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so what all happened this weekend? let's see.

friday night, i went to the minibosses show. dann and jorn already had plenty to say about it, so i'll just say it was cool and i'm glad i went and leave it at that.

saturday morning. ( a funny story, but for jorn's sake i'll lj-cut it )

so after we got out of bed we watched the last three episodes of angel season 3. and i am so pissed off! how could they leave us hanging like that??!? then i played some old school zelda while jorn watched the last of his transformer dvds, and then we showered up and went to harvard square. i showed jorn my office and we dropped off some plants and some pictures that i want to hang up. we shopped a little and got pizzeria uno for dinner, then hit blockbuster on the way home. rented Spellbound, a documentary about kids in the national spelling bee, and it was totally good and totally intense.

sunday. i set the alarm for 8:30, got up by 8:45, had plenty of time. then i realized i hadn't shut down my computer the night before, and i went to do that, but the computer told me it was daylight savings time and asked me to verify the correct time. i said, holy crap! and started running around like crazy because it was really 9:45 and i had been hoping to leave for work at 10:15. i got there at 11:20, which wasn't too bad considering the circumstances, and laura got there at around the same time. i said, so did you forget about daylight savings time too? and her eyes got all big. she had thought she was all early for work! so we didn't open the house til 11:30, but it's not like anyone was there for a tour right away anyhow. laura gave a 1:30 tour to eight people, including a woman updating the fodor's travel guide, so we let her in for free. and i gave a 4:30 tour to a little japanese family who lives in waltham now and must've moved here pretty recently. their little girl was remarkably well behaved for a four-year-old, especially for a four-year-old who couldn't even understand what the boring tour guide was saying. but she was exceedingly proud of the english words she knew: "hellohowAREyou!" and "thanks!" and "BYE!" i was able to find a tour translation in japanese for them, and she was reading along with her mom just fine in the japanese, which was really cool.

when we weren't giving tours, laura and i were sitting around chatting and discovering even *more* things that we have in common. besides the english major thing and the sci fi channel thing and the fantasy novel thing, we're both gamers. which is pretty cool. we were playing the "i bet my apartment has more game systems than your apartment" game, and she totally won. and she knows the King's Quest games! which was just awesome. when i get a new computer i totally want to get Fantasmagoria, which sounds like a really cool game. and we talked about politics, too--she was down at the statehouse or whatever supporting on the gay marriage thing, which i thought was cool. i like laura a lot.

and now i'm at work, and today is the kipster's first day back in the office. so i'm not wearing jeans. and just for the record, i am sick of boston weather. sicksicksick. it's april for goodness sake, it should be a hell of a lot warmer than freezing outside.

oh, here's that anya/money icon i tried to post on friday. i like it. *edit* and i added a second one, which is just funny.

yo yo yo. it's wednesday. it feels like monday though, because I HAD OFF YESTERDAY!! hooray for veterans. anyway, let me start off back at friday, since i haven't updated in a while. ( boo-YAH. )

and a big "hi y'all" to the new folks on my friends list: shabuchwae, mel1978nj, and queende. woot!

yesterday was a super day! i interviewed with the historic Harrison Gray Otis House, and i think it went really well. SPNEA runs i think most of the historic houses in new england, and i met with the regional director of southeast new england and the head guide for the Otis House. they were both really nice, and the first thing the regional director said when we all sat down was that it seemed like what i did at blandwood is almost exactly what they're looking for. i thought pretty much the same thing when i read the ad. after the more formal interview part, anya, the head guide, took me through the house so i could get a feel for the house and the family and stuff, and it was really fun. i like her a lot, and i like the house a lot. it's really beautiful with some great history to it, some good stories, and it's been restored so nicely. i really want this job. i'm excited about it--hopefully i'll hear from them on monday or tuesday about it.

and after the interview, i decided to take a different way home--jorn and i had gotten off at Charles/MGH on the red line to get there, but the house was also supposed to be close to the government center green line stop, so i decided to see if i could find my way there. and so i was walking up cambridge street, and suddenly i thought, wow! i know where i am! it's the first time that's happened in boston, that i've started in one place and ended up somewhere else. so i was all excited and had a nice "yay boston" moment. which was a lot more exhilerating than a "whatthefuck, greensboro?" moment, let me tell you.

anyway, i'm still tired, though i'm feeling better now than i was when i first got home. jorn and i were talking about going out for a "date" tonight, but by general consensus we've decided that our date is going consist of chinese delivery and angel dvds instead of dinner and a movie. teh.

