Absurd Tuna

The Absurdities of My Life… And Tuna.

Employed!

Posted by Jessica on February 8, 2010 at 1:22 pm in Work, life

So, Jessica is employed! I got a job last Friday at a Tropical Smoothie down the street from the mall thanks to her friend Hannah. I’m pretty excited about having a job, but I’m really nervous.

Why?

The guy who hired me told me that he only hired me because he hired my friends. I’m super nervous. I have to prove myself to that I was good to hire.

Anyway, I start Tuesday. I work Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and I’m off Sunday.

Oh yeah! Tuesday is my story’s critique. We’re going over my story “Moving Forward”. Wanna read? It’s in my Works section. :)

I’ll update Tuesday night!

Charlatan Illusionists and Teacher Meetings

Posted by Jessica on January 25, 2010 at 11:11 pm in Ramblings, classes, fun

Just another life update since the last time I posted.

Nothing much is going on here lately and I honestly can’t think of anything interesting to post about. I’ve done nothing much besides hang out with my friends when I haven’t been in class. I also have been working on reworking one of my short stories for my English 464 class.

Last friday I went to what I thought was going to be an illusionist show only to learn that it was a Christian message in disguise. Brock Gill came to campus to do a show and since I like things like David Blaine and Criss Angel, I decided to go.

The thing that bothers me the most was simply the fac t that I felt like I paid $5 just to see him stand up on stage and play with cards and try to fool us. I know enough about magic that I was able to pick out his distractions when they happened. Anyway, before the intermission, he told us that he wanted to talk about his life and that if we “did want to hear it, we could just leave”. Well, I paid to get into this show, I was going to see what he wanted say.

What did he want to say? He wanted us to find Jesus. I suppose it was a nice message to spread along. I’m a Catholic, I don’t mind people talking about Jesus. My problem was that I didn’t know it was going to be a Christian-y message until I had seen flip a few cards around for an hour. I didn’t think I was going to get a message about religion while I was supposed to enjoy myself seeing some illusions.

And the even sketchier part was simply the way he talked to us about the disater in Haiti. He asked for donations for his mission trip and to send supplies down there. He claimed all the supplies that were beign sent to Haiti were being bottlenecked by customs and they weren’t getting through. He claimed that the company he worked with found this super secret way into Haiti through the Dominican Republic and that we should give to him because it was sure to get to the people there. ….It sounded too sketchy for me.

I left the performance kinda disappointed. It was okay, because I went back with my friends and watched Sergeant Frog until one in the morning.

Well, that’s all for the moment. I need to do more and update more often. I want to make this interesting for all my readers! Lol, that means I need a more interesting life.

I talked to my creative writing teacher and I told her one of my book ideas and she actually told me that I should write it. What does that mean? It means that I’m going to start writing my book. I am going to fix what I have so far and make it presentable for my second short story. I’m super excited! It’s currently 30 pages, and I plan for it to be at least 120 pages by the time the first draft is done and longer after I edit more. That’s the plan. Will I still with it? Who knows. I just know that I want to write it. I wanna get it out of my head.

Well, that’s all for now! I’ll talk to you later!

Thanksgiving Time

Posted by Jessica on November 26, 2009 at 3:04 am in life

A lot of blogs are probably talking about Thanksgiving, and I will follow the crowd. :)

So! I’m home. The last few days have been more than fun, yesterday especially. Daniella, my friend Jessica, and I all went to Chili’s for dinner. Afterwards, we returned to my dorm room and watched the first DVD of Gundam Wing. Daniella left after that and Jessica and I continued our anime time block with the first DVD of Trinity Blood. We paused after that and just talked about our various projects that we’re doing and RPs that we’re working on and such.

We pretty much did only that until my roommate got off work around 3am, then we called it a night and went to bed. The next morning we woke up, did lunch and I hopped my car for the three-hour drive for Nashville.

I first stopped by my parents’ house to pick up the iPod I ordered. It’s a Classic, fifth generation. I still have the one that Daniella gave me back in September, but it’s going to a new home with my father as a Christmas present. I will miss what I lovingly called the ‘Dino-Pod’ and I do appreciate that Daniella gave it to me.  <3

Oh! I have another story to tell everyone! So, before we went to Chili’s yesterday, I had to go to my car, of course. Well, when I arrived, I saw that my car had been vandalized! The left sideview mirror had been completely knocked off! Not only that, the wires had been severed and the mirror was completely missing! So that three hour drive was kind of scary today. :(

Well, I wish you all a good Thanksgiving!

What are you Holiday traditions?
Is there anything you’re upset about?

What’s going on in your life that you want to mention? I’m all ears!

Movie Nights, Fire Drills, and Short Story

Posted by Jessica on October 21, 2009 at 4:33 pm in School, Writings, life

Hello!

So, this morning, I awoke to the announcement that they were going to be working on the fire alarm system in my dormitory. That doesn’t sound too bad, right?

Well, I got up, took a shower, and came back to my laptop to check e-mail when suddenly the fire alarm went off. The horrific part? I was still in my robe and wet and it was thirty-four degrees outside.

So, during the ensuing chaos, I hurry to get dressed and my roommate, Lindsey, isn’t really sure what to do. I’m trying to explain that she should get to the fire escape, but I also have a shirt half on and digging for socks.

I was quickly put to ease when a friend from down the hall walked down and told me that I didn’t have to vacate the building. I was pretty relieved… and had a record time for getting dressed.

So, now that that adventure is over with, I’ll update you on what’s going on in life.

Last night, Hannah and I decided to watch a few movies. I showed her The Tingler (A favorite with my Dad), Stir of Echoes, and Final Destination. They were all awesome!

Tonight is going to be The Road to El Dorado and Matilda. I’m so excited!

I’m also going to work more on my short story. It’s at five pages right now and the ending does feel like it’s going to happen too soon. I’ll put a section below the cut for those interested.

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