Snaps to the wonderful customer service rep from Verizon who just helped me! I didn't get her name, but she was lovely. It took... maybe an hour, but I'm always patient, and now I can get online again!
Friday Five: Childhood Revisited
1. What things did you enjoy as a child that you no longer do? I used to play outside a lot. I was actually happy out there. Now I am way more comfortable indoors than out.
2. What things did you enjoy as a child that you still do today? I have always loved to read. Always always.
3. What things do you do now, that the child you were never thought you'd like? I drink water. I loathed water when I was little. Drinking water was the punishment I got for asking for Kool-Aid too often. Now, I like water a lot.
4. If you could go back to one age and stay there for a while, what would it be? My life hasn't so much defined by ages as phases. There's pre-school, school, Japan, Germany, Flowers, high school, and now I'm College Lindsay. I wouldn't mind being Germany Lindsay again for a while. It was awesome there.
5. If you could fast forward to an age (you do get to come back!) for a while, what would it be? I don't know. Maybe Recently Retired Lindsay. Or New Mom Lindsay. She might be cool (if she even exists!)
Mom and Ryan went to church with me on Sunday. Apparently, my dad's new work schedule has him at National every Sunday morning at the crack of dawn (seriously, he gets up at 3:30am -- inconceivable for someone like me who occasionally gets to bed at 2). He only just joined the Church, and now he can't go to mass at our church on Sundays. He should go, though. I stopped going to mass shortly after confirmation (when we moved), but I wish I'd stayed. I want him to stay.
I didn't do much this week, either. Still jobless. I applied with a tutoring center, but I've called twice so far and no one has called me about my application. I'll try once more on Monday, but if no one gives me a straight answer, I'm looking elsewhere. Maura is working with a temp agency. She posted the info on her LJ; I may just go do that. There might be some hang-ups in my getting to various jobs, but I have my car, and I could probably get to the Metro station if necessary. There are
exactly twelve weeks twelve weeks and two days before school starts again (on Wednesday?), and I can't afford to just sit around through all of them.
I woke up way late on Tuesday. Summer-late for me is after 10:30am; I woke up around 11:20. I grumbled at my dad because my whole schedule was thrown off. I have it set up just right so that I can be dressed by a reasonable time, but still manage to watch as many reruns as possible.
Wednesday was effectively J-Day, for
Joan of Arcadia. I wasn't a huge fan for very long, only for the last four or five episodes. I completely ignored most of its run. But I was angry when it was canceled. Is closure too much to ask for? I know Amber's moving on. I doubt CBS will pick it up again, even midseason, and I don't know if I'd watch if they did. The guy in charge of programming said, and this is an official quote, "I think talking to ghosts [as in Jennifer Love Hewitt's JOA replacement,
Ghost Whisperer] may skew younger than talking to God." Does he think young people are that superficial?
So, long ramble aside, I did some mailing on Wednesday. I printed and sent letters to Sony (the production company), the WB, FOX, NBC, and ABC asking them to pick up
Joan (or in Sony's case, keep trying to sell it). To be gimmicky, I also put in copies of a poem on bright-colored paper, from the first season of the show.
Our efforts may not work, but at least we tried. I tried to get my computer to print out a "postcard from God," with the Goth God avatar on it, but it didn't work. I've watched two reruns so far. I miss it. It was a lovely show. (Side note: Someone posted that it's kind of ironic that the two reruns CBS chose so far were "No Future" and "The Rise and Fall of Joan Girardi.")
Yesterday, I mailed an envelope to my workshop TA. She said she'd sent us our final portfolios if we sent her SASEs, so I took her up on the offer. I'm determined to actually work on my writing this summer. I've started another of my writing books, but I don't think it's going to be very helpful. I guess I kind of just have to do it. See what happens. Maybe revise "Image" again.
Today was also lots of nothing. I went to Courtney's NJHS induction. They ran very late, but my patience helped. I went through my small yet substantial shoe "collection," handing some down to Courtney. I read, I watched tv, I "made" leftovers. Then I spent some time with Lovely Customer Service Rep. I hope lovely things happen to her; she totally has good karma after helping me for such a long time.
