after one long season of waiting

Today was surprisingly pleasant. I got up way too early, lazed around, and then ended up helping euthymic get tickets for Hillside, which, if I can get the time off work, I'll be going to too. Of course, this means two weekends in a row in July will be made of music festival, but the only downside I see is going back to work afterwards. (-: And the fact that the two weekends combined will cost me a bit more than $300... but all things considered, that's a ridiculously cheap vacation. And I'm spending the money now, so by July I won't even miss it, and it'll feel like free music.

So this got longer than expected, so here is the day divided up neatly.

( From 10-4:30: MSI )

( 5ish: In which I discover that my neighborhood might be cool )

( 6-8: Stringed Instruments Continue to Betray Me. And a Torontoan )

And ah... gosh this is long. 8-9: I sat down and wrote about my day because I have nothing better to do, except maybe make dinner like a normal, functional person. I guess today was an eventful day.

GUYS I HAVE A JOB!

ONE THAT WILL NOT LEAVE ME DESTITUTE OR MORALLESS IN THE COURSE OF A FEW MONTHS.

I HAVE A JOB!!!!!

And now I'm going to be late to the one I have.

Edit: So, since my family yelled at me for a similarly uninformative voice mail I left for them, the situation is this: the lawyers I interviewed with yesterday called me this afternoon to offer me the job, something like 20 minutes after I sent them my thank-you-for-interviewing me e-mails. Which is kind of crazy, but the guy who interviewed me had told me that they were looking to get someone in quickly, and that I was near the top of the list. And the two partners I talked to kind of won me over by being laid-back, unpretentious, and actually kind of funny, so it wasn't all that hard to say yes when they offered me a salary only $500 below what I was planning to argue down from and health insurance after a month. Plus paid days off within the next 6 months (it would still be 11 months before I got any days off at the bank, just for comparison). So! All in all I am rather happy with this turn of events. But I start Monday, and that means I will be working two jobs concurrently until the end of the month and holy crap, that might just kill me. But in a financially solvent and able to pay my rent and eat sort of way.

[Today's Music: the end of State Songs, all of Thornhill, and Happiness is Not a Fish...]

I wanted to get on here and write long before midnight, because I want to get to bed before 2am tonight. My sister kept me up late last night telling her "bedtime stories." I was so tired. I slept in until 10 today, and then had to get up to do something.. I don't remember what it was. It might have been to wait for my call from the FedEx guy... that never came (oh shuckie darn). I don't think my dad got called about his job, either, and they said they would, too. Stupid lying employers! I also spent about 45 minutes watching Sesame Street today, because I'm a bored person lacking cable. I was quite happy to hear the word "glutton" used quite casually by Cookie Monster. I was rather surprised to see R.E.M. bouncing around and singing. I was excited by the surrealism involved in the bizarre jungle-themed Journey to Ernie. Ah, a good thirteen years since I watched it regularly and it's still a great show. Jim Henson was an awesome person. I miss the muppet show. Someday, if I don't end up designing giant solar sails (I almost finished that article on space travel at the library today), I will work on Sesame Street.

Twas my daddy's birthday today, but most of it was spent retrieving my mom from the library and trying to fix the brakes on her car (they're worse now than before we took the the car in to get fixed). My aunt had called several times over the past few days, inviting us to a dinner (of the more expensive sort) to celebrate everyone's birthday and my graduation. Originally we weren't going to go, and then our relatives offered to pay, and my mom felt guilty that we weren't going to go see everyone, so we went (we were going to pay). I got to see my Nanny (a step-grandmother of sorts) and all my aunts and uncles that aren't related to me by blood at all, and my little cousin that's four now and verily cute. We all sat around and ate and talked (my uncle and mom made a lot of weird noises, and my sister kept being strange and hitting my mom). Then we had some nice cake and ice cream as a special birthday-type surprise from the restaurant because they do things like that. And, then came the part that restores one's faith in humanity... at least the part of humanity that manifests itself into random strangers in restaurants. Our bill was picked up by these four men at a nearby table that thought we looked to be a really nice family! Rather bizarre and unexpected, non? They were all from Virginia, I suppose on business. The story I heard later told me that they were planning on drinking several bottles of Don Perignon and putting it on their expense account, when they saw us and decided that spending the money on us would be more fun. Tremendous good karma to them! You don't see many people like that around here anymore. I'm not exactly sure of the real honesty in spending company money on a group of strangers in a resaurant, but it's a better thing than buying a lot of expensive wine, non?

I also picked up a bit more in graduation-present money, and got my paycheck today. I'm awful close to being able to afford that computer I want myself (all the way there if I can get that blasted money out of my savings), but my mom still insists that I wait until the end of August when we get the bill. I don't understand why, when I already have what I needed as my contribution earned and set aside, and the computer models change every month and a half anyway, and if I wait longer I'll have less time to adjust to the laptop, and the one I want most likely won't exist anymore, and a similar one will be more expensive because it'll be new. Curse it. In fact, to make up for the net change in karma, all the good karma going to the business people can be removed from the computer companies and merchants that make things difficult by changing models and charging a lot. I don't imagine a lot of tech companies have a lot of good karma left. I suppose to even things out a bit, we can take some away from the government, because it doesn't need any, nor deserve much. Evil thing.

Umm.. I seem to have lost my direction here. I think it's time for me to go to sleep and stop complaining about the evils of the world.

Oh, I had to do my "entrance interview" for my Stafford Loan today. Boy was that fun... online, with pretty much no guidance whatsoever as to what it wanted me to do. I did learn, however, that I am not obligated to repay my loans if I die. Yaaay, there's a comfort! I'd hate to suddenly find my credit ruined in the afterlife. There was some absolutely bizarre stuff in the "interview" for the Perkins Loan, which I didn't get to finish because my computer crashed. I think my modem's pretty well close to biting the dust right now, it keeps making the computer blue-screen. I'm certainly glad I'm writing this in a separate window in IE right now. I want a stable computer (not likely) that isn't a good 6 to 7 years old (slightly more likely). I'd better save this to something and then restart this evil thing so I can actually post this. At least I didn't lose everything this time. It's still freaking late now, though.

I need to remember to e-mail J-Ro and buy myself that much-desired I Am Made of Poison shirt... after I deposit my new riches tomorrow. Weee!