rawr_ima_monster

So yeah, that was definitely a last day at work.

I'm sitting there working, and all of a sudden the partitions that seperate my work area from just being a desk in the middle of the hallway sort of dissapear.

In the middle of my workday, all of a sudden my cubicle is being dismantled without even a "hi" from the guy coming to pick them up. It freaked me out, and I immediately signed off of AIM and just stared at my screen for the rest of the day. And I thought I was freaked out before just because my back faced an open entrance.

So yeah, it wasn't until the end of the day when it really sunk in that I'm so completely out of a job all of a sudden, and I got super bummed.

We had a meeting with the producers on the show before we left, and even they all thought we'd be around for a few more weeks, the budget just cut the workers off way earlier than the work was done so it was about as sudden and wierd as it felt.

So the drive home just sort of put me into a familiar tail spin of bummed-out-itude, reminding me how much I love to work, how totally miserable I am when I'm not working and how much I was taking it for granted that I had a place to go into and work reliably.

It's a fortunate and interesting coincidence that I had an interview yesterday in Calabasas (I want to say "it's worth the commute if they pay me enough", but it's worth the commute just if they're willing to give me a job, since I suddenly don't have one) with a company that called me kind of out of nowhere on Memorial Day.

The good points of it are that it seems like it would be a pretty steady gig and it's in a fixed office location, and it's something I could probably do well and enjoy. Unfortunately, it's not really a direct connection to where I want to be going, but what the hell is that I've ever gotten paid to do.

Everyone always asks "How'd the interview go?", and I'm not really sure what to day. Seems to me like it went pretty well, but how do I know? They showed me around, asked me questions that I seemed (to me) to answer in creative and intelligent ways, but I got the standard "I've got to talk to *blank*, and we'll be in touch soon" at the end which really can't be a good judge of good or bad anymore, I've just heard it so many times.

-So yeah, I guess right now I'm hoping that works out and trying to stay on top of what's going on in the office I just finished in to get myself set up on the next project that comes in there, but in the meantime if anyone wants to hire an artist/writer/animation type guy to do some stuff, I'm available. I will draw wierd things on paper, you, or your property for money, with pleasure.
Dave