I’ve seen high-schoolers debate better
Like some of you I’m sure, I suffered through the second presidential debate, which took place in my backyard last night. And I, like I’m sure some of you, was ready to throw my beer bottle at the screen in hopes that both candidates would just shut the hell up. However, I enjoy too much HD wonderfulness on my boyfriend’s 108″ screen (hooray for projectors!) to do such a thing. And yes, I was watching the debate in HD. Why? Because I could. I’m just glad it’s over so that the police can stop standing guard on every street corner in Nashville.
So I know I should start blogging more, but in my defense, I was out of the country for nine days. Then again, I’ve been back for a week now and since I’m jobless, I really have no excuse.
You see, I decided that before I left for Italy, I was going to put my two-weeks notice in with my employer. I had a laundry list of complaints about a company that I use to love working for, so I just decided not to take it anymore. Long story short, they let me go the night I put my two-weeks in, so I called HR the next day and got the full two weeks paid for. Don’t fuck with me, I’ll get what I deserve.
I was hoping to have at least another part-time retail job lined up when I got home so that I could look for a “real” job. However, because the company I wanted to go work for is owned by my former employer (yet they are still competitors), they want to put a little more space in between the end of my last job and the beginning of working with them. It’s all bullshit and politics, so I’m just going to move on. Time for me to find a “real” job anyways.
To continue with the pattern of my last rant, one of my biggest passions has been photography. A couple of years ago, I started a little side business in hopes of making a bit of extra money on the side. Unfortunately though, most of my clients at the time (unsigned college bands) could not pay me in cash; although I gladly accepted the free entrances to shows and all the free booze my then underage self could handle. I slowly started paying more attention to graduating than the photography and I haven’t really done much since the end of 2006. I picked up a job (for free) to help some friends out with a final project in April, and that led me to want to pick my camera back up.
Avenues of Neon Photography is now back up and running, thanks to all of this free time that I have on my hands. And because I now have a degree hanging on my wall, I’m not doing anymore charity work. I’m in the process (probably over the weekend) of reorganizing my website, creating a blog (that will be here on WordPress at http://avenuesofneonphotography.wordpress.com), and getting my name back out in the music community. I’m pretty excited to get back into things, and can’t wait to see what I’m able to accomplish with it this time around.
I’m also putting my resume out there as well, because I know the photography won’t make me enough to pay the bills (maybe one day though). My spirits are high though and I hope to have a couple of pretty productive days coming up. Basically, I’m just going to roll with it and see what happens…
