yes… I flipped out
OH HAI!
remember how I said I was going to go drop my resume off at some retails hops? yea, I never did it, BUT I did go to an interview for a pre-k teacher position and guess what! I got called back for a second interview. Hopefully it’s the one where they say “YOU ARE AWESOME! TAKE THIS JOB!” It’s tomorrow, so we shall see. I also got a heads up for another position at a non profit. I’ll get more information about that tomorrow.
Unemployment allows me so much free time. I know I complain about it sometime, but gosh darn it I’m going to miss it. This week I’ve been a crafty Pinkie! I’m working on a scarf for my friend in Australia. Hopefully I’ll finish it today or tomorrow. I need to send it soon because her winter is almost over! (oh yea…surprise! You’re getting a scarf in the mail soon! I know you’re going to read this. haha) I’ve also been working on a set of pillowcases for a friend. I’ll post pictures of everything when they’re done. Well, not the scarf until the receiver receives it.
Also, been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I’ve been focusing more on my alts (alternate characters) than my main. My mage is now a level 53! and I finally moved my warlock back to the server (I transferred it about a half a year ago) and started officially leveling her yesterday. She’s 71…for now! ^_^
Guys, promise me you won’t allow me to have more than 3 level 80s. I never thought I would even come close to having 3! o.O eeek!
As a member of an online gaming community, I encounter really hateful speech against certain races, religion, sexual orientations, basically anything you can discriminate against ALL the time. People think that just because they’re behind a computer that they can say anything without any reparations. For the most part it’s true. The anonymity of online role playing games allows people who would normally be too cowardly in person to do so, to say some really ridiculous hateful shit just because they’re behind their computer. I personally always stand up when I hear any hateful speech. I even got kicked out of a guild for speaking up about my disgust when someone said something that was hateful or could cause a trigger for someone! I told the jerk that he should use the term “rape” so often and in such content as he did.
“Let’s go rape some horde face!” “yea, let’s go rape them until they bleed!”
Inappropriate, I think. But apparently I was starting drama, so I was /gkicked! Ha, no worries. I’m in a MUCH better guild now and they are still a shitty guild. Today I was linked to an article on www.wow.com from my friend aaron, letting me know I was not alone! None other than the organization GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is also fighting for this as well.
GLAAD’s project has an established set of goals to address these concerns. To get companies to provide safe spaces for LGBT people in these virtual communities (which includes virtual worlds, online games, social networks, message boards, etc). To work with each of the companies to ensure they have solid policies in place that prevent anti-LGBT defamation where possible and mechanisms to report the defamation when it does occur. And what will be the most challenging in my eyes – to educate the user base about the real impact of their virtual homophobia.
It made my heart happy to read this. You can read more in the article found here.
