Friday afternoon
Man, how boring are my posts going to get?!
I had my interview last night with the Chamber. I was laid back because I have nothing to lose, and the interview was pretty fun. The salary being bandied about was $15,000. That, added to the just-over-$12,000 from tourism, adds up to a pathetic $27,000 for a VERY full-time job. They asked, "Is that (the salary) a killer?" I said, "It might be."
My house is a pig-sty of a chicken coop. Once that's cleaned, it will be time to pack and head to New York again. But I'm totally ready this time.
Gotta go home and unload the groceries. Woo! I bet you young/childless/unmarried peeps are wishin' you were me right now! Let me tell ya. Did I mention that I was out of shape and deeply in debt? Oh YEAH! Par-tay.
By the way, I had cable at the hotel and watched just a few minutes of MTV's Spring Break. Is it my imagination, or do those kids get more stupid, more grotesquely hideous, every year? The broadcast certainly does. I just don't get it. I really, really don't. I can't think about it anymore.
Oh, and I read a great book the other day! It was Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" in graphic novel. I got it because I was demo-ing the graphic novel and I thought it was a great example of how graphic novels are really exploding. And what a read--two hundred odd years of atrocities committed in the name of the American flag. Over and over and over and over and over and over. What a bunch of assholes we've been. I mean, I knew that already, but this one shook my patriotism to the bones. Any wavering I've ever entertained in my otherwise strict anti-war policy, such as when I think about madmen like Adolf and what it took to stop him, well, it's all over now. Can I say I'm a strident pacifist? It's looking that way. I'm not actively anti-war, so I can't fully commit. I'm getting there. I am ashamed that I don't go around with peace symbol t-shirts and bumper stickers on my car, with a big "END THE WAR NOW!" placard about my neck. Is there any good excuse for that? Not really. No.
Anyway, it's a good book. Check it out!
And I watched a biopic of William Wilberforce the other night called "Amazing Grace". He's the British MP who fought to abolish the British slave trade, and "Amazing Grace", the song, was written by another British MP who was captain of a slave ship (lost, blind) until he finally came to his moral senses (can see, found). Not the best movie by any stretch, but a good example of what you can accomplish when you have the guts to put it all out there, damn the consequences.
I'm going now. See ya, readah!
I had my interview last night with the Chamber. I was laid back because I have nothing to lose, and the interview was pretty fun. The salary being bandied about was $15,000. That, added to the just-over-$12,000 from tourism, adds up to a pathetic $27,000 for a VERY full-time job. They asked, "Is that (the salary) a killer?" I said, "It might be."
My house is a pig-sty of a chicken coop. Once that's cleaned, it will be time to pack and head to New York again. But I'm totally ready this time.
Gotta go home and unload the groceries. Woo! I bet you young/childless/unmarried peeps are wishin' you were me right now! Let me tell ya. Did I mention that I was out of shape and deeply in debt? Oh YEAH! Par-tay.
By the way, I had cable at the hotel and watched just a few minutes of MTV's Spring Break. Is it my imagination, or do those kids get more stupid, more grotesquely hideous, every year? The broadcast certainly does. I just don't get it. I really, really don't. I can't think about it anymore.
Oh, and I read a great book the other day! It was Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" in graphic novel. I got it because I was demo-ing the graphic novel and I thought it was a great example of how graphic novels are really exploding. And what a read--two hundred odd years of atrocities committed in the name of the American flag. Over and over and over and over and over and over. What a bunch of assholes we've been. I mean, I knew that already, but this one shook my patriotism to the bones. Any wavering I've ever entertained in my otherwise strict anti-war policy, such as when I think about madmen like Adolf and what it took to stop him, well, it's all over now. Can I say I'm a strident pacifist? It's looking that way. I'm not actively anti-war, so I can't fully commit. I'm getting there. I am ashamed that I don't go around with peace symbol t-shirts and bumper stickers on my car, with a big "END THE WAR NOW!" placard about my neck. Is there any good excuse for that? Not really. No.
Anyway, it's a good book. Check it out!
And I watched a biopic of William Wilberforce the other night called "Amazing Grace". He's the British MP who fought to abolish the British slave trade, and "Amazing Grace", the song, was written by another British MP who was captain of a slave ship (lost, blind) until he finally came to his moral senses (can see, found). Not the best movie by any stretch, but a good example of what you can accomplish when you have the guts to put it all out there, damn the consequences.
I'm going now. See ya, readah!
posted by lulu | 2:15 PM
1 Comments:
I am absolutely on the edge of my expensive Herman Miller designer office seat! If the movie is anything like the trailer, I'm there!! "Interview with the Chamber" is sure to be boffo box office. Then the sequel: "Secrets of the Chamber" followed by "Mystery of the Chamber, part III" and, of course, the soundtrack (you guessed it) "Chamber Music."
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