Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The Greatest Day since... the last greatest day
Yesterday (Tuesday) just couldn't have gotten any better. I swear I didn't want it to end. The main part require a bit of backstory. As in it started about a week ago.

While talking with a friend (the one Mr. Bassist liked and now has a boyfriend. HAHA.) at a local Tim Hortons coffee shop. I was supposed to just meet her and sell her live tickets. But as always, we end up chatting for 8 hours straight. Anyway, my former computer arts teacher comes along and I say hi.

He's known me for the longest time so he is quite familiar with my work. He asked if I were still interested in graphic design and if I wanted a part in this project they were doing. I obviously said yes and gave him my contacts and he said he'd call me regarding the opportunity.

Last Monday, I woke up at 3:30pm to the sound of my happy little cell phone. It was my c.a. teacher. We set up a time for a little interview for the job oppurtunity.

1:00pm Basement Offices inside residential home.

Okay. 1:00pm. That mean I have to wake up at a decent time. No biggie. I was also asked to bring some of my work to show the other two persons my ability with computer graphics programs. So all night, I gathered as much impressive junk as I could.

Tuesday came around and I walked to the location. I was greeted by my teacher and escorted to a basement where two ladies on computer awaited my arrival.

After a few questions along the lines of "Are you willing to commit?" or "Do you feel able to run this project?" and so on. I made all the right answers and they liked it. I then showed them my computer works and they seemed quite impressed. Particularly with my clone pic because they find it neat that someone would just create something of the sort out of the blue.

One girl is a former computer assistant from my high school and the other is a post-graduate of marketing courses. So I am now officially part of the team.

The project we're going to tackle is educational presentations for high schools. A majority of, if not all, education presentations are pretty lame so we'd like to Hollywood it up. I will be head of graphics and design layouts and will be making major input for other stuff and will also have part in filming and photography. We'll have professional writers, script makers, designers and all these other people working in on the project. It's a fairly young company so we'redriven to get the name out there. And I'm going to be a part of it!

Yeah. So I have a wicked job now. I'll be working with art and computers. I couldn't ask for more. But there IS more! I'll be getting my OWN desk (DOUBLE SCORE!), with my OWN computer(MULTI SCORE!). I'll also be credited for all the work I'll do, meaning my name will be somewhere in the credits (ULTRA SCORE!). What more? I'm getting paid!! (M-M-M-MONSTER SCORE!!!!)

I'm going to be contacted and told when the first inital meeting is. In the meantime, I was told to get used to sitting in front of a computer (Easyyyy). I also get to call my teacher by his first name now. This is sweet!

After the very successful interview, I walked home and on the way bought a few Arizona's to celebrate. I went straight to the PC and somehow discovered something that I'll never forget.

Lord of the Rings fans, listen up. Y'know in the Two Towers film, our good elven friend Legolas says that very blonde sounding line while looking over the vast rocky plains of Rohan? You should remember the one.

Aragorn: "Legolas! What do your elf eyes see?

Legolas: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"

Now not only did this crack me up for the rest of the night, it coincidentally matched the way I mocked ol' Leggy back when the movie was initially released. My cousin and I said to one another that someone should make a should based on that one line.

Lo and behold, someone did. And I'll thank them every day for doing so. (The Hobbit Theme and the Fellowship Theme done on Kazoos? I'm in heaven!)

I called up my cousin and told him to check it out. He called back after seeing it and we literally laughed for half an hour. Good times. The day was just going swell!

I was starting to get pretty hungry late in the evening because we were waiting for dad to get home. It teased me ever so much. Mommy made my favourite meal and it was just there on the stove. I totally could've started without anyone. But I patiently held back.

The wait was well worth it. Dinner was filling AND delicious. I love my mommy so much!

After dinner I watched the LotR vid again and again while chatting it up MSN styles with many many people. 10:00pm came around to I headed to my room. Why?

Our Lady Peace's BRAND NEW ALBUM was PREMIERING on radio stations across the country!

Their new stuff sounds AWESOME!!!!! I can't stress enough how much I love this band. They are my band and I am their fan. There's a particular new song (other than "Where Are You?") that I'm really into. It's called "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face". The first time it's ever been heard by public ears and I was singing along already.

One hour of premiere goodness. If you want a fresh new rock album, head out to the local music store and buy Our Lady Peace's new album "Healthy In Paranoid Times". You will definitely not be disappointed.

And so that's my day. My great perfect day. I hope to have many more this year. My last few days of the eighteenth year are turning out awesome.

Cheers.

- enin -

P.S. 4:26am. Spelling errors. Yes.
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