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It’s Christmas Eve and all I care about is being lazy. I’ve been cleaning the house and the studio. I hate being broke till the week after new year’s. I wish I could get some badass x-mas gifts.

Last night was a bust, as there was no Blume. They closed MonteV before my songs came on the jukebox. What the hell.

Ann and J-Ro bought a computer. An awesome G5 iMac and I’m installing all sorts of badass software on it for them. Sweet. Back to work.

Zoë is still in France with her mom visiting her sister and her brother in law’s family. I’m jealous… except for the stepping in dog shit part. I can’t wait till she gets back.

Hopefully on the 26th I’ll go see The Life Aquatic with Rachel. I cannot wait for this awesome looking movie. Also, April 1st is when Frank Miller’s Sin City comes out! This was one of the most impressive graphic novels I’ve ever read. It looks like it’s going to be scene for scene from the book with an awesome all star cast. Robert Rodriguez almost got kicked out of the Director’s Guild for giving Miller director credits. What a badass. Par for the course of the movie. Trailer

Woah. Just in time. I’m on salary. What a freakin relief. I get paid vacation December 22nd-31st = Happy Ray. Benefits start the beginning of February due to odd CCC policies. I also automatically accrew 22 paid vacation days plus some sick days. Awesome. Sushi anyone? Har har har. Case and Betsy better get their asses up here ASAP.

PS: Oh yeah, I finally got my official position. Even though I didn’t get the extra %5 I was shooting for, it’s still one hella peace of mind to know that I’m on salary, will have benefits starting February, and will get paid over the break so I don’t be a broke mofo. I also found out I can quit my cell phone plan whenever I want. Damn, I am an idiot.

Woah, my bag is a crazy mess of wires. I’ve been super busy as always. I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from the Rock Camp For Girls benefit. Cool beans. Almost all the art sold or was given away. Wheee. Things are looking up lately. I’m slightly bummed cause Zoë is gone till the 31st. Ah, whatever will I do? Strip club. Just kidding.

Mike Karr said I should blog more often. Ok.

Last night was fun, I had to scramble to get someone to do sound because the person I had thought was going to do it flaked. Apparently I didn’t let them know I actually needed them to show up and that it was optional. I need to get better at communicating and doling out responsibilities. Again, Argent saved my ass and took over so that I could get to JETOMI practice. I felt really bad that Argent is so good about covering my ass, I owe him tons of props and beers. I made it back to 111 after practice to catch the end of the Poetry Slam, which was cool, and Logan told me that they’re dialed in on getting some chairs from Phoenix. Whoo hoo! I’m going to be putting in some major hours getting the studio fixed up over the winter break. That is going to rule, having some time to put into the venue. Reminder: I NEED to pay Bruce and Malé ASAP for this month. The roof still hasn’t been fixed and we have leaks on stage still. Yay for no lease agreement. I paid rent anyways to show him that I’m sure he’ll fix that roof for me, since I’m now a legal tennant in the eyes of Arizona state law, and I’m a good paying tennant.

Riding my bike in the snow is somewhat sketchy, even though i have a mountain bike, it has fat slicks on it, which makes for some slippery action. I’d ride my brother’s mountain bike, but it has no fenders and I’d have to wear clip pedals.

Riding my bike wouldn’t be that bad, if I wasn’t so freaking concerned about my back. The past few days have sucked, because I slept funny on saturday night and woke up to being barely able to sit up. My sciatic nerve got pinched much worse than it’s ever been. I’ve decided that I need to get it looked at by a professional. Say hello to medical bills. Say hello to months of physical therapy that I don’t have time for. Helloooooooo! This has also been messing with my relationships with people, primarily Zoë. I’m moody, cranky and generally pissy. I need to work on this shit ASAP or else I’ll piss someone off that I don’t want to.

Good news is that they FINALLY made me an offer at CCC for the Multimedia Coordinator position. It’s a good deal, but to be safe, I’m doing what my boss told me to do and hold out for some more. I’m pretty sure he got the salary upped %5, but we’ll see if that happens.

When I was freaking out about getting a full time job, I applied for an NAU job too, but I dobut I’ll even get interviewed. It’s pretty much a management position doing what I did when I was a student worker there. It would seem that I should be a shoe in for that position, but they put the requirements just out of my reach as far as experience goes. I dunno, but it is over $10k more than the CCC job would pay, which would be hella sweet!

Let’s hope things with my back and 111 get better soon!