Hmmmm...

It's weird having a blog again.
I kept a blog pretty regularly during that year when I was being bullied...One of my "friends", who eventually ended up being one of my bullies, wanted me to keep a blog so that she could keep up with what was going on with me while I traveled (back home to georgia, alabama, overseas, etc). So most of the posts were written in the form of letters to her. I'm not really sure how to write a blog without a specific audience in mind...hence the reason why my first post was a letter to lady gaga.
Let's see....
I'm at work now...off the clock though. We just updated our operating systems to the newest version of Adobe Creative Suite, so sometimes I stay after to make letters for my BFF's. It sounds weird that I would say BFF's as a plural because normally "best" implies only one, but I guess I'm really sensitive to people being left out, so that's why I expanded it. I'm sure they wouldn't care if I mentioned them in their blog, but just incase, I'm just gonna use their first initial. B has been my friend the longest. We lived in the same dorm freshman year of college. We got in a fight towards the end of undergrad b/c she was anti-greek and didn't like that I was getting so involved with my sorority...but when the sorority started to turn on me, she took me back w/o even an "i told you so"...I'm so lucky to have her as a friend. E is my London BFF. I met her my first night ever being in the UK. We both lived in the same dorm, Commonwealth Hall, and during King's College's mixer night, she "wanted to meet the American because her family loved vacationing in Tahoe". And we've been friends ever since lol She's really sweet & studied abroad this year in France, so it's been fun sending loads of postcards back and both. C is kind of an interesting "BFF". In high school we dated, but we realized (read: I realized) it was kinda more like a sister & brother thing, so our relationship got changed to "friend status". He's really cool though. When those girls were bullying  me, he'd stay up on the phone with me until I feel asleep & on numerous occassions offered to (joking...I think...I hope) drive down to San Diego with his baseball bat ;) And then there's M...we're not really "friends". More like "cousins" because our Mom's are BFF's...but I usually include her in the BFF category anyway because we're technically like second genration BFF's. And then S & J are my grad school BFF's & M (not to be confused with the san diego M) and E are my UGA BFF's...and yep...I mean I have other friends too, but those are the people who I can pretty much tell anything too.
 I work as a graphic designer at a local magazine...well intern. I wasn't able to get a real job this summer because I had to take two sessions of summer school, so an unpaying internship was all I could do. It's really hands-on. I've produced the next issue of the magazine pretty much all by myself. It will be awesome when it comes to job interviews because instead of having a portfolio with a few ads saved, I can literally just take in the whole magazine issue and be like, "I did this! All of it!"...so I guess that makes up for how hard the bosses are on me. Normally during the school year there are three graphic designers who split shifts. But this summer, they decided just to hire me and have me do all of it. So I've been working full-time all summer...and in addition to summer school, it's made for some stressful few months. However, this upcoming fall, instead of having three graphic designers, it'll be me as the supervisor with two assistants. So eventually the perks will outweight the pain...I guess.
And I better go. My friend is putting together a lady gaga fan video for one of her new songs "Electric Chapel" (her most recent CD is really good...a lot of people probably don't get it, but I was an English Lit major so symbolism was my life...The rest of the world sees a coat made out of Kermit the frogs & I see a protest against fur, for example)
And I need to get working on B's birthday present. Her birthday is coming up the middle of August, so I'm using adobe illustrator and photoshop to make her a really cool card :)