November 22, 2011
Fall Semester
Hellooo webtape!
This semester is the most insane semester, and I really didn't see it coming. It's the first time I've gone from summer school to fall semester. I've exhausted myself in every possible way, from fighting my right to substitute a class, while discovering the dirty politics hidden within the DAI department, to being sick pretty much every week. My body still feels bruised on the right side from the combination of terrible allergies (which I now have?) and the coughing from whatever bug I got.
I've become such a morning person though, I have to wake up arund 6:30 every day. Gah. Pretty though.
But, with me constantly being sick, I figured it was my body's way of telling me I was doing too much. SO.I finally quit starbucks. After maintaining two jobs and school since april, my parents even making a last minute visit up here to try and help me relax, I think this has been the answer all along. No longer will I have to walk to work at 4AM in the streets of San Francisco, with my pepper spray on my key chain. No longer will I have to be disrespected and looked down upon because I make coffee. No longer will I have to clean drains or clean up the mess older working PROFESSIONALS leave because they have no manners...or were never taught by their mother to clean up after themselves. I'M DONE.
But this isn't to say I hated working at starbucks, for I don't know if I could of had another job that was more flexible with my schedule. I told myself when I first got hired that I would never make starbucks my priority, because school was what I needed to focus on. My second promise to myself was that I would never become a shift supervisor, because to me, it was a slippery slope to staying forever.
I grew up at starbuck, being almost 18 with short hair, nose ring, always trying to get away with wearing nail polish and living the awesome suburban life going to grossmont community college. Leaving at 21 with long, unkempt hair (DAI life), naked nails and nose, coming close to the end of my college education IN SAN FRANCISCO, hoping to become a young and awesome designer. OH BUT HOW I WILL MISS THE FREE COFEE. Seriously.
Old san diego starbucks crew. Why am I posting this?
SF starbucks. So much nicer. BUT whoever made this photo collage on our wall really sucked. Floating espresso beans? lol.
Finally took a break and went to see Phatogram with my friend Jess because I was determined to see them after missing them four times already. Their new song "Turning Into Stone" will always remind me of the day I gave my two weeks notice.
My motion graphics class, before class starts. Yule Log.
My full color printed book dummy of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. This will be in my portfolio.
My new goal (one of many) is to never have a job like starbucks again in my life, as much as i've learned and have grown there, i've done my time. From now on, I only want graphic design internships or jobs.
Active Discussion
Jeff Micklos • November 29th 2011 • Reply
I never knew what your classrooms looked like. For some reason, it is very interesting to me – not what I expected at all! Also, I really can't believe there are no computers!
I don't think coffee makers are looked down upon; they are the people who make the world go around!
What if I open up a coffee shop? Will we see a rise of the Annie Barista again?
Annie! • November 30th 2011 • Reply
Yeah, our classrooms are ghetto. I remember touring the building for the first time and already wanting Grossmont's digital art building back, because they had rows of imacs :)
If you open a coffee shop, you will see me making coffee again, but i'd rather do the branding or something.
Annie! • November 30th 2011 • Reply
Actually, I think i'd rather make coffee than design a logo.