I am a member of 2 cliques of size 6

• cochrane, kimiko_desu, sweetmegumi, tidus, deijiko, mr_wendell
• cochrane, kimiko_desu, sweetmegumi, tidus, deijiko, chibiendy

Hmm… well, how do you like that? 2 cliques, even…

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As of June 29th, my contract with Walmart.com officially expires. My boss has informed me that they will not be renewing my contract…

… because they have just offered me a salaried position! Starting July 5th, I will be a regular employee, complete with benefits and stock. I’ve already given my verbal acceptence, and the official letter signing will occur tomorrow. Sorry if this scared you I like dramatic entrances.

You may berate me at will below.

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It’s going to be a rough couple of months leading up to JTAF this year. One of my key colleagues has resigned due to RL duties (which are always more important, as this isn’t even a paying gig ), and I’m going to have to step in to take over until I can dupe some poor schlep into taking the job find someone to assume those responsibilities. To be honest, handling operations and marketing is pretty hard work to be sure, but dealing with three major areas of convention planning may be the push into insanity I needed. Shit, I haven’t had a nervous breakdown since the eighth grade, so I guess I’m due In all honesty, I don’t think I will stress about it, because in the grand scheme of things, live programming doesn’t have a whole lot to it right now, and lucky for me, the department’s structure is well-supported. All I have to do is really just play figurehead to the various managers for the time being. Why do I have to take over, you ask? Because I’m the vice-chair, and that’s part of my responsibilities and duties. In the event that people cannot perform their job, I have no choice but to step it up and go balls out until I can find a spare pair to take over. Not that I’m implying it’s a man thing, it’s just a regular unisex thing to do. Anyway, the managers are aware and have been really helping me out with it, so, as I said, it’s not stressing me out too much right now.

Meanwhile, we’re gearing up for the Anime Expo trip, where I’ll be running a booth and having fun. Our booth is like waaaaay in the back of the hall, but I don’t care. It’ll be a lot of fun either way, and all we’re there to do is give the convention proper exposure and see if we can get people to come visit us in September. Fliers, banners, and maybe a couple of raffles for the crowd to try and gain some interest. I have to hand it to the Fanime people, though… Justin Hernandez is reportedly going all out with the Fanime booth this year, and I’m definitely looking forward to it. Though I think that this year’s AX might be another ‘working vacation’ like back in 99 when I sat in the exhibit hall for four days selling a service not a single person purchased. That was ten kinds of fun (bleh). This year, I have my minions from operations and marketing to pitch in and man the booth so I can have fun and hang out.

I’ll hopefully be a little more diligent about daily reporting this year, so stay tuned to this channel for this year’s AX report.

Some points go to the person who knows which movie the subject line comes from.

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Anyone else really excited by the second season of Dead Like Me?

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Talk about a blast from the past, this movie is currently playing on Showtime. I think I saw this movie when I was about 8 or 9, when my mom indulged me by renting the video back in the days when Beta tapes were still around. Heh, this totally brings back memories. And people wonder why I’ve been so interested in sci-fi ever since they can remember.

Anyway, looking forward to the game tonight. Go Giants!

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It’s done!

We finished the episode on my birthday and it will premeire June 27th at 7:30pm. It’s a little rough, and we’re still trying to get the hang of it, but I think it has a lot of potential. There were many more script rewrites than I thought there would be, despite the fact that we did so many on Wednesday night. We’re already prepping for the second episode, to air while I’m at AX.

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If you’re reading this, then you can either rejoice or be abhored at getting to sit at the cool kids table.

Ten Resolutions for Age Twenty-Eight:

1) I resolve to remain single for at least six months from April 1st.
2) I resolve to remain single for at least six months from April 1st.
3) I resolve to remain single for at least six months from April 1st.
4) I resolve to do more upper body work so I can lose some flub.
5) I resolve to get out more.
6) I resolve to finish Knight Commander by Christmas.
7) I resolve to return to school this fall. I resolve to move to the city (or nearby) by September.
9) I resolve to find another career to shift into that is as lucrative as my current line of work.
10) Finally, I resolve to be present at at least four baseball games per month for the rest of this season.

While I’m at it, I also resolve to win the lottery. All kidding aside, I think the above is doable. That first one is repeated three times for emphasis, wit, and the fact that I could only think of eight resolutions to writer and not ten. Ten’s better than eight, anyway, and I manage to do number one, then I can honestly say I ruled three out of ten Yeah, I’m just quirky like that.

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As with the two previous entries on my birthday, adding another year to my age holds a kind of sobering mood over me. When I was much younger I used to look forward to my birthday, until I turned sixteen, at which point I underwent some sort of crisis about growing old. How’s that for lame? I had my mid-life crisis at sixteen and so now I think I’m going to die around thirty. I tell everyone I only have two years left, and my friends all tell they’re so sick of hearing about it that if I’m not dead by thirty, they’ll gladly help me along. I’m here at work right now, and I think it sucks that I have to work on my birthday… it means I’ll be sleep deprived after the events of the day are done.

