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Name: Angie
Birthday: 4/30/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Music I've been enjoying lately: Sleater Kinney, Blonde Redhead, The Smiths, Pedro the Lion, Nico and the Velvet Underground, anything by Conor Oberst and of course Alkaline Trio.
Expertise: Plucking eyebrows and giving other people advice. Oh yeah and I'm an expert at LOVE too.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Textiles
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Member Since:
2/5/2002
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| Temporary office work is a terrible place for me. I've been doing it ever since the Chevy Chase incident forced me into unemployment. The graphic design firm I was at for a month worked well- everyone was loud, fun, and artistic. Even though my desk was sectioned away from everyone else, I had little to do but answer the phone and open the mail, and lots of time to work on my own stuff, as well as access to Illustrator and Photoshop CS. Like all good temporary jobs, it ends before you're ready for it, and a week and a half before I leave for Montana they replace me. Had they told me two days before, I could have accepted an offer to research pirates for a designer, which I would LOVE to do and would be beneficial to me in so many ways... unfortunately, I said no, and now have to do the one dayers. I'm working for Estee Lauder right now... though I was given no instructions other than to take messages. AND they've blocked myspace, so that's why I'm back on the ole xanga for the day. I'm so bored, can't wait to get out of here.
Be back in Chicago Friday the 19th-24th. Adam's coming to meet the folks for the first time. He's scared.
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| I am poorer than I have been in years. Despite several free meals, and some occasional temp office work, I've been out of work for a month now, and it's starting to majorly cut in to my lifestyle. Things will pick up again soon, I know. I will even have to choose between cities for a while. But I don't really want to write about that.
Despite my poverty, I have been blown away by a few amazing street performers lately. So much so, that I actually want to give them money, which is saying something. It's pretty common for performers to set up in the subway stations, in the parks, and even in the subway cars like wandering minstrels, timing it so they can perform a song and make a round for donations between stops before transferring to a new car.
The first one I saw that was amazing was in Union Square. I was on my way to the bookstore, when I saw a performer, calling himself "David the Pretty-Good" setting up a table and flaming batons. He went on to try to gather a crowd for several minutes before he juggled his flaming batons while balancing on a board on top of a tube on top of a table. The best part was the environment, a very busy park. At one point, a homeless guy drove his cart right behind the act. Bicyclists would whiz by, not caring at all, and drivers stuck in traffic would yell.
The second amazing act I saw were these two young guys who got on the train wearing Fedoras. The pulled out a matching red trombone and trumpet and played "Ain't got that swing" they were pretty amazing and totally enjoyable as well. Yea for street performers! | | |
| Ugh. So just when I'm feeling on top of the world, with a 6 week gig paying me more than I've ever been payed in my life starting next week... I over hear a message on my boss's answering machine while he's away in London. Apparently Chevy Chase needs hip replacement surgery (guess he's getting old) so the whole show is on hiatus. For a long time. So... I need to find a new job. Soon. Hopefully that's not some kind of confidential information that I can get in trouble posting on the internet. Well, I dont have that job anymore anyway, so I guess it wouldn't matter.
Boo... Guess that's the way it works... something else will work out. But that means I have to work for it, and I'm already tired.
What happened to craigslist? It used to be awesome for jobs and apartments, now the only stuff on it is people who want to hire non-paid interns, and lazy snobs that need roommates but don't really like people in the first place.
Missing Chicagoland pretty bad these days. I'm coming home for my cousin's wedding in early April, but that's not going to help my job search any, is it?
I only hang out with my boyfriend Adam these days. He's far too nice to me, even when I snap at him unexplicably, but I miss my FRIENDS. Old friends, that you don't have to pretend around because they know who you are and love you anyway. At least Jen is coming out here working on a movie by the end of the week, I'm excited to see her again, miss her much. Too bad she doesn't have the power to get me on the movie too! | | |
| I know I should be sleeping right now. I have another 13 or 14 hour work day ahead of me. Well, not really that long tomorrow, because I'm going to Soho to get a haircut at 9:30. But I still have to get up, and will definitely stay at the theater until 11 at least, like I did all last week. Sometimes theater can be so unfair hour/wage/credit wise. But all this I did know before. It just sucks when I get paid weekly whether I work 40 hours a week or 80, when the union wardrobe workers work a 4 hour shift and mostly sit around, dress people, sit around, and then do some laundry. God forbid they should have to miss out on a minute of their hour lunch break, or help me when I'm scrambling to get the craft supplies together. That's union I guess. It doesn't seem like a terrible deal really, plus they've got health insurance. Someday, when I get into the costume designers union, all the good it will really do me is give me the privilege of paying them for health insurance directly, and taking a chunk out of my fee for every show I do. Plus if I end up without work for a few months, there are penalty fees. I hate unions, and the ones for theater/film are so complicated with some good points, and some bad.
In other news, I am enjoying seeing Ring of Fire every night. It doesn't get old. In fact, tonight was the first night in two weeks that I haven't seen it cause the cast was in Nashville, and I kinda missed it. It does get kindof annoying having 20 different verses stuck in my head at all moments, usually in some kind of Broadway 4 part harmony. I had some free tickets to previews, but surprisingly, almost everyone I know in NY has turned me down for one reason or another so they're basically going to waste. Those tickets are worth 110 bucks a piece. Oh well.
I saw Nathan Lane at Starbucks the other day. It was bound to happen, he's in the Odd Couple right across the street, but it was still funny. Cynthia Nixon too (redhead from Sex in the City). I'm still a giddy little midwestern girl when I run into celebs in this town, but I try not to show it. | | |
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