I had an interview at AppleOne, a temp. agency. Last time someone called me "bright" and "amazing" during a job interview I ended up not getting. But the interviewer seemed to really like me and said she'd let me know if she could get me any jobs because I'd "represent [her] really well." Sweet ( Read more... )

Last Friday I finally told Carlos I would only be doing the supervised visits until February, so that was two weeks notice. Perfectly reasonable, I think. He said okay, but the ride from dropping his daughter off with her mom to the coffee shop where I have my writers' group meeting was in complete silence. He's even been giving Ian the silent ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm going to be 24. I think I thought I would feel old by the time I was in my mid-twenties, but I don't. Kinda hard when I've got an open novelization of a comic book (Generation X, "Crossroads") next to me and I'm in the middle of re-watching season 1 of "Avatar." Ian's got this theory that Californians don't grow up or mature. You pull ( Read more... )

I made it to Oakland, after much trial and tribulation. I came back for the weekend to drop off my dad's truck and to take care of my parents' cat while they're in Croatia. On the drive here the truck stopped accelerating and the speed started to drop. I managed to get it to the end of an off ramp in Pinole as soon as I noticed something was up. ( Read more... )