jikokeno3.3

Pretty much the last day

In case you were wondering, in my iTunes playlist marathon, I'm now up to I. Specifically, "It Means Nothing" by Stereophonics. It's not a bad song. I've not heard it before. I liked the Stereophonics' earlier stuff, then they went through their abysmal "Have A Nice Day" phase, and now it seems they're back to normal.

Today is my last weekday before I leave my current employment of "Lousy Degenerate Bum" and join the masses of individuals who find themselves plugged into computers via their ears and forced to take calls from a barrage of idiots with the slightest of difficulties. I say forced; my company is sweetening the deal somewhat with a nice £14,517.19 per year salary (yes, it really is that precise, I have it in writing). I don't mind being told what to do when there is some degree of financial gain involved. And how!

I start my job on Tuesday, Monday being May Day bank holiday. 9.30 sharp. And to be honest, though it'll be a weird transitional period I'd wager, what with the past 3 weeks essentially being a self employed graphic artist (arf arf), I'm going to enjoy getting back into a regular work pattern. Well, I say enjoy. I'll enjoy it because if I'm working it means I'm getting paid. Surprise, surprise, I'm desperately poor. Legitimate excuse though - I got paid only half a wage last payday from Skipton, leaving me to find other ways of raising the £300 I needed to pay the gas bill, my personal loan, my phone bill and other assorted lovelies.

Js now. "Jackson" by Johnny Cash and June Carter. Tune and a half.

Enough money talk. I've got some money coming. I'm doing some bespoke graphic art for a local business (no shit, someone's paying me for entirely personalised comic characters for her website, and is willing to pay me a princely £25 per character. Four characters and it more than pays for the materials I use to create them (these materials being a piece of A4 card, some pens, and my imagination... all three things I already possess).

Have I told you that if you don't all go out and watch Stardust, you're idiots? No? Well, even if you've seen it once, do it. Bloody brilliant. Buy the book as well. It's Neil Gaiman for Christ's sake. Anyone else and it'd be funny to take the piss out of the way his surname sounds. It's testament to his writing that I do not draw attention to that now.

I guess that's it. I have spent all damn day solidly comicking. An excursion to PC World for Daniel to exchange something was my only release - 3 fucking comics done today! Christ. Absolutely exhausting. TraGic was so much easier. The equivalent of the work I did today would amount to 12 TraGics. Good golly.

I wonder what the weekend will hold. Oh yeah, playing GTA IV on Dan's new HD TV. We rule.

posted by Cos Ryan @ 9:18 PM