Play, Work & Live.
August 28, 2008
I. PLAY
So it occured to me while looking at photos of the past few weeks that I am quite social. Lately I’ve been going out more than I usually do. I blame the excitement of moving in to a new place in a more central location, living with my BFF and living so close to awesome people.
I tend to share the photos of my outings and the like (on flickr). Then I realized usually I have a plethora of photos of my debaucherous outings and I must come off as a drunken buffoon. Then I get a little uneasy about my personality in general and think to myself if I ever want to be considered serious I should not be so social and “out there.”
Then again, I am an artist and artists tend to be a little out there in general, no? I think I’m pretty normal, but I’m me and I’ve been told otherwise. Some artists throughout history were known to be reclusive and others were very social and big fans of debauchery. For example, let us consider Toulouse-Lautrec (who is/was at a level of talent far, far beyond my own but I have a point here). He was an artist AND homeboy hung out in brothels all the time then drank like there was no tomorrow.
He died due to alcoholism and syphilis though so I guess I should keep that in mind, too. 
Really though, I’m no alcoholic. I am responsible. I have a full-time job (and got a sparkling 6-month review recently, SPARKLING!) at a non-profit organization making a conscious effort to improve community, I do side projects, I give to charity, I try to eat my vegetables, I exercise, I vote and my carbon-foot print is way below average. I just justified to myself why it’s okay if I enjoy myself a little too much from time to time.
What trigged this post though was this photo:
In the end, I shrug it off and laugh at myself for being so ridiculous sometimes. Also, in that photo I have a wet spot on my boob and I am NOT lactating so I have no idea where the hell that came from. Unsolved Mysteries, I have a story for you to investigate!
I & II. Play & Work in One!
On the “outings” tip, I added a bunch of links under a section called “Network.” I am now on the payroll for 111 Minna’s awesome 80’s night called Barracuda in San Francisco. I wanted to extend my appreciation and help promote the night because it’s a lot of fun. I get really in to costumes, 80’s music and dancing so really they are doing me a favor by letting me work for them. Although really, looking at photos from the evening I realize that I love to sing along to songs as I dance and that does not make for flattering photos. But hey, it’s fun and as long as it pumps up others to start dancing while there, whatever, right?
II. Work
In other news, unfortunately one of the gals at my day job is leaving us tomorrow. It’s unfortunate because she is quite wonderful but there are good reasons for her departure and we support her fully. While we look for someone to fill her position, I am taking over a few tasks and am a temporary contact person for her area of work.
Part of her work entails collecting resumes from students for jobs. Since I am the temporary contact person now, students will be sending their resumes to me. This morning a student came in looking for me and handed me his resume.
I am the type of person that is very laid back and likes everyone to be at ease. I also have always been in job positions that were not of authoritarian stature (which is not a problem and I am still pretty young, but still). The student that came in was very professional but obviously very anxious and nervous due to this correspondence being about a job opportunity, especially after he asked for Crystal and found out that I was in fact the Crystal he was looking for (must…fight…urge to make Star Wars reference damn it).
I thanked him for his resume and let him know that due to the original contact person leaving that I was uncertain of how soon we can get back to him about job opportunities. I added that I would be speaking to the co-directors today about what the process will be now and contact him ASAP to give him an update.
I have never experienced someone being so nervous to talk to me at work. As it stands right now, I hold the key that unlocks and opens the door to an opportunity. It’s somewhat of a power trip and when that feeling hit me I was unsure of how to respond to it. Of course I’m not the type to abuse power, especially over poor students who really need money and want a job desperately (because believe me, I’ve been there and still kind of AM there, the money party anyway)! I may be a sarcastic asshole but I’m not cruel 
It was just a new feeling to experience at a job.
Anyway, aside from that little random thing, I’m hoping that I don’t go too insane doing my job as well as the bulk of another job until we get a replacement. I am more than happy to help of course but I just worry a bit about which tasks become priority now that I will covering temporarily. I will be meeting with my co-workers though to iron out the details so I imagine things will be fine.
III. Live
Monday is a holiday and I’m ridiculously happy about that. It means an extra day for furniture shopping at Ikea and in turn “furniture building” weekend. My roommate ordered a couch that is coming in on Saturday too. Our apartment is finally going to look like an apartment! I am definitely going to share before and after photos if we manage to get it all done.
Knowing me, and knowing us, don’t hold your breath on that one, though
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