I Love Presents!

This year I had a whole pile of presents from home. I had some I brought back from Calgary and waited a whole month to open. I'm so patient and mature, don't you think? Anyway, I got some totally awesome shit, including a book that is out of print, that my parents clearly made a serious effort to find for me. I felt all lovely and spoiled. It was great.

And I'll bet you'll never guess who gave me this card:

Take and push this employment you this

I have invented a new game, and it is awesome. Take a colloquial saying and enter it at babelfish.yahoo.com. Translate it into Dutch. Then from Dutch into German. Then from German into French. Then from French into Greek. And then back to English. Laughs every time, I promise. I have been giggling for the last half hour.

But, that is not the point. The point is take and push this employment you this, or, in other words, take this job and shove it.

I am quitting my stupid job. On Friday, my next shift. Very suddenly, I am just not in the mood to sell liquor part time anymore. I want either a better job, or more free time. Either would be fine. I write this, to make me accountable, to make it stick. Otherwise, I will simply keep working there, and not liking it just because I should. Because I can. Because it is relatively easy money. Because I am a wuss, and the simple act of resigning a part time job seems like a major confrontation. But I want very much to not have to go to work a week from Friday, and I am determined to make it happen.

I have an interview tomorrow for a work-study position at the law school. It is as an assistant, in the career services office. It would be extremely flexible, and pay very well. I hope I get it. But if I don't, that's fine. I will just be unemployed for a while, and watch my debt swell, while I sleep in one or two days a week.

Fall Equinox

As the sun officially sets on summer, I was looking back at some of the photos I took over the last few months. This one was taken at my Grandmother's cottage north of the city and I think it is very striking. The sunlight is streaming through the leaves, but also is reflecting off the water behind the trees, giving the effect of light everywhere.

Mr. Jones and Me go shopping

I sing at the grocery store. Okay? I admit it. If the Safeway sound system is playing something I like, I sing along under my breath. I love to sing, and just because I am browsing for produce with a dozen complete strangers isn't going to limit me.
So today, I am trying to figure out what was the best deal on mayonnaise (oddly enough the Miracle Whip in the EZ-Squeeze tube was cheaper, by the millilitre, than Miracle Whip in a jar - surprising) and singing along to the Counting Crows and this sweet, sweet, little old lady turns to me and says, "That's a beautiful voice you have."
I was tickled.