Non-Topical Random Update
Back in Florida. Also, unemployed. (Incidentally.)
I had an interview today with a web design company here in town, so maybe i won't have to start temping after all. Although most of the temp jobs K. had didn't seem all that bad. I don't recall ever having a job where my boss said it was all right if i played on the internet all day. Played Tetris, yes. But Tetris loses some of its appeal after the first four hundred and sixty-eight games. Besides, they made me lick envelopes. Which did actually help the days go faster, depending on how much of the glue i ingested, but then they took them away and made me answer the phones and stuff.
At least New York was nice. The people were nice, of course, even the ones i wasn't related to by marriage. And some of the other things were nice - wood smoke, snowshoeing, seeing deer again - but in general, it was kind of a weird thing. Flying from Florida to upstate New York for Christmas is like paying a brief visit to another planet. A very, very gray planet. Where it's dark seventy percent of the time. After a day or two there you begin to have a hard time remembering what the rest of the world is like. Or that the rest of the world exists, let alone that sunny places with palm trees exist and you live in one.
So yeah. I was getting a little discouraged earlier with the weather down here - it's been in the forties at night - but that was mainly because without central heating, the temperature inside one's apartment is very nearly the same as the temperature outside. K. made fun of me for wearing my winter jacket at the dinner table. Do what you gotta do, i say. The weather in New York this week was actually fairly similar, but the key difference was that they heat their houses up there, so i stayed warmer in Albany than i'd been in a Florida month. And anyway, better times are coming. It's supposed to be seventy-six here on New Year's Eve. Stick that in your snowblower and...well...ehh, never mind.
I had an interview today with a web design company here in town, so maybe i won't have to start temping after all. Although most of the temp jobs K. had didn't seem all that bad. I don't recall ever having a job where my boss said it was all right if i played on the internet all day. Played Tetris, yes. But Tetris loses some of its appeal after the first four hundred and sixty-eight games. Besides, they made me lick envelopes. Which did actually help the days go faster, depending on how much of the glue i ingested, but then they took them away and made me answer the phones and stuff.
At least New York was nice. The people were nice, of course, even the ones i wasn't related to by marriage. And some of the other things were nice - wood smoke, snowshoeing, seeing deer again - but in general, it was kind of a weird thing. Flying from Florida to upstate New York for Christmas is like paying a brief visit to another planet. A very, very gray planet. Where it's dark seventy percent of the time. After a day or two there you begin to have a hard time remembering what the rest of the world is like. Or that the rest of the world exists, let alone that sunny places with palm trees exist and you live in one.
So yeah. I was getting a little discouraged earlier with the weather down here - it's been in the forties at night - but that was mainly because without central heating, the temperature inside one's apartment is very nearly the same as the temperature outside. K. made fun of me for wearing my winter jacket at the dinner table. Do what you gotta do, i say. The weather in New York this week was actually fairly similar, but the key difference was that they heat their houses up there, so i stayed warmer in Albany than i'd been in a Florida month. And anyway, better times are coming. It's supposed to be seventy-six here on New Year's Eve. Stick that in your snowblower and...well...ehh, never mind.
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