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So I've been effectively mostly unemployed for 13 days now, which is mostly shitty. I'm still working half days a couple days a week, which no one could live on unless they worked as hard as I did over the summer and fall and had the resultant savings. I've managed to justify not running out and getting the first job I can find, because I am really committed to going home to California for at least three weeks in December. Also, having so much time free during the week has made it possible for me to get an amazing volunteer/intern position at the Seattle Art Museum in the library which will be good for me in a personal, professional and academic sense. Of course I feel like I am putting my wants before my needs, and that not working a lot makes me a mostly worthless citizen (except I totally voted yesterday, which maybe earns me another week of citizen points before I am truly one of those people on their couch in their underwear all day. Besides, I can only ever spend half the day on the couch in my underwear because we don't get internet at our apartment anymore and so at some point I always have to go buy a cup of tea and use the internet somewhere for an hour or two. Now they are playing Tom Petty in Victrola. I've kind of learned to like Tom Petty in the last year or two.). So yeah, I've been getting a lot of use out of my netflix subscription, I've been making the centerpieces for my grandmother's 80th birthday party in a couple weeks, I've been hanging pictures and decorating my new apartment, and I've been planning all the Christmas ornaments I'm going to make this year.
My family is coming to Seattle for Thanksgiving and my grandmother's birthday because my parents are throwing her a big party. Thanksgiving dinner is at my apartment which is wierd and exciting and will hopefully be fun. Cody is pumped mostly because he'll get to watch the Broncos game now. Which I totally don't understand (why would you ruin Thanksgiving with sports?!) but I've been spending my evenings knitting and cross-stitching lately, so I guess I don't really get to make fun. I need to rent a carpet cleaner this weekend in preparation of the Thanksgiving extravaganza. I also kind of want to find a pumpkin to make all kinds of delicious pumpkin treats.
My museum class is going really well. Saturday morning I was super burnt out and didn't want to do my homework or go to class, but was glad I did because it was a really good day. My classes felt pertinent, and we had class at the Henry which had this totally amazing Stephen Shore exhibition going on. Highly recommended. I just wish the bookstore would have had exhibit postcards for me to buy. Instead, I stole a bunch of brochures so I could cut out the photos and paste them all over my apartment.
Stuff is going fast. I'm still very ambivalent about all that.
My family is coming to Seattle for Thanksgiving and my grandmother's birthday because my parents are throwing her a big party. Thanksgiving dinner is at my apartment which is wierd and exciting and will hopefully be fun. Cody is pumped mostly because he'll get to watch the Broncos game now. Which I totally don't understand (why would you ruin Thanksgiving with sports?!) but I've been spending my evenings knitting and cross-stitching lately, so I guess I don't really get to make fun. I need to rent a carpet cleaner this weekend in preparation of the Thanksgiving extravaganza. I also kind of want to find a pumpkin to make all kinds of delicious pumpkin treats.
My museum class is going really well. Saturday morning I was super burnt out and didn't want to do my homework or go to class, but was glad I did because it was a really good day. My classes felt pertinent, and we had class at the Henry which had this totally amazing Stephen Shore exhibition going on. Highly recommended. I just wish the bookstore would have had exhibit postcards for me to buy. Instead, I stole a bunch of brochures so I could cut out the photos and paste them all over my apartment.
Stuff is going fast. I'm still very ambivalent about all that.