A long shot...

[dolari]

Local comic book store is hiring. I put in a resume, but it's a LONG shot.

Cons: I haven't bought a comic book since 1997, and that was a special occasion. I stopped buying them in 1993 after The Bad Event at the store I worked at. Since then I've been out of the "geek circles" but have seeped back into them since I started my own comic.

Pros: I have experience working at comic shops. I know how to do comic shop paperwork.

It won't be very good pay, and may even be part time - but it'll pay the bills if I get it.

It is really surreal to say "Happy Mother's Day" to your highschool friends...

...Emily is 13! THIRTEEN! Gods, I'm old....

[Update: My friend's little girl is named Emily. :) I'm not in love with a 13 year old. My Emily is very legal. Even in Canada! :D ]

Comments

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

Emily?

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

My friend's little girl is named Emily. :)

I'm not in love with a 13 year old. My Emily if very legal. Even in Canada! :D

VERY young love

[(Anonymous)]

haha, i don't know why you'd think we'd assume that. oh jenn. :)

AGAIN: VERY Young Love

[ocfernan.livejournal.com]

Dang it. I hate it when my account arbitrarily logs me out.

Anyway, the anonymous one was me.

[hurricane-amy.livejournal.com]

What the HECK?!?!?!

She's 13!!!! She can't be! The last time I saw her she was only 2!

[missratbat.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that comic shop thing. Experience should definitely put you in good stead.

[debbie-ann.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I haven't been into a comic shop in a long time (most of which that I saw were claustrobhobically small, dusty maze-like archives of back-issues and unsold Star Wars Episode One merchandise), and when I did go to them, I still felt out of place...I was the one buying all the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics and some manga. (I never was a big superhero fan, and little of that "small press" stuff grabbed me.) Although now I'd REALLY feel out of place since going full time, as I didn't see many girls or women in comic book stores. I'm not as big a comic reader as I was before; all the manga starts looking the same to me now, but I do still pick up the occasional Disney trade paperback through Amazon.com, such as Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck".

[debbie-ann.livejournal.com]

that should say "claustrophobically"...okay, I can't spell...

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

The shop I originally worked at wasn't claustrophobic in the slightest. In fact, we arranged the comic boxes we sold into a "horseshoe" setup like the bridge of the Enterprise and put a chair in the middle. :)

And I hear you on the "not wanting to do it after transition" but as my roomie is fond of saying: "Even a freak has to eat."

[debbie-ann.livejournal.com]

I am just speaking for myself there...I am the easily self-concious sort...even before transition I felt out of place...just about everywhere, actually! And yes, eating = good ^_^

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

One up north. :)

[debbie-ann.livejournal.com]

...and I just remembered: At least one comic store I used to frequent was run by a (very normal) woman. OOPS! on my part! I'm getting forgetful in my old age...

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

She's HUGE too! She's MY size! Towers over Steph. :)

[gwenners.livejournal.com]

...Emily is 13! THIRTEEN! Gods, I'm old....

Oh, before you updated, there were so many comments I could make. ;-)

Cheers,
Gwen Smith