The thing with E is all good. We didn’t even need to have a big ole talk the next day. I think he was just freaked out from his horrible workday. He’s actually had major negative incidents happen on each of his last four shifts, so it’s been sort of a cumulative effect. Stupid famous busy restaurant.

I just got out of my Illustration History class, where I got my re-submitted first assignment back graded. Here is what the cover sheet said, verbatem:

First piece D
Re-submitted piece A-
Total Grade B+

ShaZAM! An A- on my second version, which is as high as I could possibly have hoped for. Also, how hilarious is it that I am an Illustration major and my first project EVER received a D? I am choosing to see the humor in that. For instance, for the rest of my life, if I am ever called upon to give a motivational lecture or to talk about my own work (like, 40 years from now or something), I can always say that I received a D on my very first illustration.

After getting out of class, I was so giddy from my three-grade increase that I drove to the gourmet market and bought some nice things for dinner. This is what I mean when I say nice things:

– 1 overpriced cobb salad
– 1 fancy European-brand yogurt (muesli flavored)
– 1 bottle diet Dr. Pepper
– 1 pack clove cigarettes

Re: the cloves, this is my line of thought. On very rare occasions I like to smoke - usually when I am out drinking or when working on a drawing late at night, to pep me up a little. So for those situations I keep a pack in the fridge, because I literally stretch one pack out for about three months and I once heard that cigarettes stay fresh(er) if you refrigerate or freeze them.

But I have a total anti-smoking-inside thing, because seriously, is there anything worse than a home that smells like your favorite bar? So I go out on the front porch to smoke. BUT, winter has, you know, finally reached us down here in sunny Georgia. Hence, the cloves! I can smoke them indoors and my apartment will just smell better.

Right? Or it’ll smell like a group of high school goth kids - we’ll see.

Now I am home watching Beauty and the Geek, because I do not have cable and of the four stations I can get, CW is by far the least-snowy. So my tv choices are fairly narrow. Reruns of South Park and Different World, you get the picture. However the finale of Top Chef is on later, and that DEFINITELY warrants a trip over to E’s freezing cold (but be-cabled) apartment.

Have a good night, you guys!