Wow...what a supremely shitty week...thank God it ended wonderfully. Now y'all get to wait while I vent.
I have now been turned down by my top three choices for post-graduation job. The last one to get me was the company that called me in for 4 different interview steps. Today, one of the interview thank-you letters was returned to my mailbox...no, I don't plan on remailing the damn thing.
I had a music listening journal due friday that I lost half of. The positive end to my week started with running across it by accident while I was at lunch with Brian. The notebook it was in had fallen out of my bass case the night before when I was at a gig...which brings me to the next point of suckhood...the gig itself. At least the crowd that was there for the other bands left BEFORE we started playing rather than waiting until we started and then deciding that we suck. We ended up playing to an audience which was made up of 1/3 band member's girlfriends, 1/3 people who were cleaning up after the event, and 1/3 other friends and random people. That puts at a whopping audience of somewhere between 9 and 12. Maybe that's underestimating a little, but not by much. My friends who said that they might try to make it out didn't.
I took off for Northern Virginia on Friday afternoon. I had cancelled an interview with a company up that way because I had absolutely no interest in working for a commission-only company doing something that I don't give a shit about. So I went up to visit Dana, who got the afternoon off of work, and went to dinner. Aside from my own cluelessness, the weekend was wonderful...okay, so I forgot that she couldn't eat meat on a Friday. I just wanted to eat at Bennigan's...I wasn't thinking. We went to Fuddruckers on Saturday and I hit Chili's on my way home Saturday night. I got to spend a relatively hassle free and fairly cheap weekend with Dana and didn't have to worry about interviews, due dates, or interpersonal conflicts that didn't involve me. Absolutely perfect.
Dave just showed me the coolest website. We've been renting mid '80s G.I. Joe Cartoons from the video place in town. Dave found a site with new merchandise info and scans of all of the old file cards. I flipped. My childhood was dominated by 2 things...toys that they didn't make but should have, and G.I. Joe. The era ended when I started mixing and matching parts to create my own (not an uncommon passtime among aging Joe fans).
This week is looking to be pretty relaxed. I just got my Delaware tax refund and deposited it along with my most recent paycheck from the school. With a little bit of luck, I might make it through the semester with my credit intact and some personal possessions which I still own.
I didn't get a chance to see Dave Holland at VCU, but I had lost interest when I found out that he would be performing with the VCU Jazz Ensemble rather than with his own current band. VCU's jazz band is great, I just wasn't interested enough to leave Northern Virginia any earlier.
Yo Joe,
Wild Bill
bxmar1@maila.wm.edu
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