on the agenda for this weekend: battistini and steve are coming to town on saturday night, maybe around 6 or 7, and we're going to get some food, and they're spending the night here, and on sunday we're going with some of sarah's work friends to the boston folk festival. should be lots of fun.

wow, it's been like 18 years since i posted. okay. ( here's what happened last weekend. )

does anyone have a printer? i want to print out the reformatted version of my thesis, and i really can't do that surreptitiously here at work (it's like 24 pages, and the printer is just too far from my desk for me to get away with it). even if you're far away, you could print it out and mail it to me. or can you print things out at kinko's? i'm giving them my freakin' money anyway to make copies of it for me.

saturday was a good day. slept in, then went clothes shopping with elan at carolina thrift. i spent $22.42 and got several shirts and the cutest dress ever (it's bright blue and has little lemons printed all over it--it's a little big, but i just want it for fun, not for work or anything). elan spent $19.50 or so but got even more stuff than i did. then she and i and jorn went to see Finding Nemo, which was just so awesome. IMFGS @ teh last Pixar.

also, emily's party on saturday night was a good time. rhett got pretty drunk; so did xina, who fell asleep on the couch. there was really good food, too.

yesterday i worked at blandwood in the afternoon, and two things really made me upset. the first thing was pretty basic: when i went to sign up for hours later this month, i saw that the month of june was entirely filled. so i flip to july, and *that's* almost filled too, except for the last weekend, when i'll be out of town. david's hired some new docents lately, and i'm thinking there might not be enough hours to go around, but this wasn't even that--one girl had signed up for two different weekends in july. in may and june, everybody was signing up for tops, one weekend, but usually two days spaced out. so it's not even that everybody else got to the july calendar before me--three other docents are also affected by this. i don't know if david asked this one girl to sign up for those weekends thinking that people would be out of town or something, but i don't think it's fair, and i'm going to email david to ask about it. (update: i emailed him. we'll see what he says.)

the other thing was this. on sunday afternoons, blandwood is open 2-5. in order to actually close at 5, we say that the last tour leaves at 4:30. so at around 4:30, i was finishing up a tour, and jorn had just arrived to pick me up, and this guy walks up to the house and asks for a tour for himself and the old lady who's with him. i ask jorn what time it is, and he says 4:39. completely forgetting that his watch is fast, i said to the man that i'm sorry but the last tour has to leave at 4:30 because we close at 5. he looks at *his* watch and gets all mad, saying that it's 4:31 and i won't take them, and then he storms off. the old lady with him starts talking to me, saying that they drove all the way from ashboro to come here, and i start realizing that i was wrong about the time, and i'm feeling bad for the old lady, so i say, hey okay i'll stay a little late and give you a tour. so she goes to tell her man (not a husband--son? don't know), and i tell the people who's tour i'm finishing that i'll meet them in the kitchen building in just a moment and they can look around. so i go out to the street, and the man is in the car waiting for the old lady. she gets in the car and he starts it, so i walk up to the car and say that i was mistaken about the time because my boyfriend's watch was fast and won't they come in for a tour? and the man says, no you didn't want to talk to me up there and we're leaving. and they drive off. so what could i do? i finish up the kitchen part of the tour for the other people and then jorn and i close up the house and go home, but i was really upset. i mean, i made a mistake, but i admitted it and offered to take them through a tour. but this man acted like a complete jerk and wouldn't even listen to me, when he drove all the way out just so the old lady could visit the house. she's the one i feel bad for: she had to ride all the way home with him, and likely, had to listen to him bitch about me all the way to ashboro. why couldn't he just be nice? i usually like working at blandwood, and he ruined my whole day there.

i would also like to say that it is colder than satan's balls in my office building today. i am freezing my ass off, and my hands are so cold all my rings are falling off my numb fingers.

happy birthday to the Marquis de Sade (263 today) and Thomas Hardy (163 today). thanks, desk calendar.

things to do:
-email david at blandwood RE schedule
-get the freud action figure for samantha; send in box to mom & dad
-find father's day presents; send them with pecan log and other things to mom & dad
-plan and make a mix tape for missi
-mend the little tears in the orangey shirt; stitch the hole in my funky purse; fix beige sweater sleeve
-post my movies-to-watch list
-do some clothes shopping
-reformat thesis; print surreptitiously, take to kinko's for copying, and send to people
-make brownies for emily's thing on saturday night
-don't forget to go to blandwood on sunday afternoon

it was a good weekend. although i'm glad i don't have to go back to blandwood for a while; i was there over ten hours in the past four days. i claimed it all on my timesheet, even though maybe i should've just volunteered my time for the candlelight tours. i marked it separately on my timesheet, at least, so david can pay me for it, or not, as he chooses.

