Today I was showing my students on the overhead projector how to use Bridge, the file browsing/editing system that comes with Photoshop. I randomly selected a folder on the computer that had another instructor’s name on it to show them how Bridge works for file viewing. As …
Thursday night I went to Heidi’s place, brought pizza and salads, and we just chilled and watched TV, er, I watched TV because she fell asleep on me and never woke up until I left. She went to visit her boyfriend in Prison in Pennsylvania this weekend, and presumably someone or multiple people in BTV have informed him that Heidi and I are hanging out. She said hanging out is perfectly normal and that I shouldn’t care if he knows or not, so long as he doesn’t ever find out any specifics about us…
Friday afternoon the first part of the UDG Bag shipment arrived. Sasha and I spent the day moving boxes and attempting to organize over 150 bags. Evidently that’s a third of what’s coming in, so Monday should be a blast. I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to sell $120,000 worth of bags, especially because eBay suspended our account and now I can’t really sell ANYTHING unless it’s via my own website. The bags are going to take up the entire lobby and bank vault, so I hope to sell them sooner than later.
I worked on the website until midnight at the office Friday, and until 2AM Saturday. I spent all day and night yesterday rebuilding the entire Numark product line on the website, because a couple years ago they attempted to sue me for using their images and product descriptions. I figure it’s been long enough, time to do it again. Sales went from an average of 30 shipments per day prior to the Wall Street and Dow collapse, to an average of 3 shipments per day last week. I hope something drastically changes ASAP, or things won’t be looking good for any of us.
Rachel called last night from the house she is babysitting at, she had 5 kids. Ugh. She made me talk to two of them on the phone, Swedish kids. They were actually pretty cool, for 8 year olds. She said we are never getting married because I don’t appear to like kids. I said that’s fine, because I don’t appear to like kids. Or marriage.
Today it’s raining, I’ll probably unpack my suitcases from my California trip, guess it’s about time to get that out of the way. I’m also going to go to Starbucks and read the Sunday paper.
ps. Nobody has called me to hang out in about a week, besides Heidi. Do I know anyone in Vermont? Who are my friends? Do I have any?
i heart talking to you on the phone into the wee hours. i feel like shit today but it was so worth it for all of the giggles we had. i miss you. meh. PIKA PANTS FOR PRESIDENT!
that is the text message I got from Matt Rainwaters the other day, and it brings me copious amounts of joy. I called him, of course, and here is the story: When I was moving out of Santa Barbara Matt was so kind as …
On Monday the stock market crashed. The market lost over 770 points, the single largest loss in the last 20 years. I’ve lost almost all of my life savings over the past 12 months. A year ago I had $400,000, today I have $125,000. To compound this, the failing US economy is having a direct and obvious impact on sales. Our sales have been roughly 20% of normal since the beginning of September, and I don’t see any improvement in near sight. I’ve lost most of my money, and am now unable to make any! I’m not emotionally upset or depressed like most people would be, I’m just disappointed. I’ve been focusing on work almost 100% of my awake hours since returning from California. Everything at the company is running as efficiently and smoothly as possible, but we can’t make people spend money in this environment.
I talked to Rach on the phone tonight. We are going to get together after work tomorrow, and she leaves Thursday. She went in for her surgery yesterday, and it took a lot out of her. She should be all recovered by tomorrow though. Hopefully her sister can get over this whole ordeal and be glad that she (barely) survived it.
Rachel told me that she likes me tonight, on the phone. I told her that she probably doesn’t like me the way I like her, and she actually reassured me that I’m wrong, which made me feel good. She also likes 2 of her ex-boyfriends as well, so I’m not jumping up and down with excitement.
9/29/08 yoga, gardening, bike ride with bean, nail painting, girly tv watching…it’s a good start. vacation is awesome. i am awesome. that is all.
