heading up to norcal tonight. woo! cant wait. my cd package is done. well "done" in the sense that all the revisions are done and i submitted it to the printing place. it was hellish working on it but worth it. and it came at the right time too because i have been off these past few days so i had lots of time to work on it. and honsetly the cd package will pay more than my 8 days off from work would have payed. so fuck yea. beat the system.

last nite me and andrew went to see broken flowers which was just so so. not that great. i wanted more from it. oh well.

so i've been enjoying this unemployment thing. it's nice. been lounging a bit. doing my freelance work. just stuff like that. this weekend friday was a bust as far as group events goes. so i ended up watching a whole dvd of arrested development with andrew. that show is great. so funny. saturday the whole lot of us went to the hollywood cemetary to see the shining. it was a creepy experience. creepy movie in the cemetary with lots of dew on the ground. fun times though. here is a picture of andrew looking like a wrapped up little present.

isn't he precious? haha yesterday was spent going to andrew's friends' engagement party. followed by a quick jaunt to ikea for some curtains. then i did work. today i went the LBC to photograph stuff for rick for this project he's working on. god the LBC is ugly!!! and boring...now i'm going to do some more freelance work. i hope my laptop accessories come in time before i leave for SF. i think they will come just before i leave on wednesday. cuttin it close but i think it will work out.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!

i quit my job yesterday and i feel great. i got the other job too!!! ...which is why i quit my job. holy fuck man i'm so excited to start this new job. and so thrilled to leave my old one. they let me just leave right then and there. it was great. that was exactly what i wanted. i bet my boss thought of it at a jab (i could tell she wasn't happy about my departure) but i thought of it as my ticket to freedom. so now i am officially one of "those" people who switches jobs way too much and can't make up their mind. yep yep. but i'm hoping that this new job will suit me very well as it's a company i love to death and i've wanted to work for since i can remember searching for jobs. they just never had any creative openings. til now...woo!!!

yesterday i just sorta chilled. went to santa monica. rebought the pair of shoes that died in NYC. had lunch with dan. today my laptop will arrive and i'll hopefully have lunch with either rick or cory. go to the gym. work on my freelance cd packaging. i think i'll start reading this book i borrowed from brian and do my painting sometime over the weekend too! ah all the freedom of not working. i don't start my new job til oct 3rd so i'm gonna go home sometime next week too. woohoo! i'm lovin life again. the only thing that sucks is that i'm awake right now. i'm so used to being up and working that even though i went to bed at like 2:30am i still woke up super early. good grief...

the weekend is coming to an end...so sad. i've got a gig doing a full cd package so i'm working on that right now. it's exactly what i want to do so i'm doing it more for the experience and hopeful connections rather than the money. although the money is quite nice too! friday night me and jessica saw the ever glorious beck (!!!) at the el rey. yes, the EL REY!! it was goddamn amazing. well not amazing. but really fucking good. we FINALLY got to see beck in a small venue. we saw him not too long ago at universal but that place is big. and while we had a great time then, it wasn't like seeing him up close. i mean we could see his sweat stains and flushed cheeks. aww so cute. haha my weekend hasn't been filled with much other than work and sleep. tomorrow is *should* find out about the job i applied for. the job at the clothing company. i know i've got a good chance but i'm sure i'm like 1 of 3 who have a good chance. so we shall see. it would mean a slight pay cut which sucks but since i wouldn't work gross hours, on a per hour basis it'd be more really. i just now calculated my salary and divided it by a rough estimate of how many hours i work per week, and by god i don't make much per hour! this has got to change!!! so cross your fingers for me that i get this job. and if i do, i'll be sure to help with the clothing hook-ups if you so desire.

nuthin like a little beer pong to cure the ails. that's right. i've been feeling a bit ill lately. nothing serious but just a bit ill. not 100%. but nevertheless, i went to shaun's beer pong bbq yesterday. and true to form, joe and i rocked the outfits. last time our team was called "pong kar wai" after the famed hong kong director wong kar wai. this time we went the survivor route (joe works on that show) and named ourselves "a tribe called pong." a little play on the band and the show's tribal team names. sadly though our outfits were the only thing that shined cuz we lost all 3 games we played. oh well. c'est la vie. still fun anyway.

