there are some real fawkers out there...in all seriousness, be real careful with your wallets, checks, ids, etc...cut up your checks if you can't use them anymore!!!
lemme just vent for a minute...
bout a week and half ago, my wallet was taken at this lil deli in washington square park. luckily right after i ate, i went to the bookstore down the street and tried to buy a planner, when i realized my wallet was gone. went back and it was gone - and the people at the counter were quite unhelpful. but the important thing was i canceled all my cards within the hour...last year this happened, but the bastard had charged almost $600 within an hour and a half...
nothing detrimental...no charges...the worst thing was i lost bout sixty bones and a brand new wallet.
or at least i thought...
last week i'm looking at my account online, and there are 2 return item checks - 2 checks that were deposited into my account that bounced. the odd thing is i don't remember depositing any checks in the amounts shown. the bank has sent the checks back to me, so they reallly can't tell me anything until i see the checks. lo and behold i got the checks yesterday...and i've never seen them before!! this fawker who stole my wallet (i'm assuming) found some checks, wrote them out to my name, forged signatures, went to the bank with my id and account number and cashed the $1800...they actually tried to cash $2750 total, but luckily one of the checking accounts was closed. I'm assuming the $1800 cash came out of the other checking account, but then that same person also went WTF when they saw that a check that they never wrote was cashed, reported it....and so the $1800 was deducted from my account.
this is why i hate people rite now. i wanted to scream at the bank. but i guess its not their fault. they're gonna "look into it." thas great. just peachy.
...............there is however still a song of the moment...........download it, listen and absorb, buy the album phrenology..its so good...
lemme tell ya one lesson i've learned
if you wanna be something in life
you ain't gonna get it unless
you give a lil sacrifice
ooh sometimes before you smile you gotta cry
you need a heart that's filled with music
if you use it you can fly
if you wanna be high....
so i've been dancing alot....it is reallly nice to be dancing again. since about a month ago when pat came to teach. it is so neat to see progression...in anything, anyone, any place. not that pat wasn't an amazing dancer before...that's the neat thing though. he was so good before, but he's so much better now, so developed as a dancer - in technique, style, power, grace, groove...i'm really happy for him. he's doing what he loves...i wish he could just stay in ny and teach...
makes me wonder if i could ever drop everything and just dance. try to become professional and/or teach. i think ideally i'd want to just choreograph, yea that'd be dope. but then again...i still believe that keeping a passion pure means keeping it away from money, media, and opinion. but i think wanting to share that passion inevitably leads to either a job or an organization....something that involves expectations. i dunno why thats so hard for me to balance...
to elaborate...
a lot of people love to dance. but the setting, atmosphere differs for everyone. i love freestyling in the club...as much as i do dancing in the studio. in the club, all you need is the music to take you off to la la dance oblivion. everyone is an individual...groovin to the same beat. but going to the club every weekend can get pretty monotonous...in which the surplus of chemical euphorias can become quite an attractive option.
in the studio, its about sharing and accomplishment. and performance. that's the key difference - performing rather than freestyling. everyone brings different styles, but inevitably it's a group mentality and focus. but in a studio atmosphere...the world of politics inevitably crashes the party. and money, media, and power internally and externally can often become a big obstacle for the group to move forward...
did that make sense. probably not. but its hard for me to find the right balance...but really, its not a big deal. i'm dancing...that's really enough in itself...
wow its been awhile. happy belated holidays everyone...
i feel like i need a break...after break. things are always so crazy during the holidays...even going home is chaos. and then there are always friends visiting...which is the best. but all the hustling and bustling and playing with friends is quite exhausting. mad fun...but exhausting. i need some down time. i seem to either have no time or all the time in the world. its always in extremes for me. everything...time, emotions, ...blogging....hehe.
my brother is getting married in june...in Maui!! wooohooo!!
question...when is it appropriate to ask for a raise? and how do you do it effectively???
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