My bitchcow of a roomate is kicking me out at the end of this month , so i wont be around for awhile

Brett (my old manager) has been kind enough to let me crash on his couch , in pike place until i can find a new room , but , as i dont want to wear out my welcome - i'm gonna limit my net time to looking at craigslist ads .

Dan (a friend of mine) said he'll help run my belongings to the apartment , because pixies car is broke , and tucker really doesnt know when his is going to be fixed , or when it will be nessecary to be fixed.

I'm sorry i didnt call anyone or write them seperately - but i was so hurt yesterday , all i could do was wander around the waterfront and bawl my eyes out

forgive me. And Pixie , I'll still come over for christmas - I just have to pack a little everyday this week.

later.
-alex

Yes, yet another year has passed without serious disease or injury . I am 23 , as of midnight yesterday !

This year i had to work , so i spent what was left of my "special" day at The Crab Pot on pier 57-with my roomate , the sub-manager from my work (brett) , and (-- thank you so much for the flesh-toned charcoal pencils , sweetie )....and ended with me crawling into the largest (and bluest) Long Island ice-tea i could find

I wish I could have treated everyone to a long weekend , and a trip accross the chanel on the ferry, like i was supposed to - but it was lovely to walk that whole way accross the waterfront , as i hadn't even gone down there yet. Thank you so much for comming , guys


side note ? -- my parents finally mailed me my computer cables ( on top of five bags of dried veggies and an emery board with a monkey on it ...Gee , thanks , mom ... ) - so updates will continue as soon as i have some time at home to myself. ( i had to wait for access to my image-editing program )- forgive me ?....

1.) My parents shipped half of what I asked for from Spokane (the other half being craft supplies I haven’t touched in 2 years ) ….. and charged me sixty bucks for it ( XC –including another ten dollars on top of that, for ugly floral Ralph Lauren sheets mom bought from work. )

2.) ……….'Found out not twenty-four hours later , that the chrome microwave I had shipped all the way from home , which I won at the graduation fair in high school ( and which I have never EVER unwrapped for any reason ) – does not actually work.

3.) barricaded myself in my new “room” (which is a walk in closet on the way to megan’s bathroom ) , and started painting again ( the cover for my graphic novel , which I now have the prologue and first chapter written for <3) , and nearly finished my all-pencil realistic-looking Dean Venture picture .

4.) Conquered the shit out of my new job by emptying the clearance cabinet and putting everything back on display out front ( the only things I haven’t sold are several 40 dollar really ugly (soft , but spiky) vibrators and some bachelorette cards now )-- and having a special “sex toy of the day “ with an educational blurb for our shy or dumber-than-dirt visitors

...the manager has apparently put me in charge of the halloween window display because of it

5.) ……..received several crank calls at work , from men who apparently like to be choked with butt plugs , who then called me a skank. (things were nice while they lasted , ne ? )

6.) ….immediately went into comas every day after work , because my body still hasn’t apparently adjusted to walking all the fucking way up capital hill , even now…XC

7.) Went out on my first real date- date since my ex- “fiancée” ripped me a new one <3.............and didn’t hyperventilate or make up an excuse to get out of it, for once . ( I’m VERY suspicious as usual, thanks to my “being-kicked-while-I’m-down…..until I vomit ” luck, this year – but I have a feeling if I’m just “seeing” someone , rather than being anyone’s anything—I’ll have much less further to fall when something goes horribly wrong ( and it will , don’t kid yourself. ). I’ve had it with romance , I’ll settle for being content , intellectually stimulated (lets hear it for older indie men ! ), and somewhat amused now , thank you.

8.) Had my first taste of gelato with Tucker and his roommate Sonya ( who are coming up from Olympia to party on Sunday ^^) ….Which is apparently the ADULT version of icecream , as far as i can discern. It costs seven whole dollars , but you can get any flavor under the sun- plus Mojito . O_O

9.) ....its now 3 in the morning and i should be in bed ( as i have to be to work by 9 ) , but i'm completely shocked how adult i'm being ...and how i haven't lost my goddamned mind about it yet .

10.) ....seriously , I'm already thinking how rewarding clean toasty laundry is going to be after work tomarrow , when we drop everything off after dinner. Have i been replaced by a robot or a clone....or two taped together to make a CLONE OF A ROBOT ???

