Blargh pt. I

Here's a synopsis of last week (WARNING: I hate complete sentences right now):

1/30: Flew to Detroit. Rented a car, drove over to Ann Arbor, checked in at the Hampton Inn, drove back over to Detroit. Found a diner called Cass Cafe, ordered black bean chili and an artichoke melt from some exactly the type of cute indie rock chick you'd expect to work at such a place, conversed with a biology student at Wayne named Brando. Walked over to catch FLUTTR (EFFECT)'s performance at the Emergenza showcase down the street, came in halfway through their fucking encore. It was all good though .. chilled with Val & Vess on a big leather couch while a herd of teenage fanboys got their CDs autographed by the girls and occasionally glared at me enviously. Hah, hah. I like pretending I'm a badass.

1/31: First day of business in Ann Arbor. Met up with the Guy whose job is what I'll be doing if everything works out all right (the results of this should be pretty soon). All I can say is .. what a depressing bastard. A workaholic at 27 ... way to live that life there, jackass. Guy works till 9 or so every night whether he needs to or not, then of course does "nothing" in his spare time because he's too tired. Apparently a lot of people do this, actually. I guess I'm not in the position to look down on other peoples' lifestyles .. I'm the one who doesn't keep any groceries or furniture in their apartment. Anyway. Everyone's got "their own shit."

Walked around downtown Ann Arbor for the first time that evening .. got some badass roasted red pepper & mozzerella sandwich from some cafe for dinner. Other places I saw:
- 2 movie theaters (small ones playing House of Flying Daggers and A Very Long Engagement)
- 1 incredible video store
- 3 music shops
- 1 Borders (a fucking gigantic one at that)
- 1 anime/Japanese toy store
- 3 sushi shops
- 1 Chinese place with really shitty bubble tea and a waitstaff that doesn't speak any english

I saw all these things in the span of an hour or so. You know, looking at it, these are all things I used to take for granted and wouldn't be particularly impressed by. Oh, how foolish I was. These are the things that make up a place I want to live in. Apparently they have a Capoeira club too ..

Picked up the Ann Arbor Paper .. oh how I love weekly alternative magazines. Went to the site of the guy who drew the cover of Vol. 2 Issue 7, and haven't felt this jealous of a person's skill since the first time I went to Falcoon's site.

Then there was this great show on CBC at night called ZeD (just look at that hostess!!), and that's where I saw the Lesbians On Ecstacy music video that I now try to work into at least one conversation every day. All right, that's enough random links for now.

2/1-2/4: I should probably mention that I also liked the place where I'd potentially be working. It's the same company, but it seriously just feels like an elite club you join to go hang out at this nice office in a new corporate park, and chill with Japanese dudes all day.

I was hoping to make a good impression on them, since they might be my coworkers pretty soon, so what's the first thing that happens? I leave for a few minutes and get a call from one of them, asking if they could use my digital camera, which I'd carelessly left on a desk. I said "sure" and immediately wondered what I'd forgotten to delete from the camera, that they'd see as soon as they turned it on. What was on there? Was it pictures of my pseudo-beard? Photos of stacks of CDs and random skyshots and rock pictures? I fucking wish. It was this. Oh well, at least I'm wearing pants I guess. Anyway, no one said anything about it, but I wonder if they were picturing me half naked all week. For their sake, I hope not.

Ugh .. I gotta continue this later .. I'm really tired right now, thanks to the 3 hours of sleep I got last night after playing Ninja Gaiden all fucking night with 小林さん. Hasta luego, pendejos. Sorry, I didn't mean that. I just felt like saying it.