I decided to make some more LOST-related arts, I shall put this behind a cut for it is most dramatic and would be upsetting to learn if you were 20 episodes behind.

( BENRY... doesn't always... have a plan. )

In other news, I am really upset at myself. I have this back log of entries on my desktop, but I am always too lazy to post! I will amend this later this week. - I hope! I always run out of time with work. ; _ ;

In super special news- ALMOST A YEAR AFTER GRADUATING, I found the strength to write again. My soul felt so crushed and worn after AFI, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to write ever again. And haven't. But today, I wrote just a couple of pages, but it felt right and on my terms. So that's pretty amazing. I have a weird artistic drive, it kind of needs to be handled with care. I can work hard and takes crits, but if I drive it into the ground I go through these depressive creative droughts of nothingness. The past 9 months or so? One of those hideous times.

Anyhow, I have to get out like trout, because it's totally past my bedtime!

ETA: Oh, here is the scene of the drawing, for those curious: bing!

So, I love Benry on LOST. Y'all know about my dreams of my fatherly Benry sitcom though they keep "killing off" my cast (PS re: Alex, I wept inside). The episode before last, was a Benry-centric episode of AMAZING, where he proved once again- though he looks like a baby shrimp, he kicks ass without taking names.

Anyhow, I was reading the hawmazing LOST recaps over at ack_attack and came across a new name for Benry I could not let go.

( And that name was Bendiana Jones. )

I STILL have to write up about all that has been going on. Nothing particularly exciting but all rather nice, it's just been very busy lately. With work, I have been trying to figure out my schedule- when do I work out, when do I write, these things.

IN CONCLUSION:

Oooooomg. I have no idea how I am going to stay awake today. I am so beyond exhausted. I seriously need to go nap in my car for an hour or six.

Last night something totally freaked me out and I was up way, way too late.

So, I went to bed, normalish time and was playing some of my Animal Crossing game, like I do, for about 15 minutes before I close off the console. I am playing when I hear this little tiny scratchy noise. I keep playing, and I hear it again.

“Sebastian.” I say.

Then it goes again.

“SEBASTIAN.”

And again.

“SEBASTIAN. STOP IT.”

Again.

Finally, I get up to see what the eff the noise is- and find Sebastian on the floor by the closet… not doing anything. But while I’m right there, I hear the noise again… IN MY CLOSET.

Now Sebastian is fixed on the closet. Ears erect, saucer eyes. – And worse for the past two days, he has been obsessed with my closet. So much so, only hours before I had poked my head it to the side of all my storage containers to see what was so fascinating to an orange kitten and saw there was a, a vent thing, cracked away from the wall. The crack blew air so I thought:, “Oh, I guess he likes the air,” because it smelled like outside or something.

Now, as I stood outside my closet door at 1AM listening to weird scratches, I realized, “crap.” It wasn’t the air. It probably was some animal.

I got my flashlight and kept peering into the depths. This is my storage closet, so I have several large containers stacked together which I normally use for moving. It’s kind of a pain to move them, but I also didn’t want to move anything if it was keeping some creature trapped within. Though to be honest, I couldn’t tell if the thing was in my closet, or in my closet walls.

Every time I knocked there would be a responsive scratch and this weird, “eeeeeugh eeeeeeeeeugh” noise. I would have thought I was barking, but for Sebastian there, being so attentive, me holding him back.

Needless to say, I was TERRIFIED. I was shaking so hard.

“Eeeeeugh eeeuugh.”

What was it? Rat? Raccoon? Possum? Skunk? Mole? Coyote? Neighbor’s cat?

This wall isn’t an outside one, but an indoor one- the other side is my neighbor’s wall. What the eff?

Should I call my manager? Should I find the creature first? Why wasn’t anyone awake!

I was so scared. You have no idea.

Finally I just bolted the closet door, and plugged up a hole in the baseboard that Sebastian also has been obsessive about as well. Then I left the light on lest it try to get out and even though I was so scared, I crawled back to bed. Finally, Sebastian came back to bed, and I watched him like canary- that is, if IT came back, Sebastian would be the first to notice.

And then I lay wide-eyed for the next hour or more. Also, since I was so tired my cough came back and I had a couple chest rattlers. At one point, there was some frightening coyote/psycho cat cry outside, which brought me back from the brink of sleep and the closet creature came back one more time before disappearing permanently for the rest of the night. Of course, by then it was 3somethingAM, hours after my required bed hour. Then when I finally got to sleep, Sebastian woke me at 5 for his breakfast. And then my alarm went off at 7.

Needless to say, I was all but sleeping at the wheel and almost rolled through a stop sign on my way to work because my eyes were closing. AWESOME.

