there are many ways to get that beer green

Happy green beer day!!!! This was a fairly uneventful day. I went to work at noon as a server and then went into the phone booth and put on my supervisor shirt for the rest of the night because my boss needed to go “steal” her car back from her ex-girlfriend while the ex was getting served with court papers, by a proper court official. This is just another step in the long and exhausting process of the end of their relationship. Sadness. Knock on wood that the endings of my relationships do not ever require court intervention. I hope that if they must end, that they end with me only requiring time and a cathartic poem or two to get over it (see previous entry from 03/16/04) and not the court appointed muscle that my boss needed.

Monday I was outside in a tank top in 56 degree weather cleaning my car. Two days later there is snow, snow and more snow. It is surreal.

I am looking forward to finishing Postcards by Annie Proulx which I had started about a year and a half ago, if the early onset Alzheimer’s isn’t playing tricks on me, but never really got into it. The beginning is a bit laborious as the characters and style are established. The pace was slow and I could only get through the first chapter before I had had enough. But I picked it up again last night and couldn’t put it down and did so only with a deep regret and a stern self-lecture that I’m a semi-grown up now and can’t stay up all night reading and expect to function properly at work the next day. And then 4 a.m. came and went. But yes I did go to sleep around 4:30. I did say “semi-grown up”.

I have this kid working for me at the restaurant that has taken it upon himself to be my champion to his brother. His brother works for an environmental consulting company and about 3 weeks ago this kid asked me if I wanted him to pass my resume on to his brother. Sure! Help comes in unexpected places. So I give him the resume fully prepared to not hear a) anything at all or b) anything for a couple of months. But apparently he’s been badgering his brother every time he sees him because the kid comes up to me tonight and says, “Listen my brother said to be patient and to stop asking because it might take a month at least before anything happens. He just got the resume a few weeks ago.” He means well and that counts for a lot.

But yes, the summer and my prospects loom large before me now that I have found out that the EPA budget has been cut to the extent that they are not hiring regular employees much less interns. Darn, I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to worry about where I was interning this summer but that’s just the lazy in me.