2 posts tagged “home”

I feel like I have been busy the last few days, but not busy with anything important. C3 Manhattan held "Presence" a conference about experiencing the presence of God("so its not just a clever name"-Wanyes World). I was in attendance and I'm glad I was there. I think everyone is glad there are in the His presence, once they are there. Often there is whining before hand, "church on Saturday too, oh man."

  I had a false job interview as in "come on down, see you in an hour" 20mins later "Sorry, while I was talking to you some budget thing happened and now I can't even interview you." Needless to say that was a major bummer. I got all dress and was literally walking down my hallway on my way out of the apartment when the second call came in.

   I started a few new blogs, because I don't have enough I guess. one for reviewing iphone applications, but only the free ones. My sister is supposed to be doing it with me but not so much yet.  http://zerodollarapps.blogspot.com/ check it out if that is something for you.  My other one I am going to reserve exclusively for filmmaker related stuff, I'm not totally sure what that will shape up to be but so far just a few links to videos. If that sounds like your cup of tea then go here http://nicjustice.blogspot.com/ and get some tea.

   Reasoning behind all this blogging? Why not who knows maybe it will catch on or something. Some people making a living of their blog but currently I'm just entertaining my idle hands.

I have done a lot of walking around the city and people watching the last few days when I had gaps between my action packed days or just when I wasn't ready to face home yet. I'm not sure I've learned anything from it other than I would rather sit on the red stair case in times square (I wonder what the real name is?) for 2 hours than be at home some nights.
 
Also I almost got one of the 100 octopus hard drives Mark Hoppus[blink 182] and Pete Wentz[fall out boy] are hiding around the country.  I was about 45 seconds to late, but congrates to the winner now you have some rare goodie digital files from mark and pete but most of all you have a shiny new usb drive with an octopus one it. I'm jealous, my third place prize was a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

GOAL OF THE WEEK
-edit new demo reel
-find a tailor my jeans
    -losing weight is cool until all your clothes don't really fit and you can't buy new ones.

I made a trip home to Reno for the last two weeks. It was a longer than the average visit home I guess, but I don't really have any pressing matters in New York City. It was nice to see all my friends and family. The long stay made it possible to get a chance to see everyone, I actually even had dinner with my Dad. We aren't close at all, I probably see him four times a year and actually talk to him twice a year.

    I was hoping to have some nicer weather in Reno but only like three days were nice it rained, snowed and hailed so I don't know if a rain cloud is following me or what the deal is. I kept busy while I was there I shot a ton of footage for several projects. It is funny how projects just found me in Reno and I'm searching so hard in NYC. I guess that just shows how different the market is and how much more competition there is here for the same jobs. It shows me why I can't expect much better career in Reno than I already had. I not saying I was at the top of the ladder there or anything but it is a small ladder, which also has its advantages but when I'm 23 it is easy to take bigger risks, so that is what I'm here to do.

    Now I'm back in New York and I have a couple of things lined up, nothing big just a few short gigs and I have a few of my own projects in mind. close to the top of the list is I'm going to need a day job. Hopefully something that is fairly close to my subway line but whatever happens will be fine.
    I was a little nervous to come back actually because I don't have an 'good' reason to be here this time. Last time I left Reno is was for school and now this time it is to look for work. Now that I'm here I feel good about it and am motivated, before the trip home I was feeling a little frustrated and/or discouraged about the whole situation in NYC. I guess the trip home was a nice way to recharge the batteries.
 
  There was also some unexpected things that came up in Reno:

I met my mom's new boyfriend and it seems like those two are getting serious really quick but as far as I can tell he is a good guy. He treats her right and he isn't a weirdo to the rest of the family so those are two HUGE advantages he has over the last couple of duds my mom had around. He as a daughter who gets along with everyone, she has her 17 year old girl moments and gets on everyone's nerves and is around a lot so that is expected. Overall Jay and Anderea are ok in my book.

I might have actually been talked in to joining Brandon when he moves to LA this summer. It sounds like an adventure and if I can pull it off then why not go for it. He is one of my good friends so that is a good roommate situation and he is looking to break in the music industry as a producer so that would be a nice complement to my trying to break into film/video industry. So there are a few good reasons to move to LA this summer.

Another reason to stay in NYC past summertime is that I got to know this girl, Talia, a little more while I was in Reno. Looks like she is moving to New York for school in the fall. We just hit it off pretty well and it has been awhile since I actually had a girl that I was 'interested' in and not just 'attracted' to . I mean how many pretty girls to you know that are working on a zombie screenplay or want to write comics for a living? I'm not sure anything will come from it but I suppose it is worth mentioning.

Also while in Reno I became a "best man" at my little brother's, CJ, wedding. Of course I gladly accepted but i could tell he was nervous to ask me, which sucks. It was the first time I saw his bride to be, Nicole in a while because there is a HUGE amount of retarded unnecessary drama surrounding her and our family, then the marriage just seemed to come about at a bad time. This situation is better now, but there is still king kong gorilla in the room(elephant seems less dangerous). For me some days were better than others when I saw her, some times I was glad to see her and other days it was a different emotion when I saw her, but the big thing with me is that if everyone is ok then I'm ok. I'm happy for my brother because I know he is excited about it, but I still think maybe the timing is less than stellar, not because they are young just they both have a lot of new opportunities to face, I think a year ago would have been better for a wedding but it isn't my marriage so I can't be too concerned. I'm just here to support them.
BTW Orange and purple match sure, but wedding colors? LOL. Hopefully my bride someday wants to start a family not a basketball team. Again I'm there to support, and maybe to joke around a little bit.

I'm pretty sure I gained some weight back while I was in Reno. I don't know if it was the; all you can eat sushi, the all you can eat pizza buffet(pizza plus), qdoba burritos, mom's carrot cake, a fridge that is actually stocked with food, not having to personally cook every meal or if it was just the fact that I would  have a lunch date and 2 dinner dates everyother day. I would guess it was a combination of all that. It is always a better meal on someone elses dime.

Oh and I got to see Pete, yeah he still hates me so that is nice. there is a decision that cost more than it was worth