So guys, I've got my own place again. It's pretty much the greatest place ever... or rather, it's not, but for the price and location, I'm pretty excited. I will put up pictures of it soon, I'm sure. I've got this little patio that just screams "Put a mini BBQ on me!" which I have yet to do. But all in good time. I'm living with Devon again, who maybe you've heard me speak of.

I have been spending my days working. I work and work and work some more, and then I get paid on $200 for it. Well, okay, that's not a complaint. It just kinda suck when someone comes up to the counter at the movie theatre and says something along the lines of "You guys control everything here, it's fucking bullshit," when complaining about various different things. Okay, so my co-worker was right and he was probably just having a bad day, but I don't come to your minimum wage paycheck-to-paycheck job trying to tell you to overthrow the system for me so you can get fired the next day. Don't tell me what kind of power I have, I know what kind it is: very little.

I spent three days on a journey with my boyfriend Shaun (same guy from the last entry, only now we're a bit more seasoned), and I think each of us got to see the other person at some of our highest points (seeing friends I've missed and love) and lowest points (puking outside of McD's on the way back). I think overall it was a good trip. I mean, the journey home was awful on many levels, but I feel like I have more of a point to judge who Shaun is around me now that I've seen him with the people he's closest to. And I think that meeting those people is a natural step for our relationship to take at this point. I mean, it's one thing for him to (briefly) meet my mom and my sister, I'm not sure he'll ever meet my dad (because, I mean, I have no idea when I'll get to see him next), but those people live around me. When you travel, it's different. Also, meeting Shaun's niece convinces me that she's one of the most adorable children to live... ever.

I have every intention of writing creatively again someday, and I know it'll happen soon. I just need to manifest an idea of what to write.

(But I think I do feel a bit different, at least this morning)

So I am officially done with all of my court stuff. I went there yesterday, paid The Man, and now I get to tuck that into the back corner of my mind, "Hey Jasmine, yeah, you remember how much it sucked to go to court? Yeah, don't get yourself in trouble, foo'!"

I broke up with Jacob. Like, a month ago. I'm not sure how many people who knew that I had a boyfriend know that we broke-up. It wasn't going anywhere. He's a bit of a robot. However, since this happened I've started seeing a new boy. It's been less than two weeks, but I think we're both pretty smitten with each other. He's fucking adorable. We're already finishing each other's sentences:

ME: Have you played--

BOTH: Dangeresque?

HIM: But I really love Peasant's Quest.

ME: Yeah, that game rules...

BOTH: Throw baby.

I don't know. I've always kind of felt that there are two types of people when it comes to relationships: there's the people who are almost always single, and the singlness is punctuated by bursts of dating people for short amounts of time; and then there's the people who are almost always involved with someone. I used to always be the first type, but it looks like I've switched. I don't know how I feel about that. So much of my relationship with Jacob was about relationship protocol (going on cliche dates, being sickeningly sweet in public, among other things), and I think I'm breaking protocol by jumping into this less than a month after splitting with someone I was dating for six months. But at the same time, Jacob and I lacked any sort of attachment to each other really (well, not none, but not six-month relationship development), so it's more like jumping into something when you broke up with someone you were dating for two months. I'm also just shocked that I could find someone this compatible with me.

Enough about that. Other things that have happened are me moving in at my mom's, and me getting a job at Fig's. Now there's something that was apparently bound to happen one of these days. I love working there. Video stores are so choice.

I haven't written a journal since April. Wowee. For anyone who might read these but not keep up with me, I did get a job. I've been working in a movie theatre since the beginning of May. It's pretty fun, especially getting to watch movies for free. I've had a few thoughts of restarting #movieendings but so far I don't think I have the cojones to really keep it updated as much as I did. Although there are some movies I'd like to review. I've been watching almost anything since I had the privilege (I even saw "High School Musical 3" yesterday, I'll tell you about it if you care to listen).

Other than that I've been occupied by my boyfriend and trying to sort out how to earn more money than I get working 12 hours a week minimum wage. Also court matters pertaining to a bunch of shit that went down in June (but it looks like that's almost behind me now).

