Life
It happens.
life.
0Damn, I haven’t written in here for a long time now. Well, in online terms. That’s like, what, two months? I’ve been incredibly busy, as school has basically eaten up my free time. I’m now sitting at work, using the rusted, bent foldable chair i have in my office as a desk for my palm pilot, as i sit cross-legged on the floor.
Yeah, I have an office. As it turns out, my former high school has some problems here and they hired a new person to come and take care of their tech related needs. The new hire saw the amount of work she needed to do and freaked out. She quit the very next day. In a pinch, my former principal called me back in and here I am, sweaty and tired after moving probably 30 iMacs (the fruity ones) and stacking old CPUs. At least im getting paid, right? Good
money, too. I passed out and fell asleep on the floor of my office one day, leaving the markings of the thin carpet on my face. How very smart of me, i suppose. Feels odd, though, coming back to my old high school as a member of the faculty. I have my own cubby where my mail is delivered, and I sit in on some staff meetings. I’m probably the youngest person to hold this job in the district. But its worth it… i think.
Now my other job offer is going through, finally. I’ll be working at a hotel, front desk. It’s actually on the same bus route i take every day for school. I haven’t decided which job to keep, so for a little bit, I’ll be working on both jobs. At least I can get enough money to fix up my car. I intended to use the money to travel next year, but I don’t really have the motivation anymore to take those trips. I’d rather spend that money on getting some films done and on the film festival circuit. And maybe buy myself a Wii. Maybe.
Oh, and one of the Rose Princesses are in my class. I didn’t make the connection until she told me. Incredibly smart, incredibly beautiful, and easy to talk to. I suppose its some of the requirements to being a Rose Princess. I brought up the mention of the dresses that the entire court was criticized for- these hideous looking dresses. Her face flushed and covered her face, and said rather mockingly, “Oh god, don’t bring up those things again!” Supposedly, every conversation she’s had with people has come around to those dresses and how hideous they were. She assured me they were “permanently retired.” Amusing, at least. My English class has been pretty fun, as the Rose Princess is in there, as well as another girl that’s interested in helping out for Team Mayhem Productions. So be on the lookout for more news on that.
As for me, I’m just trying to survive my every day life. A bit moody than most times, but its a good way to work on faking a smile and working without complaining. I find myself rather jaded on certain topics, and trying to return to my old schedule seems impossible. I just guess i have to move on. Soon enough, Ver. 2.0 of the Cornstalker Comics Collective website will be coming out. That’ll be an interesting design, as I’ve been trying to avoid using black in my sites- but hell, its going to be on the cornstalker.com site out of my own accord.
Oh and yes, Team Mayhem Productions will have a site again come January 1st, 2007. New site design is looking rather cool – I had a suggestion from Claude from Reckless Youth, so I’ll be using his suggestion with the site design. New members, perhaps. December will be a key month for me- it’ll decide how TMP’s schedule turns out for 2007.
Sometimes, you creep yourself out.
0http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43404314/
this little ditty was done by my best friend Primo, and I volunteered to be the model after he told me the idea over the phone. I find this picture completely and utterly creepy, something that haunts me, yet I can’t help but to be really proud about it. I was in tears the entire time, yet I came out of it proud of my work and contribution to the piece. There might be another one, too.
mmmm weekends.
0You gotta love them. I personally took time to relax and unplug from the computer. No forums, no chat all day Saturday and most of Sunday. It felt great not having to worry about when to do different things, and I basically took it pretty slowly. Hung out with my friend Primo, taking a good bit of work to help him work on a patio his family is trying to build over winter.
I got to pick up a book for class, The Traveler, right before the mall closed at 10 pm. Already around 200 pages in, its a decent book. It really does try to push to have something of a really annoying secret culture crap. I can kinda ignore it, but hell, oh well.
Took a picture of my best friend and his new cat, Chow Fun.
He’s gonna kill me after this.
musings of the mayhem kind
4Well, I finally got a job, something I’ve been trying to get for the last… two months? Man, it really has been two months looking for a bloody job. I’m working at my old high school, as a computer technician. It’s an okay job, and it looks like I might get my own little office to work on computers, even though that room is overflowing with fruity iMacs and printers with no damn drivers (gotta find those soon…). I’m kinda worried about the job, because I’m not getting paid until the paperwork goes through. The people at the district said its gonna take two to three months.
…
So what, I’m networking printers for nothing? I might as well work at that hotel, at least i get some good benefits there (go to Comic Con next year with a cheap hotel room!). I need a car, badly, and if this job doesn’t pay, screw it. My boss, my former principal is off on vacation, so I guess I’ll wait until he gets back before I make a decision if I’m going to be working for the school.
