Sunday, June 20 :::
Been working "alot" lately, enough to keep myself busy in between trips to Best Buy (got myself an iPod), and sleep. My bed here at home has given me some weird sleep problems. It doesn't really support my back enough, and my neck was so sore last night that I started to develop a sharp headache in the early morning. It sucks, so I'm working on configuring my bed to best last me while I'm here for the next... month.
I sent out about seven resumes today to different editing firms in the Los Angeles area. Most of them seemed of "entry level" or thereabouts, so I'm hoping I can land one of these positions that should be paying out 30-35 grand a year. I'll be a very happy camper if I get a phone call in the next two weeks regarding my resumes.
::: posted by Matt at Sunday, June 20, 2004
Tuesday, June 15 :::
I'm all moved back home, but there is still a ton of shit in my room that doesn't even belong to me. This spawned an argument between my mother and I, and even though we're on good terms now, I want to be out of here by the summer. There is just so much in this house that it is so unorganized that it is driving me up the wall. I still haven't been able to set up my computer yet because there isn't ANY free space in this house.
All this spawned a quasi-frantic (and semi-depressing) job search in the LA area. Sent a few resumes here, joined a few agencies there (monster, la times career finder), and I just hope that I can secure a job to come home to after I'm done with the Eurotrip.
I went to the Credit Union yesterday and opened a checking account, which was sort of a step into the "adult" world those speeches kept alluding to on Friday night. I also got a nifty check card for Europe. Went to Best Buy today and got myself the Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs along with Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2. I'm going to go back on Friday and get myself an iPod once my Visa goes active on the check card.
Watched Harry Potter last night with Wes, Emily, and Amanda Stone. We're supposed to go see Prisoner sometime this week, but I haven't heard a damn thing, which tells me that I really am back in Redlands, ha.
The post-graduation pangs of nostalgia and depression are starting to wear off, despite how much I've tried to get myself sad over the whole deal. I mean, I was really broken up about it for the first day or so, but after that I realized that I had bigger things to worry about-- my damn passport hasn't come yet, I'll be unemployed with a degree (something you can apparently do a lot with... if it's your specialization when you go for some sort of Master's) by the end of July, and my checking account will dry up very quickly if I don't have some sort of job to keep funneling it paychecks.
"Real World", right. I watched that the other night. It still sucks.
::: posted by Matt at Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Saturday, June 12 :::
Graduation, if you let it, can be very depressing. That and if all your friends are staying behind for another year or two. But enough of that! I have pictures!
I love my dog!
Right before graduation, in the rose garden.
Back at the dorm, after the ceremony.
That's me, some black chick we picked off the street for the picture, and Will. JUST KIDDING! That's Amber in the middle, one of my best friends from Cal Poly. Will was my roommate second half of sophomore year and I got him to switch his major to English. Score one for the CLASS team, ha!
The C6 knows my mom makes a big deal out of these sorts of things...
Painfully ironic...
All better!
The other ones I look ugly with red faces, double chins, and the like, so that's all you get!
::: posted by Matt at Saturday, June 12, 2004
Thursday, June 10 :::
Residents are finally moving out and it's a damn relief, except that it takes up my time. I should be cleaning up my room and getting it ready to leave on Monday, but I'm lazy and there's shit everywhere, and man, I just don't feel like starting yet. It should be relatively easy to pack up anyway. I just need to figure out where to store my English books. I haven't sold books back to the bookstore ever, heh.
Oh yes, of course. I graduate tomorrow! It should be fun. The family is coming down here around 4:30, and we'll be going to dinner, taking pictures and all that fun stuff. Afterward, I'm going out to have fun. I've been quite nervous lately about finding myself a stable job after graduation. I mean, I should be fine before I go to Europe, but when I get back, it's really time to get serious. If there's one thing I could do in my college career, it would be for me to apply to more grad schools, and do a little more research on job opportunities. I will be allowed to go to the career center over the summer, so I'll plan on coming in every once in a while for help finding jobs.
I also want to write more over the summer. In particular, work with Cory in developing his "Bluefields High" scripts, and working on my own opus story. I always have figured the best way to develop ideas is to get the basic plot outlined and have a solid ending set up. Well, I've got the plot just about hammered out, and I've been very happy with the ending I came up with. All I need to do now is to put it all into words. Hopefully, my degree will help me in that area.
There's a few things I want to get after graduation, gifts to myself: an iPod, the ATHF DVDs, and some clothing. If I let myself loose in Best Buy or Hollister, I could easily reach my credit card limit. Movies to look forward to this summer: Dodgeball (so I warmed up to it...), Fahrenheit 9/11 (liberal left at its best!), Spiderman 2, King Arthur, Anchorman, The Bourne Supremacy--oh shit, Europe after this! The Villiage will be long out by the time we get back...
I've rambled enough! Godspeed Cory (and MAtt)! We did it!
::: posted by Matt at Thursday, June 10, 2004
Tuesday, June 1 :::
It's been a while since I've posted. Might as well get this thing updated before I turn 100.
The RA Evaluations are going around the upper management, and I've gotten consistent mediocre marks. I won't contest that. I've done a mediocre job this past quarter. To my credit, my interest in the job dropped drastically when they fired my friend and beloved (to both the staff and the residents) staff member. After that point, three of us on staff just stopped caring. The system is fucked, so we pretty much stopped caring. My door was no longer open for residents to say hi as they passed by (not like they did in the first place...). The only legitimate claim on my evaluation is that I didn't follow through with an effort to get to know my residents. I'll man up to that one. I'm one shy sonofabitch, and I told them that in my interview. I suppose I should go on with my sentiments that I don't care. But the fact of the matter is that I DO care. I care what people think about me. So the question is if I should make excuses for my lack of effort in this position, or shall I just bend over and take it?
To the flip side of that one, I'm graduating in about two weeks. That certainly is expected to be exciting, and it sure as hell makes up for the shit I'm putting up with right now as an RA. I woke up in a panic this morning, realizing that I wouldn't be seeing my friends I met her for a long time, if not at all. A slightly depressing though, and I do intend on keeping in touch, whether it be through AIM or what not, but the fleeting despair that I feel about leaving my buddies behind is really starting to get to me.
Speaking of friends, some of the C6 spent Saturday night hangin' and drinking. It was a good time, and I sure as hell enjoyed hanging out with life-long friends, in a group, again. It seems that through these past four years we have pretty much hung out over the summer, and sparse break times during the school season. We are THE Boys of Summer, and I truly feel like that song is our group's theme song, despite Justin's nomination for "Lovely Buch of Coconuts." While I don't indulge myself in the beverage drinking for our get-togethers, I'm constantly enthralled by the alocohol selection. I mean, it's just FUN to stare at bottles and bottles of booze. Certainly, before our group again disperses after the summer is over (and I know D is going to be spending lots of time in San Diego), I'd suggest we make a little field trip to a place known as BevMo, the Costco of liquor stores!
I'm also running a new internet browser called FireFox, and I highly suggest its use over Internet Explorer.
...and to think could have spent this time devoted to my would-be-joke-of-a-geography paper.
::: posted by Matt at Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Tuesday, May 11 :::
Cool. Blogger has a new format. "Dashboard." I salute you, blogger. *salutes*
Pai Mei would be proud of me. I just ate a whole bowl of Chinese food with chopsticks. Took me long enough to learn. Now only if I could break through wood that lies two inches from my fist...
::: posted by Matt at Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Wednesday, May 5 :::
FATkins Diet
::: posted by Matt at Wednesday, May 05, 2004
