Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
I *Loves* Me My Bargains!

Another seasonal attack of bargains in the Amazon marketplace. Stocked up on some good film history / theory titles for cheap, since my film library is very bare. I am still waiting for my motivation to really kick me in the butt and get going, but let's hope that osmosis works for the new books that should be arriving shortly. I have a feeling that going to Madison will give me some of the excitement and the reality that this "thing" is really going to happen to me and probably force some concentration that I really have some ground to make up before I get there. I am such a slouch now.

I had pretty eventless day. I actually rushed to get out of the house and see The Hours earlier today. When I got to the movies, it was dark, locked, and deserted... so much for my matinee plans. Apparently, I looked at the weekend schedule while this movie theater doesn't open until 5pm regularly on weekdays. That is weird, huh? Anyway, that plan was thwarted, maybe I'll try again tomorrow - either The Hours at a different, daytime theater, or an afternoon showing of Talk to Her. When the bottom fell out on my plan, the rest of the day dissolved quickly into nothing much. Nothing much on TV tonight either, just a beauty pageant which I will probably end up watching out of sheer boredom. In surprising news, I may have landed myself a job on a completely new career path away from my academic interests. I am really frustrated with the whole employment process I have been facing and temp agencies don't seem to be tugging at my line. My mother called her beloved friend and after some talks with the powers that be at State Farm, I could be placed in my mom's friend's office as soon as Wednesday - not doing anything too complicated, but doing office stuff, processing payments and other paperwork. At this point, this seems decent because it provides a paycheck and I doubt that anything else is going to come alive soon and I am not getting any younger or richer, but I am however getting closer to a new apartment, a move, a new place, a new broke lifestyle. So, I'll take what I can get... and once I get a routine and some hours I can stick to, I can shop around for a night job a few nights a week - something with a handsome discount for clothes or housewares would be a big plus. It was probably going to come to this all along, but now having exhausted all other options, I am probably in the right frame of mind to go into the dreaded insurance industry.
posted by lmjasinski at 7:32 PM