So I've told you that I run into some pretty kitties on the way to work. It makes me happy to pet a kitty in the morning. The other morning though I walked passed a kitty that was on a leach that was attached to the gate. Poor guy was just hanging out on the sidewalk wondering why the hell is couldn't go any further. Last night I saw a big fluffy raccoon, he was so cute but this is the best one by far. On my way to work today (we'll talk about that in a sec) I was outside my building and I bum walked by, nothing strange there right? Except this bum had a leach and on the end of that leash was a beautiful fluffy black kitty just walking along with his master down the street. It was amazing. I've seen cats on leaches before but they always seem like they hate life. This guy was just trotting down the street looking like he was having a grand old day. I tried to take a picture with my phone but in all the excitement I must of deleted it cause i went back and all i had was the second photo which was just of the ground. So freaking cute.
So I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Easter sunday. I am, in fact, at work. That's right, i'm at work on a sunday that also happens to be a holiday. How fun is that? A lot of fun let me tell you. So after this I get to finally do my laundry that I haven't done in two freaking weeks cause i literally worked every single day for the past 2 weeks. 12 hour days, at least. Yup, the joys of being in advertising. Here's to ridiculous life decisions. And all that other good stuff. Hope you guys find some sweet eggs...
3.23.2008
3.16.2008
time lapse
I started work a week before the spring forward event.
For nine months before that I kept a pretty loose schedule of waking up and going to sleep. The perks of being a freelancer.
My first week of work I woke up at 7:30 no problem.
After the spring forward.... all fucked up.
I wake up an hour to early ever day and then ai'm really tired when it's actually time to get up. How is that my body which didn't have a schedule for so long could all of a sudden take the one I had for one week and make me suffer for it? I don't get it.
I'm tired.
habits of a nation
So here it comes, the other point of view.
I've been working 10+ hours days for the last couple of days, and yes it's saturday. And yes, I have to go in tomorrow on sunday for what is probably gonna be one of the worse days so far. They've got me working like a horse which most of the time doesn't bother me cause I know "that is what is expected of me". But then I think "That shit ain't right. People should be allowed to have lives!".
Where is the point that you put an end to this? I know in this country its regular (especially in my field) to work to all ends of the night every day. Shit, my boss still does it. I see him on IM almost every night when i'm at home just playing around on the computer/doing my own work. Is that right? Is that the way it should be?
Am I saying this because i'm lazy and don't want to work 60/70 hours a week or is it because my fellow country men get all the perks of two months vacation and 38 hour work weeks? Do they over work their designers in europe too? Do they have never ending days and weekends like we do here? Is it just a designers life to be worked till you want to just give up but you have nothing to give yourself up to cause all you've done is just work your entire life away?
Either way, if i ever make it past all this to seventy (which if you know me you know i don't think i will. Extra prize for the person who can tell me the age I keep saying i'm going to die) I know what i'll be doing. Hello CDF and hello to being young again. I'll fight even if it's just for a day.
I've been working 10+ hours days for the last couple of days, and yes it's saturday. And yes, I have to go in tomorrow on sunday for what is probably gonna be one of the worse days so far. They've got me working like a horse which most of the time doesn't bother me cause I know "that is what is expected of me". But then I think "That shit ain't right. People should be allowed to have lives!".
Where is the point that you put an end to this? I know in this country its regular (especially in my field) to work to all ends of the night every day. Shit, my boss still does it. I see him on IM almost every night when i'm at home just playing around on the computer/doing my own work. Is that right? Is that the way it should be?
Am I saying this because i'm lazy and don't want to work 60/70 hours a week or is it because my fellow country men get all the perks of two months vacation and 38 hour work weeks? Do they over work their designers in europe too? Do they have never ending days and weekends like we do here? Is it just a designers life to be worked till you want to just give up but you have nothing to give yourself up to cause all you've done is just work your entire life away?
Either way, if i ever make it past all this to seventy (which if you know me you know i don't think i will. Extra prize for the person who can tell me the age I keep saying i'm going to die) I know what i'll be doing. Hello CDF and hello to being young again. I'll fight even if it's just for a day.
3.11.2008
inspiration
So here is a bit of inspiration for everyone (and if you don't check out Fecal Face periodically, you should). Here is some amazing photography by Amy Stein. Enjoy.
3.10.2008
my first week
I've now been at work for a week, well, a week and a day. It's good so far, pretty good. I'm kinda stressing about a web site concept that i'm going to present tomorrow but hopefully he'll like what i have to show. So I do have a few stories about the first week... Let me see, I guess I'll just go chronologically.
