audition. And then I'm having...