Monday was good... one of those days in which you feel like you did a lot. I woke up early in the morning, which is weird for me nowadays, went over to the tec, reseached a lot about financial aid for cultural projects, got a bunch of emailing done, worked on my blog's template, gave security to the alfanime webpage, and I even recorded the voice for a comercial from the Tec of Monterrey... it went by very very fast. I hate the sound of my recorded voice... I really do... but I think that everybody hates the sound of their own voice, since you just ¨listen¨to it in such a diferent way from inside your head... he he he... anyway.
Once I got home, just when I was about to beging doing some animation for a new project, and then probably do some inking, I got a message of Gil reminding me that we had a meeting today... Now, this took me by complete surprise, because I was supposed to hand in the animation that I was about to begin on this very meeting... and if the meeting was actually today, they I'd had nothing done for it!!!...
It kind of sucked because well, I went to the meeting, indeed it was today, and indeed I had to apologize for not having it ready for today... yet I told them that if it hadn't been because of Gil's message, I wouldn't have gone... and not only I wouldn't have asked for forgiveness, but I would have been very pissed off on tuesday since none of them, or course, would be there. So they took it the nice way and it wasn't a big deal... we came up with some ideas and worked on some story boards... that is always fun.
The part of the day that wasn't fun was waking up... since my scheddule has been so messed up latelly, going to bed at 3am and such, I just couldn't fall asleep at a "decent" time last night, and it sucks to be "trying" to get asleep and not being successfull on the matter.
On the other hand I did something interesting today... I looked for some part time Jobs, and some even "full time" but in sales and with flexible hours... I need to get an steady income, and I guess that is the easier way for now... at least until the projects I am involved in start paying of their share. And I am interested in sales, because of dealing with people, networking, and developing more "people skills". It was fun how I avoided all the technical positions... who knows what may happen, but it was kind of fun submitting my curriculum and stuff. It's something that I have never done before.
As well I read a pretty cool interview with Alan Moore, and it's not the one on neil gaiman's latest post... that one is good, but I read a very fun one in which he explains why he was kind of "forced" to become a comic book writter. When he was just 17, he was dealing acid at his school... of course this is something very bad to do for a 17 year old guy, but his school instead of "dealing with the issue, and helping him out" decided to kick him out. Yet the principal wasn't happy with just kicking him out, he aswell called to everyother school and made sure that none would ever take him because he was such a thread. So Alan Moore found him self not able to study anymore... a harsh punishment for a 17 years old kid. The problem was when he wanted to find a job, they would all ask for references from schools, and thus he could only get the kind of jobs that they give to exconvicts... pretty much.
So his education and "professional" life were messed up when he was just 17!!!... when he was a little older, barelly making a living, married, with a kid on the way, and working shitty jobs, he made a choice. He could stay working shitty jobs that he hated for the rest of his life, or he could go for one of his dreams from when he was a kid and that was still alive in him. So... his choice was made... he decided to quit his job before the kid was grown... and then he and his family lived on wellfare for over a year!!!!... During all this time quite a process began in his life as a comic book artist, then as a writter, and things started to work out little by little... until all of a sudden he was working for DC comics and then the rest is history. He just changed the way we see comics today...
This is the site where I got that stuff from... for some reason I ranted on about it, but I guess it's better if you read it from the actual source.
Eventhough I could ramble on, and write a bunch of things that I still have on my mind... I am going to try and begin having a "normal" schedule again, so that eventhough I am not forced to keep any hours, I am still sichronized with the rest of the world... it doesn't seem necesary the times I stick around the house alone doing my stuff... but it becomes a requirement when I have to attend early meetings, or when discussing something with a team at 5:00pm means "breaking my productive time"...
On the other hand I am still so impressed by the Big Fish movie that I cannot really think of anything new to say on a deeper sense of the word...
**cheers!
ps. isn't this a pretty cool image from Casey Jones... I just love that toon feeling.
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