
It has been a year and a half since I lost myself to WOW. I let so many things go out of hand. My house is a disaster. I have forgotten when last time I spent anymore than 10 minutes ironing clothes or doing art.
And then I realize – it is October and a beautiful one, warm and sunny. I don’t remember what the beach looks like and I don’t remember what the tress in the park smell like. It is October of 2008. Suppose to be a happy year for me, but everything is going to hell. I hate waking up to morning news. Someone killed someone again, there is war and there is bad economy. 6 AM local news. Today I woke up later, at 7.45 and I remember there was something calm and tender on TV, but now I don’t remember what it was.
There is no facts of my life have been recorded for the last year and half. No pictures made my personal history, no photographs have been taken. My camera is charging for the last 2 months, since the time when I discovered that the batteries where dead. So is my external hard drive dead for the last 3 months. The furthest I got with the recovery was when I called the tech company and asked how much it would cost to recover it. I can’t find time to do anything. But time is not a problem; I suppose I am just not motivated.
I’ve been looking for a job for the last two months as well. I applied for a few gaming companies. I am not looking in the Hampton Roads area anymore. There is nothing here, nothing. The best museum is in Norfolk and it has the same 20 paintings collection from year-to-year. The art community draws pink and blue elephants with color pencils. I know, someone wise and important said that the inner world matters most and not what’s around. But then Hemingway said that it’s nice to be alone. Only he was honest and added ‘when you have someone to tell how nice it is to be alone’. So, I guess I don’t mind enjoying my inner world, as long as there is something outside besides the pink elephants.
Anyway, I have been looking for a job. One of the gaming companies that I applied to asked me if I had published games experience. Of course I have published games experience; I play them all the time. But this is not what they meant. So, I emailed them back and nicely asked ‘how one supposes to have published games experience if one never gets a chance to work on a game’. They never emailed me back. Anthony said that I insulted them. I disagree. I am really curious and this is a question that has been bothering me for a while. Another thing that bothers me is why it’s not polite to ask a question that everyone is wondering about. I mean, really how many people think the same question. It’s not like I am asking about color of underwear the Art director wears. Maybe I am just asking for an advice; maybe that’s all I want.
I think I blew up an interview with Virtual Heroes yesterday as well. I had a phone interview with them and I hated it. I don’t want to have another phone interview ever again. I rather fly to the Moon for an interview than talk on the phone.
They asked me about a perfect job and I didn’t have a chance to think about it. I don’t think perfect job is what you do, but how you feel about it. I had a perfect job once and I remember the feeling… of golden trees and rain behind slightly open windows, gray sky outside and warm lights in the room, radio on the wall and sounds of typewriters, soft carpets and massive wooden doors with golden designs… the smell of new printed newspapers and the editors with coffee and cigarettes. The happiness.
I asked Anthony what would be his perfect job. He said ‘come to work at 10, do some modeling, do some art directing, no crunching and go home’. I said ‘well, start practicing your art directing skills’. He asked me on whom he should practice, there is no one in the office. I offered him to try it on me. He said ‘fine, make it look pretty’. I had a picture of an ugly ship engine room on my screen. I asked if he wanted me to add to it some flowers and batter… battle… (here I stopped straggling and pronounced the word the way it wanted to come out) ‘battlefries’.
Too bad for me, but I think my sleepless nights in WOW are catching up with me.