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March 10, 2001
I wrote some stuff at
I wrote some stuff at work yesterday that I think pretty much sums everything up, so I'll post it here.
I got my mom a cheese cake instead of a chocolate cake, but the rest of it is pretty accurate.
late
afternoon, March 9:
I just had the world's best interview. For about six weeks, I've been working on a long term research
project about housing and homelessness in Fairfax County. And there's this one person I've been trying to
get in touch with for a month, but I've been led through a trail of wrong numbers, incorrect departments,
and other such confusing things. The story is due on Tuesday, and I was starting to panic, when yesterday I
got the correct phone number. I called him three times today, but he wasn't there. Finally, he called back.
We spoke for more than an hour. He apologized for being difficult to reach. He applauded my persistence. He
gave me all the information I needed and more, then thanked me for working on this article on a subject
whihc doesn't get enough media coverage. And we both agreed to think over our conversation and talk again
on Monday. And he said he'd have even more information for me then.
It's funny how spending weeks
researching something and then writing about it has become something I love, considering that less than I
year ago it was the bane of my existance.
early afternoon, March 9:
The current state of my
life:
It is Friday afternoon.
After today, I will go to work Monday and Tuesday, and then my job
will be completely over.
Thirty years after flunking out of college, my mom received an acceptance
letter in the mail from George Mason University, although she doesn't know it yet. I peeked into the
envelope, then re-sealed it. I'm going to buy her a gourmet chocolate cake to celebrate, even though she's
trying to lose weight.
I wonder what she'll major in.
My friend Susan, who is a fifth year
undergraduate, is in town for her spring break. I may get to see her this weekend. My friend Justina, who
is in medical school, was here briefly this afternoon on her way to Florida, but I didn't get to see
her.
I may visit F. Scott Fitzgerald's grave on Saturday with a co-worker. I may see a movie in
Georgetown tonight. I may sleep all weekend. I will definitely take a shower, though.
In just over a
week, I will be driving west with Laura, unemployed and living off my dwindling savings.
I wish that
I could pick either apathy or ambition and stick with it, because the two states wash over me in waves, and
decisions I make in one state tend to seem ill-formed when I'm in the other.
I can't leave work for
another three hours, yet I have absolutely nothing to do.
I wrote a really arrogant cover letter to
one of the jobs I'm applying to in Oregon, just for fun. I called myself brilliant and told them they'd be
doing themselves a favor to hire someone with my potential, since I'm definitely going places. I haven't
mailed it yet, but I think I will.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at March 10, 2001 02:58 PM