what a day i've had, frederick, unending drama
What a terribly long day it's been.
After much *DRAMAZ*~ last night that I won't go into because it's all ABSURD and over-dependent on a non-sonic screwdriver, I had to come in early this morning to school to take down my Gilgamesh lobby display. The dismantling took about ten minutes, but the trip itself cost me over an hour. I headed straight to the car shop to drop of my dear Steve for some quick fixes (all accomplished!) and his lamentably broken air conditioning system, which is still unresolved. I dropped him off in the morning (the original plan was 8AM, but with the trip to campus, I didn't arrive until 10:30AM) and hitched a ride with Jason to the metro. I toodled down into DC and spent the ENTIRE DAY with Sister and Frank. In a fit of bureaucratic nonsense, S has to undergo her oral exams tomorrow morning, while her husband waits outside with their newborn. My job today was first to babysit while S studied proofs and logic and the being of being and other such strange branches of philosophy. Frank managed to gorge himself well enough at an afternoon feeding that I ended up quizzing S while he ate and then slept. We dined at Souk (a delicious Moroccan tapas restaurant) and then studied some more. I say studied- S talked through her list of prepared questions, which entail 4 questions each on 8 branches of philosophy while I held her notes and tried to make sure she covered everything she'd wanted. I spent nine hours there today, which seems staggering, but with her husband working late tonight and the exam looming (and with Steve still stuck in the shop), it was needed.
So many important things were accomplished today, but none of the things I'm growing increasingly worried about in my own life have improved. I found a job listing for a position at the Kennedy Center that would be a dream this evening, and while of course I'll apply, it only seems like the next in a long line of positions I'll never get. Unemployment LOOMS- in just a few weeks, I finish my degree and my paychecks stop coming from the university. I'll be without a job and without health insurance and with loans coming due AND GOD I AM DEPRESSING MYSELF AGAIN, as well as all you good people.
Anyway.
It's been a long day and tomorrow will be another. I'd hoped that the AC in my car would be a quick fix, but I'm worried that it's going to turn out to be one of those massively complicated, expensive matters now. There's nothing I can do but wait until the figure it out, though. It sucks in the sense of all the money I'll owe, it sucks in the sense of having to keep depending on my friends to get me to and from the shop, and it sucks because I have THEATRE TICKETS tomorrow, dammit, and I need my car to get to the theatre in Olney!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh.
At least my nephew continues to be cute, even if he did pull the masculine trick of PEEING ALL OVER ME AND THEN MY SISTER as we changed his diaper this afternoon. That little bugger pulled that TWICE today. HARUMPH.
After much *DRAMAZ*~ last night that I won't go into because it's all ABSURD and over-dependent on a non-sonic screwdriver, I had to come in early this morning to school to take down my Gilgamesh lobby display. The dismantling took about ten minutes, but the trip itself cost me over an hour. I headed straight to the car shop to drop of my dear Steve for some quick fixes (all accomplished!) and his lamentably broken air conditioning system, which is still unresolved. I dropped him off in the morning (the original plan was 8AM, but with the trip to campus, I didn't arrive until 10:30AM) and hitched a ride with Jason to the metro. I toodled down into DC and spent the ENTIRE DAY with Sister and Frank. In a fit of bureaucratic nonsense, S has to undergo her oral exams tomorrow morning, while her husband waits outside with their newborn. My job today was first to babysit while S studied proofs and logic and the being of being and other such strange branches of philosophy. Frank managed to gorge himself well enough at an afternoon feeding that I ended up quizzing S while he ate and then slept. We dined at Souk (a delicious Moroccan tapas restaurant) and then studied some more. I say studied- S talked through her list of prepared questions, which entail 4 questions each on 8 branches of philosophy while I held her notes and tried to make sure she covered everything she'd wanted. I spent nine hours there today, which seems staggering, but with her husband working late tonight and the exam looming (and with Steve still stuck in the shop), it was needed.
So many important things were accomplished today, but none of the things I'm growing increasingly worried about in my own life have improved. I found a job listing for a position at the Kennedy Center that would be a dream this evening, and while of course I'll apply, it only seems like the next in a long line of positions I'll never get. Unemployment LOOMS- in just a few weeks, I finish my degree and my paychecks stop coming from the university. I'll be without a job and without health insurance and with loans coming due AND GOD I AM DEPRESSING MYSELF AGAIN, as well as all you good people.
Anyway.
It's been a long day and tomorrow will be another. I'd hoped that the AC in my car would be a quick fix, but I'm worried that it's going to turn out to be one of those massively complicated, expensive matters now. There's nothing I can do but wait until the figure it out, though. It sucks in the sense of all the money I'll owe, it sucks in the sense of having to keep depending on my friends to get me to and from the shop, and it sucks because I have THEATRE TICKETS tomorrow, dammit, and I need my car to get to the theatre in Olney!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh.
At least my nephew continues to be cute, even if he did pull the masculine trick of PEEING ALL OVER ME AND THEN MY SISTER as we changed his diaper this afternoon. That little bugger pulled that TWICE today. HARUMPH.