More miscellany

LJ ATE MY POST!!! ARGHHHH!!!

My job interview is on Monday. Wish me luck!

My big!boss completely freaked me out yesterday by offering to let me sit in his office while he told me all the ways that I was wrong to think that the new job would be the job that I think it is. Now, the job description was drafted by me, and written for me. I have to interview for it and actually get it, and I do have competition, but I have a pretty good idea what the job entails, since I’ve been doing this part of it for, oh, years and years. I decided to take my lunch break then instead of taking him up on his kind offer. Later, I talked to perfect!boss to be sure, and we both agreed that he was just having a big!boss!tool moment. Thank dog. I’ll be freed from, hmm, bigboss babysitting aspects, and get to do more of what I like about my job, plus more pay and more responsibility. Good things. (Still, I have to get it first.)

I’ve become a decaf latte addict. Yum, they sure are tasty.

I stayed up way too late Wed. watching Firefly eps, towards my goal of having viewed favorite eps + unaired eps by this Sunday. Is it just me, or is the music for Firefly really, really grating? If I wasn’t committed to watching it, I would have taken the DVD out of the player and thrown it against the wall based on the annoying instrumental stuff that plays incessently while I'm figuring out the DVD remote.

Compare that to Rescue Me, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Veronica Mars, and okay, even Friends. I respond to the beginning music in those from liking it to being wildly enthusiastic. Rescue Me’s opening song (which I'd never heard before; ditto V.Mars') rarely fails to get me up and literally bouncing along to it.

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I feel all post-y and not terribly read-ish today, which is the reverse of my usual.

I finished The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime by Jaspar Fforde at lunch today. I really enjoyed it; it grew on me and I was engrossed by the last half. It's very clever and droll. As is often the case for me, it was a book on CD, and luckily, the reader was fabulous. A good reader makes SO much difference. I recommend it, and am looking forward to the next Nursery Crimes Division book due out later this year.

That was a my 4th book of the year, after a handful of the A/Y books I couldn't read by the end of 2005:

Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident Eoin Colfer
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Carolyn Mackler
Spellbound Janet McDonald

Wild Geese

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
Meanwhile, the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

- Mary Oliver