It is 10:24AM and I am at work until 6. I have no idea how I am going to make it, to be honest. Not to mention, it’s Wednesday and my boss has tons of meetings so I often go for hours without assignment or direction. (I can never tell, if I have no assignment, no boss to ask, do I just sit around and wait for work to come my way?).

But what should I do? About the creature that is. Tell my manager?

“Hi, something is in my closet.”

I find it really hard to believe it’s some sort of pest vermin, just because the building is so well maintained and there’s never even been so much as a roach problem. And with all the cats, I can’t even believe it would be mice. NOT to mention, there was no way the sounds that were emanating from my closet space were that of a mouse unless it’s 3 feet long.

Anyway I am totally afraid of my closet right now.


I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY: Thank you Trailer_spot, for being there on AIM in my time of need, when the Closet Thing tried to eat my world.

Also, I just went to the bathroom and nodded off in the stall. Today is going to last FOREVER.

Man, I think I was warding off illness all last week. I am so dumb and didn’t recognize it at the time… beyond being really slow and having clogged ears and swollen tonsils. Over the weekend though, after a HEROIC effort at this writing group meeting I was involved with, my body finally just died and exploded in on itself. I had the 3-decade smoker voice, runny nose… and now today at work I am being, “one of THOSE people” who is just hacking and hacking and hacking at my desk. And popping my ears. Though no one else has to hear that one.
Despite that sounding bad, I feel SO much better, now that the illness is sort of here, than I did last week when my body was fighting and fighting and fighting it off. - Though I am but an hour into this workday, so I MIGHT be jumping the gun in the “I FEEL AWESOME” category.

BTW. I am waiting on feedback. I do this a lot, so I’ve taken to writing 20-20 hindsight entries about things. My birthday, Valentines, perverts, those sorts of things.

I’ll post them as they come up!

( This weekend. )

Oh man. So my crap ass thesis, the one I had nothing to do with besides monetarily supporting it with all my loved one’s thousands of dollars, showed at the AFI Showcase down at the Arclight theatre and now I am getting letters about it in my email. This is just why I wanted my name off the film. People are going to think I wrote it, when it’s the opposite of anything I want to write.

( Enchanted. )

BTW I AM EATING LUNCH.

God I am coughing so much. It’s like my pet peeve coming to work and doing this, it’s so disgusting and inconsiderate.

I have been writing this all day long, y’all.

Christ. Now I have an email from the DEAN about the fesis. He’s like a success vulture. Something does well and he flies over to you, like a huge dark buzzard//rubbing his hands like Mr. Burns, to say, “I’ve always supported you and LOVE your work.”

Sure. Whatever. I’ll never forgive you for the thesis insult, AFI.

ANYHOW.

( P2... ROCKS. )

( Animal Crossing foreverrrr. Plus other things. )

SO FASCINATING.

10 more minutes.

Happy birfday, trailer_spot!

Wow, I have so much to do today but I DID write down, “write LJ entry” on my to-do list, so I am going to start here. Mostly because it means I don’t have to get up from my chair or change out of my sweats.

This is most important.

So where to start.

Oh!

First, this is me:





Because I SO got a job.

( Job Deets. )

( A fine romance with no Visas. )

Sigh, I don’t know. Just really complicated and it all makes me very unhappy.

Here are some things that make me happy though- I had a pretty awesome week last week with tons of visitors!

( Sinnottflicks, Iwasfakin and Destroyerzooey encounters of the third kind. )

Btw, here is Destroyerzooey’s comic being adapted into a movie. They just officially cast Michael Cera a while ago. How neat is that?

( Sunburn's birthday extravaganza. )

( The good chemists of the North. )

Me just this second: Sebastian, don’t eat dirt.

Anyhow, I was going to write about my TOE FROM HELL. But I think I’ll save that for an injury post, since I never wrote about my teeth trauma from the fall and that would be a nice coupling. Not to mention this post is like 1400 years long.

But before I take off, I just have to mention- when I was drawing the Benry/Alex illustration, I had another Youtube movie fest. I watched, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (they DO NOT make kids movies as awesome as that anymore. I cried again when [SPOILER!] Anty died), “Annie” (did you know in the new one, I watched the 1982 one, but in the new one Annie has straight hair? Wtf is up with that noise?) and “Little Shop of Horrors” (MY GOD a fine musical).

I love it so.

BTW: If ANYONE has the movie soundtrack to “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” I’ll do just about anything to get a few songs from it. iTunes doesn't have it, the library doesn't have it and I can't justify that Amazon purchase!

