{"id":112,"date":"2000-03-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/03\/27\/whine_and_boos\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:51:38","slug":"whine_and_boos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/03\/27\/whine_and_boos\/","title":{"rendered":"Whine and Boos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of ups and downs this weekend,<\/strong> with the requisite amount of wacky stuff thrown in for good measure. since this is still a family show, I can’t share all the details, natch’. I will say, however, that the new contact-lens-empowered Sparky has reason to think that ditching the glasses wasn’t such a bad idea. If only that would help me land a foxy partner-in-crime instead of quick flings with Williamsburg hipsters or impossibly good-looking actor types. (seriously, it’s been a fun couple of weekends, in that regard.)<\/p>\n

Aside from fleeting moments of self-esteem and carnal adventure, this last mopey week made for a pretty mopey weekend. I really want to find a different way to support myself, FAST. I want to be a designer again. selling out was good in concept, but taking the techie route was not the best way to do it. Ironically enough, my years of doing high-end tech work and becoming a print-design whiz are now making it hard for me to find lucrative work. I never wanted to do HTML code-monkey jobs for a living because they were too tedious, and there was always something more interesting to tackle. But now it seems like I have no relevant Web design experience. I guess hand-coding my own web site for four years, just for the fun of it, doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

This weekend also had a few more of my musings about how much of a problem I might really have with depression. Am I just lazy, or is it normal to feel overwhelmed by things like returning phone calls or folding laundry or buying groceries? Who can say? The potential is certainly there — my family seems to be chock full of depressive types. Or maybe that\u2019s just the Irish thing: it’s not really a tendency toward substance abuse and moodiness, just good-natured drinkin’ and being taciturn. I have my doubts. (In case you’ve never heard my explanation, that\u2019s the condensed version — minus a lot of the racy details — of why I\u2019m too afraid to start drinkin’ or smokin’.)<\/p>\n

And I want to be free of debt so I can do something fun with the money I\u2019m making in the meanwhile. And I want my tonsils removed. And I want to get my driver’s license. And I want a sweetie petunia to call my own. And I want to stop having hypoglycemic blackouts (see, I said it was a wacky weekend) every few years. Whine, whine, whine.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness that despite the moping and the job panic, we finally finished Fragile.<\/i> My classmates came over Saturday, and we finally assembled the other two copies of our 132-page, handbound, photocollage opus about the rituals of moving. It was nice to have a little reunion now that the semester is so far behind us. Fragile<\/i> really turned out well, which makes me happy. since we tried to rethink the mechanics of how to go through a book, it could have been a freakin’ disaster. But instead, it rocks. Our professor had some professional photography done of the first copy, so pictures will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of ups and downs this weekend, with the requisite amount of wacky stuff thrown in for good measure. since this is still a family show, I can’t share all the details, natch’. I will say, however, that the new contact-lens-empowered Sparky has reason to think that ditching the glasses wasn’t such a bad idea. … Continue reading “Whine and Boos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77381,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/77381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}