Hello and Welcome.

Well its been quite some time since i updated this site. No doubt there will be little to no visitors currently checking for updates so this current blog is being made purely to my own satisfaction.

Just had breakfast with new roommate. I still dont really know his name or how to say it, but i think it sounds something like “Sir-Hesh”. As long as i keep mumbling it when i say it i think i should be fine. I know i promised some apartment pictures to people for quite some time but i recently lost my desktop pc which had all the pictures and even the website i was working on for the “virtual apartment”. Im trying to bring it back to life, but free time to work on my computer is very little, and i find sleep to be more important. By sleep i am refering to the much needed 7 to 8 hours at night, and not the sleep alot of my friends normally associate me with, that being the sleep during classes and when im just bored.

It is May now, and come tomorrow it will be exactly 2 months since i moved out here to illinois from new york. (I am not counting the road trip cause that was sort of a transition period, and who counts transitions anyway).

The job front, well, hasnt been all that great. I am still working the dead end job i got one week after moving here. Everything else is still up in the air. I’ve interviewed several times at several places, and none as of yet have said “sign on the dotted line, your hired”. I am currently looking at this job for a RC toy company, which i am really really anxious to get, but after each interview i have with them, they tell me they need me to come back again for another interview. Don’t know if this is the normal way things happen, but i suppose if i get to speak to a different person each interview, I am either moving up in the company before I’ve even been hired, or the person who interviewed me last was just recently let go. Who knows, either way i want a job, and its taking me forever to find one. This is of course is excluding the job i currently have, of which will probably let go of about 50% of its staff the moment the summer heat hits. (meaning it is a job that for the most part is 50% seasonal, if you understand that then please by all means have a cookie).

It is now 8:56 am, central time, and i have to get in my car in 4 minutes so i can be at work by 9:30. These 4 minutes of course are not really all that important, because even if i do leave in 4 minutes, i will still arrive at work 15 minutes early, which would be perfectly fine if i got paid for being early, but i dont, so really the 15 minutes early that i will have while at work, will be spent sitting in a lunch room looking at a clock, waiting for the minute hand to reach that dooming 6. At which point i will climb a flight of stairs and take my seat at my cubicle. I know this is the norm for many jobs, and probably will be the norm at the job i am applying for at that toy company, but trust me, seasonal work at a place that has an employee turnover of about a week, is not all that great. I look at this job as a means to a paycheck. Its paying the bills, its paying the rent, its basically paying. And im actually saving alot while working here. The cost of living so far, as i see it, is fairly cheap. Of course i am living like a college kid, a step up from a dorm and working 40 hours a week without having to worry about tests or papers, so its easy to pay for things. Im sure anyone anywhere, could sustain themselves the way i have done so far. The question is, is sustaining ones self at a level below what one had expected to live in, worth sustaining at all? Ah and if you ponder that long enough you will know why i really want to work for another company that has more benifits, better management, and a friendlier staff. Not to say that my current co-workers are horrible, in fact they are quite pleasant, I have even made a friend or two. But when saying more than 2 words to your co-worker can get you in trouble, because it is of a non-work related nature, well… how much fun can that be? None at all.

I have though began drawing, I recently brought a pencil and eraser to work, so time has been going by fairly easily lately. I will post a picture or two as i make them, … this of course is not a promise, because well i have said i would post other pictures before and as of yet, have not done so.

I have also began reading the works of Douglas Adams again, so i expect my blog entries to reflect that. Anyways it is now 9:07 which means, I am late for my 15 minute waste of time. So i better go.

See you all later
Keep On Trucking

BACK FOR A BIT

Will be back in New York from April 8th to April 11th.

Mark your calendars, Friday big hang out day. Figure out something to do!.

oh no.. wait.. april fool you

My Apartment

I realized that I haven’t posted any pictures of my new digs. So i think that over the next week or two i will start posting pictures of stuff out here. This picture is my room. And all my furniture. Pretty sweet set up right? Sleeping is kinda difficult though, always wake up with back aches.

Okay maybe I was just thinking about the ring, when i did that. Hehe it backed fired on me though, I did it so it would kinda weird someone out when they saw the chair in the middle of the empty room, but just today when i walked into the room, Andrea was sitting in the chair looking at me, and yeah, that kinda freaked me out, wasnt expecting her to be in the chair.

New News:
I got a roommate today. His name is Mike. I haven’t met him yet but he his stuff into a bedroom on the 2nd floor. I moved into the basement, its cold down here, but its a bit more private. My landlord said he has a girl that is looking for a place, but he doesnt know when she would be moving. Andrea’s parents gave me a 15 inch tv today cause I didnt have one before, but I see my new roommate has moved his 21 inch into the living room. I didnt even bother bringing a tv. I mean seriously, do i need one? I dont even have cable. Too bad wireless doesnt ransmit cable tv. (If it does clue me in though).

