This is my last week at BlueSky, so i've been thinking about what to do in the future.
Here's one idea:
my new back-up plan in life is to become a freelance grape stomper. this is great because it will allow me to travel the world to various vineyards. I picture myself going from vineyard to vineyard in the south of france. making enough money to produce my animation of course. I'll go from France to Italy and Greece experiencing life with a glass of wine in one hand and a sketchbook in the other -until i make my way back to Spain and do some freelance animation at the studios in Madrid.

There are 5 malls within walking distance of my job.

I'm at work and i should be working but i can't get this image out of my head. it's a pretty bad drawing but i needed let it out so i can be productive.
thats a lobster oven mitt behind her head.

Just so you know...

I was walking to the mall for a Subway sandwich when i tried to pay my sprint bill. they had been calling me all morning. so i wanted to be a good costumer for change.

"just so you know..." the sprint automated operator is very bitchy and intimidating.
she says things like "JUST so you know...your balance isssss... $137.00"

Since when do machines start sentences with "Just so you know..???"

Why does IT have to have such an obvious attitude?

To scare people like me who forget they are talking to a machine. I guess that's how they make people pay up. they might as well have a hard brooklyn leg-breaker talking. actually that might be fun.

I forgot my glasses today and i have a huge headache and working overtime as i type this...

My work still hasn't paid me. grrr. Everyone else was paid on Thursday but here is...monday. tomorrow i'm gonna go up there and collect. Just so you know... Bluesky you haven't paid me and sprints on my ass.

one more thing... i woke up to construction men outside my window. I no longer have the view in the photo i posted before. I managed to take a photo my favorite building. it's white and slender and the setting for the next film i start.

okay i finished I, Claudius last night. It was pretty good. So then Tricia handed me a new book to read. Music for Torching by A. M. Homes.

I started it on the train to white plains this morning. I wasnt sure if i liked it until these lines (which were the last lines i read before my stop):
"What does my wife do at your house all day?"
"She fucks my mother," Jennifer says, without a pause.

haha thanks tricia- i think this will be fun.

-ran to my train this morning and actually caught it.
-ate lunch in a mall.
-5 pages from finishing I, claudius.

Red Metro-North trains go to Connecticut; blue metro-north trains stay in NY. I learned that the hard way this morning.

Last night I did something that I’ve never done before

I stayed up to finish reading The Great Gatsby- for the pure enjoyment of it. I have started many books but never ever finish them. I don’t even know why. I will read a book, get about 60 to 100 pages in and think to myself “I really like this book” then lay it down… forever.

I should have been building characters in flash.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had to sink-wash your clothing.

If you are waiting for your paycheck to come or you are just flat broke, you may have had to wash clothes without a machine. Here are a few tips I have discovered through troubled times.

1. Choose only necessities such as underwear/panties, socks, beater or t-shirt and the clothes you plan to wear tomorrow. Don’t try to wash loads at a time. Make sure to leave an emergency (not as filthy) shirt and pants in case clothes do not dry in time.

2. If you know you will be low on clean clothes for a while- try layering the ones you have. This will preserve your outer clothing by trapping sweat at the beater/t-shirt underneath.

3. Don’t use too much detergent. It’s difficult to rinse out and will make your clothes stiffer. Plus, you probably don’t have much if any. You can also use fabric softener after your first rinse …if you can score some. I can’t use softener its makes my skin itch.

4. Really wring out your clothes.

5. Hang them from the shower rod so they drip into the tub. Use hangers or clean off the topside of the rod so dust doesn’t stain clothes when they are stretched over.

6. Open a window and try to get a cross breeze going. Remove clothes from the bathroom after they have dripped and hang them in a drier environment such as your room in front of a window, ac or fan.

7. If it’s a humid summer night in New York City DO NOT LEAVE WET CLOTHES IN THE BATHROOM OVERINIGHT. You will have moist mildew undies in the morning. In which case you must wash them all again and dry in the sun or find quarters for a machine drier. It sucks to take wet clothes to the Laundromat, but it can be done.

8. If you must take wet clothes to the Laundromat (because it's too humid to dry at home): place your wet, well wringed clothes in a bag. When you get there, snatch a laundry cart, walk out of sight dump your clothes in the cart. Now walk over to the driers as if you had been there all along. yay clean socks!



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Numa just told me that the new building across the street will be a 12-story condominium.

I will have to buy curtains

Across the street there has been a large hole in the ground for about a year. Suddenly the construction company decided to get their shit together and make a building. Our super told us it would be luxury condos. I hope he was teasing, but I don’t think so.

I also don’t think they are union because they are sometimes out there by 3am and they seem to be making a new floor every two days.

I don’t know much about construction but I have seen lots of partially made buildings in the city. They all have steal beams erected from the ground up. Like the one cattycorner from my block. I know that it will be at least 5 stories because it’s beams raise that high.

But I have no idea what they are doing with this building across the street. Its area takes up both sides of the block so I imagine it must be very tall. But instead of steal beams they seem to build a floor, pave it and then build another floor held up by 2x12’s. Like layers of a cake or crackers separated by dozens of toothpicks. So I have no idea how high it will be because each new floor could possibly be a roof.

I know I’m going to lose my beautiful of north Harlem.

I don’t own digital cameras so here is photo taken from my window about 10 months ago. Now there is a 4 story building in the lower portion almost blocking out the street. Mini Mart is no longer visible.


And here is my view in 6 months.

I don’t own a DVD burner

Yeah I really suck right now. I stayed up half the week to finish my animatic and didn’t finish and furthermore- I couldn’t have made a dvd if I had finished.

So my next goal- other than paying rent (and utilities sometime soon) and food- is to buy a dvd burner and a dazzle to import video. Everyone I know has a burner and would let me use it- but I know I need this to be a real person. it's like owning a stapler.

So then I can be listening to records on my vintage phonograph and sipping gourmet coffee brewed from my French press and still be doing actual productive things like exporting my animation so people can watch it on their tv’s and dvd players and not just their internet. I hate myself sometimes.

I did make the deadline however. There’s something a little exciting about waiting in that very long line at the main branch of the post office aiming to make the day’s postmark. Like the last long stretch of your marathon. And then you get to go to macy’s for groceries yum.

They don’t sell bread at Macy’s. Don’t try to find the wonderbread or even 12 grain. They do have everything bagels though. Oh this lady down there told me that every night the sandwiches and salads are “buy one get one free” after 8 i think. You can get one of each ;)

Right now I’m looking at a bag of dried fruit and not hungry. Weird how just knowing you have something to eat tomorrow makes you not hungry. I have a Greek salad in the fridge.

More panels you can only see online…

I haven' t pondered much lately because I'm on a deadline for a grant that I will not receive. Here’s a few storyboards that I have been drawing. Hopefully Tricia and Amy will not be mad that I put them on my blog :) -