Sooo...I got the full-time job at Freestyle Photo Supplies, which means I:

a) Don't have to worry about how I'll manage to stay up in LA anymore

b) No longer have to spend $100 a week on gas for going down to LB

c) Will FINALLY have a job that pertains to my interests!

PLUS...I've got a kitty up here now! Her name's Bathsheba, and she's insane! In a good way. I think she's just missing her sibs right now though. I have to give her a bath,so she wasn't allowed in my room last night. She was crying about being alone though, so yeah...I slept on the couch to keep her company. Total cat sucker here.

So I started out going to San Juan Capistrano with Diana and Chris Monday. Shot some good stuff. Oh,I forgot to mention I’m trying to do a documentary on the California missions for my final doc photo project. Looks like it might just have to be the Southern CA missions now though. ANYWAYS...back to the story...

Tuesday...hmm...have no recollection what I did up til evening when I drove down to SD. Went to the Carlsbad flower fields Wednesday morning, more good stuff :) Then kept going up to San Luis Rey mission. Definately not as impressive as SJC. Back to CV after that, where JC initiates me into that warm fuzzy bliss that can only come from top-shelf silver Patron (plus a couple beers after that--some kind better than Blue Moon! Stock...stock...eh,I’d have had to be sober to remember.) Then back home to say bye to the fam and pets. At this point, I had decided to head up to...Santa Barbara!!!

So I hit missions San Buenaventura (got there after closing,snuck in through the garden gate)  and Santa Barbara, then turned in for the night at Rachel’s, who GRACIOUSLY lent me a place to stay. Yay!! And after all the niceness, forced her to be a part of my current doc project. Yeah, I’m ruthless. And I finally got to see Across the Universe, which was pretty neat. Yeah yeah,no one can really cover the Beatles properly, but the movie was strung together nicely.

Soo...starting out this morning at 7:30 AM towards Solvang to see mission Santa Ines. Oh,but before that...I go to get my car off the SB street,and there’s a big cracked indent on the back of my passenger rearview mirror,like someone hit it. So I’m kinda pissed,and make a mental note to get it fixed in a few weeks (you’ll appreciate the irony of this later).

Santa Ines...kinda small, but a pretty garden. Apparently they don’t let people walk through it anymore,though. And then another 20 miles to Lompoc and the La Purisima mission,which I remembered from the family’s mission tour 10 years ago. I remembered there was 1 that had a long pink building and still kept farm animals there. Took more pics here. And then time for the big ’ol trip back.

Can’t believe I survived a trip from SD to SB and back to LA w/o incident until like a minute after I get off the freeway...I’m sideswiped by the city bus at Stearns and Bellflower, and the mirror in question snaps right off and bounces into my passenger seat. And the molding broke off, and the right side is scratched to shit, the window is squeezed...

So now I’m back with my car in the shop, trying to write a stupid report on Kuba raffia cloth, with memories of a Spring Break that almost turned out pretty OK.

Ahhhh...for once,a visit home was just what I needed! I noticed at work today my hand twitch went away! Stupid school...stressing me out.

Unfortunately,I also felt horribly sick today. Maybe because I had some kind of cake or pie or cinnamon bun for 3 straight days for breakfast and snacks in-between,plus eating the cookies Britt's mom made for her to bring to work. Eh...it was worth it!

Also cool--I got FOTC and the Futurama movie on DVD.Yep,I already watched them both--the whole series in 2 days. And yes,Futurama was worth the wait,although the ending was kinda lame. And I got to introduce my little brother to FOTC,who became an instant fan after hearing "If You're Into It". Of course...

And Julian was an awesome mini-getaway as usual. Only it was FREEZING,with wind just making it worse. AND I took off my gloves so I could use my camera. Yes,I'm prepared to suffer for my art  Plus we got more pie there. And I got an awesome vintage hat store sign of live cats in hats.

Oh yeah,this is interesting...my brother was telling me how our mom had the Xmas music going nonstop as usual...

"Yeah,Chirps (1 of the new cats) will just run around the house while the music's going as usual...until the Harry Connick Jr. CD comes on."

"What does he do then?"

"He'll just go into the kitchen and sit on the floor until the song's done!"

Weird cat...

I've been at my photo portfolio all week til night-due Monday, I've got a throat full of phlegm, 2 other projects due the 30th I've had to blow off to work on portfolio,and some fucking asshole just rear-ended me on the way home from work--and kept going!! Fucker. OK,how can I have had a shitty car for almost 2 years with no accidents,and now that I have a nice one for just 9 months that I have to pay for myself, it's some Moronic Driver Magnet with rear-endings within a month and a half of each other?! I swear I'm going to go postal.Grrrr.

Fuck YOU! I don't enjoy logging into my account and seeing that it's been used to send a bunch of random guys a porno link. Go to hell and take your topless sluts with you!