11.) ..............okay , that's it . I'm going to Golden Age before work . This calls for some serious , mind-numbing comics to get this out of my system XC


night night

WEEK ONE

1.) started looking for work the day after my parents drove me there. Went to three interviews , tops. Slept on Friend's futon in exausted stupor , from walking around so fuckin' much...

2.) Got the twenty-th job i applied for after canvassing the area , by walking in off the street . the manager interviewed me on the spot after the previous applicant walked out - and we talked comics for about an hour ( after he noticed a Strangers in Paradise book in my bag )

3.) started cashiering at a porn shop in Pike Place that very weekend.


4.) KILLED MY FEET....by being forced to stand up for 8 hours , doing so X_X.

WEEK TWO

1.) Made best friends with a dominatrix/pin-up model who works in our "nudie booths" ( NOT-WORKSAFE--> )

2.) learned how to bag , tag and shrinkwrap sex toys properly XD ( and what lubes actually make them MELT , apparently ..O_O )

3.)was (politely) kicked out of apartment by friend ( for spacial reasons , as her apartment's a studio ) - before my FIRST paycheck- and was promptly taken in my a coworker 18 minutes from work ( Megan, the zippy 24 hour clerk O_O ).

4.) Moved out that thursday, after opening a bank account i CAN'T use , since i'm broke

WEEK THREE


1.) ....immediately regretted moving out , because it then took me two days to clean it with bleach , "Simply Green" and papertowels ( her laundry and cat droppings were EVERYWHERE , and we didnt have any rags.... :Nirvana: )


2.) briefly luxeriated in my filth-free , claw footed bathtub , like a bitchy little princess ( apparently megan never throws any soap out , and goes to LUSH all the time....O_O )


3.) was hit on (quite sweetly) by a latin man with long hair , and gave him my number ( after tripping over myself in the back hallway , just to say hi )
he squeezed the tips of my fingers on purpose, when we shook hands , and i just lost it ...

4.).......immediately regretted it , knowing he now had the option of calling me!!! MFG:MFG:!!!


5.) :sad: Never recived a call ........... But (accidently) fell for my boss , instead after a particularly long and incredibly enlightening conversation ( six HOURS ! O_O) , that ended with him walking me back to my apartment (which is all the way on capitol hill , despite the fact his home is downtown , i found out ) ....

6.) currently trying not to give him too many cues , incase it blows up in my face ....but complements keep coming out of my mouth every now and again...


7.) i have no idea where this is going, either , but my heart wont stop swelling and fluttering , whenever he tells me a joke , it's INSANE ....O_o


8.) i exchanged numbers with him for texting ( him asking first) , and now i havent a bloody clue what it means , because i dont know if it was for work or socializing ....

Okay, so I got a job within my FIRST WEEK IN SEATTLE , surprisingly -- and it's not a food service one ... By chance , i ended up walking into "Dejavu" , in Pike Place while waiting for the bus-- and the manager ( who is apparently a comic geek , having both a Sandman tat , and recognizing my Strangers In Paradise collection ) interviewed me on the spot.........and called me the next morning , so i could cover Saterday's shift!


So... the HARD part is officially out of the way . I hate Spokane with every FIBER of my being , and honestly...If i ever go back for reasons OTHER than moving my crap out of my parent's house, I'll likely be cremated when i do so

It is a town for people who want to settle with the bare minimum in life , and raise their kids to do the same -- thus , significantly watering down the gene-pool for yet ANOTHER generation.....and I'm fucking SICK of it . FUCK IT.


However.... My roommate NOW says that we need to be looking for a one bedroom apartment , because we're sharing the living room , and --at the moment - there is NOT one available in our complex. I would get my own apartment (below)-- but i dont have the start up money , and wont for a few months (during which i'll be paying my share + food ) ...

On top of that , she apparently wants to move to LA in February (supposedly...) , leaving me behind in an unfamiliar place and with half the rent (depending upon what option we take ) ......So there's another roadblock in the works , it seems

I'm going to try and do my part to get comfortable with my surroundings and daily duties , so i don't get lost , or mugged anytime soon--but , i know I'd be better off with another roomie for at least a year's time ( for transition's sake ) .... I'm asking my friends if they're interested , just to cover my bases ( -since some are locals and the others are getting out of college soon) , but i figured I'd open this to Seattle Locals as well -- since , well --all of my very best (and relatively trusted ) friends all stemmed from the galleries themselves .


Are any of you in Seattle ? --and do you need someone to split rent with in about 6-7 months ?