I am literally giddy about my new job. I mean... it's work very similar to the work I've been doing for years but this is a little higher profile than I usually get to do. Yea!

I'm the Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor for Rosie Live!
Guest stars include Alec Baldwin, Alanis Morrissette, Jane Krakowski, Elmo, Ne-Yo, Liza Minnelli, Rachael Ray, Harry Connick Jr., Anti-Gravity with the Lombard Twins, Clay Aiken, Gloria Estefan, and Kathy Griffin

It airs this Wednesday night. Woo!

I've gone on a few adventures that never made it to ye olde LiveJournal. for example my recent trip to Hawaii...I'm feeling now that I'd like to get those memories posted here with photos... I know it'll take hours so I'm sort of hesitant to begin... but I'd enjoy looking back a the whole thing later... waste of time or not???

I'm gonna fill this thing out cause I haven't done one of these in YEARS!
I think the idea is, you the reader must now fill this out and post it in my comment thing.
come on! play with me :-)


1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
yes indeed.


2) What was your dream growing up?
to be a cartoonist - then to work in theater


3) What talent do you wish you had?
singing


4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Mohito please!


5) Favorite vegetable?
mmmmmm I like them all. I want collard greens right now.


6) What was the last book you read?
I'm reading Green Collar Economy and Cherry Bomb


7) What zodiac sign are you?
Aquarious


8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
lots of ear piercings - tattoo pending


9) Worst Habit?
over reacting


10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
absolutely


11) What is your favorite sport?
nah - don't like sports


12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
both at different times... probably more optimistic


13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
since I got this from Zoomusikgrl I'll have to go with: smoke all your cigarettes with you and gab


14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
my parents death


15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
sometimes I forget to put on any music - spend a whole day working at home in silence
that's weird right? most people don't do that I think...


16) Do you have any pets?
large fish


17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
party time


18) What was your first impression of me?
my first impression of Zoo was that she was way too cool for me


19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
depends on the clown


20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
thicker hair maybe - or thinner thighs


21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
sure


22) What color eyes do you have?
hazel


23) Ever been arrested?
nope


24) Bottle or can soda?
bottle


25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
go on vacation - buy gifts for everyone


27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
can't think of just one place


28) Do you believe in ghosts?
maybe


29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
read / write / sew / draw

30) Do you swear a lot?
not a whole fucking lot - but sometimes

31) Biggest pet peeve?
people who don't want to improve themselves or feel they can't

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
motivated

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
YES

35) Do you believe in God?
NO!

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
word.

New modeling photos. Yea!

I don't know what led me to this olde website this morning. Every once in awhile I feel like trying to get it back up to date, but mostly I forget it exists. That photo of me is so damn old now, I don't feel like spending the time to fish out and resize another one.

I've been busy as hell lately, which makes me happy! My career is really launching and I'm enjoying playing the networks game. I'm getting to the point where I'm really not worried about my next job. I've made enough professional friends that I can make some calls before I start throwing my resume to strangers.

the wonders and mysteries of unionizing are all becoming clear to me now - I'll have "earned" health insurance just in time for Obama to hand it to me, HA!

Back in school they didn't tell us much about being union - CURSE THEM!!! It's been such an important step towards getting a living wage, finding GOOD work etc...

So since Xanadu on Broadway closed I've been juggling my time between White Christmas on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and Cirque Du Soleil's Wintuk. Next week I'm working on some star studded TV show - I'm not even sure what it's called yet, and in january.... MAYBE just MAYBE (crossed fingers, toes, eyes, and knees) I might be the Ast. War. Sup for a feature film. That kind of money will quickly pay for the biggest wedding and honeymoon I can imagine!

Have I told the LJ community that I'm engaged? can't remember. but yeah - I'm that.
between all my scrambling from job to job I'm designing an engagement ring (though I already have a family heirloom on my finger) and slowly planning a wedding. Haven't chosen a date yet but it'll probably be 2010 at this rate. I'm just not an excitable bride, I've taken the whole thing pretty calmly and quietly - I'm still realizing I've forgotten to tell certain people, who really ought to know! The whole affair will most likely be very very small and in a remote location.

