... Yay?

[evilhippo]

That actually went rather well. Phew. I'll know if I get a real face-to-face interview in a couple of days. Here's hoping... Fingers and toes crossed and all that... and I rather much do want this job now, because the person doing the interviewing was really nice and the company, despite the fact that it's like, home decor catalogs, sounds rather fun. (Perhaps it's the appeal of working around people who have to live off of being at least somewhat creative.) Of course, if I get the job I have to move to the north side, because it's in Skokie. And that's a more-than-two-hour commute from here... which I can survive for a few months, but don't want to continue for more than that. And... and... publishing experience! It'd actually be a useful job.

And, so unrelated it's not even a tangent, but I checked my e-mail a second ago and there it was... I must go to the Hideout Block Party in September, and people should come with me because it's good music (mostly because of Saturday, and not just because of Andrew Bird). And in case I haven't mentioned the free Decemberists concert in Millennium Park with the Grant Park Orchestra on the 18th, that's also going to be awesome (and free)... yeah. Omg. I actually would've held it against my friend who's getting married if I'd had to be back home during that. And I honestly just nervously checked when it started in case, on the off-chance I was employed, it was at a time I couldn't make it. Because it's the Decemberists for free with the orchestra. That is important.

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[look-alive.livejournal.com]

DECEMBERISTS! ORCHESTRA! 18th of what month? WHAT MONTH?! AAAAAUGH!!!!

And get used to creative people. You'll be living with two artists.
Enjoy that!~

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

This month, alas. Well, not so much alas for me. Buuut if you want to come up and visit Chicago... (except it's a Wednesday).

That's why I'm living with two artists. Or part of it. ^_^

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

DANGIT! *sobs* Oh well. They tour almost constantly. They'll be back through, or else I'll just catch them when I go to the Portlandish area whenever that occurs. Or when we do. Or... some variation of we. Heh.

Well that's good to hear. I'm staring work drawing pages for Triptych today, so if you want to get input in, you miiiiiiight wanna start. Otherwise, I think I have it basically in hand.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they come through all the time. I've got such a list of concerts I want to go to now... probably because it's been ages since I checked the listings. It looks like this fall is going to be interesting.

Hummm... if you have it basically in hand, that's probably best. I'm really not on top of things enough to take on writing again yet. I got as far as working through character motivations in the first scene, but that's about it (April was being too wishy-washy the way I was writing her, and most of the rest of what I outlined with the arc of the first volume was undoing/explaining that away). So yeah... please don't kill me? And of course, I'm always around for freeform plotting-at, if you happen to need that.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we must got to concerts. WE MUST!

I won't kill you, don't worry. I'm not upset, or anything. I know this is my senior project, I'm not trying to pawn it off. Besides, freeform plotting is always what I need most, anyhow. Did you look at the script mini-writup I did from what you gave me awhile ago? I know I changed like, everything basically. I didn't want that to make you feel like I was just tossing your ideas out. I'm still way inexperienced with the whole scripty thing. I can do it, but drawing from what I write is a whole new deal.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

GOOD. Because there are a lot of concerts to be seen, and many of them are fairly cheap. Which always makes me happy.

Yeah, I looked at it. It's actually what I was working from when I realized that my characterization for April was bothering me. And I don't mind that you changed everything... it's your project, and I definitely have a better idea now of the style/direction you want to go in (in starting things, by default I tend to write them a bit less serious/interesting than they need to be, and with the start I gave you, I basically had no idea where I was going, which meant the things I usually try to establish first didn't come through as well as I thought they would... mostly because that would've taken a lot of work after. So now I know. ^_^). And I'm just as inexperienced with the whole scripty thing... especially since I'm not used to writing things that other people will have to make visual. Which is something that's going to take time for me to work out... I almost never know what my characters look like, and the settings I put them in in my mind are super-generic, just because I'm not much of a visual thinker. So... yes. I'm still in the giant idea cloud stage of writing, rather than anything useful... which means plotting. (-:

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay! Your point in the thread with Lisa was good, though. She's gonna be nineteen, so we need to take that into consideration and I have this feeling that she'll flay me standing if I try to ditch her.

Okay, glad I didn't offend you. And it's my project for the moment, just by the default of senior project. But this was originally joint, remember? Unless you'd rather I take most of the responsibility. I just really appreciate the other brain.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I am saying this to you, and not Lisa, but there are two words that would fix that... (-; (However, most clubs are really, really good at spotting them, and it's totally not worth the risk. It just makes me feel cool to suggest it.)