I am on the job hunt again! At first I wasn’t so worried about finding a job. I have money to last me for awhile as far as my living expenses go. But I don’t have any money for my savings! I need a job to save for my December vacation to the land down under (“you better run, you better take cover”) and for the move out of my mom’s. I actually have no complaints about living with her. She doesn’t bother me and even better, I don’t pay rent. It works out rather nicely. However, I do miss having my own space and doing whatever tickles my fancy. I’m making a target move out date for either right before I leave for Australia or as soon as I get back. I have a place in mind already. A nice apartment complex in midtown. As far as jobs go, I’m going to hit up an area I haven’t tried yet. Retail! I have a lot of experience in retail. I held retail jobs during college and summers off from college. I worked as sales rep for Limited Too for a couple of years, The Gap for a short stint, and as a Third Key holder and ear piercer at Claire’s. Haha! short side story about a piercing fail. A mother came in and wanted me to pierce her 4 month old daughter’s ears. Piercing at Claire’s isn’t serious business. We were trained to make a mark on the lobe and shoot it with the piercing gun. So, I marked the baby’s ear with a little marker and shot the gun. I realized as soon as I removed the gun away from her ear that I had pierced it in the wrong place! o.O The earring was about 2 cm from the place I had marked. whoops! I tried to distract the mom while I rubbed the mark off, but she saw it and was completely horrified. She yelled at me and told me what a crap job I did and then demanded to see my manager. He was in the back doing inventory, but came out to handle the situation. He gave her the piercing for free, but I HAD to do it because he was doing inventory and I was the only trained piercer in the store. If I was in her shoes, I definitely wouldn’t have wanted the girl that screwed the piercing up to begin with to re-pierce it, but she allowed me to. Thankfully, I didn’t fail. ^_^ Anywho, I’m going to print out a million copies of my resume, put on my cutest little outfit, and give it out to shops on Monday. Surely someone will call me *crosses fingers*
*sigh*I miss having friends! Scratch that, I miss having girl friends. I have lots of guy friends around, but no girl friends. I have one girl “friend” that I go out with on occasion, but it’s not the same. She just wants to hook up with guys and it’s not really hanging out. It’s just having me there so she’s not alone, until she finds some random guy…or at least that what it feels like. I have another truly awesome girl friend here too, but she’s been busy or when she’s free I’ve been busy, so we haven’t been able to catch up. But we are hanging out next week, which I am really looking forward to. I’m on a mission to meet new friends. I know I’ll meet some as soon as school starts, but I want some girly-friends now! I made a new myspace account. (I deleted the old one sometime ago) I know, I know, Myspace! But I didn’t know where else to meet girls. Not sure how it will turn out. I messaged some girls my age in the city that share interests like gaming and comics! I hope they actually write back instead of thinking I’m some weirdo. haha, woah…am I a weirdo for doing this!? o.O
in any case, you can add my new myspace. I’ll probably hate it in a week and delete it, but for now you can find it here.
My 3 week stint as a “merchkin” (Wicked merch girl) ended on Sunday. I miss it already. It was a really easy job with great perks and pay. As the weeks went on, I did get annoyed with the songs and thought I’d never want to hear them again. BUT here I am only days later, singing and humming the songs. Particularly this one
I wish there was footage of the actors that played in my tour! They were more comedic and I actually prefer them to the NYC cast. Maybe I’m biased…
I got two new graphic novels yesterday! Stuck in the Middle, a collection of seventeen comics from an unpleasant age, and the one I’m really excited about reading, Persepolis! Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood in Iran during and after the revolution. It’s also been made into a movie of the same name and has won a few awards. I plan on watching it as soon as I finish reading it. And I’ll get to that as soon as I finish reading Twilight. I had to pause my Twilight reading to re-read Harry Potter book 6. Now that that’s over I can continue to fall for Edward Cullen.
I went to see The Half Blood Prince today! It was awesome. If you don’t know, I’m a huge fan of the books as well as the movies. True, true. Some of the movies have been completely lame, but for the most part I’ve liked them. I love seeing my favorite reads come to life. Even if they do differ from the book. The Half Blood Prince definitely strayed from the book, but I still enjoyed it and I’ll probably see it again. I used the movie poster(above) with Draco Malfoy because I really loved him in this movie (and the book). Half Blood Prince, both movie and book, showed the true depth of his character. And ummm, he’s grown up a lot since the first movies and he is looking rather attractive. ;)
I do have something to complain about. My experience wasn’t completely magical! Besides the first movie (though I did dress up for the first! My friends and I even made little wands! I wish I had pics!), I’ve seen every movie at midnight and I expected this time to be no different. But it was. :( I purchased the tickets two days in advance to assure that I would get to see it at midnight. I THOUGHT I ordered them for Majestic theatre, but upon arrival I realized that I screwed up and ordered tickets for a DIFFERENT theatre. Jeremy and I had to drive back across town to another theatre (paradiso) that we assumed I bought the tickets to. Fortunately, we were right. We grabbed our tickets and went to sit in our theatre only to find it was full…WTF?! Apparently a pre-ordered ticket doesn’t guarantee you a seat. So, we left and I wasted $22.
