What Would Katie Do?

"I'm technically proficient, despite certain attitude issues."

Today's Top Ten:

1. If you don't have a tide pen, get one. I use it for everything, and it works for just about everything. Like today, I used it to (successfully) get two spots of oil paint out of my favorite jacket. sweeet.

2. date + tickets = SDD. unfortunately, i'm missing both pieces of this equation. I could buy my ticket. but I haven't yet. I guess I'm hoping my friend will change her mind. It's gonna suck to sit at dinner alone (obviously not alone, per se, but alone in the sense that I'll be the only one at the table without a "date" in either sense of the word.) boo.

3. jobsearching. it's not fun. don't do it.

4. narrowed down to two more specific tattoo designs. i need to fine-tune both of them a little before i decide.

5. if you're going to come to a school like macon, and if you're going to sign up to be a part of traditions, DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO THEM LATER. Don't complain about having to get up for a stomp, especially not to me. Don't complain about having to come back early from your weekend excursion for a sunday night meeting of whomever. Don't fuss about the stupidity of traditions centered around celebrating the existence of the very institution you are recieving your education. And if you're going to complain about how all of your involvement is suddenly incredibly inconvenient, don't turn around and trash talk other, more committed people for making decisions you don't like, when you didn't bother to show up.
*stepping off soapbox now*

6. dear canada post, where is my black hockey hoodie? can it be here tomorrow? i know i haven't reached the end of the estimated shipping time, but i'm impatient. i want to wear it, now. thanks!!!!

7. need cheering up? try this website: CuteOverload.com
---> yes i checked the link. yes it works. these folks won a Webby; give them a chance!

8. Evens: they're what's for dinner.

9. Props to dr schwartz for cancelling class today, in honor of his birthday (which was last week) and because he didn't have any classes to cancel for macdoodle day. seriously. PROPS.

10. Happy Hump Day. please celebrate appropriately :)

i think it's best we do a little bit of stopping

I've found several new jobs to apply for today.
Problem= they're not in DC. As a matter of fact, they're in New York for the most part. One in Arkansas. One in Boston.
I'm not sure I like the idea of New York. I love the city -to visit- but the cost of living is so high, and I'll be making so little money that I'm not convinced I would enjoy my life enough to make it worth it. And Boston isn't bad, but it is cold. The idea of learning a new city the size of Boston isn't all that appealing either, especially since I don't have any friends living or moving there.
I do, however, like the idea of Seattle (forgiving the fact that it is on the west coast.) Lots of culture, close to cool canadians, plenty of coffee, young crowd, and cheeeeaaaaap in comparison to east coast cities. And liberal. Honestly, most of the jobs in NY that I am going to apply for ask for salary requirements. What do I say to that?

"Hi, could you pay me enough to live in an apartment in a not-sketchy area, close to a subway stop and a park, so that I'll have enough money to take yoga classes and guitar lessons and buy organic food? Thanks!"

yeah right. they would laugh and toss my otherwise extraordinarily qualified application right out their 36th story high-rise window (metaphorically speaking. i'm not an idiot. i know those windows don't actually open, and are several inches thick made to withstand heavy wind forces and all types of weather.)
DC is green. open. shorter buildings. not as far from open spaces, and by open spaces i'm not talking about ritzy fairfax. a short drive to rural MD, VA, or WV. Far, but not too far from home. and my friends!

face it. i'm a tree-hugging animal loving punky liberal intellectual looking to schmooze with members of the same. and i'm facing a conflict, because the jobs i'm qualified for/want are not in the city i want to live in. boo.



I'm still working on the tattoo design. I might end up employing the known talents of one of my friends to help me out with it, because my sketches really aren't doing my vision justice. And goodness knows I'm not going to get it permanently attached to my body if it isn't perfect.

i'm off to buy my black hockey hoodie, read the last 20 pages of my book and sleep. I have to churn out a thesis by 9:30 tomorrow, lest I miss the deadline and get into shit with my professor.
i ask myself, why did i want to venture into uncharted academic waters for my final semester? why?!

look out for artwork pictures soon.

peace out.