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evilhippo ([personal profile] evilhippo) wrote2007-07-10 11:20 am

... Yay?

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.

[identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] evilhippo.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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. (-:

[identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] evilhippo.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] evilhippo.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] evilhippo.livejournal.com 2007-07-11 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.

^_^

[identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com 2007-07-11 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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!