Since I know you were just dying for an update, I'll mention that I'm still working my temporary data verification job, and I went to a job pool on Thursday. This is something New York does with city jobs, where they get several eligible candidates together and interview them one at a time. Sometimes they'll hire somebody, and sometimes not. From ( Read more... )

Last night, after eating at one of the few diners in the area that's always open, we walked around a nearby golf course and park. At one point, we heard what I thought was a bird, but Beth thought was a cat. It turned out she was right, or at least one-quarter right, because there were four little kittens. Three of them came right up to us, while ( Read more... )

We actually had something to do on both Saturday and Sunday, which is kind of unusual. On Saturday, I had to go to Flushing Meadows to take a civil service test for Paralegal Aide positions. I'm not sure how well I did, as it seemed a little more difficult than most such tests. Afterwards, I met up with Beth to visit the Queens Botanical Garden, ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor (but not to the mountains) on the Friday before last because they wouldn't let me get a refill on my medicine otherwise, even though this doctor didn't prescribe it for me in the first place. Then, due to some kind of mix-up, I wasn't able to get the prescription until Tuesday anyway. It's very frustrating that the doctor, ( Read more... )

bethje and I were supposed to go to the doctor and get our IDs and voter registration switched over to New York, but I got a call a few hours ago saying that the doctor wasn't going to be in today. Since the doctor's office is near the motor vehicle department, we're just going to do them both on Wednesday. It's kind of a shame, as I'd wanted to get ( Read more... )

I'm constantly having dreams about going back to college, and they never make even the slightest bit of sense. There's often a feeling of frustration and isolation to them. I'm usually back at my undergraduate dorm at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, but either none of the same people are there, or they're there but won't talk to me. Usually ( Read more... )

I had a dream two nights ago about a video game with really good character graphics. There were life-like humans, dogs, cats, and even an iguana. You cycled through the looks like in the original Sims. As it was a dream, even though this was supposed to be a game, a lot of it just took place right in front of me. It's like my subconscious doesn ( Read more... )

I'm constantly having dreams where I have two cars in the same place, and I'm trying to figure out how to get them both home. How I got them both there in the first place is apparently not something my dream-self considers. Last night, I was trying to drive across a bridge, and I had to leave one car at the end while I drove the other one. ( Read more... )

Last night, bethje and I walked the entire length of the boardwalk in Coney Island. That was pretty exhausting, and we still had to take the subway and bus back home. I'm still tired out from doing that. Honestly, my feet started hurting pretty soon into the walk. I'm totally out of shape ( Read more... )

Hello, everyone out in LiveJournal Land! There aren't too many of you left, are there? Oh, well. Saturday was the twenty-second Monster-Mania Convention, and bethje and I have attended most of those. It's really more her thing than mine, but I enjoy them. Saturday's panels included some people who really had nothing to do with horror movies, like ( Read more... )