There's been a lot of bad things that have kept happening to me here, and after this last one I decided it wasn't going to bring me down anymore.
My wallet was stolen from again, right out of my purse, without even knowing it until I tried to get on the bus after getting off the train. Within a half hour, they bought 2 $92 bus p
asses, and spent $130 in groceries at Dominicks. I STILL haven't gotten all this money back.
A couple days later, the guy I was seeing had his so called girlfriend break up with me in a text message. Of course this was followed by lots of harassment, threats, and telling me he fucked 4 other girls when he was with me. Good guy right?
I started to work at the Museum of Science and Industry a lot more.
It's on the south side, and it takes me awhile to get there, but I enjoy the ride. From the view on the train, it kind of reminds me of Omaha a lil bit.
I take touristy pictures of people in front of the U505 submarine, yelling at people all day. I literally just buried myself in work, and tried to work as much as possible and be as positive and happy around everyone as much as I could. To my surprise, this actually worked out tremendously well. The people there are really great. Not just the people I work with at photogenic, but the people that work at the museum are truly awesome.
Since I've been working my ass off there, my supervisors put in a good word for me and one of the managers called me asking if I wanted to get some more training in to become a trainer/lead. What did I say?
Hell yes!
I've never been a lead or a supervisor/manager anywhere I've worked. I had the opportunity lots of times, but never wanted to take on all the responsibility, or didn't think I could do it. This time, I really want to. It's easy to be good at this job, and there's no reason why I shouldn't try to move up and do it to the best of my ability.
I'm being trained tomorrow, and I'm nervous as hell. BUT I'm also excited. :) I've met a lot of really cool people through this job, and I'm finally feeling ok with everything and where my life is going. Because of this training, I will receive my own id badge which allows me to get into every museum in Chicago FOR FREE! And I can also bring up to 3 people with me. How amazing is that? I had no idea.
I am also moving to the west side of Chicago in 3-4wks. I'm talkin like waaaay the fuck west. I will be sad to leave the north side though. It's very quiet and I will definitely miss the lake.
A girl that I work with, her family rents out their basement to people, and she showed me it one day. It was amazing. I'll have a kitchen, a living room and my own separate bedroom, a giant window letting in lots of light, all utilities included and pay cheaper than what I'm paying now. Not only that but her mom is super nice. Her family is Guatemalan, and they make delicious food, and said I could come hang out upstairs sometimes, or when they have family reunions, or whatever. I think this will be a really really good experience for me and to be with a family. I am so stoked. AND now there really is no reason why I shouldn't speak spanish fluently.
I start school the week of Sept 7th, and I am totally not ready. It's going to be so much more work this semester, and I haven't really given it as much thought as I should be. I'm really anxious about it.
I've also FINALLY put all of my work on ONE website. Check it out here. For those of you photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, photoshop gurus and all you other arsty fartsy, if you haven't heard of deviant art, definitely check it out. It's an awesome website.
Alright guys, I'm all typed out.
UNTIL NEXT TIME!
Much love
