Breaking Even
Posted by erin at November 24, 2003 04:10 PMMany things have happened of late.
On Thursday, N. did very well at Dork Trivia night at sci-fi club. There were some questions I knew, but other people were much faster to raise their hands.
On Friday I got a temp job that was even worse than the last one. Last time, I was stuffing envelopes for some kind of photography agency. This time, I showed up at the site and they led me to a room full of straw and asked that I spin it all into gold by 5pm.
That's not exactly true. What happened was it turned out I was to work at this store selling men's dress shirts in the back room flipping shirts around so they faced every other direction - head to toe. But the room had those slidey-library-type shelves, so every time a salesman needed a shirt I'd have to get out of the way or the walls would slide together and crush me. And so I passed the day, flipping shirts and avoiding being crushed.
On Friday night there was a really great new episode of Kids Next Door on the air - it featured cheese ninjas and a cheese shogun. I highly recommend it.
On Saturday I went to Kari's party, despite there being no L train all weekend. We had to take the M and a shuttle bus. N. and his roommate insisted that there was no such thing as the M train, but I'd taken it before to get to a film shoot.
Kari's party was really great. There was a ton of food! We had cheese and wine and yakisoba and fried rice, and these little fishcake things that are hard to describe, and also lasagna. Plus, we drank lots of sake and eggnog and other drinks made in very classy containers.
This meant that N. and I missed our roommates’ party, where cheese and wine was also being served. We arrived home to find one guest still present. I mentioned how the party we went to instead had featured cute, single Asian girls, and Johan was promptly beat about the head by his guest.
On Sunday N. and I went to Jeremiah's Thanksgiving party, where we dined on all the really traditional foods like turkey and three kinds of stuffing, cranberry sauce (both fresh and canned), mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and creamed corn.
His pies were really something - phenomenal pumpkin, chocolate pudding pie, and apple pie. We also sipped some kind of rum & cider drink the whole time. It was great!
In other news…
The New York Times did this article about animation over the summer - it's quite good, and still somehow a free article.
The Anime Network is coming to RCN on December 1st. God help us all.
Also on Friday a weird thing happened. I walked ten blocks to get to an ATM that belonged to my bank to take out a $20 bill, as I was completely out of cash at the time. Then I walked back to the café near where I was working. Upon ordering my food, I realized the $20 must’ve flown out of my pocket. It was totally gone.
I was pretty upset about that, but not too upset, because I had found a $20 bill on the subway platform two weeks ago. I found twenty, I lost a twenty - I was breaking even with the universe.
But then, when I went back to the stock room of doom to flip some more shirts, the $20 bill reappeared inexplicably and landed at my feet. It must have been stuck to me somehow and finally dropped off just then. I was happy to have found it, but also somewhat worried… maybe I still owe the universe twenty bucks.
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November 25, 2003 12:12 AM, Halifax said:
You also still owe the universe for that two-headed gopher you found back in '89.
November 25, 2003 09:39 AM, ali said:
CURSE YOU TIME WARNER. CURSE YOU TO HECK.
November 25, 2003 02:15 PM, Whir said:
Hey, that was my $20.
November 29, 2003 12:04 AM, thecomicman said:
doesn't the universe owe you a job? maybe it's trying to make it up to you by dropping twenties. this is but the first Jackson to have followed you home.
November 30, 2003 01:57 PM, Erin said:
Actually its the second... one time I wasted $20 on a crappy event (its a long story) and later the same evening as I was walking around I stepped on a $20.
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