I couldn't be happier with the direction my life is headed. My new apartment is glorious, my bee continues to be thoughtful and romantic after 5 years, I'm making a varied assortment of new close friends. I've got a buddy crashed out on my couch right now and I'm waiting to make her breakfast.

Last month I took a friend in need into my home for a week, adventures ensued. I'm finding a really wonderful balance between working myself ragged and still getting out to party with the people who matter... do you know how hard that is??!

anyway. maybe I'll do me a little yoga before I need to run off to work.
I was playing violin for about a year but that's been pushed to the back burner this month. I feel bad about it, but hey, I'm not superman.

later peeps.

There's supposed to be quite a storm here today. I'm really looking forward to it, and am sorry that I didn't wake up to the sound of wind and rain. Of course it's going to be a pain in the ass getting to and from work, but I just love a good storm.

Went out last night with my new friend Gina. I've been hanging around with her a lot lately and enjoying her point of view. It's been a year of making new friends for me. I'm actually starting to feel pretty well endowed in that category.

I went shoe shopping with Whoopi Goldberg and some peeps from Xanadu yesterday. Having Whoopi around has been more fun than I ever would have guessed. She's very intelligent and gracious. I'm really going to miss her when she's gone. She's taken a lot of time to talk to me and has even given me a pair of her Vivienne Westwood shoes which she no longer wears. I really admire her political views and her taste in art and literature. She had us all over to her house one day!
I should post photos of this...

It's been awhile since I posted photos on livejournal... lets see if I can figure this shit out...


here's whoopi coaching Andre about acceptance speeches



here's me being a tourist in whoopi's home :-)




my lovely Gina


An amazing practice painting by Norman Rockwell


some of the shoes I just bought








yup that's Vivienne Westwood's logo on the side of that last shoe. I bought a pair of those and another pair which won't be released to me until December - they're not in stores yet! a delicious pair of plastic slingback 3 inch heels... yeah I said plastic.
The company selling the shoes is called Melissa. Most all of their shoes are made of molded plastic which is recyclable (as if I'd every throw them out). The company boasts an almost zero carbon footprint, which I think is really cool. you can check them out at www.melissaplasticdreams.com/

anyway - the boy is waking up. I gotta make us some kind of breakfast and get to work. Saturday two show days are killer. Don't want to go!

oh oh! and before I go - the last thing I wanted to say is I've been doing a lot of modeling!
I was really in the habit a couple years back but I ended up getting bored with it. I had a bit of trouble finding good photographers with good ideas. Recently though I've been shooting up a storm with several really gifted photographers. The photos that have come from these shoots have just been gorgeous. I can't release them all to you now, I'm waiting for them to go live on Zivity.com first. But I can show you a couple of things.





those are all by Burke Heffner and raw from the camera - no photoshopping.

So recently my life is very busy. Not only do I have my full time job at Xanadu, I'm also designing for the Vermont Shakespeare Company during the day as well as looking for new jobs and designing my engagement ring(!!!). So perhaps the big comeback of the Cherie-journal is too ambitious of a project.
Maybe I'll just write some little things here are there and you'll be updated over time.
no one likes those 4 page journal entries anyway!
Today I'm seeing one of my oldest friends. She's been living in England / Germany for the last 5 years so you can imagine how often I see her.

so there.
tiny comeback blog accomplished.
I'm trying very hard to wake up when Bee does (6 am!) in order to get more out of my day - so far it's unbearably unhappy - but once I get into the swing of it I think I'll find that I have plenty of time to drop in here and leave a note.

things have changed a lot since I stopped writing in here - I've definitely got a catch-up post brewing inside me. I just gotta find some time.

