So just did the Relay for Life thing sponsored by the American Cancer Society. I walked 2 1/2 miles. Not a big deal, unless you've been on your feet for 8 hours already, lol. I'm ridiculously tired. I had fun though.

We have a new register system at the art store where only one person can be on a register at a time. As in, if one person has to step away, no one else can be on that register until it's been counted. Suuuucks. I had to clean windows today...while being on register. Wut. Anyway. The giant front windows look good now, damn it.

Also: Wachovia fails epically as a bank. Never. Ever. go to Wachovia. They've randomly overdrafted me $340 and refuse to refund it even though "we can't see where the charges are coming from". Wtf. And so of course it ate my whole direct deposit for this week.

No gas, no food = not gonna be a good week. XD

Anyway~. Rico will live~ ♥ I'm in a good mood. Probably because I'm so tired I'm delirious at this point, lol.

So I bitched a couple of weeks ago about the art store being hot. I retract that comment, and say omfg now it's hot. Jeebus. 97 degrees outside the other day, wtf. And our air conditioner broke. T_T Woe is Rico. Woe. But I think it's fixed now. So even though they're not doing anything useful with it like TURNING IT ON, we have it, lol. We've also gone from playing an awesome mix of 80's/90's/oldschool hip-hop to classical~ makes-you-want-to-curl-up-on-a-shelf-and-go-to-sleep music. They play some awesome chamber music on the muzak station every once in a while which is yay. Also the challenge has been issued! We're having a design contest with our bowling shirts we have to wear as a uniform. ♥ I have no idea what to do though. Oh well, lol.

Money's still ridiculous. Mom pawned her ring that she inherited from her mother this morning and bought me breakfast with it. If I'd fucking known where the money had come from, I wouldn't have eaten it at all. I wouldn't have even if there was absolutely no food in the house. For her to have done that makes me really angry/upset. I haven't figured out which I feel more of yet. And that annoys me further. Why should I care by this point? Mom's gonna do what she's gonna do. Just. Argh.

Some, not so much. Especially when you're trying to work in it. Blech. The average temperature in the store today was 78. And I was climbing up and down ladders and working at a pretty decent clip all day. Oh well. XD

As an update, I do love my job. There's something about getting to smell paint and canvas and get to answer art questions all day, when you're as big an art fag geek as myself. XD

Bad thing is I'm currently trying to adjust to the schedule of working 8 hours a day. So my body's like, "work? Wtf? SLEEP MOAR. TIRED BODY IS TIRED. Whetheritactuallyisornot." I feel like going to work, coming home and going straight to bed. x_x

I'm working on a watercolor right now of Le Fey from the SeraMyu musical "Transylvania no Mori". I'm excited, I think it's going to come out well. Mostly because I've had my fuck-up for the piece. I was really worried about starting the actual watercolor itself because the sketch took so f*cking long. First thing I did? Splat, paint out of the lines. But hey, it's watercolor *shrug*

Also, I found out one of the guys I work with lived in Japan for four years. Oh yeah, gonna pick his brain. >]

Well that was an incredibly random and unfocused update from Rico. Enjoy? o_O

So I got the job. OMFG yay. Thanks for the luck you gaiz. XD ♥

Today's my first day. I'm getting ready to leave soon, but I thought I'd lj a bit to calm myself down. I'm sure I'll do all right, I'm just kinda like...squee. And nervous. And squee. Seriously, what better-fitting job is there for me?

So I went to an art gallery opening last night for the local art council. ...PFFFFT. The artist, I liked. But it wasn't anything but a few people who knew each other getting together and getting drunk off wine. In addition to that, the director (who ripped my portfolio the day before. Not critiqued, ripped. Apart.) humiliated me in front of everyone because the judge of an upcoming art show invited me in to be a judge, thanks to my knowledge of anime. I was a little pissed. Not because the guy tore me a new one just to be superior in front of his peers, but because I didn't have my portfolio with me to defend myself. This "gentleman" has done nothing to show to me that he's anything but a bag of hot air. I've seen none of his work to give him credit. So. *Shrug*

I didn't cry or anything! And it was my first time getting publicly humiliated over my art. ♥ Go Rico. -_-; (The guy was seriously a jackass)

Anyway. Off to work. Eee. ♥♥♥

OMFG.

I'm going to an interview at the local art supply store for a job.

Wish me luck. Uh, lots. of luck.

ADSFADFGDFG.

♥