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[Kristen]

In seperate happy happenings news: I am interviewing a new intern applicant today and he seems more capable than our current terrible intern that is a waste of office space. I think I am more nervous for this interview than the applicant is because I really really hope he likes us and wants to be our intern and is productive.

[webber]

I definitely see your guys' points about Irvine not being that bad of a place, but please refer to the first half of the last paragraph in my tl;dr post. Basically, if I'm going to be moving out, especially away from the South Bay (where I want to live), I want it to be for a job I'm can see myself settling down with for a few years. Trust me, like I said, if it were for the Anaheim Angels I'd drop my current life right now. I pretty much want my next job to be something I really, really would love to do. And while I'm living with my parents I can find a job that I'd think would make me want to wake up in the morning. There's only so many ways to be creative with healthcare, and even if you like something, it may not be conservative enough for medical stuff. I know because I designed a booklet for some doctors, and I liked it enough to put in my portfolio, and they had me simplify it so much that it was just narrowed down to like type on paper with nothing designed at all. I get jealous of my friends that are working for companies I'd love to work for, in environments I'd kill for, and I want something like that.

You are making a horrible decision and I guarantee you will regret it in two years when you finally find the balls to leave your job and realise that you don't have any credibility as an employee because all that unappreciated work you did really was unappreciated, and not just unappreciated-but-secretly-appreciated.

But hey at least you don't have to travel for an hour, which is so dreaded a concept I don't know how 95% of the Western world manage it on a daily basis.

[Alicia]

webber, if I am still working at the same place in 2 years, I give you permission to use my savings to come to the States and shoot my face off.

I really don't see what the big deal is about not liking to commute for 80 miles everyday, in Los Angeles traffic, or wanting my next job to be something I love. I mean, that's why I'm looking for a new job, right? Because I don't like my current one?

Everyone else I've told my situation to understands why I wouldn't want that job, including my parents and my brother. If the people who contacted me didn't understand either, there wouldn't have been no "straight away we're kinda far" or "that may preclude you".

And I keep trying to be done talking about this. So I'll just say now that I am.

In other news, I sent in an application/resume for that government job I was talking about today. And yes, working for the government sounds like more fun to me because I am a nerd.

[Terry Cheesecake]

webber, if I am still working at the same place in 2 years, I give you permission to use my savings to come to the States and shoot my face off.

toxx clause

[Kristen]

Alicia, I just think everyone wants you to take this job so you stop complaining about your current one.

P.S. the itnern interview went well and he starts his internship on Tuesday! horrah!

[A Link to the Matt]

Does that mean you got the joy of firing wasteofspace?

[Kristen]

No, I don't think I will fire him since he needs this for school credit but when his internship ends (soon) I will be giving him an unsatisfactory grade or evaluation.

[erica]

Last night Hulk Hogan was at the bar I was drinking at. He almost stepped on my toes, then looked down at me and nodded. He's as big as, like, 8 of me. I didn't know what to say so I nodded back.

[blacktoothgrin]

You should have pointed at him and said "YOOOUUU."

[Jamie]

First, Erica, that is a awesome.

Second, My cat had her kittens last sunday! Anyone looking for a kitty? All you have to do is come to NH in september and pick one out.

[mreow]

oh my god cute baby kittens~!
I love how cat genetics works to make such a mishmash of coat-colored babies born to one cat. Crazy.

[Matt W]

I moved into my new place this weekend. I'd been really bummed out for the past three months, ever since my old roommate told me he was going to law school and we'd NOT be re-upping on our lease. This was after being in that apartment for only 5 months, so I was pretty upset that I'd have to move again so soon. As a result of being in the mindset that I only had three months left, my last place went kind of to shit...didn't hang up any pictures, let crap just pile up, put books and movies everywhere...etc.

Anyway, got two new roommates, and a nice, big 3-bedroom place just four blocks from where I used to live. Quieter neighborhood, (my old place was practically on 495, the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel essentially) a yard that we can use, and I kept my NYC skyline view. Also, since the place is 'mine' for the next year, I spent all of yesterday hanging pictures, and making it the home that my last place never felt like. As a result of everything being in it's proper place, and not have piles of junk laying around that I'm always thinking "I really should get all that organized", it's much easier to relax at home, so my stress levels are down. Add that to the fact that my first vacation in over a year is coming up in two weeks, and things are good. Happy happenings indeed!

[Hanstock]

This is a conversation I had with my director tonight:

BlueCarolina97 (8:45:28 PM): you think we could be moving into production on BTL [the movie] by the end of the year?
eugene660 (8:47:09 PM): if everything moves quickly yeah
eugene660 (8:47:43 PM): before jane [the producer] went to Georgia [to work on another film] we were talking with a month of her deciding she wanted to produce... but we opted to wait
eugene660 (8:48:16 PM): looking to shoot probably Dec./ Jan.
BlueCarolina97 (8:48:19 PM): awesome
eugene660 (8:48:26 PM): shoot on location during winter break
eugene660 (8:48:51 PM): then shoot stage or something for the dorm room and house party int.
eugene660 (8:49:01 PM): then shoot in and around LA for everything else
BlueCarolina97 (8:49:32 PM): so backers are lined up?
eugene660 (8:49:43 PM): she's been working on it
eugene660 (8:50:08 PM): haven't gotten complete word, but I'm sure she's got something or will have something up her sleeve
eugene660 (8:51:26 PM): she knows we're ready
eugene660 (8:52:12 PM): I sent them an updated college campus locations list, complete with updated academic schedules this morning
eugene660 (8:52:24 PM): plus a list of potential stages we could use
eugene660 (8:52:51 PM): just a matter of locking a well rounded cast and getting some dough
eugene660 (8:53:09 PM): which I think will happen pretty quickly once we get our barrings in a few weeks
BlueCarolina97 (8:53:54 PM): fucking awesome
BlueCarolina97 (8:53:58 PM): i got a raise today haha
eugene660 (8:58:09 PM): yeah... get this one made, have a few in the hopper and we're off
eugene660 (8:58:19 PM): fingers crossed

[webber]

Sounds like everything is going great, good luck dude!

[Whittle]

You should have pointed at him and said "YOOOUUU."

hahaha, yeah erica, you should have started to hulk up in his face

was this in pittsburgh or are you in florida/california/etc for some reason?

[Matt W]

Bill, are you making the sequel to ATL?

[B]

what is a "hopper" and how many of what do you have to have in it

[Hanstock]

a hopper is a term that backwoods hayseeds from ferndale use

currently we have a dozen "in it"

a dozen of videofilm projects

[erica]

You should have pointed at him and said "YOOOUUU."

hahaha, yeah erica, you should have started to hulk up in his face

was this in pittsburgh or are you in florida/california/etc for some reason?

It was in Pittsburgh. Dude was so massive that I thought if I moved he'd attack me like a dinosaur. The funniest part is that he had a bodyguard with him. A bodyguard who was half his size.

[B]

A lot of popular old wrestlers have that guy. He isn't a bodyguard as much as a "leave this guy alone" guy. He gets to tell you not pictures/autographs/conversations so the wrestler doesn't have to.