Can't. Sleep. Anyone wanna talk?

[StellaBlue]

:/

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Sure.

What's up? :hi:

[StellaBlue]

2. I've had a shit day.

Mildly, comparatively, but still shitty.

Broke it off with someone I really liked, got a rejection from a job that had been verbally offered to me, and now I can't sleep.

I did go to a pretty good house party, though... which made me feel simultaneously really young and really old. haha!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. I'm sorry.

:hug:

I wouldn't worry about the job, though. I've had job problems for awhile now, but I'm moving soon, so it'll be better, just like it will for you.

[StellaBlue]

4. Yeah, I just moved

Finally got out of East Texas, thanks be to God.

But my job offer fell through, I'm in massive student and comparatively bad credit card debt, and jobs are hard to come by at the moment. I gotta find something within a month or I'm toast. Out on the street.

So... what are YOU up to???

Thanks for the hugs.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Where in East Texas did you live?

I used to live in Central Texas.

I have some credit card debt, too, but nothing too bad. I've paid off about half of it so far.

In a month and a half, I'll be out of Los Angeles, and I'll be in NYC in a few months to live permanently. Currently, my job sucks, and I even posted about it yesterday, but it'll be done with soon, so that's good. I can't wait till I get to NYC, though.

[slybacon9]

6. what do you do?

sorry to intrude guys... im a newly unemployed insomniac as well... San Diego.

[StellaBlue]

8. Moi?

Nothing, at the moment. I have an MA in Art History, had a variety of jobs... mostly I'm looking for something editorial/communications. It's all just so political. I can't get anywhere with the few decent openings that come up. I wish I'd known how much life sucked back when I was 17. I'd have bought a house back then instead of wasting $45,000 going to college. I'd be rich now.

[slybacon9]

13. Where'd you get your MA?

Just wondering... I'm an artist. Yeah. I skipped grad school because i couldn't reconcile the loss of that much money and i was over institutions. I went to residencies instead. you still using your art history?

[StellaBlue]

York

Interdisciplinary program within English dept, but wrote my dissertation on women surrealists. Yeah, blah, I know. Haven't used it. At all.

[slybacon9]

21. That's not so bad.

Furry teacups and such? Could be way worse.....

[StellaBlue]

22. yeah

I wanted to get a PhD in British Lit., and decided to study modernism because my undergrad work was in late 19thC. But I completely burned out on all the BS. Academia is not really viable as a profession anymore, either... not for newcomers. Too unstable, especially considering the financial outlay to get a PhD. Etc.

[slybacon9]

25. what's crazy is the volume of grad school students still being pumped out

little art puppy dogs all thinking they will have a job.

what they will have is bills. and on my end, the galleries just sit at the the gates of the school and wait to see what immature "fresh newcomer" they can exploit. It's Art Inc. now... just like any corporation out there.

[StellaBlue]

27. ain't that the truth

I am going to drop out, 1960s style, and become a professional revolutionary/dissident. I hate to quote Kinky Friedman, but, seriously, why the hell not?

[slybacon9]

31. well, funny, but its pretty much what i do now...

i'm kinda like the guy in office space now. i just decided i don't really want to work anymore for anyone. and so far, its working. actually, technically i never have been employed by anyone. i was always contracted. free agent style. I've done some weird shit. As an artist, you get used to it. it's weird, really weird... but as far as lame cliches go... im ALMOST starting to believe you can just do what you really want....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. I work in the entertainment industry.

Not an actor or director, but that's all I can tell you. ;)

[slybacon9]

14. you live in LA

of course you do! :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. Only until July.

:D

[slybacon9]

24. good for you! get the hell OUT of there.

I've lived next to it forever. i try to explain to people in other places what hellA is like. They think I'm lying.

The worst part of LA: Flying back into LAX over the rest of LA. Sprawling concrete suburbia. White orange sky. dirty ocean. just crap.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. Where in SoCal are you?

[slybacon9]

29. Lovely Oceanside

Last great outpost of the wild west.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Cool!

[slybacon9]

32. HA.

congrats on being the first person to ever respond that way to anyone saying they live in Oside.

Honestly, i love it. I'm actually in the very early stages of working with a major producer to do eposodic 5 minute docs on this place though. For ipods and the like. As the last real beach town left in california. It's a crazy place Oside, reminiscent of the cantina scene in star wars.

[slybacon9]

34. o

don't kill me for saying major producer. (he is though, so its weird)

[StellaBlue]

7. Congrats!

I would think NYC would be far superior to LaLaLand, except for the weather. Being a Southern girl myself, I couldn't really be handling that.

I lived in North East Texas. It sucks. Very long story. Told on here before.

Yeah, I am not too bothered by the debt, really. I figure I could hit tomorrow by a bus, right? I gotta live my life. I had to incur a bunch of credit card debt because my partner left me about a year ago and I didn't get shit blah blah blah... had to start all over. I would rather have the debt than him, though!!!

I can't believe it's 4:30. I got home at 2am. Was tired, now WIIIIDE awake.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. I went to college in Sherman.

And NYC is way better than L.A. IMHO -- the weather's great, too, because I LOVE cold weather. I can't stand this 24/7 California sun out here.

I lived in the South most of my life, but I was born in Brooklyn, so it's like I'm returning home, in a way.

:D

[StellaBlue]

11. ooooh Austin College

I bet that was boring as all get-out.

Sounds like you have a really interesting background.

Where did you live in the South?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Mississippi and Texas.

So my life has been New York --> Mississippi --> Texas --> California --> New York.

:rofl:

[Droopy]

15. How are you, StellaBlue? Did you get a tatoo?

:)

[StellaBlue]

16. Oh, no! Not yet.

Giving it plenty of thought first. I'm going to wait until the summer's over, anyway, because I don't want to stay out of the pool while it heals! :)

[StellaBlue]

18. Oh my god.

It's 4:45am! What the hell?!

[Droopy]

19. It's 5:45 here. I just got out of bed

I've frequently expressed an interest in getting a tatoo. Usually when I'm drunk. When I sober up I get more conservative about the body ink. Good thing I never walked into a tatoo parlor with a few beers in me. ;)

[Random_Australian]

20. I'm here. Well, soonish, the next reply might take a while.

You sound like you need a hug :hug:

[StellaBlue]

23. Thanks

I could also use a doughnut. Or, better yet, doughnut holes. But, alas, I am already in bed in pyjamas.

I am going to be dead tomorrow. Good thing I don't have a job, eh?! haha

[StellaBlue]

26. Okay, thanks for the talk and hugs.

I'm going to attempt to sleep before the sun comes up.

I am in a weird, weird limbo mood. I feel like NOTHING is EVER going to happen. Weird.

[slybacon9]

33. you know...

that's just when it does happen though. No need to fan it, but just don't let that last ember go out either.