the economy
finding a new apartment
my earning potential
affording to live in this city
paying for a wedding
buying a house
affording a visit back to Texas
our future
Reasons why I like my job, one week in:
Free continental breakfast on Fridays
Free soda in the machines
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Social last Thursday*
Health care Insurance
Dental Insurance
People my age work there
An IT Department
An HR Department
An Office Services Department (copies, faxes, office supplies)
Assistants work in teams
Proper training
Within walking distance of the apartment
Within walking distance of the Boyfriend’s Office
Next door to the White House
*This is not a weekly occurrence.
I had a job interview at another law firm two days before this firm. The person I interviewed with said that they don’t socialize with others in the building. For example, there was going to be a building wide ice cream social, but that law firm would not be participating. I thought, “I can’t work in an environment like this.”. Then they wanted:
an official transcript
an official SAT score (WTF? I took that 7 years ago)
writing samples
references
GUESS WHAT!? I got a better job, that didn’t ask for any of those documents, AND I GOT TO GO TO THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL!
I’ve really never felt so lucky. And grateful.
Albums I have “hand sold” at Books & Notions:
Neon Bible Arcade Fire
Cease To Begin Band of Horses*
Armchair Apocrypha Andrew Bird*
Shepard’s Dog Iron and Wine (twice)
Two Way Monologue Sondre Lerche
* I have actually never listened to these myself.
And I’d like to find you, right now:
1. The flat sheet that matches the full-size purple fitted sheet
I saved the fitted sheet from the donations pile when we did the Spring Cleaning of my room. The Boyfriend looked at me like I was nuts and said something about buying more sheets. Such a waste! Also, SHEETS ARE EXPENSIVE! The hell? I have a use for those sheets, but I need to located the other sheet to have a set. I don’t care as much about the pillow cases. Those are probably long gone.
I saved the fitted sheet from the donations pile when we did the Spring Cleaning of my room. The Boyfriend looked at me like I was nuts and said something about buying more sheets. Such a waste! Also, SHEETS ARE EXPENSIVE! The hell? I have a use for those sheets, but I need to located the other sheet to have a set. I don’t care as much about the pillow cases. Those are probably long gone.
2. Mix CD
This I have not been able to locate since I moved out of my last Jester dorm room at UT in 2005. It should have surfaced in one of the subsequent moves but has not. The CD was a gift and has music on it that I don’t have currently because of the demise of my former computer Ralph. With him went my iTunes because I forgot to have it backed up. The reason why I might not have been successful with this quest is I don’t remember if the CD had anything written on it. It could have looked like any other blank disk.
This I have not been able to locate since I moved out of my last Jester dorm room at UT in 2005. It should have surfaced in one of the subsequent moves but has not. The CD was a gift and has music on it that I don’t have currently because of the demise of my former computer Ralph. With him went my iTunes because I forgot to have it backed up. The reason why I might not have been successful with this quest is I don’t remember if the CD had anything written on it. It could have looked like any other blank disk.
3. 1 issue of Blueprint Magazine (to complete my collection)
Rumor has it the June/July issue is on the floor of McKatie’s bedroom. I, of course, am not allowed to look for it there.
Rumor has it the June/July issue is on the floor of McKatie’s bedroom. I, of course, am not allowed to look for it there.
4. Microsoft Office CDs
This I KNOW I have. I used it in November 2006 to load Office onto my new computer. But when I went to look for it in the usual spot, it wasn’t there. Mum bought a new computer and would like to run something other than Office 97. These CDs are something I am conscious to keep track of for occasions just like this. Now they fail to arrive when needed.
This I KNOW I have. I used it in November 2006 to load Office onto my new computer. But when I went to look for it in the usual spot, it wasn’t there. Mum bought a new computer and would like to run something other than Office 97. These CDs are something I am conscious to keep track of for occasions just like this. Now they fail to arrive when needed.
listening to Cat Power
shopping at American Eagle*^
hanging out at a suburban Starbucks with/like a townie
* May have happened this weekend.
^ Thank you AE for making the “eagle logo” smaller and not easily detectable to the naked. Antropologie style at better prices!
Objects I’ve physically used for strength in the last week:
the copy machine at the law firm*
the floor at the law firm
a music listening station at Books & Notions*^
the corner by the front door of the law firm
the kitchen sink*
* tears in my eyes
^ playing Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker
(it felt right)
1. In last week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, Mia Farrow said she thought Crimes and Misdemeanors was Woody Allen’s best work. I was surprised she was talking about Woody Allen films at all, but she seems to not be holding a grudge against the work.
2. Previous to reading the article, I had just watched Crimes and Misdemeanors for the first time. I do not agree with Mia Farrow. Supposedly, Woody Allen wrote C&M in response to what he thought was a too happy, neat and tidy ending for Hannah and Her Sisters.
3. I thought Crimes and Misdemeanors was too much like Match Point, yet just different enough where I believe Match Point was Woody Allen’s way of making C&M better.
4. A customer at Books&Notions this week spent sometime going through our Criterion Collection section. We had a lovely discussion about the connection between Ingmar Bergman’s films and Woody Allen’s work. That costumer and I both agree Cries and Whispers is intense.
5. Lastly, I was telling a story the other day to someone. It’s a story I’ve told before because it makes people laugh, and that is all a story should ever do. As I was telling it for the first time to this person, I suddenly remembered part of the situation that I had forgotten. I didn’t add it to the story, but the flashback was like something out of a Woody Allen movie. You know the scene: there is no audio, just the short snip of a scene that the character is remembering. It’s used in both Crimes and Misdemeanors and my favorite Woody Allen film Interiors. Now I believe it is actually something the human brain does.
This post probably only entertained Angela, who I owe a phone call.
Items found when cleaning out containers and boxes that had collected in my bedroom from moving between three dorm rooms and two apartments living in Austin for five years:
the tank top I was wearing the first time the Boyfriend and I kissed
a graduation card from my high school crush’s mother
a letter Melanie wrote to me while on an airplane that was hand delivered months later
black and white photographs Melanie took in her first semester of photography
the buttons from M&J Trimming I thought I threw away last August
Daily Texan celebrating UT’s Rose Bowl Championship in 2006
a box filled with blank notebooks
CDs sent in a care package from Master Bradley:
Graduation Kanye West
The Crane Wife The Decemberists
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Challengers The New Pornographers
