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Hello LJ!
*crickets*
*mumbled out of side of mouth* "Hello Ang"
Seriously though lots has happened since I was last here... Moves, newish jobs, the collapse of the last 4.5 years of my life...
I let my other blog die so I might be coming back here.
Who knows...
*more crickets*
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Crossposted on Barrel of Nelsons and Facebook
So, as some of you may know, I'm currently unemployed. It's a challenging situation on multiple fronts. I've gotten the usual questions from friends and friends of friends and random acquaintances, "What are your skills?," "What are you looking for?," "What kind of experience/training/etc. do you have?"
And of course, the kicker... "What do you want to do?"
While the other ones are half easy to answer (My general skills are on my resume as are my experiences, and I'm looking for a job that will pay me more than minimum wage without resorting to food service, hopefully with a semi set schedule and enough off time that I can spend time with friends and pursue some dreams without having to sacrifice things like sleep.)
Answering the kicker question... that's a bit harder.
It's hard in several ways. One, I'm not really completely sure of what I want to do. And two, explaining my crazy off the wall idea of what I think I want to do is something close to down right embarrassing sometimes.
To cover the first point: When I was younger I bounced back and forth all over my future career path, as all young kids do. The few things I came back to most often were author and artist. My parents not so gently reminded me that I should really do something that might actually pay the bills. And that's how I ended up in computer graphics at Purdue. The actual path from A to B winds a bit more, but it's a decent summary. The problem was/is even though I'm not completely horrible at CGT stuff, I'm not drop dead passionate about it either. It became a chore for me to do things that I had once loved creating, and I consistently heard that I was only barely making the grade. I didn't have the skill or talent or what not to be exceptional, and I felt like people (including myself) were expecting exceptionality... plus it seemed to me that just being mediocre wasn't going to get me a job anyways. So, I'm not there anymore... of course I'm 25 with no college degree or sense of direction either.
Now for part two... the part that makes me turn pink to think about explaining. A - because it is off the wall, B - because I'm talking about making a life out of something I've never done before really...
I want to make costumes for a living. Fantastic, fantasy (and sci-fi and whatever else) based costumes. And accessories. And possible some props.
Raise your hand if you think I just went off the deep end.
Yeah... I told you it was/is crazy.
I haven't even successfully tried to really do it yet even. Unless you count pulling together all the parts of Jeff's Mad-Eye Moody costume when we went to buy Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. But not sewing from scratch. I'm in a place right now where I don't even have sewing space so my machines and my awesome dress form (thanks again, Mom!) live in the closet. I have a book on sketching ideas, but I need to buy some more construction, pattern drafting and draping books. Plus some books on the stuff that isn't fabric based. I need to buy materials to play with and try to see what I like and what I can do and what I need to learn. Taking a few college courses in theatrical costuming wouldn't be stupid either if I could find said courses. And then I need to figure a way to market the whole deal so that people actually pay me to do it...
Right now I'm just kind of at that gather information on techniques and materials and sources phase. Some of what's holding me back is space, and some is nerves, and of course some is lack of funds. And I'm not expecting to make gobs and gobs of cash. It would be nice to make enough (one day) to have it be my sole form of employment, but I realize I'll probably need some other sort of job too. But I'm really hoping I can stick to this and see this dream fly.
*Crossing fingers*
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
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I got tagged for this on Facebook... and I'm bored enough to fill it out, just not tagging people.
1. Where is your cell phone? pocket
2. Your significant other? pirate
3. Your hair? blonde
4. Your mother? distracted
5. Your father? working
6. Your favorite thing? Jeff
7. Your dream last night? fantasy
8. Your favorite drink? Coke
9. Your dream/goal? costuming
10. What room you are in? living
11. Your hobby? drawing
12. Your fear? loss
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Comfortable
14. Where were you last night? Asgard
16. Muffins? Later
17. Wish list item? Serger
18. Where you grew up? Far
19. Last thing you did? Paint
20. What are you wearing? T-shirt
21. Your TV? small
22. Your pets? adorable
23. Friends? priceless
24. Your life? depressing
25. Your mood? down
26. Missing some one? desperately
27. Car? Lilah
28. Something you're not wearing? shoes
29. Your favorite store? Fabric
30. Your favorite color? rainbow
33. When is the last time you laughed? night
34. Last time you cried? lonely
35. Who will resend this? dunno
36. One place that I go to over and over? store
37. One person who e-mails me regularly? nonexistant
38. My favorite place to eat? Wendy's
39. Why did you participated in this survey? boredom
40. What are you doing tonight? gaming
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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Why is there so much goo in my head?!?! I thought moving south was supposed to help me avoid the Knockdown-Drag-Out-Sinus-Whatsits that I've been prone to for the last 14 or so years? Urgh.
I'm rather miserable from that. And the fact that our generic-Sudafed supply is slowly dwindling away before my eyes as I have to dose myself pretty regularly to just function or sleep.
I am still unemployed, so still uninsured, which means that I'm hoping this is just one Mother of a Sinus-Whatsit and not something more serious.
