Updating this sucker gets harder and harder by the day. The summer has brought forth change in various forms. It has been busy and frustrating. It has been good and not so good. Here's the breakdown, starting with neg and working toward the poz:
1) My boss is an asshole. My adventures at the Grey Batcave of Shitiness (aka work) have taken yet another unexpected and subsequently annoying turn, and I am now working 5pm-Midnight, Monday-Friday, for the next month or two. My dearest boss assigned methe ultra-exciting task of viewing and logging footage for our newly implemented stock footage library, and didn't warn me of any abrupt schedule change until two days before starting the new shift!!! Because it is difficult to commandeer the video decks during the day with the regular flow of production work, this task is best relegated to the evening hours. While having the daytime free to pursue other tasks (ie: work like a motherfucker in a desperate attempt to find another job!!!) the two weeks I've spent alone, hour after hour watching bank footage and punching timecode has made me want to poke my eyes out with corn skewers!
Not only has this shit-ass job become dreadfully monotonous, it has completely thwarted both my social schedule and climbing schedule. I love my summer nights, I really cherish them. I love spending them on a patio with good friends sipping cocktails and savouring the energy of the city. Life here is erratically different when there isn't 30 cm of snow blanketing the ground, and I'm pretty pissed that the number of hot nights I could be spending engaged in all sorts of seasonal gaiety are now being wasted away in a small, basement office, thanks to my loser boss. I know things could be a lot worse, but still...it's a kick to the balls. Thankfully, a couple of people from my climbing gym have found themselves in similar situations, so it looks like I'll be able to resume my schedule after a month's long hiatus. Going back will be a bit tough, but I'm looking forward to scaling the walls again!
2) As breifly stated in the first paragraph, I've been trying to utilize my daytime wisely, and have been sending out resumes to different production companies around town. I had a short meeting with a line-producer at one film/tv company this morning. Her current show is entirely staffed, but she offered to circulate my resume throughout the department to other producers. I didn't have any great expectations walking in, but gettting called into a good production house for a casual chat was enough to inject some much needed optimism into my bitter little butt. Walking away with a job would have been fantastic, but I am nonetheless grateful for this experience. It's a bit of tease, but mere acknowledgement is about a million times better than complete disregard!
3) I have a new romantic interest. He happens to be another home-town boy. I have met him before. He knows I like him, but he does not remember me by name. I see him a lot on the week-ends, but I'm too shy to approach him. Should I wait and hope that gossip from friends/acquaintances will work in my favor, or should I just flat out grab the bull by the bullocks and stop being such a wimp? Oy vey, what does a smitten Leola do?
4) Last summer was cool, and the summer before last even slightly cooler. This summer has been faaaaaaaaawkin' HOT!!!
This also happens to be the first summer I'm surviviing without air-conditioning. I am melting away...
5) I've also been attending plenty of family and friend functions. Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and so forth. Plenty more to come too!
6) I turn 29 in less than two weeks. This scares the living shit right out me. Since when I did begin pushing 30?
7) I'm thinking about a trip out west to Calgary or Vancouver before the summer is up. I've never visited either, but I'm thinking Vancouver would be super swell!
8) Lately I've had a bad way of showing it, but I miss talking to you all. I will be in touch soon!
Sending out my love and wishing nothing but happiness for you all!
-Leolaxo
1) My boss is an asshole. My adventures at the Grey Batcave of Shitiness (aka work) have taken yet another unexpected and subsequently annoying turn, and I am now working 5pm-Midnight, Monday-Friday, for the next month or two. My dearest boss assigned methe ultra-exciting task of viewing and logging footage for our newly implemented stock footage library, and didn't warn me of any abrupt schedule change until two days before starting the new shift!!! Because it is difficult to commandeer the video decks during the day with the regular flow of production work, this task is best relegated to the evening hours. While having the daytime free to pursue other tasks (ie: work like a motherfucker in a desperate attempt to find another job!!!) the two weeks I've spent alone, hour after hour watching bank footage and punching timecode has made me want to poke my eyes out with corn skewers!
Not only has this shit-ass job become dreadfully monotonous, it has completely thwarted both my social schedule and climbing schedule. I love my summer nights, I really cherish them. I love spending them on a patio with good friends sipping cocktails and savouring the energy of the city. Life here is erratically different when there isn't 30 cm of snow blanketing the ground, and I'm pretty pissed that the number of hot nights I could be spending engaged in all sorts of seasonal gaiety are now being wasted away in a small, basement office, thanks to my loser boss. I know things could be a lot worse, but still...it's a kick to the balls. Thankfully, a couple of people from my climbing gym have found themselves in similar situations, so it looks like I'll be able to resume my schedule after a month's long hiatus. Going back will be a bit tough, but I'm looking forward to scaling the walls again!
2) As breifly stated in the first paragraph, I've been trying to utilize my daytime wisely, and have been sending out resumes to different production companies around town. I had a short meeting with a line-producer at one film/tv company this morning. Her current show is entirely staffed, but she offered to circulate my resume throughout the department to other producers. I didn't have any great expectations walking in, but gettting called into a good production house for a casual chat was enough to inject some much needed optimism into my bitter little butt. Walking away with a job would have been fantastic, but I am nonetheless grateful for this experience. It's a bit of tease, but mere acknowledgement is about a million times better than complete disregard!
3) I have a new romantic interest. He happens to be another home-town boy. I have met him before. He knows I like him, but he does not remember me by name. I see him a lot on the week-ends, but I'm too shy to approach him. Should I wait and hope that gossip from friends/acquaintances will work in my favor, or should I just flat out grab the bull by the bullocks and stop being such a wimp? Oy vey, what does a smitten Leola do?
4) Last summer was cool, and the summer before last even slightly cooler. This summer has been faaaaaaaaawkin' HOT!!!
This also happens to be the first summer I'm surviviing without air-conditioning. I am melting away...
5) I've also been attending plenty of family and friend functions. Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and so forth. Plenty more to come too!
6) I turn 29 in less than two weeks. This scares the living shit right out me. Since when I did begin pushing 30?
7) I'm thinking about a trip out west to Calgary or Vancouver before the summer is up. I've never visited either, but I'm thinking Vancouver would be super swell!
8) Lately I've had a bad way of showing it, but I miss talking to you all. I will be in touch soon!
Sending out my love and wishing nothing but happiness for you all!
-Leolaxo
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