Monday:
At 11 a.m. I get an e-mail saying "Grilled cheese mondays are back! in the Milk Bar from 11:30-12."
It wasn't a joke, one of the guys in the office was making a butt load of grilled cheeses for everyone to enjoy, quite nice.
Tuesday:
For lunch we had 5 Alarm Records bring us some very good and lots of sushi, beer and sake. They talked about what they could do for us and the commercials that we make and showed us a reel. Pretty sweet.
Wednesday:
Got another e-mail saying something about Collective Soul, at first i didn't pay much attention to it but then I realized that it said he was coming. That's right on wednesday afternoon we had the lead singer from Collective Soul give us a little accoustic show of his own. And yes, he played Shine On (or whatever that song is called). That was pretty awesome.
Friday:
Happy Hour day. What i didn't realize is that they are crazy serious about it, they have a different theme every friday. This friday was polka dots. So we had jello shots and beer with orange slices. Yes, you heard me correctly. It was a lot of fun, ended up making friends with the smokers obviously and actually was one of the last to leave at around 8:30. So it I would say it went pretty well. Actually I would say it was Awesome 2000.
The Weekend:
Got my board set up, read a book.
Monday:
I tried the carpool for the first time this morning. For those of you who don't know heres how it works:
It's free for me, i go to a designated spot (next to the BART station) in the morning and instead of paying $3.40 to take the BART I get into some strangers car and they drop me off 3 blocks from my work. It's pretty awesome and takes just about the same amount of time as taking the BART. Except i'm sitting in comfy car and not squished in the train. Oh and this morning I got to listen to NPR on the way to work for the first time in a very long time. I really liked that.
That was my week, how was yours?
Monday:
At 11 a.m. I get an e-mail saying "Grilled cheese mondays are back! in the Milk Bar from 11:30-12."
It wasn't a joke, one of the guys in the office was making a butt load of grilled cheeses for everyone to enjoy, quite nice.
Tuesday:
For lunch we had 5 Alarm Records bring us some very good and lots of sushi, beer and sake. They talked about what they could do for us and the commercials that we make and showed us a reel. Pretty sweet.
Wednesday:
Got another e-mail saying something about Collective Soul, at first i didn't pay much attention to it but then I realized that it said he was coming. That's right on wednesday afternoon we had the lead singer from Collective Soul give us a little accoustic show of his own. And yes, he played Shine On (or whatever that song is called). That was pretty awesome.
Friday:
Happy Hour day. What i didn't realize is that they are crazy serious about it, they have a different theme every friday. This friday was polka dots. So we had jello shots and beer with orange slices. Yes, you heard me correctly. It was a lot of fun, ended up making friends with the smokers obviously and actually was one of the last to leave at around 8:30. So it I would say it went pretty well. Actually I would say it was Awesome 2000.
The Weekend:
Got my board set up, read a book.
Monday:
I tried the carpool for the first time this morning. For those of you who don't know heres how it works:
It's free for me, i go to a designated spot (next to the BART station) in the morning and instead of paying $3.40 to take the BART I get into some strangers car and they drop me off 3 blocks from my work. It's pretty awesome and takes just about the same amount of time as taking the BART. Except i'm sitting in comfy car and not squished in the train. Oh and this morning I got to listen to NPR on the way to work for the first time in a very long time. I really liked that.
That was my week, how was yours?
3.02.2008
one month
So it's not officially been a month.
So here are a few things I did over the last week.
- Got a job at DDB
- Went back to Houston
- Did my taxes
- Bought a sweet coat
- Got a new phone
- got Final Fantasy Tactics. One of the best games ever made, seriously. (I feel like i'm back in high school again hanging out with kelly and allan in my bedroom. Except now i'm in California laying on my bed hanging out by myself playing it on a tiny screen that someone inches its way closer to my face as I play. It's still great though, one of the best games ever and it brings back a lot of memories.)
So yes, tomorrow is my first day to work. I'm really excited and really looking forward to this. I know it's gonna be awesome but I think it might actually be awesomer that I even anticipate... we'll see.
So here are a few things I did over the last week.
- Got a job at DDB
- Went back to Houston
- Did my taxes
- Bought a sweet coat
- Got a new phone
- got Final Fantasy Tactics. One of the best games ever made, seriously. (I feel like i'm back in high school again hanging out with kelly and allan in my bedroom. Except now i'm in California laying on my bed hanging out by myself playing it on a tiny screen that someone inches its way closer to my face as I play. It's still great though, one of the best games ever and it brings back a lot of memories.)
So yes, tomorrow is my first day to work. I'm really excited and really looking forward to this. I know it's gonna be awesome but I think it might actually be awesomer that I even anticipate... we'll see.
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