quotes from last night's (girls v. boys) Taboo game at jenny's party:

guy: It's where you put the beer--
all guys in room: THE FRIDGE! REFRIGERATOR!!
(next card)
guy: Okay, girls look at guys' butts to see how big this is.
all guys: HIS WALLET!!

just an interesting example, i thought, of how guys think. on the other hand, we girls immediately guessed correctly on questions like Diet, Exercise, and Cabana Boy.

this week:
Monday: temp at the receptionist job, 8-5. exchange gifts with jorn (because we're so excited about the stuff we've gotten each other that we can't wait anymore).
Tuesday: stop by trc to get more timesheets. start a new temp job answering phones, 10-3.
Wednesday: temp 10-3. LORD OF TEH RINGS!1!
Thursday: temp 10-3.
Friday: temp 10-3. start driving towards PA.

things i need to get done:
pick up LotR tickets
return library book
pick up prescription
get gifts for colleen, missi, rose, sarah, kari
go to B&N--get puzzle for dad, book for rhett
clean the freakin' apartment
pack stuff for trip--pack car
watch too much Buffy

hey y'all. busybusy.

i attended my last two classes ever yesterday. well, last classes ever at uncg. it was really nice.

today i baked cookies, got a background check and drug screening, returned an action figure to the BiLo, shopped at walmart and ed mckay's, and wrote out almost all of my holiday cards.

here's what's going on with me later this week:

thursday/friday: temp job (receptionist), 8-5, $9/hr. (hence the aforementioned background check and drug screening--apparently the company is a bit picky about such things. whateva, i ain't been smokin' none.)
thursday/friday evenings: christmas candlelight tours at blandwood. a lovely historic 1840s home, decorations, music, and me in a hoop skirt. what else do you need, really?
friday night: party at angie & jake's.
saturday: regular weekend tours at blandwood 11-2. movie date with jorn (STAR TREK!1!!), then holiday party at jenny's.
sunday: blandwood 2-5. also, if i have time, i can help tracy move into ruth's apartment, but i'm betting they'll be done with that by the time blandwood's done with me.

to do: pick up film, get stamps, send cards.

my mom teaches in an urban middle school located in a rather poor area, so most of her students are black. one of my mom's students is named Jtron. she refers to him and his friends as "Jtron and the other transformers." i just thought some of y'all would get a kick out of that.

weekend = good. and busy. spent a LOT of time at blandwood yesterday and today. yesterday in addition to my normal touring hours, i also attended a workshop to learn how to use PastPerfect, a museum inventory database program. the blandwood folks are working on getting a full inventory of everything in the house (a very good thing to have), and i'll get to help out by entering some of it into the system. easy computer stuff, no problem. i toured this afternoon too, or i would have if anyone had shown up and wanted a tour. i fell asleep, actually, and then closed up the house fifteen minutes early. i signed up for christmastime hours though--i'm working the weekend after next, and also for two of three christmas candlelight tour nights, and for the weekend of dec. 14. and apparently, this year on sundays, hostesses will be in costume and there will be music. woo.

i'm reading Gender Trouble by Judith Butler for my feminist theory class, and so far (ie, the preface) it's reminding me of my days in Constructions of Sexuality with Dr. Manning. he was great. i can't think of peewee herman without remembering him. but the point was, i'm also now remembering the things we talked about in that class, which is a good thing. and apparently i sold all those books, which was dumb. oh well.

tonight i hustled out the door to go to the SAI mtg, which, i discovered when i got here, is apparently canceled b/c all the SAI girls are at the NCMEA conference? this is my suspicion. the vast majority of the sisters here are music ed majors, i think (the ME in NCMEA), so it would make sense to cancel the sunday night chapter mtg. it's just annoying that there wasn't an email about it, or about where to find the mtg if in fact it's actually taking place. hrm.

my parents got to go to a preview showing of the new HP movie this morning--for free, no less. my mom says it was great and was even better than the first one. i'll be finding out on friday, and so will a bunch of you. got to get tickets sometime this week--jdogg, wanna go shopping tuesday night? we can get the new LotR dvd and our HP tickets too. AND my mom says that some copies of the new LotR dvd include a free ticket for the new movie! that would be sweeeeeet. :) she also said that LotR and Star Trek: Nemesis aren't opening on the same night (Dec. 18) like i had heard they were; she heard that one of them is opening on Dec. 13 instead. since i'm sure that's not LotR (the website is pretty definitive), then it must be that Star Trek moved their premiere (or i got it wrong to begin with, which is also possible). whatever, now i don't have to go to two movie premieres on the same day.