It's been quite a while since I've had any real interest in LiveJournal. I've been keeping to myself and making a lot of changes. I feel more at home in my skin each year. This year has been better so far, than any other. I finally feel adult, in control, intelligent enough to make the right decisions for myself, talented, and full of energy.
I've launched my career after several years of "paying dues" and this week alone I've had my photo taken for the "broadway yearbook" and helped to decorate and design the gypsy robe, a longstanding broadway tradition. Working Xanadu on Broadway has been a priceless though challenging experience. I'm meeting lots of great new people and making friends fast. Also I find my love of sketching, drawing and painting rekindled, after a long departure. I've been producing more work than I have in years and each piece is a true expression of myself, not just a design for a show. My new schedule suits me well, and I relish these days spent, drawing, reading, sewing, painting, and listening to music in solitude. True free time with little to worry about besides laundry and other daily chores. Today I am replicating a vintage evening dress for In The Mood, the tour I took in January. And instead of rushing through, as I often have with projects that are not my own, I'm enjoying the craft of draping and I'm taking the time to do it right, so I can feel proud when I deliver it. I'm through with the days when I would take any job that came my way. I enjoy the luxury of being picky now and being able to set the price for my services.
I'm finding it easier to get the most out of my time here. Procrastination is a beast I've learned to tame. Brian and I have been going out more, even on DATES! how many 5 year old couples do you know who still take each other on romantic dates, who still give back rubs, make dinner, buy flowers, draw each other by candle light, enjoy each others compahy, have long evenings of intelligent conversation, encourage each other artistically, and still manage to have amazing nookie most nights of the week? I feel so blessed it overwhelms me. We have such an open channel of communication I feel that he knows me better than anyone ever has, and the same goes the other way.
We have plans to see Hawaii and Venice in the next year, plans to hike the Appalachian trail in the next 5, and plans to begin a family in London when we're financially stable. We might even have the means to buy a house this year.

the only thing I can really complain about is my constant unpleasant dreams often centering around figures from my past who I would rather keep out of mind. And of course the state of things in this country today. Sad Sad Sad. I'm careful to be green, and I vote, read REAL news and sign petitions as often as possible. But still look for other ways... I don't feel I do enough yet.

So that's all I have to say. A rare post I think... in this world where complaints are the more normal and comfortable form of communication. People focus so much on what they don't have, instead of what they do, and put up walls in front of their happiness... more comfortable fighting themselves than changing their lives into what they truly want.

some pictures for you livejournal readers.... who I've neglected for ages now. Leave me a comment! even a short HAZAH! or WOOT! would make me smile.

all of these sketches are unfinished but pretty neat looking at their current state.


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Sooooooooo - First day on tour.
I ended up waking rather late this morning. My boy and I enjoyed some rather lengthy goodbyes last night - so I was running on about two hours of sleep.
Luckily we live pretty close to the airport and I had all my bags zipped up at the door and my clothes picked out so it wasn't really an issue. I flew to Chicago, sleeping the entire way... but not good sleep. It was that terrible airplane sleep where you wake up every ten minutes cause your neck hurts so bad and your seat only reclines two inches.
In Chicago I grabbed a tuna sandwich and almost choked when it cost me $10
I then tried to get online but found that the airport charges $6 to use the wireless.
I exchanged a dozen text messages with my peeps instead.

My boss met me at the Chicago gate and we flew into Seattle together. I dozed some more but managed to watch most of "The Queen" - a pretty good flick if you like that human drama and royal scandal sort of thing. I also got to see my first episode of "The Office" which I totally loved.
Tried to focus on a Sudoku puzzle but kept falling asleep.
Took some photos out the window.

Got into Seattle - very cold - very raining... Rented van. Picked up Sax player from the band, who flew in just after us.
drive to Bothell - a little north of Seattle - Lots of traffic - took forever - dozing in car.
Got to Hotel - Extended Stay Inn - has a kitchen and popcorn in my room - but no pool.
The rugs aren't too hideous here....
I decided on my last tour, that if I ever toured again I'd make a photo collection of terrible carpeting.
cause you all know what I'm talking about... hotels and casinos... what's up with the hideous carpeting?

so I'll be posting the ugly rug of the day photos here too.

Went to dinner with the entire cast - so fucking tired... can barely pretend to be listening to people... Not even hungry - just want sleep. People seem pretty cool though - the majority of the people traveling are the musicians in the band - and they're all men between 40 and 60... we'll see if I can manage to connect with any of them.
The dancers and crew though, are closer to my age. They seem friendly.

and now here I am - back in the room... thinking I might take a shower cause the weather outside is making me cold. Just knowing it's out there is making me cold - my room is really rather warm.

and now for some pictures...