Also, that Walt illustration from last entry? So I left that on the scanner all-in-one and I GUESS, Sebastian went and sat on it and all the buttons, thus COPYING it 10,000 TIMES. Because I went to use some paper last night and pulled out the drawing from the stack and was all, “how did this get here?” then I saw the next page also had the sketch.

ME: How did this get here?

(five seconds)

ME: WHY IS THIS ON ALL THE PAGES OF PAPER?

So yes, if you need a copy of that picture, I have about 600.

Fin.

Oooh, I just had a very, very fun day- which I'll have to report later, but just a quick shout out to iwasfakin, destroyerzooey and sinnottflicks! Thank you all for the wonderful day! Seriously, that was probably the most fun I've had in months. Thank you super so much for lunch and I hope I wasn't too embarrassing with Sebastian! Normally, leashing up is a process of me standing by the door and him running in circles getting ever closer. I thought, "people don't need to see this," and so just saddled him up while he was still. Hehe.

And iwasfakin, I should have showed you the Cheepcheeps' nest on my bookshelf! You would remember the story probably from LJ- dang it!

Anyhow, shall report things later. Am running around like a chicken without a head fiddling getting things done because I have to go out again this evening.

YEYZ.

( I made Lost Arts! )

And dang it, I was going to post my old AFI assignment of writing an episode for a TV show with this, but now am too lazy to find it. I wrote Rousseau's flashback episode. It was before Alex was discovered, so it's all about that story. Originally I didn't care about the class, so tried to write the most procedural show in the universe and chose, "Cold Case" - aka the worst show EVER- and a real-life forensic case about a storage locker that had a bunch of murdered mummified babies stored away in boxes. When my soul couldn't take trying to fake out an episode of "Cold Case" I switched to "Lost," but I kept the plot device of mummy babies packed away in boxes.

THE FUN.

I also got my favourite bit of praise for the episode, when my professor said I nailed Hurley's voice.

ME: Dude.

Oh man, I have been sitting here colouring a picture watching movies on Youtube all evening. And not just any movies. All the "Legally Blonde" movies and "Zoolander."

I love "Zoolander" so hard. Some people strive to be the next Polanski. Make those films that make a statement which shall reverberate throughout time. Me? I so aspire to make a "Zoolander" type movie. What could be better? Make a movie with all your friends and family, on your own dime, make millions-- sounds like the American Dream® to me!
Man, that movie is so funny. Seriously. And why do I always forget Will Ferrell is in it?

I also watched "Legally Blonde," which is also kind of up there in that vein of genius. The bend and snap, when the manicurist busts the dude's nose makes me cackle. "Legally Blonde II" is pretty stupid, sadly, but Reese remains cute. Up until Zoolander, I spent over two hours, vehemently wishing I was Elle Woods.

But yes, now I am up for the long hall because I have to finish the picture I started.

What's another stupid, brilliant film I could watch?

Omg, I know the perfect chaser to this evening. I wonder if, "Clueless" is available.

These types of movies make me feel so much better about life.

ALSO, Blonde fans of the world, there are about a million kergillion "Legally Blonde the Musical" videos available on Youtube, should you need to explore.


(Oh god, "Clueless" IS online. I haven't seen this since highschool!)

(Check that, MIDDLE SCHOOL.)


NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: HOW THE HELL IS PAUL RUDD IN CLUELESS. WHY did no one tell me back in 1995?!


Also, for people who ask why I don't do freeways: last time I did this I totally totaled the car! (So embarrassing). You have no idea how close that clip is to my life, driving-wise.

(I can't believe I stayed up watching these movies).

NOTE FROM THE FUTURE II: Hee! Since it was so late/early, I decided, "heck! If I stay up 30 more minutes, I can wish So. Africa good luck on his new job!" And I did! WOO 5AM.

I really ought to sleep now!

WHAT is this.

Is it just me, or is this the most awkwardly paced clip in the history of the world? Oh. And Flounder would never be part of any underground movement evar!

I would have paid so much money as a child to see Ariel's mum though. I also always thought Triton had red hair, as a side note. I was just in the bathroom brushing my teeth thinking: "I R GEENUS." When I seemed to recall an episode of "Little Mermaid the Series" where King Triton was transformed into a little red head kid. So, less genius more just... loser.

PERTINENT:

OMG WTFWORD. IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE URSULA.

Music, in this film, is a euphemism for drugs?


I am so proud, on a side note, that I have a kitten named Sebastian. Let us take a moment and remember him in smallness.

Then watch this. Which language is your favourite?

(That video just made me cry, I love "Little Mermaid" so much.)

