A, go FOC yourself!!!

I FINALLY started my trade at Job Corps!

I've completed my first week at AFOC (Abram Freidman Occupational Cneter)... It's pretty cool. It's work-as-you-go, so I'm pretty much teaching MYSELF. I already know Adobe and Illustrator, so I'm attempting to teach myself QuarkXPress (a program for magazine layouts 'n' stuff). So, I've had a full week at AFOC... It's pretty cool. All I've really done, though, its play on photoshop and the internet. I did get SOME work done trying to learn QuarkXPress, but not a lot.

Also, I've been moved to a 2-man room at the Studio Club dorms. My roommate has been a girl name Inez for the past 3 weeks. She's really cool and we have a lot in common... She's even in the same trade as me (although, she's trying to get it changed, we both still like graphic arts), so she's in my same class at AFOC.

AFOC's food is kind of...odd. It seems like it all has barely any flavor. (At least if Job Corps had crappy food, I could eat cereal.....WHICH I CAN'T DO HERE!) Job Corps students are also not allowed to leave the AFOC campus unless its at lunch... We can't got to lunch early either. Since the lines get so long, so quick Job Corps students usually leavy 10min early, but if we're caught in line early we get written up... It's kind of gay, but we've all found ways around it... At least we Job Corps students have our OWN lunch line. It helps that we don't have to compete with the other AFOC students, especially since the lunch ladies are kind of slow. (SERIOUSLY! They don't understand english very well and it takes them an unnecessary amount of time to get you your DAMN slice of pizza!)

I hate that damn Quark program... The books they give you to learn are hard to understand...and when I ACTUALLY understand them, they end up being WRONG. I figure, if I mess around with it long enough, I'll learn it.... That's how I learned Adobe and all those other image programs. Who needs a stinkin' manual anyway...

Until then, I've mainly been putting pictures together, so I can compile my own magazine-thingy as a way to learn the damn program. I'll like it when I get good at it... The only thing that REALLY annoys me are the limited fonts. My laptop has niftier stuff on it, so I do a lot of the work when I get back to the dorms..... That's actually why I'm sitting here typing instead of doing my work...

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On a more exciting note, I get to see SKUMLOVE (an industrial band) perform at Whisky A Go Go again tonight. w00t! I'm so glad it's not at Zen Sushi or some other place that's just as retarded. (They performed at Zen Sushi LAST week, but because of utterly WRONG metro directions I ended up walking for almost 2 hours before I got there... Even then they ALMOST didn't perform becuase the management were being a**holes the singer, Skum, and his wife.)

I'm going to leave Job Corps as early as possible, so I can get to the Whisky early. (I also need time to do my hair, 'cause now that it's out of braids, it looks like sh** all the time...ack!)