Ah, the laziness that has ensued today! I have in the last 18 hours started and finished I, Claudius, and am already 157 pages into Claudius the God. Let no man dispute my nerdery! Needless to say I have not gotten anything productive done. Aside from writing this rant, of course. And an email or two. And the barbaricly swift comsumption of three delicious tuna sandwiches. But I digress.
I’ve decided that my current living situation must be much like that of an exchange student. You know, from the strange exotic land of the Pacific Northwest.. But it is kinda like that, what with the family and all. I eat weird food, I complain about the time difference, I tell them when they pronounce Oregon incorrectly, and listen to remarks on the fact that in New York nobody calls it a New York steak, they blame the Californians instead. It’s all good.
Yesterday I went to the Museum of Natural History with the kid and his Mom. It was really fun. Dinosaurs are cool. Although I gotta say that stuffed animals, even in awesome dioramas, are still not as cool as actual live animals. Dioramas are all well and good for things like deep sea squid and sperm whales, but I gotta say that real gorillas hold a lot more facsination for me than their facsimiles, no matter how pretty the painted wall is behind them. But dinosaurs, man, you can’t go wrong with giant dinosaurs.
I shall refuse to regret today’s laziness, as tomorrow I embark on my first working adventure. It’s sure to be a four-day backstage extravagana! I will work my ass off and get very little sleep. Hooray!
I bought some tools for it yesterday, as all my stuff is still in Connecticut. But as I say, a girl can never have too many cresent wrenches. I also bought a staplepuller and a pair of vise-grips. Vise grips are just cool. I mean, have you ever really looked ‘em? They’re a freakin’ awesome tool! Who thought that junk up? Whoever it was, them’s got the genius for cool, that’s all I’m sayin’.
I finally heard from the internship people- I didn’t get it of course, and they are fools, most especially so for not telling me sooner. I was most miffed because I sent them a change of address last week, on the off-chance that they had tried to send a reject letter and it got lost or something. I got an auto-reply right away saying that they had already chosen their interns and that all candidates had been notified of their status. I certainly had not been notified of anything at all, so I was a trifle irritated at the impersonality of it. I decided I was too busy doing my own thing to care. But today I got a letter from an actual person, who said that they would be more than happy to resubmit my application for the fall if I so choose. Which made me feel a little better. I guess I’ll see how this next couple of months goes, and then I might just print up a new resume and reapply, that is if I decide I still want to do it. Eh. I’d probably have a better chance in the fall anyway.
I’ve decided to learn me some Spanish- at this point I only know enough to know when I’m being insulted, and it ain’t gonna be enough. It’s a flippin’ bilingual town here, and that’s to say the least. Kinda wish I knew a little more Japanese too, since I’ll be working at a big tourist attraction. Oh well. I’ll pick up what I can, I guess.
The Dad here has somewhat of an old comic book habit, and Brennan (the kid) has been playing Ultimate Alliance all the time. So every other night I’ll have some sort of Superhero dream. If I could remember any of them I’m sure I would say they were cool, but I can’t really. I can say that it has caused me to push myself to more dramatic figure-drawing poses, which is probably all for the good.
Well, it’s been a nice long rant, and I’d like to take this oppourtunity to chide certain persons for their last of post.
Mock! Mock! I Mock You, all of You! And now I am crushing your head! I’m crrrushinnng your head!
I’ve been exposed to massive amount of Kids in the Hall in the past week too…
