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so i'm at my new job today. it's good so far: i'm helping put together the student directory and the faculty/staff directory for harvard. mostly proofreading so far, but also promises to include plenty of data entry and layout in Pagemaker. hooray for jobs i'll actually want to put on my resume. i should be here till mid-october, barring any unforeseen problems. that'll be fine with me; my obsessive job hunt (i've been checking around eight different job sites every day) is getting a little stale--i'm hardly sending out two resumes a day anymore, not like before when i was sending out a half-dozen at least. i just need to get some kind of health insurance thing worked out, either on my own or with my temp agency, because my interim insurance is going to expire (i think) at the beginning of october. oh, and this job is really close to home--being at harvard, it's near the harvard t-stop, so it's not far at all. or at least, it wouldn't be if i hadn't gotten lost this morning. hopefully when i go hometoday i'll find a much more direct route to take in the future.
other jobs: i still need to finish up my proofreading for dr. langenfeld. i've had the proofs almost two weeks, and i'm i think around two-thirds of the way done. i really wish i had started sooner, because i know he wants them back by the beginning of october (i'll need to mail them by the end of this week at the latest) and it's going to be harder to do them when i need to do it in the evenings after staring at directory proofs all day. but i was getting other things done that first week i had them, like putting the bed together and stuff, so it's okay really. i didn't really have a reliable quiet place to work then anyway, so i'm not going to feel guilty. i'll just need to work really hard this week, that's all. oh, and i haven't heard back from the nice ladies at the Harrison Gray Otis House. they said monday or tuesday, so i guess it could be tomorrow that they'll call. i'll be so sad if i don't get the job. i don't know why i wouldn't get it--i've pretty much done this exact job before, and done it reliably and well, so that's not a problem (and i know david from blandwood will have glowing things to say about me when they call him), and i really seemed to get along well with both the people i talked to (although anya and i did have more time to chat and get to know each other than i had with caroline, whose decision it ultimately is). but i really do hope i get it.
oh, this was a super weekend. after the riveting spine-tingling events of friday's Government in Action luncheon, i mostly ended up hanging out with jorn and playing nintendo and watching Angel. it's getting really, really good now--we just watched the part in season two where darla returns and angel tries to save her soul but then drusilla arrives and remakes darla, and then they wreak havoc and kill half of wolfram & hart, and angel lets them get away with it and then fires cordy and wes and gunn. very intense stuff. on saturday i did a lot of work around the house--tidying the kitchen, doing a bunch of laundry (my smelly mothball sweaters mostly), and moving that bedside table out of the hallway to the bedside. and a few hours of proofing, too. sarah and steve arrived into town on saturday night, and after they finally found our place, we went to mr. crepe for dinner, and it was awesome. sarah loved mr. crepe, as i knew she would. on sunday we went to the boston folk festival at umass, and we had a great time. we got smoothies and fries and lemonade and pad thai and coffee, and ice cream and falafel and a gyro and hungarian sausage. oh, and there were some musicians there too: we saw emmylou harris, and catie curtis, and a good irish band called Danu, and some other good people. but yo, any day with battistini is a day full of food. we had a really great time, and we're talking about getting together again in a few weeks, either for a renaissance faire in conn or MA (need to do some more research, but apparently there's a good in conn near her as well as a good one in MA too) or for a weekend at her place--she lives with steve right on a nice lake, and they have a jacuzzi that she's all excited about. either way, it'll be awesome to see her again so soon. but that's just how life can be when you don't live 15 hours away from your best friend, i guess. although i do now live 15 hours from other good friends, and i've been feeling that pretty hard (you shoulda been there for the darla/dru episodes, girl). anyway, i'm going to see if there's some other work i can do.
other jobs: i still need to finish up my proofreading for dr. langenfeld. i've had the proofs almost two weeks, and i'm i think around two-thirds of the way done. i really wish i had started sooner, because i know he wants them back by the beginning of october (i'll need to mail them by the end of this week at the latest) and it's going to be harder to do them when i need to do it in the evenings after staring at directory proofs all day. but i was getting other things done that first week i had them, like putting the bed together and stuff, so it's okay really. i didn't really have a reliable quiet place to work then anyway, so i'm not going to feel guilty. i'll just need to work really hard this week, that's all. oh, and i haven't heard back from the nice ladies at the Harrison Gray Otis House. they said monday or tuesday, so i guess it could be tomorrow that they'll call. i'll be so sad if i don't get the job. i don't know why i wouldn't get it--i've pretty much done this exact job before, and done it reliably and well, so that's not a problem (and i know david from blandwood will have glowing things to say about me when they call him), and i really seemed to get along well with both the people i talked to (although anya and i did have more time to chat and get to know each other than i had with caroline, whose decision it ultimately is). but i really do hope i get it.
oh, this was a super weekend. after the riveting spine-tingling events of friday's Government in Action luncheon, i mostly ended up hanging out with jorn and playing nintendo and watching Angel. it's getting really, really good now--we just watched the part in season two where darla returns and angel tries to save her soul but then drusilla arrives and remakes darla, and then they wreak havoc and kill half of wolfram & hart, and angel lets them get away with it and then fires cordy and wes and gunn. very intense stuff. on saturday i did a lot of work around the house--tidying the kitchen, doing a bunch of laundry (my smelly mothball sweaters mostly), and moving that bedside table out of the hallway to the bedside. and a few hours of proofing, too. sarah and steve arrived into town on saturday night, and after they finally found our place, we went to mr. crepe for dinner, and it was awesome. sarah loved mr. crepe, as i knew she would. on sunday we went to the boston folk festival at umass, and we had a great time. we got smoothies and fries and lemonade and pad thai and coffee, and ice cream and falafel and a gyro and hungarian sausage. oh, and there were some musicians there too: we saw emmylou harris, and catie curtis, and a good irish band called Danu, and some other good people. but yo, any day with battistini is a day full of food. we had a really great time, and we're talking about getting together again in a few weeks, either for a renaissance faire in conn or MA (need to do some more research, but apparently there's a good in conn near her as well as a good one in MA too) or for a weekend at her place--she lives with steve right on a nice lake, and they have a jacuzzi that she's all excited about. either way, it'll be awesome to see her again so soon. but that's just how life can be when you don't live 15 hours away from your best friend, i guess. although i do now live 15 hours from other good friends, and i've been feeling that pretty hard (you shoulda been there for the darla/dru episodes, girl). anyway, i'm going to see if there's some other work i can do.
