What One Girl Knows

Got the font color back, luckily. Thanksgiving away from home. Jason, Jee Leong and I are in Dunkirk, resting from a festive dinner at Jason's uncle's house. It was a nice dinner -- Kelsey and Abby, Aiesha's little girls were especially hyper-cute, but I miss home. :( I am a homey-type girl.

Will skip early morning black Friday rituals. It's not fun without my Mom, anyway. Instead, we might grocery shop for Jasey's mom, and then spend a few hours with Jason's father. Then back to Pittsburgh, hopefully in time to show Jee Leong the glory of the Duquesne Incline.

Just returned from my interview at the library. I want this job! The hours are good, even though it's only 20 a week, and there are BOOKS lining the walls! Books!!!!!!! I want to work somewhere filled with books. And the higher-uppers seemed nice, too. And did I mention the books?

Another interview tomorrow morning with a temp service. Blah. I want to work in the library.

Jason tried to read our gas gauge thingy (to the house), and the customer service rep at Dominion Peoples told him that if the reading is accurate, our next bill will be $1,000!!!! I went outside and noticed a suspicious green tape around the pipe, which had been broken off. Is there a gas leak? Someone's coming to check it out on Saturday, between 7 and 4 PM.

Why is Dominion Peoples not Dominion People? That bothers me to no end.

Oh-- Jee Leong is coming to Pittsburgh/Dunkirk for Thanksgiving! Yay -- we miss that Taskmaster.

Dinner at the Indian restaurant was a fiasco, though the food was very good as well as reasonably priced.

The first part of today was very productive -- knit like mad, gave Piper a much needed bath, read, wrote more of the story I'm working on, and watched The Apartment with Jack Lemmon. Which I liked very much -- I just found it puzzling that the blurb on the DVD case called it a "frolicking comedy" (or something to that nature). It wasn't very funny to me. Anyway, Jason came home early from work today, with the news that they only have enough "stuff" for him to do on Wednesday, that's it for the week. I have the interview on Thursday, but even if I get the job, it'll only be part-time. So right now I'm thinking about applying to other part-timeish type jobs, or finally, finally contacting Kelly Services and becoming a temp again.

Vegetarian Indian restaurant tonight with Ben, Nina, and Nina's new boyfriend. Hope it's a good time. Back at Squirrel Hill, just to find out that Bathtub Gin isn't taking poetry submissions until June of next year! Which annoys me, because I wrote a really weird poem last night ("Nursery Rhymes in the Long Green," inspired by Frances Farmers' autobiography) that went well with the packet I wanted to send them. Also, Glimmertrain and One Story are still "in process" of reviewing "Bouquet." And -- I'm impatient.

At home we've been having a Tennessee Williams festival. A few weeks ago we watched Night of the Blue Iguana. Yesterday -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And we borrowed Rose Tattoo from the library. I've learned bits and pieces about Williams' lives from the biographies I've been reading lately -- Carson McCullers and Truman Capote were both friends of his. Soon it might be time to actually read a biography about him.

The spinach rolls from the Turkish deli were good, but a tad dry. And for $1.25, I thought it might have a little more feta cheese.

Back in Pittsburgh. Jason and I are running errands in town. Right now we're in the Squirrel Hill library (derth of books, but free internet and lots of computer terminals). Afterwards, to Target for more printer ink -- we're going through a cartridge every three weeks, due to the amount of work we've been printing out and submitting. There are also yummy spinach rolls in the car just waiting to be devoured!

Jason's mom has been out of work for a month now, waiting for her vascular doctor to set up a surgery date -- she needs stints put in her leg. He can't give her an actual date (sometime after Thanksgiving??) or even bother to fax back her disability papers. Grrr. Her birthday's on Tuesday, and if neither of us are working, we plan on driving up there for a day trip.

I just started looking for work again, and have an interview for a part-time library position on Thursday. Hopefully it's very low key, data entry and filing, that sort of thing. I like the idea of working in a library very much. Also, it'll give me a much better idea of whether I should invest my money and time into a MLS degree.

This morning Ella rode on Piper's back like a rodeo! For almost thirty seconds. Very exciting, daredevil stuff. She's also still tightrope walking across the back of the kitchen chairs, and attempting chin-ups by hanging onto the kitchen cabinets and pulling herself up by her paws.