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.

 
The thing about endorphins... they go right to your head

Cheery, bubbly, happy, racing... just had a very good day, combined with a gym and starbucks americano high - mix it all together and it's like washing down two "herbal" metabolifes (plural metabolives??) with a troph full of Moutain Dew. I'll stop bouncing for a minute. Today, sitting under the dryer at the salon, I found proof supporting my reincarnation theory. I bumped into one of the sunny spots from my short-lived career at TriZetto, my boss from my summer / fall in 1998. She actually introduced me to this salon, so it's surprising that we haven't crossed paths there before. The whole reunion was very exciting, I was thrilled to see her, catch up - and even more thrilled to hear that she might be able to get me a job. I actually think it was really satisfying too - only because the last time I saw her, I was on the verge of starting college - now, bumping into her as a grad, it was pretty cool. A much needed haircut and color later, I was looking and feeling pretty spiffy - decided to swing by the Glastonbury Gap and I have an interview there tomorrow with a cool-seeming manager who is a UVM grad. Granted this hardly makes use of my degree or my intelligence, but perhaps it will allow me to check one more item off the once in my lifetime list: No. 37: Be a Gap girl. Also, there is a job fair tomorrow morning at a nearby community college - my mother says I have to go. I don't know how helpful it will be, reading the employers' list in the paper, I don't really want to join the army or train for a manager position at CVS. At this point, who knows, and I am done getting my hopes up because I've had several promising leads that prompty hit a brick wall, already in my post-grad life. Here's hoping tomorrow brings a cosmic change and rapid employment. Might head up to Boston for the Wentz's big BBQ blow out, I think I am a little undecided / in limbo until I pound the pavement and get all gapped-up tomorrow morning. We'll see, nothing else really brewing, but who is to say what might come next.

Another beautiful day in my neighborhood and I am just feeling energetic and in remarkably good spirits. Going to Wisconsin on Wednesday... weather report calls for flurries today. Jeez, I was really hoping that I had seen the last of the white stuff for a while, or at least the cold. I take it back, it is suppose to be up around 58 degrees by the time I head West. Good to know that I am moving from one awful schizo climate to another, at least my body will adapt naturally. It is weird to see a different section of the weather map. Feel free to browse if the Midwest remains a mystery to you too. I actually feel like stretching out in bed and digging into a book on film theory - consider it an energy rush coupled with a desire to come across as half-way learned next week.
posted by lmjasinski at 6:32 PM