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Old 06.06.2015, 09:01 AM   #38881
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Good point. And thank you. As they say, the hardest part is the waiting.
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Old 06.06.2015, 12:10 PM   #38882
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Old 06.08.2015, 04:17 PM   #38883
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found finally a cheap room in an apartment, just need a bed and furniture. shit is finally coming together in my life, thank god. i move in in august, a week after my jeopardy audition. hah.
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Old 06.08.2015, 04:19 PM   #38884
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Old 06.08.2015, 04:22 PM   #38885
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it's a cute building, a bit older, but i have my own bathroom (which is a godsend, as i'll be living with three other girls) and the bus goes right to work. just doesn't have a gym so i gotta look into a pass at the campus gym. but for $300 a month, and no deposit. i feel bad because i was planning to move with a friend, but signing a lease and deposit/signing fee/no utilities included in some of these places, no way. and i think i mentioned it before but he's a dude and i have a specific "don't fuck where you eat" clause, so yeah, no go there.

how's the new job?
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Old 06.08.2015, 04:38 PM   #38886
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new job is slow right now. still learning everything. so far so good.
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Ah. I miss Slowdive.
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i either fall asleep to slowdive or broken social scene every single night. super calming.

rob- hey, that's awesome though. i'm on the hunt for a 2nd job.
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Seriously? That is cool. Slowdive, I just love them. In fact, they sound like "love" to me, like what falling in love feels like. So sweet.

This video is nostalgic for me. It calls up the 1990s like little else can, and it's not just the music but also the images. Can't really describe why, almost magical, but might have a lot to do with how connected I felt to new music at the time.

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i either fall asleep to slowdive or broken social scene every single night. super calming.

rob- hey, that's awesome though. i'm on the hunt for a 2nd job.
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Old 06.08.2015, 05:08 PM   #38890
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new job is slow right now. still learning everything. so far so good.

Happy for ya, Rob. I am living in limbo, dreaming of the call from my prospective new employer for an interview. Hard part is knowing that I can't hear from them, won't hear from them, for a couple of weeks. It's hard to keep working at my present job, knowing there's an opportunity around the corner.
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Old 06.08.2015, 05:30 PM   #38891
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Seriously? That is cool. Slowdive, I just love them. In fact, they sound like "love" to me, like what falling in love feels like. So sweet.

This video is nostalgic for me. It calls up the 1990s like little else can, and it's not just the music but also the images. Can't really describe why, almost magical, but might have a lot to do with how connected I felt to new music at the time.

that's why i love broken social scene, too- i was hanging the other night with my best friend and a really good old friend of ours, and we sat outside smoking a few cigarettes and beers, shooting the shit, and (it's why he's my best friend) i said the night felt how this bss song sounds like, and he got what i meant.

nostalgia for me is that "steal my sunshine" video, haha, only because that was my teenage stomping ground
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Old 06.08.2015, 05:31 PM   #38892
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and take the waiting as a way to power through the day.
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Old 06.09.2015, 03:34 AM   #38893
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Old 06.09.2015, 08:40 AM   #38894
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aw man. people suck.
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Old 06.09.2015, 08:54 AM   #38895
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Because they don't pay you any money?

ha ha ha.

but seriously-- the man works in advertising or something like that.

can't say i blame him.

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I've been there. I may still be there. Don't most of us have to deal with "clients" in some sense, regardless of our position, regardless of whether employed or self-employed?

When I was a freelancer, there were times clients drove me nuts, mainly when it came time for payment. There were notable exceptions, of course.

Mainly, I think I enjoyed other people, i.e., clients, more in my freelance work than any other time. Being in charge of my own business gave me a certain sense of confidence, and of course, I was free of the office politics that can beat one up. It was also reassuring to know that if a day ever got too rough I could flip on the Turner Classic Movie channel and settle down with a nice g&t or something.

Potential clients were the worst. I had so many people "express interest" in using my services but who would never commit to an assignment. One kept coming back and coming back, and we'd have lunch after lunch to talk about his "needs," and oh, this time, he was ready, he'd have a contract for me next week. Finally I flat out told him to stop wasting my time, and well, I never heard from him again. Ha!

Then there are the kind who are never satisfied. One of my best paying clients kept revising the assignment needs, kept moving the ball, as they say, and then would blame me for not understanding the assignment. He paid me well and on time, even though he thought I was fucking up, so I'd just be all humble and say, Gosh, you sure are right. I messed that up. Oh, and your next check is due next week.
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im flogging 3 clients right now who have my invoices "processing"

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worst part is that these are institutions, and the contacts in question have no personal interest or gain in withholding the money. at the same time, because they are guaranteed their timely paychecks, they don't bother to think i might be waiting for mine.

but that's not such a big a problem.

the kind of client i have a problem with is the kind that thinks they know more about my job than i do and always tries to squeeze "one more thing" for the money.

one time i was in the middle of a difficult video shoot-- the difficulty consisted in the client wanting a large cast for very little money-- so, we have a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing. because there's no budget for a suitable location, we're all crammed inside of a hot office, sweating. in the middle of this mess, the client has this brilliant idea that we should stop what we're doing and go shoot this great idea he just had---a child looking like she's gonna get ran over by a car in the middle of the street. basically he wants us to place this small child, barely possessed of reason, untrained, unaccompanied, next to a road with heavy traffic. he's like "it'll just take a minute"

my head almost exploded.
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4:40 AM Monday morning I receive a text from my wife informing that our AC unit is making a strange sound. She goes outside to investigate and and the sound stops.

I arrive home three hours later and the AC is making a high pitched swirling sound, but never for more than 10-20 seconds at a time. I make a few adjustments to the unit and it stops. I wake up at 2:00 PM Monday and all is fine. By 4:00 PM, a longer lasting noise is back and I'm calling the AC guy.

The bearings in the fan motor are going out and he can replace it in the morning, but to fill free to go ahead and keep running the AC because the fan is still turning with no problems.

Around 10:00 PM last night I go out to let the dogs in and NOTHING......the fan isn't turning and I can hear a very low hum. We turn the unit off and spend the night with ceiling fans only......very reminiscent of spending the summer at my Grandparents, it really wasn't that bad at all.

My daughter and I left at 8:30 so I could drop her at dance recital practice and before I return home, the AC guy sends me a text saying the new motor as been installed......as I type, I can feel the house cooling down
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Old 06.09.2015, 09:41 AM   #38900
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Okay, I think I'm remembering that I hated my clients. LOL. Wow. Yeah. Some clients can be more than a little irritating.

Like you, symbol man, I had some of the slowest payers in "institutions," federal gov't and higher ed. And an invoice being "in the system" to these people covers everything from "it's in my inbox and I haven't gotten to it yet" to "it went in campus mail yesterday" to "it's in review by payroll" to god-all else.

At the same time, the client who paid most timely and most consistently was a big corporation.
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