Also, I see Right At Your Door is on iTunes. If anyone is bored and, in particular, an L.A. dwellant, I recommend the first 30 minutes of that film. As a whole, the second half kind of falls apart, though the end twist is funnish. I really thought the first part of the film was really good though. I found their way of keeping things low-budget and cutting of character communications (e.g. cell phones) kind of really simple but nicely innovative.

ME: Remember that in case I write a horror.

PS. I have an interview at the movie poster place! So scared to go to Century City ; _ ; !

PPS. This was my favourite. Even Eric sounds tasty!

PPPS. WHY NOT. I have no idea why I am up listening to multilanguage Disney songs. So. Africa watched "Beatuy and the Beast" with me for his first time on Valentines and I cried so much! I also love "Beauty and the Beast."

Oh god, one more. Belle in her REAL native language.

GASP. I just realized that if I didn't post TODAY I would be missing a very important, very historical moment in time.

Happy Leap Year!

Back home there was a story about a man born on Leap Year Day, and 20 years later, he had a daughter- also born on Leap Year Day! How cute is that? I want to write a story about a girl born on Leap Year Day. Call it Leap Year Girl or some such.

Anyhow. I feel now that this entry has enough content that I can hit, "submit" and swell with great pride that I have posted on this most auspicious of occasions.

PS. I actually have a huge manifesto entry sitting here on my desktop about why Diablo Cody is the bane of my life at the moment. I felt, however, it was too embarrassing and PMSical to post, if some feels the need to know though, let me know.

PPS. OMG. Job call back. It's for a production artist position where the main duties are saving and resizing files.
ME: I CAN SAVE FILES.
One weird question for the phone interview was, "what has your experience been saving files?" - I wasn't sure how to answer. Tedious? Thrilling? I said sometimes there's lots of optimization for web files, other times not so much and it depended on the file.

PPPS. Only on the day that normally doesn't exist would I get a call back!

I thought I would inject this place with a little positivity, which is what I originally wanted to do, before BillGate 08, which happened but mere hours ago yet.

First! I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind words about Uncle Wayne. The funeral was a few days ago. I wasn’t able to go home (too expensive) but all the rest of the family was there, including my aunt from Spain- so that was good. I think everyone is in good spirits, considering the circumstances. I think him hanging in, so ill for a few days, gave the family time to prepare for the worst.

Second! A special shout out to Sayyes. I told her, air_and_angels we’re talking about here, that I didn’t have enough money to buy food. So all the way from NEW ZEALAND, she ordered a couple things from my local grocery store, which showed up at my door this morning. THANK YOU. It made a huge difference and I think I’ll be using that box of Cheerios for the rest of the week! Sayyes iz tru fend.

To celebrate all of my good friends, I have this:





- photo series dedicated to Sebastian enjoyed Sayyes’ food gift. Or rather, enjoying the plastic bags that gift came in.


( More Obligatory Kitten Piccens. )

Thank you all my friends! I love you very much and appreciate you every day. Thank you, thank you.

It's official! I have run out of money! I thought I would take a moment to let everyone know that I have -42 dollars after I pay off this last bill, a near maxed credit card and two thousand dollars in rent and loans due next week!

LOVE IT!

My uncle had a massive heart attack last week and has been fighting to get better ever since. He had ups and peole thought for sure he'd get home last week, but then this weekend, he took a turn for the worse and then he died early this morning.

So this is just a word and a memory for my uncle Wayne. I can't believe he's gone because he was always the strong hearty type who didn't get bothered by things. He was the one who was supposed to live to be 110.

I remember one Thanksgiving, really long ago. I was probably in elementary school, where everyone went on a nighttime walk after dinner. I walked with Uncle Wayne and I remember thinking, "maybe he can be my favourite uncle" because we had such a fun time. Even though, I don't really have favourites nor did I see him all that often, I just remember thinking it once when I was little.

Rest In Peace, Uncle Wayne, all your suffering is done now.

Happy birthday to the prettiest smartest magic pony princess ever, raedances!!

I saw that on a Café Express shirt and it made me laugh and laugh.


Last night was very exciting.


( EXCITING TALES OF NATURE. )

Anyhow, thought people might enjoy the nature tales!

Happy Birfday, girlfriend!

I saw Cloverfield the day it came out and I decided to draw a picture of the REAL monster.


( Artsssssssss. Picture of monsters. )

PS Note how I have no clue how the monster in the movie actually looks!

wtf.

I hope his little girl is ok. How random and effing awful!!

Since my life is so boring while I sit around and pray for my job to contact me—let’s talk about my parents’ days!

( Today’s adventures include: barreling cars and Alan Rickman. )

Anyhow, that’s how my mom and dad spent today.

Oh, and hello new LJ friend my2k! Omg and sinnottflicks too!