buses and buses and jobs and lola

so i give up on trying to understand the evening schedule for the #70 bus. last night i left work a bit later than i meant to but got out to the bus stop by like 4:23, and at 4:25 along arrives the #70! now, i know for a FACT that the 70 didn't arrive at that time two days ago. so was yesterday's 70 running early? late? just a fluke? how can i possibly plan for this? i think in the future i'll just leave at 4:20 and take whatever bus arrives first.

i got to the bus stop this morning just in time to catch the bus. i looked at my watch and it was 8:12. there was an old black lady sitting across from me, and when she got off the bus a few stops later i realized that i have a sweater absolutely identical to the one she had on (my blue one that's open in the front with the pockets). i got mine at a thrift store in pennsylvania. i wonder if she got hers new?

last night was supposed to be game night, but only susanna came over, and she was feeling a bit unpleasant due to her uparriving menses (just how i'm feeling this morning, in fact), so we ordered pizza (the best pizza yet, i think, although i wasn't so fond of the crust) and watched a movie. we couldn't decide on anything, so it came down to jorn holding Mission: Impossible and Run Lola Run behind his back and susanna choosing a hand. we watched Lola, which i had never seen before, and it was awesome.

i found my david bowie cd. it was in my traveling cd case. i felt much better.

there were three different editorial jobs on the harvard website yesterday. i carefully worked up my cover letters and applied. i wonder if there's something wrong with the harvard job website? i've never ever gotten a call about a resume i sent through there, and i've applied for so many you'd think i'd at least get one or two calls. especially since i have harvard experience. (i did get a call from harvard business school publishing once, but they had posted the job on bookbuilders and i had emailed them my resume.) anyway, shelley asked me how the job thing was going, and i mentioned the three jobs and that i never get calls, and she seemed perplexed and even said she'd put in a call for me to those departments. she's really nice. if there was a chance this job would go permanent, i'd stay here. but maybe she can help me get something permanent.

it's freezing here in the office today.

to do: help jorn finish the laundry. stop at Tello's on the way home and get a black slip to wear with the fun dress (possibly to a show on saturday night). email missi the details of the bus i'm taking on friday. pack up my stuff to take to nyc. call ralph at the bank to see if he ever looked into me getting that damn money back for the bounced check. call planned parenthood to get an appointment for my yearly exam sometime this month (damn it, i wanted a real job with health insurance by now). meet david for coffee tonight. clean my room so it'll be nice when i get back on sunday.

yeah speakers

oh, did i mention the computer thing? so when our office moved to the new building, we had to label all our boxes and computer parts so that they'd get put in the correct cubes in the new building. and i labeled up my computer, and it was here when i got here, but i had also somehow acquired another computer, just as nice, but the other computer also has nice speakers attached to the monitor, which mine does not have. you might see where this is going. so all last week, no one has stopped by looking for their lost computer, and even the labels on the computer don't specify where it should've gone (they're yellow, which meant that it was going to the new building, but there was no office marked on the labels). shelley thought that since an older woman just retired, it might be her computer that i've acquired. i don't really care, because i figure, it's been here a week, it must be mine now. i can't log on to it, though, because it's not configured to my username. so i have to keep using my computer, which doesn't have good speakers like the new one. so i (probably breaking a bunch of Harvard Rules) crawled under the desk and switched the monitors. so now my computer has the one with the nice speakers. i wish i could take the other computer home, because, yo, these flat screen monitors are slick as hell. no one's noticed my switcheroo yet--i thought shelley might, since she commented on the extra computer's speakers, but no. hopefully nobody will. but i feel all sneaky. hee hee.

boredness, and sudden stress

i am boreder than bored. i hope my complete and total apathy for any work-related activity doesn't continue when i get a "real" job. and the stuff i'm doing today is actually sort of interesting, too--looking at the departmental webpage to see if the address got changed everywhere, if it's navigable, if the sections on directory stuff are up to date and make sense. i procrastinated on it for a while but eventually went through and made a list of stuff that could change, but it's a very well-maintained webpage. now i'm flipping through the procedures manual to try to update it (again, sort of interesting, requires organizational skills and stuff), and i found this line in a list of directions: "Invoke your standard Web Browser..." I was highly amused at the thought of "invoking" my Web Browser. don't people ordinarily "invoke" the Powers that Be? dude, it's just a web browser, you just have to double click---

oh wow. i just got a call on my cell phone from the HR people at Tufts about a job i had applied for there and would i be available to come in at 9:00 tomorrow morning? i was like, no, i need a little more notice than that to schedule an interview, especially because they are questionably located and i'm not sure how i'd get there and i'm already taking some time off this week. i don't think it was unreasonable of me to say that, i mean, that's less than 24 hours away. so i said, what about a later time, and she suggested 4:00. oh great, require me to take even more time off work. i said, how about next week? and she said they're hoping to wrap up their search soon. so she started giving me directions and it would involve either a 20 minute walk from davis square (in heels? ick.) or riding the bus from there--i'm hesitant to try catching a bus i've never had to catch before and trying to get somewhere by a specific time, especially when i don't have a lot of time to research the route. she decided she would transfer me right to the woman i'd be interviewing with--without telling me she was going to do that--and the woman suggested we talk a little now. so now i'm on the spot trying to do a phone interview. kind of scary. when they ask, what attracted you to this position? and you're applying for 10 different jobs a day, it's hard to remember what was good about this particular one without actually looking it up. which i would do if i had time to prepare. thankfully while i was on hold i pulled up the job description on the tufts website, so at least i had something to look at. and the woman said that they're very close to hiring someone but they want to be sure they've explored all their options first. dood, if you pretty much know who you want and it's not me, i'm not hauling ass in to see you. at least not for an admin job. so she said she'd consider her options and perhaps call me back. i think it's a little cruddy to call someone on wednesday and expect her to be able to come in for an interview on thursday or even friday. if i didn't have to take the damn bus out to work now it wouldn't be so bad. before, i could have a 9:00 or 4:00 interview and only miss like an hour of work. now it's like a half day process. fucking bus. i should've told her i'd drive, since i can drive to work, basically, and park at the grocery store, but i am so not enthused about driving to interviews after i clipped off my damn mirror. motherfucker.