Oh boy...So...A lot has happened in the last little while since my last journal post. I can't put it all here, it'd be too much, buut..

Basically, I got a new job toward the end of the school semester. A friend of mine got recommended to a local printer/publisher for illustration work, and when she got asked if she knew anyone else, she suggested me as well. We both got hired (awesome), but long story short, I also got hired for doing graphic design work (and now do that primarily.)

So that's awesome. I've been up to something much bigger this summer, but I'll talk about that in my next entry.

This LAST week, however, has been pretty insane and awful.
My boss is currently out on conference for the week. A lot of the time, I'm the only one working, so this early on, I frankly have no clue what I'm doing. Oh well. I worked it out.

But Wednesday was the real show stopper. I went to sleep around 2am Wed night (Thurs morning)...and about 2:30 I started hearing some bumping around a bit. It startled me at first, but I listened, and I was pretty sure it was just my neighbor above me (we have thin walls at my apartment building.) So I went back to sleep.

A bit later, suddenly a hear a loud crash from my living room and I hear someone swear and someone else say "Let's get outta here." I quick grabbed somethin to defend myself and got out there as quick as I could, but when I got out there, there was no one there, the glass slider was wide open with the lock bent in and all my stuff was gone. I ran out as fast as I could, but they were nowhere in sight, they pulled a car up close, I think (I'm right near the parking lot on the first floor).

I had called the cops, but of course, they came rolling up more than 9 hours later. I had to keep calling them repeatedly and stayed up waiting for them so I could at least file a report.

I was okay, and I do have insurance, so things could've been much worse. But it still makes me feel uneasy. Every slight sound I hear will make me paranoid for a while now, I'm sure.

They didn't get ALL my computer stuff, but they did end up smashing my hard drive by dropping it and it's no longer working, so...maybe no art for a lil while...

It's been a rough week. I just need to take a break sometime.


Anyway--More optimistic news coming next journal entry! I've got some cool good news!