Aw yeah

Travesty has been averted--I found the disk of all my documents from my old job. At present, I only care about one of the documents--my most recent resume--but it's nice to have the rest of it, too. As December 1 approaches faster than a runaway bus full of gospel choir members screaming "praise JesuSAH!," I desperately need to get a resume ready for the large mailout to come. As if we didn't need one more goddamn thing to do right now, it's time to start applying for summer jobs. Ugh.

Anyway, I've been in a bit of a bitchpanic for the past few weeks over my inability to find the damned CD on which I burned everything personal from my office computer this summer. I kept thinking I knew right where it was, and it kept failing to appear in any of those places. Finally, I decided to start a good, thorough ransack of the apartment and found it (albeit in a totally odd place). Whatev, its contents have been successfully loaded onto my computer and I have the not-so-sucky task of editing the previous resume instead of starting from scratch. Phew.

I got lost driving in A2 today--first time in months. But man, this was insane. I ended up somewhere past North Campus, in a hell of split-level homes that sit on streets without names. I am not even kidding. Try navigating your way out of that one. I really need to put a compass in my car, because sometimes it's impossible around here to have any idea what direction you even think you're heading, what with the screwy twisting streets and all. Today, I didn't so much have a compass. I did, however, have a very old Eric Clapton best-of tape, and we cocained our way on outta there eventually.

A2 is a rather strange place over Thanksgiving break. Streets are quiet, stores are mostly empty (well, downtown--Target this afternoon was another question entirely, but that was mostly regular adults from the surrounding areas, and I never count them). Almost everyone, it seems, goes...elsewhere for the break. I've never been a big fan of travelling significant distance for Thanksgiving, especially not while in school, so it wasn't a big deal to stay here. I've gotten a reasonable amount of work done, and had a pretty great dinner Thursday at a fellow student's house. Aside from missing J more than I expected, and a brief meltdown about the impending onslaught from our exams, it was a good break. Ah well, I had a very good talk with Captain Chaos about the latter, and the former, well, absence makes the heart and all of that.