Quando tutto l' altro viene a mancare, fare un' indagine
I woke up today with a feeling of peace. I can't remember the dreams nor can I remember the resolution but it still feels good.
Tomorrow, I will pull myself out of this funk and go over to the mall and put in applications at every restaurant there, whether they have a help wanted sign or not.
But enough of that. I saw a survey on the Blowing Bubbles site (see my link list at the bottom of this page) and decided it would be fun to add it in here, so enjoy:
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About fifteen years ago, I...
-was almost sixteen (April 6th, mark your calendars)
-was living in a vile nuclear power plant town in Pennsylvania
-was getting bit parts in the school play, thus making friends amongst the drama crowd
-my mom had gone from being a teacher to becoming a technical writer
-my brother, who was a senior in the same high school, had a mental breakdown in this same vile school.
About ten years ago I...
-had moved to San Francisco
-was working as a messenger
-lived in a residential hotel in the hip neighborhood of north beach
-had begun drinking coffee
-had my first boyfriend
About five years ago I...
-was working as a topless dancer
-was living in Austin, Texas
-shared an apartment with my virgin mormon stripper friend.
-had abandoned all sense of idealism toward the world.
-had begun to make friends and trust people after a long period of feeling fucked over.
About two years ago I...
-Moved in with Rob in the humboldt park neighborhood of Chicago
-had my 29th birthday, with all the angst that goes with it
-began going to all kinds of fine restaurants and swank bars
-lost my sister (as of July)
-got my first real corporate job.
About one year ago, I...
-Had a turning thirty crisis, and left chicago to go to most hated Kalamazoo
-resolved to return to school
-went to Italy with Rob and my father (June/July)
-learned that I was not cut out for small town life
-Got a job doing customer service for a bank, and vowed to never again work in a corporate environment unless it was doing my dream job.
Today, I...
-am living in Detroit, in a much nicer apartment with Rob and our two cats
-am currently unemployed
-have an art show next month at my father's gallery space
-just got into Wayne State
-am torn between studying the more practical field of journalism, or pursuing my passion and studying painting.
Tomorrow I will....
-send the card I bought to my other sister, Emily
-do the background for my animated short, "Kalamazombies"
-paint
-go to the mall and apply for more jobs
-clean the apartment.
Five items you have brand loyalty to...
-Sanrio
-Macintosh
-Dick Blick's art supplies
-Swatch
-Max Factor's Lipfinity line
Five songs you know the words to, even without the music...
-The Goblin soundtrack to Suspiria
-Lay Me Low, Nick Cave
-Horsey, Current 93
-Psychopharmacology, Firewater
-Like a Friend, Pulp
Five games you like...
-The Tenchi Muyo drinking game
-Chase the cats around the apartment game
-Videotape the cat around the apartment game
-The "sit at a coffeehouse with a metro times desperately looking for something to do" game
-The "Guess That Zombie Movie" game
Five things you can't live without...
-my paint supplies
-absolut mandarin
-coffee!coffee!coffee!
-my Sunday night ritual of The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, The Practice and The Chris Isaak show
-another trip to Italy with Rob
Five things you'd buy with a thousand dollars...
-A scooter
-Some really big canvas and a lot of paints, so I could try my hand at painting something huge
-a really nice dinner at a famous Italian restaurant in Chicago
-new clothes
-a trip to visit my Dad
My top five guilty pleasures...
-The Practice
-Rob's cooking
-my novel in progress
-hanging out in really swank lounges
-subways, which is why I need to get back to a city with a mass transit system
Top five musicians lately...
-Goblins
-Current 93
-Firewater
-Nick Cave
-Death in June
-Liz
-everyone affiliated with Valley. God, I hated that school!
-Providian
-Ameritech
-whoever is responsible for "Sex in the City" and its recent network bastard child on NBC
Name five animals you like...
-cats
-monkeys
-penguins
-racoons
-pugs
Name five tv shows you like...
-The Practice
-Six Feet Under
-Crossing Jordan
-Law and Order
-Scrubs