Zoomusikgrl, made me dinner on my last night in town. Here she is with Bee (my boy) and Gonzo (her boy - looking quite confused)


Gonzo


BFF!!!

The nightly vices


Some photos in flight




The Seattle weather



I gotta go to bed soon or I'm going to drop dead
44 Days till I get to hold my baby again

I had a hell of a crazy night last night.

4:30 pm
I went to get a few drinks with a friend, Jacob, who I toured with in 2004. It was his Birthday. We're slamming them back for a good 3 hours before we both started talking about splitting. Suddenly I get a call from friend, Bill who's been stood up by one of his friends and wants to join us as a consolation prize.

7:30 pm
Bill joins and Jacob bails. He had a more official birthday celebration to get to.
After another drink I offered to drive Bill home. (he usually takes the bus). As we were walking to the path train he gets a call from a friend and decides to go there instead. I got back to NJ and call Kieth, who was expecting me soon, and I tell him I have to get a meal before I came over. Then I call Brian who was in the middle of "Thursty Thursday" with his co-workers. I asked him if he wanted me to come and join them at the bar in Hoboken but he said he'd be leaving soon. So I get home and lay on the couch, not feeling so well, and wait for Brian to get home so we can go see Kieth and Katie together. I fall asleep right away, it's probably 10.00 pm.

12:15 am
I wake up and Brian is still not there....
send off "so sorry" text message to Kieth for being a drag.
call Brian 20 times thinking he's died in car wreck
and eventually he answers. He's in the middle of throwing up in a strangers bathroom and he's not quite sure what address he's at. It takes me a good 5 minutes to get any info on what happened... the story goes that he was so drunk, that he was sort of dragged by some co-workers and this girl they met at the bar, to her house where he'd been in the bathroom for some time. I get in the car and drive to him as fast as I can. He comes out and instantly falls asleep in the car smelling like a stink bomb.
I get him home, upstairs and into bed. I'm just laying down myself when the phone rings....

at this point it's 2:00 in the morning.

Bill's on the phone talking as fast as he can... his cell phone is dead... he had to borrow change to call me...he's at port authority... he's missed the last bus home... he can't get his boyfriend to answer the phone... can I come get him? he's out of change! He can't call anyone else!

so I get dressed again and back into the car... drive through the Lincoln tunnel (for those who don't know the layout of Jersey I'm driving right back to where I just got Brian) and discover that Bill has made a friend, and do I mind taking her home too? She missed the same bus. They both get in the car and that's when i realize that my window, that I just rolled down, is totally busted. It's so out of it's track it won't roll back up...
so it's the middle of the night I've got Bill and a stranger in my car and we're driving with the window open.
this girl in the back seat is telling me she can totally fix my window when we get out of the car... this turns out to be untrue.

I got home around 4. and just left the car with the totally open window in my lot... I live in a neighborhood where this is NOT an OK idea.

this morning Brian got up, said he was feeling ok and left for work. I got up a few hours later to discover that my car was still outside... then I discovered that Brian had made it no further than the bathroom floor before giving up any ideas of work.

it's getting close to noon - I need to find somewhere to bring my car before the weekend starts... Brian can't really stand...
so that's where I'm at.

ha!

here's hoping your night was better!

So I'm NOT going on tour with the Moscow Ballet -
Let me just say, I can't IMAGINE how that company holds together.
It's the LEAST professional company I've ever worked for and it would have been a NIGHTMARE of a job.
Oh yeah, and my boss, a DOUCHEBAG.
I'll resist telling you all the horrors I encountered. But I will say that half their paperwork was hand written,
and most of their costumes were hideous, cheep, needed repair... and MOLDY.
oh yeah, and a coach bus, with bunk-beds built in... is not a tour bus.

anyway - recent modeling photos:


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Something totally out of the ordinary happened to me yesterday:

I'm at the cheep-o gas station near my old college, about to drive away when a guy shouts out
"hey! you're leaking antifreeze!"
I'm thinking, yeah yeah, here we go again... better go buy that radiator seal stuff again...

The guy walks over and says "pop the hood, I want to have a look"
I'm thinking, Why does this gas station attendant give two shits? he's probably going to try to sell me antifreeze.

