Balloon Life

Life has been so strange lately. Two weeks ago I was pushed to the side and crushed, the universe had me down. Now suddenly my luck has turned around. I was selected to be apart of the Washington Project for the Arts 2011 Experimental Video Festival and I received an email from Apple to come to one of their recruiting sessions. To top all that off, I hired a taxi to pick me up from the airport on Sunday and I was greeted by a stretch limo. What is going on? It got me in a good mood for my interview today.

I have great news about a show I applied to be in! I will post about that later but for now Happy Thanksgiving!!

Today while waiting for the Bus, I found that my lips were not feeling smooth but cold and flaky. Not wanting to take off my backpack to search for my chap stick, I just stood and waited. 3 minutes had passed and I decided to place my cell phone in my pocket. Not being able to fit it in all the way I realized it was because of a small cylinder object, my burt's bees chap stick. I felt a warmth of excitement take over my body. This small sign made me feel like I am going to be okay.

I guess next time I download a software that I really need I will make sure that the demo remover works on the version I have. Looks like I might be buying max/msp/jitter. oh well.

This post is more personal than the others.

Today I managed to dip my headphones into my coffee. I think I played it cool, but really I'm just used to things like this happening to me.

I was also called "Carrot Top" by some nice man in Brooklyn. (Really? Is that the best you can come up with?)

I went back to Harvestworks after a week of working for U.S. Security Associates. It was nice to be back in the "art scene". U.S. Security was fun and different, actually it reminded me a lot of when I worked at the National Guard Bureau, it was a nice change of scenery though. It was cool working in Times Square.

I worked a little more on my website today. I have a better idea of what I want my "Work" page to look like. The layout for this thing is killing me. I just want to be done with it! But I want it to look nice.

This is my life right now. Coffee and the internet.

My relationship with my laptop has grown since I moved to NYC. We travel together, sit together, work together. I think my desktop is jealous.

Last weekend I went to an artist book fair at MoMA PS1. It was amazing to see the amount of people who have created artist books. There were a ton of books I wish I could have bought but I don't have that kind of money. (one day I will get the winning scratcher)

That's all I really have for now. This week I am going to ask The Universe for a job that pays at least $20 an hour. *fingers crossed*

I wish I had started blogging earlier but I guess later is better than never. If you didn't know I moved to NYC on September 15, 2010. I just bought a train ticket and came up. Well, I had an internship lined up at Harvestworks. I have been sleeping on my good friend, Gustavo Galvan's couch for the past 2 months. I have seriously had the worst time trying find an apartment but craiglist saved the day. After seeing over 20 apartments I decided to start responding to craigslist posting for roomies. It was only the second meeting I had lined up and it worked out! I handed in my deposit and first months rent today. My room may not have a closet but it has a balcony. Oh and I can afford it. (I hope)