It looks like I’m putting off anything Team Mayhem related due to another one of my commitments will have a big ass unveiling come september 1, so i’ve been working like a madman trying to get it together for the unveiling. So yeah, September 1. I’ve dropped off hints with a couple of people, and a bunch of them are helping out with the projects to make sure they come through.
Mentally, I’m not all there. It’s been kinda hard, considering I keep thinking about an old girlfriend, how damn crazy she was, and I miss talking to her. All those damn crushes I’ve had haven’t helped. Expecially the one that just treated me like complete shit, yet i was gaga for her. God, I feel stupid. I made the decision that I just don’t want to have someone by my side- its gonna get in the way of my career. I may get lonely, but at least i can focus on a life better than this.
But its leveling out, and I’ve found a couple new friends that have helped me with my future goals in webcomics.
Yeah, webcomics. The stuff I haven’t reviewed in the longest. Someone asked me why I review. Why I go through the pain of actually looking at a bad furry transgendered comic. Why I go through the critisms and the nasty emails (yeah, I’ve gotten nasty emails. I wish I could say who they were from, but that would be pretty damn petty of me).
I kinda came to the realization only a couple of days ago.
For the love.
I love webcomics. How strange they can get, how people can bring about ideas that you really can’t see anywhere else. The love they put into their work. I think I came to the realization at the Blank Label Panel at Comic Con. Brad Guigar (creator of the fun Evil Inc.) commented on how his family calls the webcomics “his therapy.” He spoke with such… passion, such charisma about his work that I was in awe, and it totally got my mind off that horrible kiss David Willis had with that puppet earlier.
Its when you see that love in their comics that I revere.
I love reviewing comics, and getting a positive email. Or reply. Yeah, it happens rarely, but when I review a comic, and its worth reading, there’s nothing like getting an email from the creator saying thanks.
On the topic, there will be a review coming, hopefully by friday. I don’t know if I can do it considering that my other projects are driving me completely and utterly nuts. But yeah, there’s a comic I’ve read about four times, and I might read it two more times before I start writing the review.
The other projects make me completely nervous. Utterly and completely nervous. I don’t know if it’ll be the right way to go. I mean, I’ve done reviews for two years, and this might be a complete change for me. I don’t know if im gonna regret the projects im doing…
and now everyone reading has no clue what im talking about. Heh, I guess I’m saving that for a good surprise. VERY good surprise.
So yeah, secret projects by their codenames-
“Kernel”
“CS”
“CC”
“Revue”
“RevueAudio”
hrm yeah, its a lot of shit. what fun.
I wonder if i should get back to work…
The Senior Video
0http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2039147570016760440
there it is in all its glory.
enjoy.
and some of you are in the credits.
Graduation
6I JUST graduated from high school.
Video i made was a success.
im tired.
and a bit lonely, but eh, i can live with that.
I’ll probably post a video and pictures tomorrow.
first, sleep.
homework all done
0yay!
no more homework.
now on to some of my projects before i get a full time job!
homework update
1commercial for econ project
paper on the film Once Were Warriors done!
finish website for econ project
vocabulary
essay for english
Webcomic reviews (at least 3)
Senior video
trying to keep track of my hw up here. whoo weeeee
scar-san gets fixed
0So today, I had to fix my palm pilot. I use that thing heavily, so I found my mom’s old one (with its screen broken.) and attempted to fix it.
this was the scene of my desk a couple days ago as i was trying to fix my handspring visor platinum, scar-san. it was getting to be a bitch to attempt to fix it.
let’s just say that the poor thing was working so horribly that i thought that licking it was going to help.
And i have electrecuted myself on it so much that i lost any feeling in my tip of my tounge (it’s back now, after three days)
So I realized that the part that was malfunctioning was the power supply/button system (its the square thing on the desk). It was easy to replace if you know the inside of a computer.
Man, this thing is getting better. I’ll try writing a couple more reviews now.
Oh look, I have a livejournal…
0and I’m such a whore.
Hello there, my name is Daniel. I’m 18 and I live in the city known as Lost Angeles (you’d be too with all the damn freeways you have to memorize. All I remember is the only one that goes through my town, the 210 freeway, and the 110 freeway, the freeway that’s all so curvy and gets you sick if you try to read a book on while riding) and
I’m known to most people as teammayhem, a webcomics reviewer (well, not most people. I’m joking myself there.), posting at Korsil Webcomic Reviews.
I have a livejournal for a couple of reasons:
- I’m a whore.
- I’ve wanted a place where I can bitch about all the different projects (Team Mayhem, Korsil, etc) in one place.
- At least it isn’t a deadjournal. (then again, I’m considering getting one to mock the nutjobs that are on there)
So I’m here for good. Tonight, I have to go fix a computer that my sister almost wrecked with a virus. And my family has the balls to blame me for it.
Great. Just great.