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The Happenings of my Yesterday
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**arwen_elvenfair@LJ

First off, let's get the ending out of the way. I got the job. Blow me kisses. Love me. All that.

Now, I had two practice interviews with my co-op teacher and she went through my portfolio and all that. She wanted me to take out the Teen Angst one because it had a gun in it, but I didn't because I didn't think it would matter. She also made me more nervous than I had to be because she under-estimated how casual and laid-back real graphic artists are. Either way, it was good practice.

Then I went home at 11:30, got my stuff all ready and twitched and jittered as I waited for the mother who would drive me to the subway station so I didn't have to take the bus. Luckily, she can do that every Wednesday for me because public transit still worries me. She also gave me her cell phone so I could call her at work or call Steve, who offered to pick me up from the place because he was downtown with Lauren anyways.

So, I get to the subway and stupidly ask the ticket guy where to get the transfers for the street cars. He then points to a large red box that says TRANSFERS on the other side of the turning bars. But here's a nice thing. I was so nervous and excited about the interview and going downtown by myself that I acted like a moron a lot, but it didn't phase me from doing it again later. Few people seemed to mind. They were all really nice and helpful to me.

Anyways, I got my transfer, and wandered around for a bit before finding the train. Everyone seemed to be avoiding sitting beside anyone they didn't know, so there were all these middle seats empty, so I took one of those inbetween a young guy with a long beard and loud music, and a husband who was talking to his wife sitting a few seats away. I never really noticed how people avoid sitting beside people before because I usually go with lots of people and we sit where ever we can. The two beside me looked at me oddly at first, but then ignored me. I had brought my MP3 player to listen to and Lost Souls to read for the ride, but I didn't want to read close to people because I usually lean and move around when I read. And I didn't listen to my MP3 player because I didn't want to miss my stop- which was okay because I could clearly hear the music of the guy sitting to my left, and his wasn't all bad. So I just stared at the map for a while and then my hands and tapped my foot nervously, as I do and ignored the guy sitting across from me who kept studying the panoramic piece I brought for my portfolio that wouldn't fit into my bag. Several stops later Music Guy got up and left, so I moved over to his spot and put my bag and panoramic inbetween me and the husband and started reading and leaning into the sides of the seat and moving around, as I do when I read. I also tried not to laugh at some parts, but I managed to just grin. I figure no one was looking at me anyways, so that wouldn't matter. Actually, people probably were because what else do people do on the subway if they don't like the newspaper that's left lying around? Either way.

Many people changes later, I got off at my stop and followed the signs to where it said to get off to reach the street car that goes west, which was what I wanted. I went up, but me, being the ignorant person I am, didn't see the bus stop because it was around the corner to my left. So I wandered around the small area, waited for a little and then spotted the bus stop and went there. I asked a lady there if it was for the street car and she said yes and asked me which stop I wanted to go to and I told her and she told me which car to get on to. Apparently they don't all go where I want to, and she didn't know exactly where it was, so she said to take the long route one, or something, so I did.

The bus I went on was full, despite it being only 2:00ish, so I had to sit near the back, even though they advised me to stay at the front so the bus driver could tell me when I needed to get off, because they don't announce the stops like I thought they would. So I'm sitting there and leaning around trying to see the street signs and after many stops the old man sitting beside me asks where I wanted to get off and I tell him. He also doesn't know where that is, but he says to ask the bus driver. I figured I couldn't while he was driving, but he said it was okay. So I walk up to the front and wait until a stop and ask him where the stop is. He says that we passed it a while ago, gives me another transfer and tells me to go on the bus going the opposite direction and when to get off.

So I go across the street to the other stop and an old lady asks me if I'm getting in the bus, I say yes and she asks me to help her with her buggee, so I do and then ask the bus driver if they go where I need to and he says yes, but seems a little bit more annoyed than the other one did. Either way, I got a seat at the front where I could see the street signs and waited until I got to mine.

Then I ended up wondering around for a while before I realized how to get to where I needed to, but I figured it out.

Once I got there I told the receptionist who I was and she went in to tell the owner guy that I was meeting. Then she came back and said, "okay, you can go in, he's just with the dogs, but he's excited to meet you." Which all sounded random with the dog part, but I kind of ignored that because she had a pretty english accent. So i go in and these two little dogs run up to me and they're so sweet and cute that all my nervousness goes away. He asks me if I mind dogs and I say, oh, no no. So I ask what kind they are and they're both part poodle, but one's black and one's white. The white one is older and I don't remember what the other part is, but he's seven. Then younger one is a girl, I think, and part chihuahua, but I didn't see the chihuahua at all, and her name was Felix. She was very friendly, but wasn't listening to her owner very well. Anyways, he just asked me why I wanted to get into animation, what programs I knew, when I would be working, what I wanted to do and all that basic stuff. Very casual. And he told me about his trip to Miami and all this and seemed very nice. He asked me when I would start, I say the 24th and he says okay.

Then he gets a phone call, so I'm sitting in his office and half playing with the dogs and half trying to get them from play fighting because while they weren't yapping or growling like my dog, they seems pretty rough. But I guess that's how they always play. I just felt akward cause I didn't know if I was supposed to stop them or not.

When he got off the phone he went on his P.A and called a girl named Penny in because he needed to go and take the dogs for a walk or something. So I was introduced to Penny, who is the only other girl on staff, excluding the receptionist whose leaving soon or something. So Penny took me around and introduced me to everyone, told me what they did and they showed me what they were working on. All very nice, but I don't remember half of their names. I'm bad with names.

So after I got introduced to everyone she told me that I would get my own work station and they'd start me off with some tutorials for Maya and then I'd be able to help and they'd all show me how to do stuff. It sounds really good. I hope they don't think I'm a little loser kid, type of thing. They said they had another co-op student a few years back, but that he didn't know what he was doing and ended up being more of a 'coffee boy', so I hope that doesn't happen to me.

Then we went back to her station and I called Steve who said he'd be another half hour, so Penny showed me their demo reel and what stuff she was working on and answered my questions and it was all very cool. Actually, I felt a little stupid because I said cool quite a bit- which is odd because I don't say it that much. I say 'neat'. I also say 'berry interesting' on impulse now. It started out because it was funny and I love the Berry Interesting thing they do on Edge because I'm a loser, but now it's part of my perminent vocabulary.

So I thanked Penny for showing me around and I met Steve who drove me to where Lauren was and we were to take the subway home together after her appoitment. Her appointment happened to be in a scary, old, historical house that was turned into an office building, and I had to wait in this little waiting room with only two lamps and two closed doors that had "Do Not Disturb" perminantly bolted to the outside. So I spent that half an hour listening to my MP3 player and reading Lost Souls and ignoring all the banging that was going on upstairs and down. Apparently there were a lot of offices in there, but it still freaked me out.

We then got a ride to the subway station and went to her house until her dance class when I went home and she went there. And we got Swiss Chalet and couldn't go to CC because Ashley had too much homework, but we're going tomorrow. I also need to get Haley's birthday present for her party on Saturday. Fun times.

Thus ends my Happenings of Yesterday, for today.

Today, nothing interesting happened.