Song of Myself

I realize it’s been a couple weeks since I blogged. I’ve never been good at keeping up with diaries and what-not, but I’ll continue to try.

Unfortunately, nothing new is going on since I last wrote. The overarching theme of every day is job-hunting, a nasty business. I’ve applied to probably 10 places and haven’t gotten even 1 call for an interview. Major blows to the self-esteem. Currently I’ve got about 3 more options before I throw in the towel and get “just a job.” My favorite of the three is for a communications officer (read: dispatcher) for my county government. The job description actually seems like something I would really enjoy: fast-paced, ever-changing, challenging. The pay grade is pretty good too, starting between $29-35,000. I mean, that’s about as much as I could expect to get paid during my first year of teaching without a Master’s degree. For entry-level, I’d say that’s pretty amazing. Anyhow, I’m working on the application. It’s very long and complicated…you have to have copies of every sort of documentation on yourself imaginable, including your high school diploma (who has that just laying around anyway? Hopefully me.) If you get chosen for an interview, you have to go through a couple more tests, like drug screening and a psychological evaluation. I have a friend who is a police officer in the neighboring county; he seems to think that I’m a shoe-in for the job since I have a college education. I guess we’ll see.

But the bottom line is, I have to start working soon. We’ve figured out that on Evan’s income alone, we can make it through the rent for next month and no more. So that gives me about 3 weeks to find a job.

In other news, I thought I’d found someone to sub-lease my apartment in Athens, but he turned out to be a loser who can’t get his act together. He was all gung-ho about the place, then dropped off the face of the planet. I called him a bunch of times and he never called me back. Grrr! So now we’re still playing rent in Athens…

So how about some interesting news? Last night I went to a sex party with my friend Amanda (not G, M). It was for “married women only” (ha-ha) at one of Amanda’s fellow teacher’s house. Basically a Tupperware party…with dildos. Anyway, it was pretty entertaining, although the woman doing the selling/show got on my nerves a few times. Some interesting products, at least. Amanda got all excited and is going to host a party herself in July, so if anyone wants to come…

Yeah. So. The apartment is finally getting clean. Needs a few final touches.

Oh, and I got some plants! Evan’s mom went with me to pick them out and helped me transplant, etc. I have 6 pots, including 2 hanging baskets. Tres chic.

And I realize this is a little behind the times, but I finally finished the Harry Potter series. I really liked it. I wasn’t a huge fan of the HP until the 4th book (Goblet of Fire), hated the 5th book, and loved the last 2. I was surprised to find out that they’re making Deathly Hallows into 2 movies, not 1. I guess that’s good, considering how long and information-filled it is. Wonder where the cut-off will be?

One upside to not working is that I’ve been reading…a lot. Anyone who knows me knows how fast I can read, so I’ve been tearing through the library. I actually read HP 7 in one night while Evan was at work. Evan’s been timing me and has figured out that I read 1 page in approx. 20 seconds. Silly boy.