Anyway, the year in review. I went to Anime Expo 2003. I was laid off from PayPal/eBay. I ran a major anime convention. I did another quarter at Foothill. I self-published a book. I was hired on at Walmart.com. I bought a new car. I ended a long-term relationship. I started a band. I got signed to do a weekly radio show.

Okay, so it was not entirely without its ups and down. I’m writing another book. I’ve agreed to run another convention, and as I write this, I’m in the midst of preparations to go back to Anime Expo. This year, though, I am hoping that I can go back to school and finish my transfer unit requirements so I can apply to SFSU for Fall 2005. Having no job right before the fall quarter in 2003 really put a stop to continuing my education. All I can say is that I was grateful I spent enough money beforehand just to get through the fall quarter without falling on my ass. It was signing up for winter and spring that essentially owned me, when the fees got jacked up over the summer and instead of paying seven dollars a unit, it ended up being twelve. Those extra five dollars, when multiplied by twenty units, add up to a hundred dollars more than I had, so school fell by the way.

How am I doing? Emotionally, I think I’m a lot better than I was before. Physically, I am feeling my age and realizing right at this moment how much I can no longer do graveyard shifts anymore. Not only because I need more sleep, but because I appear to have something of a social life and I’m missing out on a lot of the events I would like to take part in. If I want to participate, I either have to arrive late or leave early, depending on the time. It sucks because I hate it when work becomes life. I want the more enjoyable aspects of life to be life, tempered by responsibility of course, but I think some sort of balance would be nice. It had gotten to the point that during the three or four days I work, it is pretty much impossible to even talk to me or do anything with me… and that’s a little sad. Hopefully, they will hire a permanent graveyard guy and I’ll be on a much better daytime schedule that’s somewhat normal. … I had to pause to laugh because if my twenty year old self read this, he would probably just wonder what the hell happened to me that I would want to work days. At 20, I was so much a night person, even when I wroekd swing my body tried to keep me up nights. I used to pride myself on working nights and volunteering for nights. Now, I work 8 hours a night and all I want to do is sleep when I get home.

I gained some new friends this year, as well. I met some people with similar interests; I started going to a hell of a lot more ballgames… I’m not complaining, just trying to figure out how many I can go to in one month. I wish I could spend more time with them sometimes, because I have come to enjoy the conversation and self-exploration that comes with sharing the same general area. There is one person in particular, who shall remain nameless, who reminds me of myself when I was their age; but with a majority of the life lessons that took me a divorce and serious emotional strife in order to gain wisdom. I think that this person is so far ahead of the game that only great things are waiting for them in the future. If such a relationship is maintained, I think I would enjoy watching that play out for them, and it is my sincere hope that they acheive their goals. Any support I can offer toward that end would probably be given without hesitation.

My love life stands still. I feel a great deal better about no longer being in a relationship. The decision to end it was best for both of us, and given her current state of affairs, it was a even better move for her. Where do I go from here? I stay single for at least six months to a year. I know I’ve said this in the past, but this time I have to stick to it. I want to get used to being by myself for a while, enjoy the fits of loneliness that get tempered with the happiness that comes from being dependant on no one else for emotional support. I have my friends, I have my interests, I keep busy. I may at times say stupid things like “I’m unattractive” or whatever… that’s just me being stupid. The romantic in me states that fate might smile. The realist in me wonders who the hell this fate person is. I don’t really beleive in fate, except when it suits me, but I’d like to think that we make our own fate (to borrow a phrase from T2). I also hearby decree no more finding women on the internet and then moving in with them within 90 days. You would think after the first three times I would learn my damn lesson already instead of being blinded by my emotions. I’ve been called a cold-hearted bastard so many times, you would think that part of me would step in and play the role I’ve been assigned.

About the book and the radio show. The book was put out by CafePress some time ago; it’s not a “real book” so to speak, but it was really something to see my name on the cover of a book, with my words on the inside (albeit slightly mispelled and grammatically scary at times). Say what you will about it, it’s something I can say I did. The radio show is potentially awesome. I finished the scripts for the first episode and I’m almost done with the second. It will premeire on June 26th at 7:30pm Pacific, and a press release is going out about it on Monday, to promote it and gain listeners. I’m excited about it, to be honest. We did the rundown meetings last week and edits to get the final script ready for recording tomorrow night. It’s nice to actually be part of a professional production team. Who knows? It might actually pay in the near future. I wouldn’t want a career in broadcasting, but it looks like a lot of fun.

This year ends on a cautiously optimistic note. I look forward to the next year, and maybe in that year, I will build enough momentum to look forward to turning twenty-nine.

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I had forgotten how fun it was to do a radio show. I remember when I did live shows, it was difficult coming up with material to talk about, or what I did talk about ended up being used up in the first twenty minutes, and then I was just playing music for the rest of my four hour block. Since this is a thirty minute show, and the script is written out and appropriately blocked to cover the time, it moves pretty smoothly. Last night’t production meeting trimmed some of our reviews to fit into the 1 to 2 minute slots that we broke the show down into. Our script went through a final rewrite and retiming, and I finally finished the editing a few moments ago. We’re going to record on Saturday night and then ftp it over to the radio station after Ray edits it on Sunday. We got a time slot! Sunday nights at 7:30pm PT. I hope you’ll all listen

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