The guy says "holy crap! look at all this corrosion on your battery! how far are you driving?"
I'm thinking, gawd I hope this guy shuts up so I can get home quicker.

The guy says "here let me pay for my gas and I'll help you with your car"
I'm thinking, This guy isn't a gas station attendant??? that means he's a wierdo pervert!

The guy says "follow me to pep boys up the road, I'll show you what to buy. You'll never make it home otherwise! You remind me of my oldest daughter, you don't know crap about your car do you?"
I'm thinking, well if he has a family maybe he's not a psycho murderer, but I'm going to memorize his license plate anyway.
But I'm also thinking, is this true? my car is about to explode?! maybe I won't make it home... or maybe he just wants me to THINK that....
he wouldn't stab me in pep boys would he? They've got security cameras right?

we drive to pep boys

He's showing me what to buy and I'm thinking, well, I'm taller than he is, I could probably give him a beating if he tries anything

He says "I hope you don't have a boyfriend nearby who's going to show up and try to kill me for helping you! ha ha!
I'm thinking, OOOOOOH he wants sex.

Then we're walking back to the car and I'm thinking, this is the part where he runs off with the bag of stuff I just bought

He's getting his tool box out of his truck and I'm thinking, stay nice and far from the truck so he can't push me in!'

He's beginning to clean my battery and I'm clutching my cell phone in my pocket ready to dial 911

He pulls out a big knife to scrape some acid from a hard to reach nook, and I'm thinking whoa, step back step back inch away inch away!

But this guy totally cleaned my battery, with precision and patience, then emptied and re-filled my radiator, all the while explaining to me how I could do it myself easily. And joking about how it's my boyfriends responsibility and I ought to tell my boyfriend that he's the laziest man alive. He made me write down the names of the products he used and the name of the best oil to use in my car
And then he sends me off, without asking for my phone number, without asking for any money, and without even shaking my hand or trying to touch me!

Um... I didn't think that people like that still existed.

I went ahead and changed my hair back to a nearly-natural color since I'll be travling all over the country attempting to command respect.



me and my kitty sleeping the day away

I just got a super awesome job!
it pays $500 a week MORE than my last job! as in... my old salary PLUS $500 a week.
the shitty part is it only lasts for 9 weeks.

ready?

I'm going on tour with the Moscow Ballet. woo!

here's the link http://www.nutcracker.com/

so if I'm coming to your town, stop in and say hi or something!
actually though, I won't be hitting every venue listed on the website, there are two tours on the road at the same time, and I'm not sure yet which stops are mine.

Holy crap I'm going on tour again! I get to be rocked to sleep in my kick ass rock-star bus again!
it's like going to sleep on a boat, if you like that sort of thing... and I do.

man, if I didn't have such a glorious boyfriend I'd go on tour all the time. it's such good money and so much fucking fun!

the crazy part about this job is the children...
if you look at the website there's a picture of a kid and it say something like "sign up to dance with us" or something... yeah... they let LOCAL kids in EVERY venue participate..
guess who has to make their costumes fit?
guess who has to make sure they don't EAT while wearing them?
guess who has to wrestle pushy parents out of the backstage area?
are you guessing yet?

and guess how many children they allow to participate???
oh.... only about ONE HUNDRED.... IN EVERY VENUE.

so it won't be a piece of cake.
and I'll be living with mostly people who don't speak english.
looks like I'll be picking up some russian phrase books.

it requires SUPER MUCHO organization, but I'm excited by that. I've been practicing the organization thing at home and I'm ready to try it out.

my last tour had lots of partying, but this one seems much much more somber.
the rules they made sure to tell me BEFORE I took the job were No Drinking No Drugs and No Relationships with the rest of the cast and crew.
And NO HAPPINESS!

doesn't bother me.
I hardly drink ever, I have, afore mentioned, great boyfriend... and it can't hurt me to put down the weed for a couple of months. no biggie.

well - I have a rehersal to get to... I have an hour and a half to get there, it's 10 miles away, and I'll never make it in time....
this is the glory of commuting from NJ to NY.

thank you and goodnight.

