Ciao le mie amici!! So everyone can exhale (since I know you've been holding your breath until you've heard from me) I've made it to California in one piece. This blog creation and inital post comes from a half inflated air mattress balancing oh so delicately on top of a few couch cushions in the corner of my new bedroom in Camarillo, CA. I was about 1/3 of the way through a bottle Pinot Grigio listening to my new roommate play techno music and make drug deals (yes, he is a drug dealer, but all in all a top notch guy-very kind-he just really likes ecstacy, we all have our habits...and no I'm actually NOT kidding) when I said to myself-Self I bet all of your friends want to hear about your thrilling new life you'd better start a blog pronto!
This must be the place huh. Yes. It is. Welcome to my head friends.
So after three days of anticipation, $105.67, and three gnarly de-tox drinks I've finally taken the final step in the decision of me keeping this job-the drug test. I must say between tropical, lemon-lime and mandarine de-tox flavor drinks.....the mandarine takes the cake. It reminded me vaguely of a melted otter pop, which sort of brought me back to my childhood. Who'd a thought that trying to clear the weed out of my system would bring me back to my days as a youngin'. Well I guess I did grow up in Rock Springs, WY...eh.
As far as actual work goes I'm totally diggin' it. My boss and co-workers are pretty laid back surprisingly and I've already edited a video that will be up on the Web site soon, and got to go along on another shoot today. The shoot today was a sort of promo type thing for the humane society- a little random-but I did get to play with kittens. I think it was good for me though since I've had a bad taste in my mouth (or odor in my olfactory I guess) for similar places since doing community service my junior year of high school for an M.I.P. This time around proved to be a much better experiece as I did NOT have to clean up cat poop or sort random piles of shit in the basement for the crazy lady that worked there to have a garage sale. Actually this lady was pretty cool. She reminded me of Kathy Bates a little bit. Not like a Misery Kathy Bates, like Titanic Kathy Bates. She restored my faith in the sanity of human society workers. Thanks Janine, I was worried there for a few years....oh and I put a kitten in my pocket....
Ok I'm now 1/2 through that Pinot and need to go to fucking sleep. Man it is WAY easier to smoke a joint than plow through a bottle of booze, but it's ok because I'm a champion.
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Drinking wine, I should add that to the list of stuff I do in the evening. Without Internet or tv I'm going to bed earlier and earlier.
ReplyDeleteAlso I just finished my first video too. Actually it's the first video that will ever go up on the website. Ironically it's worse than those videos we made for MJR.
Keep blogging I'll be reading at work.
Cate I fuckin love that you have a blog nerd...i meant to tell you I have the whiskey jack gave you and i think mason's pocket knife (ill try bringin both next weekend).
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the job is working out so far. And of course your roommate would be a drug dealer! drugs and their people seem to have a way of finding you
Anyways we get into San Diego (me and kerr and katie dutli) the night of the 11th and are there until the night of the 14. Come visit (if you can get away from work).
glad you made it safe!
At first when I read the word "promo" i might have thought i saw "porno" it was a bit weird for a sec...i mean really, a humane society porno...thats just weird.
ReplyDeletehaha yeah...I'm not sure I would have stayed actually if one of my first assignments had been a humane society porno...very creepy
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