Go directly to Saturday, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 dollars

hrrgh. I'm so ready for this week to be over, and its really only begun..

Just found out today that the guy we leased the gallery/studio spaces above Local Joes is movin to utah on friday. And just told us, so hes being really polite about it, and encouraging us leasees to hammer out a new agreement with the property owner, but ya. Have to do it by friday, and probably line up a few new people to rent the studio spaces. I guess if it all falls apart, Ive had a good run havin a tiny studio to draw in, an over the past 6 months I went from helpin Eric move Indie Nights film nights to downtown.. to really being a gallery director on artwalk nights. Ive been linin up new artists the past two months who've never gotten a chance to show stuff commercially at all, and giving them a legit place and a guaranteed audience, and even sales. I don't really want to loose it to be honest.

So that leaves us in a weird place. I can work with Karen at Coffe-Art to be the lease holders, or work out something with Blackeyed to co-exist in the space. I hope they remain interested, theyre lookin for a place to land I think. A public office and I think we could be it..

An Im doin this while workin at Westside and Pegasus :P sometimes my life feels so weird. And then theres days I sleep in an wake up an lay there wonderin what the heck Im doin with my life too

tired and falling asleep on the otterblog

So tired. Up at 5am to drive Candace to the airport. Not very romantic, much as I would have liked. It was more just trying to drive safe with a car window that wouldn't unfog, and then a quick distracted goodbye and a realization that once again I dont know what we are. And I wont see her again till august. Slept a bit after returning home.. but today's just felt like its been on the wrong foot. Lots of kids on break coming in, lots of people traveling.. nothing really crazy or fun at the comic shop. Just customers. Im noticing peoples mannerisms today and getting slightly annoyed. There's this lady in who just keeps coughing these little polite coughs.. ahem.. ahem.. ahem..

I gotta take some windex to that front windshield and see if that helps. Im tired of my car being weird.

Just sold aliens comic books, a book of HR Giger art, and an alien statue (that alone was 199.99) to a customer.. biggest sale today. I'm always amazed at peoples devotion to certain things. It gives me the outsider perspective on myself in a way. Its how I look with star wars. Or otters and furry stuff. I hope Im not obsessive, I dont think they were either. Just quietly content to love what they love and collect it.

Im also out of bags. I'm liking making people have to take out their comics in public proudly :3

And Im ready to go home

Yes, Dunc, you can read this

And in the spirit of full disclosure, I am having one awesome day today. I think its just the sun and fresh air. But I needed it. Im so stoked the weathers warming up. and that I have today and tomorrow to enjoy it fully.

Unlike the customer I just helped? Wow, kid was lanky, shaking hands.. pale as pale can be. I feel like this is the first time hes left his room all winter. Was I like that in highschool? I feel like Ive found alot of reasons to be different now. And yet now Im working at a comic shop. I guess the world does sometimes take you full cirlce.

Lookin forward to spendin tonight with friends, and having dinner with Candace since she's up from cali. One week is too short, and she has alot of people to see.

I bought a pack of the magic unhinged expansion, just because I know they have joke cards. I wish the old decipher CCG had done similar stuff. I think I might have to learn magic now..

the reason for comics

Do I love this job because I'm constantly indulging my geek side? Heck yes. Working at a comic shop is stinkin awesome. I wont ever deny that. Somedays it just feels better than that.. I just had an awesome conversation with Dunc about the history of art, how you can trace comics from pulp novels which come from the illustration schools of the turn of the century like NC Wyeth.. and it just reminded me why I love this stuff. Its not just cheap entertainment, it actually has grounding and history. Its like I remembered its reason for existing in a way.
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I am in an absolutely existential conversation on the deaths of the harry potter universe right now. Houses are being decided and fought over. This is a whole new level of geekdom :P My favorite nightcrawler fangirl has come in and encountered my friend tanner. Life is so ridiculous

monday afternoon comic shop blues

we had snow for ten minutes! TEN MINUTES.

If I wait till I close to go back outside, maybe it will be warm again. I wore shorts and sandals today, it looked nice out when I left. Oh Bend.

Dunc came in an I had all my stuff stashed behind the counter. I didn't take the time to put stuff away cuz I wanted to open right on time. I even had my laptop- I only brought it cuz it was in mid burn of a mix cd when I was tryin to get here.. selfish and stupid. I think it looked really unprofessional of me when Dunc came in to have it out on Dunc's desk like I owned the place. I coulda done that better. And I kinda felt on the wrong foot all morning since then :P Can I do this morning over?

Just used the word 'genre' in a sentence describing the way we have our used books organized and the customer didn't know what it meant. Seriously?
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All day Ive been fielding calls and walk-ins from Bend High students who are asking for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea- I finally had to ask one of the moms calling (seriously lame, kids) on behalf of their children why the heck I'm getting all these requests today- turns out one of the English teachers has a book report on it due this week. Wow. I think this is really funny. And so far Ive racked up a list of people who don't have it: Us. The Bookmark. Dudley's Books down the street. Still waiting to hear if The Open Book is sold out and whether Barnes lost all their copies already. Oh you highschool kids.. I just told one he shouldn't have waited till the week of! It felt so good heheheh

Hoping it warms up later.. I'm not liking this weather at all