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Happy Fireworks Day, everybody!

I had another dream about Laken last night. No, not one of THOSE dreams, ya sicko! Most of the dream was the two of us going to Goodwill. Just hanging out, being some kind of friends.

Another point for Freud's wish fulfillment hypothesis of dreams, I guess. That's pretty much the only part of his psychology with which I remotely agree.

Wonder how Kaze's been lately...

I went up to Cherry Creek Mall today, cuz that's where the GM for the Johnny Rockets at Park Meadows also works. I filled out a new app and gave her a fresh, new copy of my résumé.

Basically, if I get hired they don't know where to train me.

Cherry Creek: Sitdown; manager does the cashiering
Park Meadows: Food court, so there are cashiers but no servers, and no one to train me on cashier.

It's complicated, so pray for me. I also filled out apps at Build-A-Bear, who's going to make phone calls next week, and Waldenbooks, who's hiring for the holiday rush kinda soon.

Even though it's in Denver instead of Aurora, I love taking people to the 16th Street Mall.
( All kinds of crazy people and things can be found there. Even furries! )

So a bunch of us furrs were walking down the street. Every so often I would run, flap my wings, and get a few inches of lift. laken_steeljaw noticed one of these attempts and laughed. I saw a raven up ahead to my right on a median and said  "Hey, Laken! It's your sister!" Again she laughed.

After a while we all went through the opening of a fence into a wooded area. Laken stopped me and said, "Look, Ian, if you want to be friends again, you gotta go 2 things. 1: Respect my beliefs as a therian, and 2: Stop being such a prude. We cool?"

"Yes," I replied. So we went about our day.

Soon after that I woke up.

Dang it.

www.facebook.com/ianthegeckoman

Oh yeah, I have an audition for a locally produced feature film at 1 this afternoon.

I had another anxiety attack yesterday morning that lasted for a little over an hour.

Everything seemed to be pissing me off: less than one serving's amount of protein powder in the bucket; friends came by my house earlier than I was ready, so I scrambled to make lunch; worrying about getting a job so I don't spend all my con money.

So I had many of the same tweaks and twitches and stuff that I did about a year and a half ago. I had to excuse myself from Bible study with Gabe to get some fresh air outside on the steps of the Tivoli facing west. I was crying, shaking...and praying. Gabe came & prayed with me, then a couple police officers came by and escorted me to the campus health center. The place doesn't take my insurance, so they put me on with my doc. He suggested a short-term prescription for Adavan, but I wanted to give it a day to see if things got better, and to avoid dropping more cash. While in the office, my pulse fluctuated from 72 to about 95, but my blood pressure was normal.

I left after a while, still twitchy, and went to the Tivoli to eat lunch before my communicaton and diversity class. The twitches were gone by about 1.

I'm better now. Y'know, valerian root kinda sucks.

The interview with Teatulia went well...up until the point where I said I don't have a car of my own for transporting stuff to demos and farmer's markets. I suppose I could borrow Mom's car.

I updated my severely outdated SnagAJob profile and filled out 3 apps online yesterday: Laser Quest, Micro Center, and Toys R Us, the last of which was maybe the fourth time I've applied there now.

King Soopers hasn't had a labor dispute yet, and I've yet to hear from Elitch Gardens, Regal Cinemas, and In-Motion.

1. NO using IE to view sites blocked in Firefox.
2. NO using the lappy AT ALL around mealtimes.
3. NO compulsive mesaage checking.

I'm back from the road trip to & from Minnesota for Chad & Esther's wedding. Bryce, Ben & I left Denver at about 6:45 Friday morning and got into Annandale at 10:45. We hung around for an hour before going to bed in one of Chad's family's trailers. They're really nice, hospitable folks.

I actually slept really well in MN, as in one continuous "block" of sleep without waking up a few times during the night. It was probably a combination of travel tiredness and the elevation; Annandale's at about 1,000 feet above sea level. I thought I'd sleep really well once I came back home, but I slept as badly as I usually do. =\

You can view all my pics from the trip here.