Oh hell yeah bitches! I'm back on my own time.
Yes indeed I left that terrible job. I was worried that I might not be able to make the same money free-lancing, but I learned quick that it would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE for me to make less!!
I have very little work this month, and I'm STILL making a couple hundred extra. AND I get to sleep in. AND I don't have anyone making me feel bad about myself. AND I'm re-arranging my house so it's even more awesome than before... something I haven't had any time for.

There's a good chance I'll be going on tour again. this time with The Moscow Ballet. They've called me several times to discribe the job to me in great detail but haven't offered it to me yet... they seem quite disorganized consindering they told me there would be a final decision by friday and here it is, tuesday, and they've asked me to call again around noon.


I've got a couple of design jobs I'm currently working on, and I'm getting respect from all my new co-workers. it's a nice feeling.

But all this doesn't mean... dear friends... that I will stop my shopping stories... here are a few to tide you over.

So I'm standing on a hot crowded subway platform as a train pulls up. Everyone gets near the door preparing to push shove and stab their way to a seat, when the subway door slides open to reveal one big bald leather-clad man bleeding from the head and eye. And NO ONE, I mean NO ONE took even one step twards that doorway. He stood there, unsteadily weaving in the doorway until several people had run to another door and those of us who were left were about to miss the train... then finially stepped off and wandered slowly away.

I got on a NYC bus the other day for the very first time. I like to avoid busses at all costs but had no other alternative on this day. And wouldn't you know it, I got to sit between two real winners!
on my right is a guy who's clearly on drugs. He's twitching his mouth and eyes, his hands are shaking and he's mumbling along with his i-pod. On my left is the creepiest guy you'd ever want to meet, who's trying his hardest to speak to every child on the bus! He keeps saying things like "no school on monday!" and "tomorrow's going to be another beautiful day". he says these things to several children AND to himself when no children are present. And across from me is captian wide-ass who fills up a whole bench (for three) by himself. watching him struggle just to stand, and fumble to keep his 75 inch belt from sliding off his gelatinous mass nearly made me throw up.

and for my third story today:


yes... yes it is...
a midget michael jackson impersonator.

I just had a show open... called The Burial at Thebes. It's my first Off-Off Broadway show. The company was very pleased with my work though and has offered to hire me again, so it should be my first of many.
The play is basically a modern interpretation of Antigone, written by Nobel prize winner Seamous Henley. This is the first production of this play.
My costumes were basically, flavor of ancient greek/rome with some startling modern fabrics thrown in. It's a striking look. It was a quick job, they hired me only two weeks before dress rehersals. Usually a costume designer has AT LEAST a month.
I don't have too many photos of the show yet, but here are a few.


Antigone argues with her sister Ismene about burying their brother, even though it's been forbidden to do so.


King Creon attacks the guard who brings the news that the body has been buried.


Creon binds the chours to him, emploring that they help him uphold the laws.


Creon argues with his son Haemon. Antigone will be put to death even though she was to be Haemon's bride.


Antigone is carried to her death. She will be locked in a cave up in the hills.


Tiresias the blind profet brings news of horrible tragedy if Creon does not relent and pardon Antigone


Creon runs to release Antigone but finds both her and Haemon have commited suicide. Here he holds his sons head, mourning his death.

I had my wisdom teeth out this morning...
so far, not so bad.
wish these percasets were more interesting though.
I heard they really "fuck you up". but not so much. I just feel space-y.
I can't really eat anything but ice pops. and I have to eat them with a mouth full of bloody gause.
gross.

Brian and I got a new toy!



Not that we could afford it but we got a loan from family we can pay off slowly.

so yea!





In other news, my boss is a douchebag.
So I'm going to quit.

I could give you the whole run-down of how rude he's been to me on a daily basis over the last 4 months, but I don't even want to think about it anymore.
He's a bitter old theater fag, who seems to get his jollies through pure ass-hole-ness. And I'm just not going to sit around and have him make me feel bad anymore.
And it's not even that I suck at my job, cause every time I ask him if there's any way I could improve he tells me I'm doing well. But continues to treat me as if I were a nusance.
I wanted to stay and learn a little more there, but he makes me crazy. And I'm not the only one in the company that totally hates him. in fact... I'm just the newest member of the very large club!
so I'm outta there.
a day to brush up my portfolio and I'm going to start calling everyone.