Awakward 101

Hey readers well I’ve decided to move Awkward 101 yet again.  I know, I know…but this time I’m moving because this is now linked to my own personal website.  Yes, I am moving up in this world.  Actually it’s the very, very beginnings of the development of my portfolio website for school.  I will keep you posted on it’s status but for now…it’s not much of anything.

I’m also experiencing technical difficulties with moving all my old posts over so for now you’ll just have to keep looking for new posts here.  I’m going to try and keep this updated or at least be better at it than I have been doing.  I’m behind in just about every area of my life right now.  Personally cannot wait for this school’s quarter to be over and for my nice 2 week vacation.  Tomorrow aka: Monday there should be some exciting news to offer everyone…so check back soon!

P.S – the Title is in reference to one of my favorite cartoons, “Animaniacs”.  Remember that one?

Someday I seriously doubt I can answer yes to this question. Last night was most definitely one of those times. At times when I cannot sleep or am feeling a bit anxious I simply get in my car and just take a drive. usually I hit the 101N and drive no farther than Camarillo. Well…I guess last night I just got way too into my ipod and before i knew it the 101 signs started to read “San Francisco”. Excuse me? Where the F’ am I? Oh somehow I managed to not recognize any of the exits for Camarillo and was now on the edge of….Santa Barbara!!!

Let me jsut say this was a much longer “drive” than I planned on and by this time I’m hungry. So while searching for the 101S entrance I spot a McDonalds. Score. I had been wanting a Shamrock shake for weeks now but haven’t gotten on yet. Perfect time NOW. Pulling into the drive thru I notice there’s only 1 car before me; yeah! Did I mention it’s almost 3am by now? Finally I reach the squawking box only to discover the woman working doesn’t speak any English! Um isn’t that a prerequisite to work the drive thru or any job? After about 10 tries I finally figure it out that the woman’s trying to tell me that there’s no ice cream after 12am. WHAT?! After all this and still no Shamrock Shake!!! Ugh.

Finally about 4am I get my ass back home and into bed. Not really the plan I was going with at the start but it all did make me laugh a whole bunch at myself. Thank the lord I can do that! And tonight I got my freakin’ Shamrock Shake!!!

Between last week and this week I would like to just scream and chuck something at the city of Los Angeles. Come on give a girl a break here!

To begin my fun filled week, I struck out three times with possible job leads. Yep, still sitting on my couch. Hence the greater amount of blogs going on here. Then I decide to be productive and get my annual eye exam. Ohh bad idea. First I have to say no matter what at least my eye sight hasn’t gotten worse but I do find out my lovely former employers cancelled my vision insurance plan. BUT I’ve been paying for it for the past four months. Nice, eh? Instead of my exam being free it cost me $185 which I do not have at the moment.

To redeem the day I decide to go get my passport and student visa photos taken at my local AAA office. An hour later I have four decent photos. Later that night I check my paperwork….um…I need 6 just for the student visa and these 6 photos have to be the oddest size. Obviously not the same size photos used for U.S passports. Ugh. Luckily I can scan the little suckers and resize them.

After I get my photos I run by Target. Keep in mind money is tight right now. I go, buy some groceries because they are cheaper at Target than the grocery store, go to pay for my parking. 1 hour is free there but my photos took an hour so I go to pay my $1.00 for 1 1/2 hr of parking. Wait, what’s this? Ohh West Hollywood raised the price to $1.50 for over an hour. Seriously. To make matters worse, the next day I go to grab the case of Diet coke I bought only to discover it’s not in my trunk. Where is it? Oh, stupid me forgot it on top of the parking ticket pay machine. Insert head beating against the wall here.

To end my super fun week….No unemployment check in the mail. In a month I’ve received one check. Just one. Keep in mind a month of unemployment doesn’t even cover my rent and Cobra payment. I’m drowning! Throw me life preserver please! Did I mention I couldn’t finish my drawing for class? Why you ask? Oh cause it decided to rain here. Yes, the three days a year it rains in LA it decided to do one the exact day I needed to sit outside for hours to draw. Ugh. Keep your fingers crossed that this week goes much better….

Queerty.com just published this list of companies who do not support or literally hate gays. Full article here.

