So, less than a week before I head off to NYC for a few days. I still need to purchase another memory stick for my digicam (who knows if I'll get around to doing it, though... but I guess I could always do it in NYC?), and hopefully I'll be able to get some job interviews scheduled. Alas, I haven't had any luck with that yet. Sigh.

I did apply for a position yesterday (which I saw advertised in the NY Times online job section), but was informed that it had already been filled. Funny thing, though -- for some reason, after I sent off my resume and cover letter I got it into my head that I'd actually called the journal (I'd applied for an editorial position at an academic journal) by the wrong name. I went back to sleep after applying and napped for another hour and fifteen minutes before waking up to shower for work, so I think my dream had something to do with my misunderstanding, since sometimes I'm not sure whether I dreamed things or not. Anyway, when I woke up, I thought that maybe I should send a secondary e-mail to apologize for misnaming the magazine, but then I figured either way it wouldn't look very good for someone who was applying for an editorial position... and besides, I had to hurry up and get off to the bookstore, so there wasn't a ton of time to do that anyway. Anyway, when I got back tonight, there was a message from the hiring professor saying that the position had been filled, and several places in the e-mail he mentioned the "erroneous" name... which lead me to think he was just being a smartass and was mocking me for getting the journal's name wrong. But a quick look informed me that I was right all along -- how could I have thought otherwise? -- and had been worried about nothing. Curse my wacky dreams!

Oh, and I sent in my resume for another job too, so we'll see how that goes. (Thanks, Chris!) Anyone else come across any positions that might interest me? I was poking around the Mad Magazine website, but I couldn't find a jobs link. I may submit an article to them in the future, though, since they do take submissions, but I'm thinking anything I'd write for them could just as well go for Scary-Crayon and I'd probably prefer that it go to the latter, with it being my baby and all. Speaking of SC, it was recently featured in the "Networthy" section of the Montreal Mirror. That pleases me greatly! I added it to my resume. 🙂

So about those wacky dreams, one of last night's dreams involved me showing up at the local bowling alley for a walk-in type of job. One of my supervisors from Arbitron (waaay back when) was in charge of hiring -- really nice guy; can't remember his name but obviously I remember the face -- and after chatting with me for a bit he sent me back to the locker room to hang up my coat and put away my bag, after which I was supposed to come out and fill out some forms and such. So I went back there and an old pal from elementary/middle/part of high school was there (this was the guy who more/less stopped hanging out with me because I'm not Korean) and was pretty much his old middle school self, which means he was pretty together and didn't shun me, so we had a good chat too. Then he told me I should go out and start working at booth #315, so I kinda went out there to do that. Now remember, this is a bowling alley, so I'm walking past lanes with people bowling and kids running around in pointy party hats (apparently a birthday party was going on) to get to these carnival type games and even tables where people were filling out product surveys and whatnot. So I found that I'd gone all the way to #415, whereupon I came back and discovered that #315 was one of those things where a person sits suspended above water and folks try to hit a target and knock the poor guy/gal in. I asked a few people around if this was where I was supposed to be, but they didn't know, so I shrugged, took off my shirt, and got ready to take the chair... and then my old supervisor from Arbitron came out and said, "THERE you are!" and took me off to fill out those papers he'd mentioned earlier. I'd left my shirt back at the booth, but nobody seemed to notice, and every time I was about to mention it he interrupted me with another instruction for the form, so eventually I just let it go. And then my old foreign language teacher from elementary school popped up and started talking also -- again, she didn't seem to notice that I didn't have a shirt on, or didn't care, or whatever, but I felt pretty uncomfortable and just wanted to get my shirt. Eventually, I woke up.

And I drew another Slash! Actually, I drew it almost a week ago. Like, right around the same time I drew the other Slash. Actually, I sketched this one before doing the other Slash and inked it afterwards -- I was going to do another totally new Slash, but I saw no reason to let a pretty decent sketch go to waste. So here it is, inked, colored, and placed against the backdrop of his TMNT IV appearance. (TMNT IV, by the way, was featured in the latest SC article, The Five Funnest Games Ever????????? Again, I didn't come up with the title!)

And speaking of SC, I'm hoping to get a couple of articles up this week, including one amazing piece that should keep readers busy while I'm gone. And those aren't even counting the special editions of A Crayon Haiku and Crayon Poetry Corner that I've had done for months, but have been saving to coincide with the release of a certain film. Since I won't be here to update then, I'll post those on Friday.

See you next time on the blog, when I'll post another asshole customer encounter for you... that is, unless I decide to illustrate it and put it on SC. Ja for now!