So there's a short update on what my life has been like since April. How are things with everyone else?

It sucks to not work. I feel like such a loser. I'm looking forward to my tax refund for money (that's when you know you're in bad shape).

Mostly I decided to write a journal because I feel like I should've writen one on like, Feb. 4th or whenever I realized that I have 10k+ pageviews.

I remember when I first joined dA over four years ago and I was so incredibly stoked once I got to 1k pageviews. That was like, this hugely awesome thing. Now, honestly, I'm just surprised I have so many when I hardly ever submit anything these days (but I'll get you a new chapter of the Martha story tonight or sometime soon). But then when I first joined this site I was all about the art part of the site and now I'm all about the community aspect of it.

I just... when I first joined I remember going to these people's pages and being like, "10,000 pageviews? How the hell do you get that many? They must be really popular." And now I know it's not really about being a good artist or being popular (because hey, I'd be kidding myself if I thought I was one of the inner circle of the dA elite), mostly it's about making an ass out of myself in chatrooms and on the forums. Hah.

In any case I'm more looking forward to the day when I look at my page and I have 11,111 pageviews. If you get that totally screenshot it. Elevens...

If anyone from Humboldt is reading this I'd like to do a photoshoot or something to go with the Martha story, so if you've got ideas or if you'd like to participate or help, please let me know. Also, if you're from Humboldt you better fucking go to Punk Prom or I'll kick your ass. La Plebe is going to be there. And I'm so super psyched to be on sound. I love working sound. And horns! Glorious horns!

...was the last time I wrote a journal. So I figure I'll give you a bit of an update as to what I'm up to.

Well, it looks like I won't be able to make it on the trip for two main reasons: I don't have enough money and I'm not a good enough driver. I will be flying out to Nebraska for a while though to see those of you in Nebraska and poke *Frostblade with a stick repetedly. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

I'm out of a job as of Thursday of this week. I've been working here at Hunter, Hunter & Hunt (yeah, I'm writing this from work) for over three years now, and to be honest it's time for a change. I love all my co-workers, I get great hours, and the pay is nice but... I'm just not so stoked about what I'm doing. And although it's one thing to be doing a crappy minimum wage job that you're not interested in, doing the same thing you're uninterested in everyday for three years? You need a change. Even if I just end up working another job I'm disatisfied with then at least it's a change.

On the note of change I'm also taking this semester off. Again, I've been at CR for so long that it's hard to keep going, seeing the same faces, eating the same crappy cafeteria food... it's way too routine especially when I don't really have any direction as far as school goes. So I'm putting the whole education thing on hold until I can get that worked out.

I think I want to travel this year more than I have previously. I did get out of the county a lot last year, but that was almost always to either San Francisco or Sacramento, both places which I like to go to, but also both places that are starting to become familiar. So I'm going to Nebraska. There's talk of going to Michigan in April for Penguicon with a friend of mine and possibly visiting my grandpa while I'm there. My New Years resolution was to make it out of the country so I'm going to apply for my passport and see if I can't make it up to Vancouver or perhaps convince my mom to do the trip I wanted to last year and go to Toronto for the film festival. Meaning I should probably look into tickets ASAP.

As of the last journal I wrote I really have been going into #caffeinelounge a lot more, and it's good to be in there again. I feel like I'm starting to get to know people again. You can also usually find me in #hell or #forum, although apparently never when anyone's talking. I'd like to get around the forums more, but frankly I'm most active on the forums of Gaiaonline (lamer, yeah, but the people there are more stupid and therefore more fun to argue with).

I think my off-screen friend-group is changing a bit anyway. I don't hang out with the kids nearly as much as I did a year ago, I pretty much always party with my Eurekan friends/The Pro Heroes crowd. I do miss the kids but it's hard with no scene around to find things to do with them. Mostly these days I just kick back and watch movies which is hard to do with someone who goes out for a smoke break every half an hour. Not to mention I have way different taste than most of them. I think I'm just kinda taming down a bit.

Well, that's about it for an update (if you got this far). I'll see you, *Frostblade, =ravenbassist, and *SilverBee in a month!