10. A-1 Self Storage
9. AutoZone Inc.
8. Brown-Forman Corp.
7. Cinemark
6. Domino’s Pizza
5. Salvation Army
4. Manchester Grand Resorts
3. Urban Outfitters
2. Wal-Mart Stores
1. Exxon Moblie

Personally I can say I almost never frequent any of these stores except for Domino’s and occasionally Urban and Wal-Mart. Though now I think I’ll be staying away for all of them. I do not support any business who supports and encourages the idea of hating against anyone because of race, religion, or sexual orientation. I hope you all will do the same.

It’s been…oh lord…almost a month since I last worked. To be honest at first not working was kind of nice because I was burnt out and I thought well I’ve probably only got a week before I find a job so I’ll get tons of things accomplished. Three weeks later I’m soo bored and quickly going broke. For most they could survive a month or two on unemployment but I have a huge rent payment and cobra insurance payment which takes more than unemployment gives me. Plus I’m trying to save to pay for school so the money is quickly dwindling. This is my first week that I’m starting to fee panic’d. I tried to avoid sending out the “I need a job emails” but resorted to that last week. Most ppl I know didn’t even bother to reply. Bastards. Next we move to facebook and try individual emails to those I sort of keep in contact w/ and mass email to those I never speak to until unemployed. Nice, I know.

But it’s about who you know out here and honestly everyone is too busy to keep up w/ everyone so we all do this shameless act of begging for work. I hate it but I need to work and I need to work NOW. My sanity and rent payment rely on my working. And I’m applying to jobs online but we all know that almost never works but I’m still trying and I”m not being picky either. I’ll take anything that pays. Shameless.

But since I have all this time on my hands I get to post blogs! yeah for the 2.5 readers of this thing. Today’s fun activity was to clean out my dresser drawers and I did donate more to Goodwill plus decided to take 4 address books and make them into one. While doing so I found some pretty funny items. First a crew list from college in which I’m listed as the director and the two heavy hitters from school are my camera assists? Um WTF? I have no idea who made such a list and if it was ever actually carried out. WAIT. ohh it just hit me. This was for my long lost thesis film before it crashed and burned. Thank you D. for pulling out and fucking that all up. Oh well saved me $4k. Second funny item is a list of “clubs” we were going to visit while interns in 2001. Oh man. All but 2 places are gone now and it’s an awful list. All tourist trap places I wouldn’t be caught dead in now. Here we go:
1. Key Club – only exsisting spot left.
2. Tiki Lounge – Wait, this place might still be there.
3. Deep – Nope. Turned into something then burned down
4. Frolic Room – :/
5. The Opium Den – WTF?
6. The Mix – I think this might be The Ivar now
7. Blue – ????
8. Space 6507 – Um…it was on sunset….
9. The Century Club
10. Florentine Gardens – Ok this place we went and can we say GHETTO? Metal detectors. ‘Nuff said.

Last night I hung out w/ my friend who just had Lasik eye surgery. So we we’re chatting, watching TV, etc when we ran across the slightly horrific but funny Logo reality show Gimme Sugar. Ok all reality TV is terrifically bad but as we watched the show we ran across something even more funny…. Two of our friends are on it making out w/ two of the girls on the show. Our one friend even got her own onscreen credit! OMG I’m still laughing at this shit. AND the one girl is making out w/ one of the, I”m going to call her bi-curios girls on the show, whom we now know is straight! This is probably not as funny to everyone else but to me it just is hysterical. I cannot wait to tease said friends. LOL

Been a bit since I posted anything up here so here’s some random crap that’s happened to me in the past few weeks. Tonight i spent the evening chillin’ w/ a friend and catching up on The L Word. Um WTF?! I mean I know this show has sort of lived in fantasy land pretty much after the first season but wow has the train left the tracks here. Shane and Jenny going at it. Bette and Tina completely out of the blue deciding to adopt a baby but oh there’s a recession and both of their jobs are in jeopardy. Tasha should dump Alice for being condescending all the time. Jamie. Can we say future awkward threesome there? Kit has become retarded and a psuedo lesbo or something. Helena is chasing after the woman who was straight, sued her for sexual harassment, won millions then ran off to San Francisco to be gay. Um ok. That’s exactly how it happens. And Max…seriously. Pregnant after taking all that testosterone. Like he’s not having a mutant baby. That shit is disturbing.

