Jobs and studios and interns oh my!

Well, as shocks utterly no one at all, I'm a terrificially bad blogger. Show of hands for who is surprised?

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No one?

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So, I'm in Seattle, and guess what I've done? I've committed to a relationship! Be amazed and awed. I'm entering into my first long-term relationship. It was a rocky start, and I wasn't sure how we would suit... but a couple of weeks in and the jitters are wearing off. I'm adjusting, making some changes, and making plans for future improvements. I think we are going to be very happy together.

I am talking, of course, about my little studio apartment and the fact that I signed (for the first time ever) a 12 month lease. I'm here until the end of next August, barring massive changes of course. As one never knows what the universe will throw one's way.

But frankly my wee little studio and I are getting along rather well. I'm in an old 1920s era building, smack in Capitol Hill (a happing spot. What?).

The studio has its quirks of course. But by and large it's lovely. It fits my bed, will fit a small desk if I can find one, has hardwood floors and trees outside the windows. My radiator turned on recently, my kitchen sink occasionally spits out strange colored water, and one of my floorboards cracks at random intervals. It's got a walk in closet, a bathtub, and an oven. (This last is not to be sneezed at... the housing market here is NUTS. I heard from someone recently that Seattle is only behind Manhattan and San Francisco in the "finding housing is a task of epic proportions and impossibility" field. And I would totally believe it. Really. Finding this place was a trial.)

It's walking distance to both my jobs (more on those later), near good foods, and quite close to Century Ballroom where one can go dancing pretty much any day of the week. Whee!

So that is that.

I'm working in a Bagel Deli and as a waitress in a Lebanese restaurant.

I love the Deli. I wash a lot of dishes, am becoming brutally efficient at our new ipad cash register, and have made friends with lots of our regulars. I also eat a lot of bagels.

I may also be learning to say bagel correctly because nobody has given me any funny looks over my pronunciation.

The Deli is pretty much the perfect set up for a TV sitcom. The cast of characters is allll there. We aren't really close friends, but everybody comes in with different stories or issues. And working service is... full of "hilarious life moments." But yeah. Some day I'll write my own show. I've got the long-suffering, I've been working here too long character. The attractive, works too much, big-city savvy heart-breaker. The I'm only working here until I can get my CD launched and I'm playing gigs every weekend in December, my girlfriend is too pretty for me guy. The just out of college, recently back from India, spacey but hilarious girl. The girl who's been around forever, loves babies and small dogs, and is just waiting for her spot at the perfect job to open up she's already been hired there was just a misunderstanding about when (if) they actually needed somebody new. And me.

The waitress job is new. Jury is still out on how I feel about waitressing. Though increased respect for anyone who does it (and I already had high levels of respect) is a thing.

Aaaand internship joys.

I start an unpaid internship in a week. I have feelings (mostly negative) about unpaid internships. But that is sadly the reality of the world right now. And at least this one sounds like it will be a total blast! It's also not a full-time, unpaid internship so I don't have to get all up in angry arms.

I'll be an editorial intern at a small, but decently well renown comic publisher called Fantagraphics. They actually are the people who republish all the Peanuts cartoons. They are also the publishers of one of my old favorite graphic novels from high school called "Castle Waiting." If you like comics, check that one out! Great stories, cool art, and awesome world-building. Sort of like a new fairy tale. AND volume two just came out! I am so excited!

Yeah, anyway. Editorial internship. I fully intend to buy red pens. Even though I suspect it's going to be all computer works these days. And I'm really quite excited to get going. I'll be learning new programs, ins and outs of a publishing office, and get to climb around in their dusty store room from time to time. Sounds awesome? Sounds awesome!

I'm making some awesome friends up here. Wei the sweetest sexy salsa dancer, Pauline the French girl interning at the Alliance Francais of Seattle, meeting some of kiddos really lovely friends, getting to hang out more regularly with Logan, a friend from UO. Seattle is treating me pretty well!

So~! What do you want to know? Ply me with questions and I shall reply in a (hopefully) interesting and (possibly unintentionally) hilarious way!