Labeling Fail

I'm easily amused.

Job Hunt part 2

Brookline Liquor (across the street) smells wonderfully like a winery and has excellent air conditioning... but is on a hiring freeze for the summer. Payless seems to be closed. The pet store is not hiring. Although Sammy is a very friendly dog.

This afternoon I need to ask at Staples if I should apply for other jobs, call CVS (or maybe wait until tomorrow on that one; now that I think about it they may have said Wednesday...), check Symposium Books and the Emerson Barnes & Noble, and somewhere in all that buy bread, because I'm out. I'd really like to get more since it's still too hot for much besides sandwiches, even though the air is finally thin enough to breathe again.

Also on the subject of jobs, I got my notice of termination from the census, along with the paperwork for applying for unemployment, though I don't know if I'm actually eligible. And I called the jurors' office, and apparently they don't care if I just hold on to the paperwork and wait until September to send proof of residence. So... cool... I guess.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. ~ igoogle's Einstein quote of the day

Hibernating

I woke up to this message from Weatherbug:

"A Heat Advisory Remains In Effect For The Greater Boston
Area...Where The Combination Of Hot Temperatures And High Humidity
Will Bring Heat Indices To Between 100 And 104 Degrees This Afternoon.
The Heat Advisory Is In Effect Until 6 PM.

Precautionary/Preparedness Actions...

A Heat Advisory Is Issued When High Humidities Are Expected To
Combine With Hot Temperatures Resulting In Heat Indices Of
100 Degrees Or Greater. Avoid Prolonged Work In The Sun Or In
Poorly Ventilated Areas. Also...Drink Plenty Of Water And Try To
Stay In An Air Conditioned Environment."

Well, no kidding. The air's so thick it's like trying to breathe in a sauna.

Due to extreme sloth induced by said air, I am NOT going outside today. Not even to ride the air-conditioned subway cars back & forth, though I was considering it. However, I did go online and came up with a number of places to apply to, tomorrow.

Thunderstorm now? Please?

Learning the Neighborhood

So yesterday afternoon was one can't-get-there-from-here after another. The end result, however, is that I now know how and where I can buy T passes and groceries. Even if the subway did make me wait in the hot sun with my milk... trust that to be the longest wait yet for a train to come.

Today, I went to the museum. It was a bit of a walk, but not nearly as bad as it could have been because I took the T two stops down (saving myself a few blocks) on the way there, and was offered a ride back by one of the women giving the tour. The whole thing was a lot of fun, and I now know a lot more about Brighton's history. I also saw a couple pictures of Commonwealth - at least one of which was taken right about where my apartment is now - from a long time ago. In the first picture, it's just a dirt road! But it's in the process of being expanded... and presumably paved.

Another woman who volunteers there works for the T, and she's going to send me bus maps & schedules. I need all the help I can get with those - the subway's so much easier to understand.

Custom Library Cards

So apparently my window shades are white, not off-white. I'm very glad I decided to clean them and will be putting more time into that sometime soon.

This morning, I found the train station and the outbound Copley T stop - both of which I'll need to know for the trip to/from the farm. Then I went to the library, and I now not only have a card, I have a blue library card - you could actually pick what color you wanted!

Plans for this afternoon - buy another T pass, check out the grocery store, and figure out how to get to the museum tomorrow

Car Alarms Should Die

So where's all these thunderstorms everyone's been predicting? It's too hot to really go out much, but it looks sunny.

I slept in this morning, mainly because somebody's car alarm was going off in the distance from about midnight to...let's see... 3am or so? It kept echoing in my skull even after it finally turned off. I suppose they make them that obnoxious so that potential car thieves will think "forget this, I'd rather go steal ear plugs."

So basically, plans for today are various emails, cleaning up my itunes, and possibly washing the window shades. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit cooler.

Job Hunt part 1

I have now applied to both Staples and CVS, found a Borders I want to apply to and a mall I don't (though I can't wait to show Steph), and stopped by Trident Booksellers & Cafe which I definitely plan to apply to.

I will not be applying to the library until such time as I can find my way from the kid's books to the nonfiction without getting lost. This may require several month's time, along with the use of a map and a compass. Beautiful place to explore, though.