I'm also still pretty lonely. We've made some friends through a local game store, and they're pretty cool guys, but I still haven't really made any female friends who I really can connect with. I miss Sara and Charlotte almost all the time, and the lack of good girlfriends is almost as frustrating as the lack of income.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
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Quiz: What NCIS Character Are You?
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| You Scored as Abby Sciuto You Are Abby, You Must Be Cool!
| Timothy 'Probie' McGee |
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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I've put this other places, but...
We're moving to Houston, Texas.
Yee-hah?
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You Are a Vanilla Shake
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Vanilla, yes, but definitely not boring.
You are subtly complex and deeply sophisticated.
You're the type of person who has always been ahead of their time.
You don't fall for gimmicks or tricks. You are drawn to what's true.
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Ok, so a bit more than halfway through the day the DSL at work goes out. I try all my normal tricks (rebooting the computer, power-cycling the router and modem, pinging google) and I call Jeff for help. No dice and it looks as though I'm going to have to call the phone company to see what's up. The only problem is that my boss got back from being out and proceeded to be on the phone for 1 1/2 hours. Normally that wouldn't be an issue either, but the second line on our phone lines stopped working too. So I got to twiddle my thumbs the whole time.
*head desk* *repeatedly* *with feeling*
Well, actually I replaced a copier cartridge, made copies for next Sunday and cleaned off my desk for 1/2 an hour, then paced and twiddled my thumbs for the rest of the hour.
And then I had another 10 minutes left of work. (I just packed up and headed out, there wasn't anything I could get done in 10 minutes.)
I hope it's working in the morning.
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I'm beginning to hate Indiana with an amount of passion I haven't felt in years.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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You Should Be a Fiery Redhead
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Bold, head turning, and sure to show off your skin and eyes.
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Ang took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Desires a tranquil, peaceful state of harmony offe..."
Click here to read the rest of the results.
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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Anyone local able to lend us a Shop-Vac? The kind that you can use to vacuum water out of soggy brand new carpeting?
The washer in the townhome has some sort of leak that we didn't know about (grrr) and the load of sheets that I tried to run while unpacking last night managed to soak most of our lower floor. We haven't been able to get ahold of our landlord... at least we haven't been able to get a response, which is frustrating.
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Which Firefly character are you?
You are Kaylee, the ship's mechanic. You are cute as a button, chipper, cheerfull and optimistic, though you panic in a fight. Engines make you hot and you prefer having sex next to a big, humming thing.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
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And I enjoyed it too.
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 240 movies on this list. Copy this list, go to your own MySpace account, and paste this as a bulletin. Then put an X next to the movies you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click "Post" at the bottom.
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Subtotal : 8
(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
() Saw III
() White Noise
() White Oleander
() 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Subtotal: 13
() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
() American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp
() American Pie Naked Mile
Subtotal: 15
(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
() Resident Evil 1
() Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Subtotal: 22
(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots
Subtotal: 26
() Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
() KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
() King Kong
Subtotal: 30
() A Cinderella Story
() The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
(x) The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Surviving Christmas
(x) Flubber
Subtotal: 32
() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
(x) Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam
() The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Subtotal: 34
(x) The Day After Tomorrow
() Child's Play
() Seed of Chucky
(x) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x)Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
() The Longest Yard
() Gridiron Gang
() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
() The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Subtotal: 39
() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
() Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
() Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star state of mine
(x) Bedazzled
() Predator I
() Predator II
() The Fog
() Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Subtotal: 41
(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
() ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Boss's Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds
() Rush Hour
() Rush Hour 2
Subtotal: 42
() Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old-virgin
Subtotal: 44
(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Subtotal: 50
() BASEketball
() Hostel
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
() Elf
() Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
() Three
Subtotal: 51
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Full Metal Jacket
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
() Willard
Subtotal: 55
() High Tension
() Club Dread
() Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x) Waterworld
Subtotal: 59
() Kill Bill vol 1
() Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
(x) Kingdom of Heaven
() The Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness
Subtotal : 61
(x)Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars A New Hope
(x) Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
(x)Star Wars Return of the Jedi
(x) Ewoks the caravan of courage
() Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Subtotal: 68
(x) the Matrix
() The Matrix Reloaded
() The Matrix Revolutions
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
() Team America: World Police
(x) Silence of the Lambs
() Hannibal
(x) Red Dragon
() Anger Management
Subtotal: 71
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
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Your Famous Movie Kiss is from The Empire Strikes Back
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"Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited."
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Han Solo is dreamy... ;)
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
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If you've been wondering where I am... I'm over there...
Over there being http://www.abarrelofnelsons.com/blog
I haven't totally abandoned LJ, but I'm enjoying this new blog (and site... with no content!), and I hope to keep it up. I also hope to keep it a bit more angst-free than this one. Not that I'm being successful or anything. The color scheme isn't helping, but I've borrowed some books from the library and hopefully it will get to looking better soon.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
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| Mood: |  gift wrapping!. |
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You Are the Furthest Thing From Grinch
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You love and live for the holidays. You even love the Grinch!
You're in the holiday spirit year round... because you're all about celebrating and giving.
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copperfoil's journal
trying to fit it all together.
creative.
gooey.
amused from far away.
frustrated.
slightly soggy and desperate.