Went out with Andrea today. We saw Dawn of the Dead. That is a freaking good scarey movie. I think it was done perfectly. Well for a scarey movie about the dead at least. Only one thing i had against the movie, and that was the fact that you never find out why. Other than that, it was freaking good. Had me all watching my back for most of the day… okay maybe even now.

Anyways got to shower and make my lunch for work tomorrow. More on stuff later

KOT

Well its now just about 2 weeks since I’ve been out on my own. Got to Illinois on March 5th, and now tomorrow will be the 19th. That would be 14 days. To this date, I have myself an apartment and I’m living alone. I have a job, which, to my new York standards doesn’t pay very well. But with the cost of living here being a lot less than back home, it only takes me a little less than a week of work to pay for one months rent (which is a good thing since I’m trying to budget myself). This of course is all just short term. The job I’m doing now is customer service, and I really want to do something more administrative marketing related. Maybe something that has more to do with advertising in print or on video media. I would even settle for something in distribution channel management. Well anyways, I’m still out for sale, looking for a job that’ll put my degree to work.

My car has been giving me a few scares, with the sounds the engine has been making, so I got her a doctors appointment on Saturday morning. Hopefully the mech will fix’er up real good. I survive out here on my Ford, without her I’d be grounded and seriously screwed.

Finally got my mail box key from the post office, so I can receive mail! I still haven’t received any bills yet, so until I have something that will be proof of residence I can’t change my car registration to get new plates or get a new drivers license. I have a letter from my power company welcoming me to the neighborhood, but I doubt that would work.

Got a new cell phone with a local phone number out here in the town of NORMAL. Won’t give out on my website though, so just email me for it, if you want it. Same goes for the address.

Been eating Bologna sandwiches and cereal. And fried chicken… I can’t help it! I love chicken! (Yes I’ve been Cookin Chicken shaoolie.) Going to go on a date this Sunday, probably going to see Dawn of the Dead, been wanting to see that since the first trailer. Me and Andrea got a bet going to see which will be better, this one or RE2. Love that trailer they got on the website for RE2. “Regenerex, brining Dead cells … Back… To … Life…”

Got some pics by email, here is something Emperor Hole put together. This would be Pic number 2 of the day. [Photo] I’m in the box. Jessica stage left, Bobby Up stage left. Goat-T center stage. Picture taken by Emperor Hole, with a camera owned by Jessica.

KOT!

Its been about a week since my last confessional. I mean update.

Well my resume is still getting sent out there, but the fish just aint biting just yet.

Today was my second day at my job. Been getting training, and by the end of the day today I was just about out of training. As much as I like having my hand held during a job, guess you cant always have that.

I basically am part of a customer service call center for some agricultural catalogs. Its weird cause I basically spend all day listening to these people from all over, Tennessee to Texas. From Georgia peaches to Pine tree farmers named Peabody*. By the end of the day I’ve adapted some strange accent that I cant shake for a few hours. Call my cell after work and you’ll probably end up speaking to Alvin Shamus Smitherson.

Its not paying what I want, but like I said, it’ll cover the bills.

Once I land that job that’s hit my degree right on target, I’m outtie 5 0. (small side note to ex-Hub Connection employees, had a customer who was mad that he received his order of trees while it was still snowing outside and the ground was frozen and unplantable, he was basically fuming that he received his order too early. (keep in mind that as long as he keeps his trees in like a garage, they wont die) while I was taking this call, and he was just about using as many curses he knew, I couldn’t help but think about Mr. Waits or Mr. Dennis Gallagher. Who probably lost millions of dollars thanks to the Hub. No matter what the guy said about his plants, I just couldn’t really sympathize, like what I mean is, I didn’t really care that he got his plants early. I could care less if they died. The size of his problem just couldn’t compare, in my mind, to the type of problems that were faced at the Hub Connection. I mean, maybe if he was talking about his entire crop, which is what keeps food on the table for his family, then maybe I could be like, well that sucks. But,… A bunch of trees? If you cant smoke’em … feh.

I don’t know, I’m sure one day, I’ll get a customer on the phone who will explain to me exactly how the entire world is effected by his Maple tree, and then it will all make sense. On that note though, I am learning an awful lot about plants and farming. Like how to take care of perennials. Or if you want a hedge like plant that will keep the neighbors out year round, you are going to want to stick with something not deciduous, but more of an evergreen like a hemlock screen. And when year old Maple Trees are in a dormant state, they basically look like sticks. And if you don’t know which way to plant a bulb, you can plant it sideways, and it will find its way.

so its not a complete waste of time, at least after this job I can become a farmer or gardener.

well gtg be back soon

KOT