But I will not go down so easily! I called to complain about it and the manager called me back and left a voicemail. I’m going to talk to him tomorrow and hopefully get my refund or some movie passes. That whole situation is ridiculous and I deserve my money back.
I feel like I’ve been neglecting my e-life. I have tons of emails that I haven’t replied to, I h aven’t been playing Warcraft, my twitter gets updates once a day and my blog is…ha! I barely blog. Sorry to those that have emailed, needed me in game(though I have no idea what you would want of me since I’m pretty much useless these days), follows me on twitter or reads my blog. I promise to be a little more attentive. ^_^ It’s not that I’ve been busy with anything. I just haven’t had the desire to do any of those things. *shrug*
My 4th of July weekend was the lamest weekend ever! My mom and I decided to drive to Nashville to spend the weekend with my sister, Nina. it was nice seeing her, but I was completely bored out of my mind. We spent most of the weekend in her apartment while she and my mom watched TV. Not my thing, so I read and slept…a lot. I finally joined the rest of the world and I’m reading Twilight. I’ve always planned on reading it, but this weekend I bought it out of boredom. SO far it’s ok. Not as amazing as everyone says and I’m hardly in love with Edward Cullen. Pfft. Maybe as I get closer to the end. I only read on the road so I’m about half way through. Hmm. All was not terrible in Nashville. We had 4th of July cupcakes!
and we did grill out on the 4th and attempted to see fireworks. Yes, attempted. This was the one thing I was looking forward to about the trip. Nashville has one of the biggest fireworks display in the states and I haven’t seen fireworks in awhile. Even though the sky was quite cloudy and it looked like it was going to rain, we still attempted to go downtown to watch them. After being stuck in traffic awhile, we found a parking spot, got out and walked to see the fireworks. Unfortunately, it started raining just then and none of us had an umbrella. We were drenched! After walking for about 10 minutes in the rain and still not at the fireworks, we decided to just turn around and walk back to our car. Too bad neither of us have a real sense of direction. We were lost for about 30 minutes just trying to find our car. Needless to say, when I got back to the car I was pissed off at the world and drenched. :(
Anywho, I’m finally home after the most boring weekend in the history of the world. Glad to be back. This is my last week of working for Wicked. On Sunday they are moving to Tulsa. :( I’m going to miss the job, the people, and most of all the money. Back to the job search!
I didn’t cry when I first heard the news. In fact, I didn’t even believe it. I was selling merch during intermission when a little girl told her mom, “Michael Jackson is dead. Mary Beth just sent me a text” The mom and I both looked at each other with eyes of skepticisim. Her mom assured me that “Mary beth don’t know nothing, and it couldn’t possibly be true” . During after show sales many more people were at the register talking of his death. I still thought it was a silly internet rumor until I got home that night and found out from every news station.
It broke my heart to find out it was reality. I know I didn’t know him personally and it seems a bit ridiculous even to me that I am so upset by it, but I am. My mom grew up watching him and dancing along to he and his brothers during the 60s. And as a child of the 80s I grew up listening /watching him during his solo years. We LOVED MJ. Nina(my sister) and I especially. I remember a time when it seemed like we only had 2 VHS’s. We alternated between watching 2 videos- A VHS with a Paul Simon Africa concert and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. He was a great performer (with a shady past. I’m not overlooking that) who will definitely be missed. Another person being missed in my life, especially today, is my little cousin. He would’ve been 21 today, but was murdered in October. I miss him like crazy and thought about him all day. Happy Birthday and R.I.P. C.J.
Work is good. I’ve seen the show about 5 times now. I’m not even a fan of musicals and I really enjoyed it. If you get a chance to see Wicked, see it! It’s really good.
I have nothing more to say. Everything is well in my world and I hope in yours as well
