Final stretch

Yesterday morning I gave my 2.5 weeks notice..my last day at PAWS will be the 24th of this month and just a handful of days later on the 28th I'll be leaving Los Angeles and I'm really not sure when I'll make my way back.

I found a place, a really cool place to live in. It's an old mill turned into loft apartments in downtown Providence, RI. It's a small studio loft, but I'm really excited about the possibilities and the chance to explore a new city with Joel. The commute to school won't be too bad, its about an hour from the apartment to school, which is the same amount of time I was making when I lived in MA. Joel and I want to have a Walk-Across-Rhode Island-a-thon. I'm kind of excited. I suggested maybe biking it first. Oh, and there's that. We're getting bikes. So we can bike all over the place. So.Incredibly.psyched.

I'll post pictures once we get settled in..hopefully. The lease is being drafted up as we speak and hopefully by early next week the place will be ours for sure.

So I feel like a lot has happened since I last blogged, but I dont know if thats true. I haven't been staying at my parents house very much at all...essentially, I've moved into Joel's, which has been nice and weird all at once thanks to the sticky ex situation which turned ugly very quickly.

Yesterday I made a nice gesture and brought home two month supply of advantix for Odessa (alex's dog) because she's infested with fleas and she won't stop scratching. Alex bought her some of that over the counter flea med crap that doesnt work at all. I think it doesnt help that their other housemate has brought over a puppy recently (thats when we first noticed the flea problem). Anyways...So i did that, and Alex kind of blew me off, which really bothered me. I'm trying to tell myself that at least i tried and if she's not going to reciprocate then that's her problem and not mine, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore.

What else? Ah, work. Work is work. There's a lot of down time. A LOT. And that's mostly because there's a volunteer here who thinks she runs the place, and will actually yell at you for not listening or doing what she says. I'm THIS close to putting her in her place, but everyone else seems pretty okay with putting up with her bullshit and since i'm only here a lil bit longer, I'm going to keep quiet. My supervisor is a complete pain in the ass. To the point where I had to go speak to the executive director here because he crossed a line that shouldnt have been crossed at all. I was hanging out at my desk and he walks in to ask if i wanted anything for lunch, and next thing i know, he grabs my wrist and twists my arm behind my back. I'm yelping in pain and telling him to stop and he finally does, realises that i'm hurt and then kind of tries to sit me up and says, "yah yah, shhh". Then later on, he does it again, but this time I wise up and manange to dig my nails into his wrist/arm and he lets go quicker. Either way, my shouldar and wrist hurt and I was so disgusted that he thought he could do this and i'd be okay with it. I even got my friend Joe from the animation studio we share the building with to kick his ass if i needed him to. He didn't, but he offered and he was equally bothered with what had happened and encouraged me to tell my boss. Nothing really came of telling her, but at least i spoke up for myself. And to be honest, miguel has kind of left me alone since. thankfully.

Hm. It's just about lunch time..so I guess I'll end this...