Happy 4th

Jeeze, my blog has dust on it whenever I post...

I'd ponder why, but I'm too busy with job(s), boyfriend, bus, car, art and my slowing metabolism and speeding flab.

The awesome boyfriend is at an awesome screen printing internship in Virginia for all July. I'm taking care of/borrowing a car from a friend while she is in Europe. She'd like to sell it to me, but I'm just not sure if I'm willing to pay for the convenience when the bus system has rarely done me wrong. A month test run aught do it.

Oh yeah, I won a poster Illustration in mid-May...yay. The Art and Wine Fusion Festival will take place this mid July.
After winning this contest, I promptly fell into the worst artist block I've had so far in my life. Still trying to relax and make something other than business cards.

I've been temping again, sitting in a cubicle all day doing the same thing. I blank out whenever someone asks me how my day was...for it was the same as the day before, and before that. "ditto" is often the sufficient response. The occasional crazy caller that break my monotony with their lack of common sense serves as a milestone to tell the weeks apart.
And then, while I was researching "cage madness," I was informed that the team I was on is now fully staffed, a.k.a I have eight business days until freedom. During summer. Technically unemployed. With a car and money. Add a boyfriend and you have one crazy road trip.
I guess it's for the best then that there is not a road trip now...with student loans to pay and all...I still really want to travel to Europe or SOMEPLACE ELSE other than here. I love the Northwest, thus far I want to retire here, but dammit, I need to see the world, even if it's a fraction. The financial ability fluctuates, and my dream to travel is still on the horizon, however the distance to that horizon changes month to month dramatically.

I'd like to go back to driving for that car parts shop. It's laid back and the people are nice. Not very reliable, however, which is why I'm eyeing other part time non-cubicle non-food non-retail jobs. (Let me know if you see any, as well as illustration gigs.)

Started a Kung Fu (Wing Chung) class. It's...different. Prior to every class, I feel overwhelmingly anxious and do not want to go. It's a stressful, touching a bunch of people I don't know, kinda class. However, at the end of every class I'm tremendously glad I went.
I'm eyeing a Tai Chi class for next quarter; which I should have taken before Kung Fu I think. Oh well.