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I am in a good mood! I feel like a lot happened today, though maybe nothing did? Hard to say. I’m just going to make a list of what happened, because I need to clear my brain. You know how it is.
-Graduation was a year ago. My friends in the class of 2010 graduated today and pointed out that my name is in the brochure. Um.
-I left my cell phone at work over the weekend and my grandfather had called about me sending over my resume so he can pass it to someone whose son-in-law is a VP at AAK. As someone whose parents have almost no social capital (“family friend” has always struck me funny, my family has no friends), it’s nice to finally be doing some old-fashioned nepotistic networking. Probably nothing will come of it, but it’s just nice.
-Incidentally my dad has been trying to get me to give him my resume and I’ve steadfastly refused, because knowing my dad (oft-made comparison, by me, but oft nonetheless, is that he is like a liberal Glenn Beck), he would mail it directly to our congressman, senators, and Rahm Emanuel. I finally cracked him and he admitted he was planning to write to Oprah Winfrey on my behalf. *I am not kidding in the least. *I love my dad.
-I am reading the best book right now, The Giant’s House. It’s so good I want to read it again so I can record my favorite quotes and find matching pictures for them a la Slaughterhouse 90210. I am on a crazy reading binge right now and I’m really liking it. I’ve only really been reading on the train, but for a while there I wasn’t riding the train much, or couldn’t read when I did, so it’s nice, really nice, to be reading a book good enough to make me look forward to the train.
-Jobs! I’m trying to get this job at the place where I once interned and I sent an email to the Director of HR today. Boy it was scary! I think I deserve an interview, don’t I?
-Jobs! At 6:30, I got a phone call from a 212 number and it was a woman who’d heard about me from someone I once met and assumed had forgotten me, and this woman, the first one, invited me for an interview. Just like that! An unposted job!
-I went to the live Cultural Gabfest, and though I am always a little grossed out when I go to events and encounter the other attendees (college-educated, yipster, you girls would be so much prettier without the geek glasses, etc.), it was mostly very fun. I ran into this girl who was a year ahead of me in college and texted my friend about it. My friend texted back something about Bob Saget’s twitter. I spotted this other girl who I’m 95% sure is a famous Tumblr-er who I kind of hate for no reason, and texted another friend about it. My friend texted back “stab her.” It was great!
[I realize I sound like the pendulum has swung and I’m now manic. I don’t think I am. Just enjoying the novelty of a good mood.]
-I want to write an essay for This Recording about Now & Then and how, even though it’s just a girl power ripoff of Stand By Me, it’s still the best.
-I bought a new skirt at The Gap. Sometimes when I’m shopping and I really love something, I say to myself, “I can’t have that skirt exist in the world and me not own it. I simply can’t.” As someone who’s super into florals, I am having quite a season.
This isn’t in order or well-written but whatever, livejournal-blr.