Of course. I imagine this'll be a lot easier to work out when we're living together, though, since we'll get a feel for how we're working. And my brain is always available. Well... most of the time. Sometimes. It makes an effort to be available.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I know all about those two words. Honestly, I'd say don't risk it. In a big city, it's kind of risky and depending on who catches you, various degrees of doom impend. ...Not that I'm not highly tempted. It's so weird not to need one myself. I still get nervous when I go to bars and they ID me. This guy at one I went to last weekend didn't believe my driver's license was me. *eyeroll*

Oh, definitely. And it'll be easier just to talk and sketch stuff out. I can just draw things to help you visualize. It's much easier to work stuff out that way, and you can see if a panel really will work etc.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are definitely some pretty good fines for that. I mean, a friend of mine got bounced out of a concert for a sip of beer. They're pretty serious here. Well, in the fun places. Things like liquor stores are easy to get a fake ID past. There was one up on 53rd that got shut down this year, and apparently a bunch of people wrote "That's what you get for selling to minors" and the like all over the postings on the doors. (-:

I am looking forward to this.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Cripes! Well, Lisa isn't a drinker, so at least there isn't that to worry over. Meh, we'll find fun stuff. I'm not worried.

Me too! And omg Chief yay! <3

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the only problem I've ever had with not being over 21 is concerts, not being a drinker at all myself... and I've only run into a few that are that silly (most are 18+). And there's no shortage of other fun.

^_^

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same. It always irritated me when apparently you had to drink to go to concerts. Wtf. And yes, lots of other stuff. I'm quite excited about living in a big city!

[linen.livejournal.com]

Oh god that's... that's worth a road trip to Chicago. D: If I had a car, at least. Oh my god. D:

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I really need a teleport device for this sort of thing.

[linen.livejournal.com]

You really do.

[rsiasta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good luck! And don't worry if they make you go through a million interviews or something like that. When my uncle got his new job, it was interview after interview after interview before they hired him. And that was just with the same company.

I should also be down there around that time in September (if all goes well) and I wouldn't mind going to the Hideout Block Party. It'd be a good way to see part of Chicago, and I haven't heard of any of those bands before, so new music too~

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed. The interviewer said she was only calling back three or four people for the next round of interviews, so percentage-wise my chances are probably kind of scary... but I made sure I sounded interested, and I'm pretty over-qualified for what the position actually is, so... hopefully maybe they'll call me back. (-;

Oooh, offering to go to concerts with me is dangerous. I rope people into it and drag them everywhere. I'm going to have to double-check though and make sure it's not 21+... I forget to check those things now that it doesn't matter for me, but a lot of the small concerts I go to are. (And I think the Hideout is particularly silly like that.) Chicago is wonderful for music, though. Andrew Bird is sort of our native indie (sweetheart? bicycle?) dude, and he's absolutely transfixing live. Though he's kind of moved to having a backing band now, so you get less of the one crazy-looking guy with a violin and playback pedals thing... which is a shame, because omg. He's insane.

[rsiasta.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about being over-qualified. I'm over-qualified for where I work and they still hired me. The only downside is I get to lament that my office and art skillz are going to waste as I spill orange soda on my uniform when I take out the trash. Freaking hate taking out the trash.

Dammit, I didn't think of that. And looking at the page, beneath the table, it says all shows are 21 and over. D: I keep forgetting I'm not 21, which is odd, but pretty much all the people I hang out with are that age or older. But even if I can't go to the concert, you can drag me around Chicago anyway. Despite my not going out much here, I do indeed enjoy getting sunshine every once in a while and forgetting to be a hermit.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I hated that at my theatre job, too. Getting covered in pop syrup... accidentally breaking the bag on the way and having to clean the parking lot. Urgh.

And oh, there will be dragging around Chicago. I always love when people come to visit, because I get to act like a tourist, and usually that ends with me discovering something I hadn't seen before, or going someplace I've heard of and haven't been to. We'll need to go to the zoo. The zoo is free, and awesome. Because it's a zoo. ^_^

[rsiasta.livejournal.com]

God, I know what you mean. It's bad when you have that happen just filling up the damn drinks (and ironically, I hate the orange soda one the most because it fizzes like nothing else). I'm kind of happy though that it wasn't the tomato juice stuff from the kitchen. That substance smells particularly vile.

Oh yes, we have to go to the zoo~ I love the zoo, free or not, but that's a bonus. I'm looking forward to Dar coming soon for that reason amongst many. All my friends are from this area so I haven't gotten to drag them anywhere, and I finally get to do that with someone from out of state. It's going to be exciting.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'm counting myself lucky that there weren't many food substances I had to deal with at the theatre. The butter wins for vileness, though, on account of not being butter at all.

That's kind of why I'm glad I got out of where I was. Not only was there no wonder to being a tourist there, but now I can bring my friends from home here and drag them around.