Now I’d just like to say to all those watching this in the mid-west where you’ve only ever met one gay person your entire life. This is not how lesbians in LA act. Plus not everyone looks like a barbie doll. Granted there is drama but not like this and never does so much drama happen to the same person. I think you could take one characters entire storyline and spread it amongst 8 lesbians and that would probably be more accurate but would make boring TV. And not every group of lesbians all date each other, which doesn’t happen too much on L Word but just get that thought out of your head. Not perfect out here…there are the mischievous, drama inducing ones but I’ve never even heard of a female in transition getting pregnant. :/

In other real world news…I went to Vancouver last weekend and am in love. I love Canada! I had a good feeling that I would love it there because I always pick the more difficult of two options. But it feels like home there and I haven’t been to a foreign country since London, England where I really didn’t want to come back to The States. Ohhh and the Canadian dollar tanked while there so it was $.70 to the $1.00. Awesome! AND since I have more of a neutral Chicago accent people thought I was Canadian. Bonus.

Now to only find some money. I’m unemployed again but really need to find some work. I’m trying desperately not to spend any money but have failed every single day I’ve been unemployed. I need to put the credit cards away and sit my ass on my couch. Tomorrow is tax day. Yes, I do my own taxes and am quite good at it. Just another weird talent I happen to posses. BTW did I mention that the weather sucked a big one in LA while I was in Vancouver where it was beautiful and sunny. Ahhhh….Oh and I stocked up on Vancouver Olympic 2010 gear. Love it and I got most of it on sale. Ohh and we got an even bigger discount for being foreign.

Side Note: The woman who had the Octuplets needs to be shaken till she can no longer reproduce. She doesn’t have the money to pay for them and her 6 other kids. So guess who’s getting to pay for them and their millions of hospital bills? Yep, the wonderful Californian tax payers. The same ones who are getting State tax I.O.U’s. I cannot be more excited about this one. Oh and now she’s begging for money on the Internet. Nice. Get a freakin’ job! Did I mention she had a doctor sperminate her w/ 8 embryos so she could have octuplets. And her parents lost their home paying for hers and Dad is heading back to Afghanistan to work to pay for this shit. Please someone shake her til she gets a clue.

Well I cannot sleep and since I do not have to work tomorrow…why not post? If anyone of you is on Facebook then I’m sure you’ve been tagged at least once, or 20 times, in the 25 Random Facts about me. Honestly I just got tagged by my BFF but I’m bored so here’s 25 more random facts about lovely lil’ me.

1. Insomnia is my other BFF
2. I love ABC family made for TV movies. Esp. the ones starring former teen stars like Brian Austin Green
3. My bedroom has to be cold for me to even attempt to sleep.
4. Every time I hear a Tegan and Sara song on Grey’s Anatomy I get super excited!
5. If I could be anything in this world it would be a talent, successful singer.
6. I’m musically disinclined.
7. My parents are my other best friends and it’s killing me right now because I have to keep something from them in order to protect them for now.
8. Anything I’ve ever really, really wanted in live I have not gotten.
9. I cannot wait to be able to own a dog.
10. I love seeing films on the Paramount Lot. My amazing theater I have ever seen.
11. I love finding old friends from college on facebook.
12. I have a ridiculously expensive Barbie collection at my parents house. No I do not play with them.
13. Photography is a hobby I wish I could do more often.
14. I have no maternal instincts whatsoever except when it comes to Rylee. I’d do anything to protect him.
15. I own shoes I have never worn and probably never will.
16. I’m good at doing people’s taxes.
17. I do not fit into any type of trait box. You cannot simply categorize me. I fit into no group which can be good and bad.
18. I hate doing dishes. Just ask any of my roommates.
19. I love pitching things or giving them away to goodwill. I hate clutter.
20. The first few years in LA were the worst of my life. I hated everything about this place except the weather. Yes, I stayed for the weather. At the time it was all I had. Things are better now.
21. I love cheese and could eat it all day long.
22. I’m a night owl and can stay up all night.
23. When stressed or feeling anxious I like to just take drives. I just play music and drive and drive until I get some perspective.
24. I love singing along to the radio.
25. I mainly recycle because in CA you get charged for each recyclable item you buy and only get that money back when you recycle the item.

