High hopes, and also vegging out
Saturday, June 9th, 2012 02:43 amToday, I had an interview. I think it went really well! (But you know how it is-- in retrospect, despite having several people called in to speak to you in addition to the first people who were talking to you, and everyone being really excited about you and whatnot, you have hours and eventually days, even weeks to wonder 'did I mess up? what could I have said to impress them more? how didn't I impress them? WILL THEY REMEMBER ME IN A WEEK TO EVEN CALL BACK?!' so even though I think it went really well I'm also nervous.) I'm really hoping they offer me the position because they decided to consider me for a position as an academic counselor-- a posting that hasn't even been made yet.
Fingers crossed on that one.
Danny's started his new job, which is weird and different and somewhat interesting. It involves being a security guard, which means cute uniforms and crazy long shifts.
Rather than work on the animation today, after spending my whole day working or trying to acquire better work, I decided to kind of just sit back and veg out for a while. Consequently, I read the entirety of Girls with Slingshots. It's a slice-of-life 20-somethings-who-drink comic, which is actually a fairly popular format. I had actually glanced through it back in the day when I still read Something Positive, because they had a crossover. Anyway, I like the comic all right overall, though I think my end feeling on it is that certain issues are a little uncomfortable for me. Things this comic does right: a diverse cast of a wide variety of folks; relatively realistic job issues (for a webcomic-- I just mean nobody's being given a convenient job of 'now you're fabulously wealthy, go soapbox', which is an easy and common excuse, especially in the slice of life genre); interpersonal relationships that don't just have to be romantic. I would actually rec this to Bubbles if she hasn't read it because it expressly deals with a healthy, positive romantic relationship between an asexual person and her girlfriend. I read the most recent storyline to gauge if I wanted to hit up the archives, and that was what I found-- it was a big motivator for me to go back and read up on the rest of it.
( Then I ramble at length and with some moderately personal anecdotes about the minor problems I have with the comic's voice and choice of narrator/main character for quite some time. )
Speaking as a twenty-something who has a lot of interests, none of which include going to bars, clubs, or frat parties and never have or will, I wouldn't mind more comics about girls playing Magic: the Gathering or gay couples meeting over a nice game of chess. People who actually do art as a regular part of their appearance in the comic (Bobwhite was a good example of this, but still had many of the same problems), people who actually like to cook, whatever. Just, really, I find drunk people uninteresting and repetitive. Most sober persons do. I'm not condemning drinking, but it's SERIOUSLY uninteresting to read about. There are better stories out there!
Anyway, rambling on 'cause it's very late and I'm extremely tired. Tomorrow I'm busting my ass on the animation all day, but I just needed a break tonight. Also: My aunt's been sending me the colored pages for the first couple of scenes of the comic project she took up with me. She's really not confident about her art, but I actually really like her style because it's so different from others. I know she's not comfortable drawing people, having not really drawn much in such a long time (she does sculpture, pottery and household usable art almost exclusively these days), but I really do think her pages look great. I want to get them set up online and stuff but I'm not sure if she's comfortable with that or just humoring me. Will figure it out when I can.
Excited to report that I have learned how to suck less at brewing tea, thanks to Danny showing me how to make his Tazo green tea the proper way. Results: yummy iced tea in the morning to look forward to. Yay!
Fingers crossed on that one.
Danny's started his new job, which is weird and different and somewhat interesting. It involves being a security guard, which means cute uniforms and crazy long shifts.
Rather than work on the animation today, after spending my whole day working or trying to acquire better work, I decided to kind of just sit back and veg out for a while. Consequently, I read the entirety of Girls with Slingshots. It's a slice-of-life 20-somethings-who-drink comic, which is actually a fairly popular format. I had actually glanced through it back in the day when I still read Something Positive, because they had a crossover. Anyway, I like the comic all right overall, though I think my end feeling on it is that certain issues are a little uncomfortable for me. Things this comic does right: a diverse cast of a wide variety of folks; relatively realistic job issues (for a webcomic-- I just mean nobody's being given a convenient job of 'now you're fabulously wealthy, go soapbox', which is an easy and common excuse, especially in the slice of life genre); interpersonal relationships that don't just have to be romantic. I would actually rec this to Bubbles if she hasn't read it because it expressly deals with a healthy, positive romantic relationship between an asexual person and her girlfriend. I read the most recent storyline to gauge if I wanted to hit up the archives, and that was what I found-- it was a big motivator for me to go back and read up on the rest of it.
( Then I ramble at length and with some moderately personal anecdotes about the minor problems I have with the comic's voice and choice of narrator/main character for quite some time. )
Speaking as a twenty-something who has a lot of interests, none of which include going to bars, clubs, or frat parties and never have or will, I wouldn't mind more comics about girls playing Magic: the Gathering or gay couples meeting over a nice game of chess. People who actually do art as a regular part of their appearance in the comic (Bobwhite was a good example of this, but still had many of the same problems), people who actually like to cook, whatever. Just, really, I find drunk people uninteresting and repetitive. Most sober persons do. I'm not condemning drinking, but it's SERIOUSLY uninteresting to read about. There are better stories out there!
Anyway, rambling on 'cause it's very late and I'm extremely tired. Tomorrow I'm busting my ass on the animation all day, but I just needed a break tonight. Also: My aunt's been sending me the colored pages for the first couple of scenes of the comic project she took up with me. She's really not confident about her art, but I actually really like her style because it's so different from others. I know she's not comfortable drawing people, having not really drawn much in such a long time (she does sculpture, pottery and household usable art almost exclusively these days), but I really do think her pages look great. I want to get them set up online and stuff but I'm not sure if she's comfortable with that or just humoring me. Will figure it out when I can.
Excited to report that I have learned how to suck less at brewing tea, thanks to Danny showing me how to make his Tazo green tea the proper way. Results: yummy iced tea in the morning to look forward to. Yay!
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