Amanda had a full-blown total collapse today. She was in the bathroom in the fetal position crying for about three hours, and that was just the worst. She had three massive breakdowns in one day. The police had to come and take her away. She called the Drift office a bunch of times…I just don’t know what to do. She wanted to stay at my house. Hell no. I like Amanda and all, but I do not even want to ponder the legal ramifications of having a 16 year old minor girl sleeping at my house. She’s obviously not the editor any more. Oh well.
On the bright side, Robin and I stayed at the Drift office until midnight designing ads. We got almost all of them done and on pages. I’m SO excited. And I converted all the old pixelated ads exported out of Photoshop as TIFFs to vector-based EPS files. I’m in love. I hope we have a layout session this weekend, I had Mike Ovick come in and fine-tune the shared drives so now they work on all three computers. The Kerf computer has Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and can be used for ad design, leaving the other two usable for layout. I’m very proud of myself and of Robin. She totally knows her way around Photoshop and Illustrator now. And Molly brought us food too! That food translated into uber ad design. I’m so happy, but also in a very dark mood over the Amanda thing. I can’t reconcile my feelings. I guess I’m extremely ambivalent. Yin and yang, both strong at once.
I just took a shower, because I know I’m not going to shower tomorrow (I’ll probably wake up thirty minutes before class and have to run to the car). I really should have taken a bath, I needed to relax, and since I ran Drano through the pipes, they’re not all icky. I just didn’t think of it. Oh, Steve showed me his piece today. Gosh, that sounded wrong… He showed me the film he’s doing for RT. I’m…not too big of a fan of it. We all have different tastes, I suppose. It is edited very well and has excellent shots and such, I just think that the overall concept is lacking. I hate giving constructive criticism, becuase it just sounds like I’m insulting people, but I’m pretty sure that Steve would take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Okay…what else happened today. Omg. Mike gave Jocelyn until the end of the week, tomorrow’s her last day. She’s not going to work the second week of her two weeks notice. Mike is just totally unwilling to admit that he played a factor in this, and has said nothing regarding it to any of the others. We all know what he did. He knows nothing about human relationships. Gosh, come to think of it, I can’t really name any subjects other than belligerence and emotional abuse that Mike seems to be an expert on. Hmm.
I’m depressed that I said I’d come in during the weekend to work on the veterans thing. However, it has to get done and working an 8 to 5 day will get me…$63. That’s depressing. Well, it’s a video card. I’ve been debating whether to buy that $100 program that will recover the files I lost when PartitionMagic dumped my last three partitions or to buy a new video card to potentially end the plague of grayscale. I need to bring my computer in to town tomorrow and pop one of the AGP video cards in one of the computers in the Drift office into my computer, then see if I can get color. If not, then I know it’s a software thing.
Oh, I took my picture off because Molly said it made me look fat…which is true. I was noticing in the shower a few minutes ago that I’m getting uber-flabby. I’m not really gaining weight, but I’m losing all of the scant muscle definition that I used to have when I walked everywhere and actually had time to excercise. I hope to finish my 1B paper Friday, but I have a feeling that I will be too tired to do all that higher-level thought. And there’s my appointment right after I get off work with Terry Compton to work on his page. Oh god, and I can’t even do my paper because I have to go to the Triplicate Saturday. Okay, fuck it. I can’t go in there and do that. Not for fifty cents above minimum wage. I have to get my priorities in order. It’s 1) school 2) job. Fuck them. They’re going to have to hire a typist or something. I’m doing my English essay. I’ve been looking forward to writing this all week, and I’m not going to let work get in my way.
I was amazed at the amount of work I got done today at the Drift office, I was all “Why?” and then I the realization hit me like a ton of bricks: “This computer hasn’t crashed once since I’ve been here.” Productivity goes through the roof when you have stable computers. But WesCom doesn’t care. Dave Gray and Steve Chittock are too busy fooling around on their brand new $1500 Ipods to advocate for new computers for the rest of us. Damn it.
God, I was so horny today…I was trapped at my desk for a few minutes. It’s depressing how there is not even a faint ray of hope for a new love interest. Not even a new lust interest! Woe is me. A few people blogged, I’m going to catch up on everybody’s blogs and then attempt to go to sleep.
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