My Room

"Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall." -Franz Kafka

Friday, August 03, 2007

This sucks

I know I keep saying I'm back and then disappearing for months at a time, but the stuff that's going on doesn't seem worth writing about.

We moved into our new apartment a month ago, and since then, both the job leads that seemed so promising when we moved led nowhere. I had done two phone interviews and one face-to-face with each. One e-mailed me five minutes before 5:00 on Friday to say that they wanted someone with more marketing experience. Did they expect me to have picked some up between the first and third interview?

I did get a job at Cornerstone for a week, though not the one I originally applied for. I was an RA at the journalism institute. I had a lot of fun, but didn't make much money (why is it that the jobs that require you to work the longest always seem to pay the least?). The last time I took temporary work at a camp, I broke my leg, so this time was much more successful (although worker's comp sounds pretty good right about now...).

I spent the week with high schoolers who had chosen to spend a week of their summer at a writing camp, so i was pretty much in my element. We played Egyptian ratscrew (which I of course won), talked about Harry Potter (all I really want to talk about right now), and I was able to offer advice for college (don't major in English if you want a job).

When I'm not applying to jobs, I've been doing a lot of cooking. We had an awesome cream of mushroom soup last night made from baby portabellas. I'm also rereading the Harry Potter series. I just finished Goblet of Fire and hour ago. I realized while reading book seven that I couldn't remember a thing about book six (probably because I was hopped up on Vicodin when it came out), so rather than just reread book six, I am reading the entire series. I am trying to do so quickly to absorb the entire story rather than having it broken up into sections. If you enjoy good stories of any kind, I cannot recommend the Harry Potter books highly enough.

Well, that's all from me for now.

How are you?