It’s Friday night and I’m at work and I”m going to be here for awhile. F’ing Avid keeps crashing and I’ve been waiting for two hours for a DVD and then I get to deliver it to Santa Monica. I’ll be lucky to even see my apt by 11pm. Really? This is my life…well sort of. On top of it all today is my last day at this job which makes this a bit irritating. Though I really liked the ppl I worked with on this show. Everyone was really nice and fun to be around.

Anyways…to save myself from boredom I started watching a few episodes of Private Practice. Now decidedly so this is not a great show but lately it’s been getting better. Why you ask? Well the F’ing show keeps making me cry! I love it and it annoys me at the same time. First episode was from 3 weeks ago when they had this amazing older lesbian couple on and the one woman after years finally told her son that their neighbor was actually her partner. After freaking the son accepted his mother because he wanted her to be happy. It was amazing! To see these one a gay couple portrayed as loving and non dysfunctional on prime time television was a freshening change. And to see two people so much in love (yes I know it’s not reality) but it gives everyone a bit of hope. Plus u get to cry. AND to top it off Rachael Cantu’s song “Devils Thunder” was played in the episode. Seriously check her music out. I love her and wish I could have seen her show this week. Work prevented that too.

The second episode was from two weeks ago and in this one a retired physician is dying from pancreatic cancer and before it gets worse he asks Pete and Taye Diggs character to help him die. Of course there’s debate but that’s not what this post is about. The man was a player, and as he says really lived life and always lived for the moment. But in his dying breaths he focuses on the fact that he’s now alone. No wife, no children, no lover and all but the two doctors are all the friends he has left. Literally he’s dying alone. Just before his time comes he says, ” No one will remember me. It’s like I was never here.” Ok, I’m not a real emotional person, but I sat in my edit bay crying. Second to freaking out one morning and wondering how the fuck this became my life ala: Revolutionary Road my second greatest fear is being left entirely alone. It’s a horrible horrible feeling to think that could happen to you. Keep in mind I’m not going to run out and do something drastic and desperate to force this not to happen to me. But I am ferocousily independent and have never leaned on anyone else in my life. It’s me and me alone fighting it out here which can lead to well winding up alone.

On that depressing note….I’m going to go check on my F’ing DVD. Shit I want to go home! I’m soo freakin’ tired right now and still need to file for unemployment tonight. Woooo-hooo! I know you’re all jealous you’re not me right now. Suckers.

Thought I’d share this little story with you all…..For the past week I’ve been stuck in a tiny room w/ my bosses attempting to fake being busy with work when I’m obviously not. This is awkward, tiring, and boring. Each day a very nice girl, Erin, comes and takes our lunch orders. Most of the time I do not order due to financial issues. The past two days I have ordered. Yesterday one boss grabbed my lunch for me. No biggie. Today I get told to get my own. Ok sure. I walk into the kitchen area look around see no food. Oh there’s a bag on the floor maybe it’s in there. Um nope. All the while there’s a table of 4 guys staring at me. Not watching, staring. I know this is in part because there are like 1 girl for every 10 guys and most of the girls aren’t cute or they aren’t nice. Ok fine. I’m eye fodder for the editing nerds. Fine. Still can’t find my lunch. So I start looking in the fridges…um no, just yesterdays leftovers. By this time I know I’m fucking this up and I start getting that ohhh shit this is awkward feeling. Quickly I cover it by grabbing a Lemonade which I didn’t want. Finlay when turning around I see the food on a table apart from the kitchen. Ok great, first problem solved. Shit. Everything in numbered and our order paper isn’t htere listening my number! I stand there like a moron for a few minutes then sort of guess hmm….there’s 3 salads guess I get to open all three to find mine. finally food! Grabbing a fork and napkin I hurry my awkward ass out of there.

Ohh it’s not over yet. Salad is huge. I’m siting on an uncomfy couch and having to eat off the coffee table. Every other bite I’m dropping food on the carpet and discretely attempting to pick it up. Finally my boss notices and gives me a look like is she for real? Sadly yes. This is my awkward life. Dear God I hope I find someone who thinks this is funny and cute otherwise I am doomed. Now back to my elephant sized salad……