life in joe-ja...
has been alternately wonderful and shitty. the house rules. the cats seem stupid happy that they have a cool room to sleep in, and Gremlin gets to spend way more time harrassing the puppy. there's a massively cool little new age bookstore about ten minutes up the road that i've only been able to visit once, but i hope to get back to soon and often. i'm even considering going to church (gasp!) - no worries, it's Universalist Unitarian - last week's sermon was about a Native American vision quest - no danger of me thumping a bible.
on the down side, my transfer with Barnes & Noble didn't work out for shit - i got the job, mind you, i just ended up working for a complete jerk of a store manager. so i quit (after raising hell with Barnes and getting the guy investigated by his regional manager), and got a job at Books-A-Million. i had to take a pay and position cut, but it's better there. two days in and i'm already being talked about for a 'specialist' position. the part that really sucks is vaccuming a store at 11pm. really, that's the last thing i want to do - and something i haven't done in at least a decade, at work anyways. meh. at least no one has tried to kill me for not knowing how to make a triple decaf soy chocolate chunk berry twister frappucino, or any of those other god-awful starbucks products.
i'm still trying to get the new journal up and running. seems like the hardest part is going to be convincing people to do some writing. i'm not asking for the world, just a few paragraphs...but people in the spiritual/ecological community are, as a rule, a damn lazy bunch. lots of talking, next to no walking. oh well...i have a few ideas for columns that i can write myself - and a great author (Marie D. Jones) who's agreed to do an interview for my first issue - and at least i know i have some cool non-local people at http://www.realitysandwich.com who are going to help me promote the site/journal.
for anyone i haven't talked to recently, i apologize - moving and getting settled in a new house is exhausting. things seem to be getting sorted now, so if anyone would like to chat, i still have the same cell phone number, and can be emailed at somacub@yahoo.com. hope everyone is doing well...um...well, i hope everyone is alive...
on the down side, my transfer with Barnes & Noble didn't work out for shit - i got the job, mind you, i just ended up working for a complete jerk of a store manager. so i quit (after raising hell with Barnes and getting the guy investigated by his regional manager), and got a job at Books-A-Million. i had to take a pay and position cut, but it's better there. two days in and i'm already being talked about for a 'specialist' position. the part that really sucks is vaccuming a store at 11pm. really, that's the last thing i want to do - and something i haven't done in at least a decade, at work anyways. meh. at least no one has tried to kill me for not knowing how to make a triple decaf soy chocolate chunk berry twister frappucino, or any of those other god-awful starbucks products.
i'm still trying to get the new journal up and running. seems like the hardest part is going to be convincing people to do some writing. i'm not asking for the world, just a few paragraphs...but people in the spiritual/ecological community are, as a rule, a damn lazy bunch. lots of talking, next to no walking. oh well...i have a few ideas for columns that i can write myself - and a great author (Marie D. Jones) who's agreed to do an interview for my first issue - and at least i know i have some cool non-local people at http://www.realitysandwich.com who are going to help me promote the site/journal.
for anyone i haven't talked to recently, i apologize - moving and getting settled in a new house is exhausting. things seem to be getting sorted now, so if anyone would like to chat, i still have the same cell phone number, and can be emailed at somacub@yahoo.com. hope everyone is doing well...um...well, i hope everyone is alive...