2007 July 11 | So Very Dark

That’s what I made for dinner. Exciting, no?

Today was nice. I had the world’s shortest interview, but not because I walked in and the interviewer took one look at me and sent me packing…she just didn’t ask me any stupid questions about ‘a time I provided excellent customer service’ or ‘a challenging situation I have faced and how I have dealt with it’. Thank God. I hate those questions. All she did was tell me the basics of the job, ask me a couple of questions about what I know how to do, ask if I had any questions and let me know she’d be deciding next week and she’d give me a call. And not in a ‘don’t call me…I’ll call you’ sort of way. In a ‘I have some more interviews to give and once I decide is most qualified I will let you know.’

After my 5 second interview, Briggs and I went across the street to Starbucks where I got a Raspberry Mocha Frappaccino (which there is not a picture of online! wtf?) and an application to fill out while drinking my caffeinated sugar.

Then we went to Duquesne Light (pronounced, for some unfathomable reason ‘Dookane’), the local power company, to find out how much of a deposit I needed to get our electricity transfered into my name (when we moved in our landlord just put it in his so that we would have power until he got us the lease and told us to just take care of it after we got the lease…at some point). Online I had been told that I would have to pay a deposit and we were all fearing that it would be honkin’…but (after waiting over an hour in a small room with white trash and ghetto people and small badly-behaved children) we went in to see the guy who was setting us up and I don’t know…maybe it was the low ‘V’ of my neckline, but he was really nice and totally didn’t charge me a deposit. So now I finally have SOMETHING in my name. 2 years from now I’ll have credit! haha!

Then i got a library card.

Then we did a couple other things and decided that we were bloody hot and thirsty, so we went to Einstein Bros. Bagels and got lunch.

Then we went home and I started (finally) reading ‘Plucker’ by Brom.

Gorgeous book, gorgeous art, done like a children’s book but DEFINITELY for grown-ups…way too creepy and dark for children.

Then Briggs and I watched ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ which was, believe it or not…pretty crappy.

Ehh. It was a whim.

Then I doodled while we watched The Simpsons:

And I made dinner and we watched BBC’s ‘Planet Earth’ about caves. (this is in Lechiguia Caverns in New Mexico…a cave system filled with elaborate gipsym formations caused by the limestone being eroded to form the caves by sulfuric acid.)