I did a little bit of driving myself, from North Platte to Ogallala, Nebraska on the way back. We had to take a detour through North Platte cuz of construction, so there was a bunch of stop-and-go driving for a while. I would have continued to Julesburg on this side of the border but I was tired & I didn't want to spend a couple more bucks on an energy drink.


My friend Alec is in town this week. Some of you may remember us "breaking up" our friendship about a year and a half ago. Well, I first started getting in contact with him again sometime last year after the flooding in Iowa. We gradually started talking more & more on Facebook, and I invited him here after he said he wanted to take a trip somewhere. Planning the thing was awkward: not reminding my mom, oversleeping for meeting Alec at Union Station...but we'll find stuff to do. I'll take him to Brandon's anime/boba tea shop sometime this week, as well as the furmeet. We've moved on from the drama; I guess it's easier when you're online friends, but it's still good.

Alec brought his Weighted Companion Cube plushie and his Sega Dreamcast; he introduced me to a synaesthetic game called Rez. The best way I can explain it is a cross between the movie TRON and the game Audiosurf.

I got hired as a temp at King Soopers in case of a labor dispute. A couple of my friends hate me for being a scab, and others don't care either way. A job's a job; even if it is for a couple weeks that's still my share of a month's rent and some con money.

I think that's all I have to say for now.

There's a bill that just passed both houses of the Texas state leiglature that would require theatrical lighting designers to be licensed as an electrician, architect, engineer, landscape architect, or interior designer:
http://www.jimonlight.com/tags/texas-house-bill-2649/

At no point did they consult any lighting designers during the process of drafting this bill (no pun intended), nor is there any provision for establishing a licensure for lighting designers.

I go to the Goodwill store every Sunday after church since they're in the same plaza. I occasionally find something good: Moon Boots, plushies, T-shirts, The Cheat hoodies...

This week I came across this:

I'd heard a little bit of Gregorian chant before growing up, and again in Music Appreciation this past semester. It's so pure, so elegant...just a multitude of voices honoring God, praising Him, asking His forgiveness...wow. I love this stuff!

Nuggets-Lakers series is tied 1-1, with Game 3 tonight and Game 4 on Monday. Ironically, because of Game 4, a WWE event has been moved to Los Angeles. XD

Yesterday we FINALLY shot the sanatorium scenes for "White Death". As a patient, my role was to walk around slowly and cough occasionally. Our director brought in a medical consultant to teach us how to cough correctly; as TB is mostly a lung infection, the cough is much deeper than the kind you get from a cold. Apparently I was so good that the consultant joked that he wanted to take a skin sample from me! XD

( Last night I had another dream involving at least one online friend. I think it means that I need to spend less time online and more time with real life friends.  )
I had another dream in which Tom & I were trying to escape from a political rally where a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses were nominating their presidential candidate. We eventually got to Village Inn for the furmeet but instead hung out in the parking lot, on the Better Bodies side. Timber joined us for a while, then I said I had to go home early and sleep, even though it was only sunset.

Job search stats:
-InMotion: Still no idea who to call
-McDonald's: Applied Tuesday, nothing new
-The Curtis: Applied Wednesday, also nothing new
-UA Colorado Center movie theatre: Big sign said NOW HIRING. The ticket booth clerk said to go to their website...but there were no listings for anything in Colorado. So either the website hasn't been updated yet, or the local people are liars.
-Elitch Gardens: Still waiting.

Anyone wanna hire me?

Got another bike today. Bicycle Village was having a "bike swap" that turned out to be a consignment sale, so while I didn't get rid of the Schwinn I did snag a mountain bike from a company called Sterling for $20. Dad's going to put the Schwinn on Craigslist since we don't have room for 2 bikes at my place. $75 OBO and it's yours.

I'll leave you with a quote from my dad:
"Clear your calendar for next May. And make sure you have a passport."