today is filled with LOTS of work. many freelance projects due tomorrow along with some work for real work. poster comps due tomorrow. i still have to finesse one last one. also gotta get my new cell phone which is always a hassle. still not sure if i want cingular or verizon. i just found out about the new motorola phone that plays music. they teamed up with apple to put iTunes into the phone. looks super rad. i may be swayed by it's uniqueness and go with cingular based on that since cingular is only company with the new phone. anyhow, we shall see.

andrew returns tonight. i can't wait! i think i've spoken to him maybe a total of 20 min in the past week and he can't send emails so basically i have barely heard from him at all. so it'll be nice when he come back.

i feel like i'm writing like a 5 year old. so i will stop for now.

i pretty much never have time to write on this thing anymore. and it's cuz i work work work. nonstop. work at work. work at home for work. work at home for other work. some days i want to quit. others i'm ok with it all. but one thing is for sure. i wont do this forever. i'm gonna freelance for awhile to build up a client list. then i'm gonna start my own design firm. that's the plan. even if the firm consists of me and a couple others. that's good enough for me. as long as i'm working for myself i'll be happy. just gotta remember what the end goal is here. the reason for sleeping less every night and doing less social stuff. right now i've got multiple freelance projects going on in addition to my work at work. which went well today by the way. also had lunch with shaun which we make a weekly occurance. this time we went to the thai place down the street and awkwardly enough, my boss and her husband went to lunch there too! i saw 2046 the other night with joe which was a so so story but beautiful to watch. the screening was late on account of our hectic work schedules and consequently i was super tired afterward. that night the power went out for a bit and my alarm didn't go off in the morning. so i had to rush to work and was 20 min late. fun...i haven't talked to melissa in months. i haven't talked to emily in at least a month. i haven't talked to jason in at least a month. i haven't emailed kyla back in a couple months. i feel bad for all these things. i swear i'll get my life back soon. i swear...tomorrow i have a phone chat with a guy at the clothing company i LOVE LOVE LOVE. they have a design position open. so i'm supposed to go in for an interview soon. we shall see how it all goes. crossing my fingers on it. anyhow, i must get back to work. and yes it is midnight already.

oooh i forgot to mention that the other day our building evacuated due to a bomb threat or something. on the way back in i saw jason schwartzman. he looks shorter than i remember him being when i met at usc many moons ago. anyhow, long weekend. so exciting. and i got paid today. freelance and work. so i'm rolling in the dough. not really. but i'd like to think so.

today is my day of "relaxation." and by that i mean there were no huge deadlines at work and i left at 7pm which is relatively early. furthermore i didn't have to take any work home with me. last nite i literally fell asleep reading a script. tonight i get to relax. which means i'm eating some tasty pasta now and blogging and then i'll hop to some freelance work i have to get done tonight. so i should be totally free of work in a couple hours. just in time to watch some episodes of the office or seinfeld on dvd before going to bed. today is a good day.

it's funny cuz my benchmark of work is completely different than it used to be. when i would work a 10 hour day at my old job i considered that a lot of work. now i do that every day. it's like normal to me. oh well. some days it really gets to me and i just want to walk out. other days it's tolerable.

anyhow, i'm totally losing touch with the world outside my work bubble. aside from seeing andrew regularly, i rarely see anyone else. even my roommates. it's very frustrating and i'm not sure if i'll burn out soon or not. it's one thing to work long hours but when you work long hours and then take your work home with you (even on the weekends!), that's getting to be a bit much. the thing i hated about school was homework. going to class for hours on end and then going home and doing more work. i thought i'd escape that by working. but now it's routine it seems. freelance work i bring upon myself so i don't complain about that. but work work. that's just too much when u gotta do it at home. i mean technically i can just stay at work for a fuckload of hours. but that is worse i think. at least at home i can work in my pj's.

*sigh*

back to work.