Dear Reader,

Nothing exciting has happened today in my life, I woke up had an onion and mushroom omelette for breakfast with some Darjeeling tea. After that I browsed job search engines online, and applied to everything I found that I was qualified for in the area... again... Is it ever going to end? Am I ever going to be able to find a job or am I going to be the first one in line to get slaughtered by this whole economic crisis? I am certain out there somewhere is a job with my name written all over it, but will I be able to find that job before I end up on the street clinging to a backpack of belongings and in desperate need to shave my legs? Griping done.

At lunchtime I watched some old episodes of The Tick and ate some popcorn. I've been having a lot of popcorn cravings lately. Do I have a lack of partially hydrogenated soybean oil my body is trying to make up for? I doubt it, but who knows where cravings come from. Odd popcorn eating habit: I eat the un-popped kernels. I don't know why, perhaps it's the "waste nothing" ideal my parents drilled into me as a child or maybe I just like something to crunch when the movie isn't over. Don't worry I probably won't be cracking any teeth so all you dentists rest easy: I suck on the hard kernels until they are soft enough to grind.

After that I ran some errands then did some chores, mostly clean the cat box which I have to do daily or Bayou gets a little snooty and poops on the laundry room floor, I also took out the trash as trash day is Thursday. I talked with the girl I met on the phone for a bit, it was good to talk to her though I can't help but feel that it is much better to talk to her in person than on the phone.

I've been thinking about a friend of mine all day today, she went through something terribly traumatic on Tuesday; something of a personal and invasive matter than will remain discreet. She is handling it quite well, and though I know the torrent of tears will come soon enough I am impressed and how she is able to take it all in stride where-as if this were to happen to me I would be an hysterical mess. She is living in another town and I wish I could be more than a voice on the phone in her time of need.

It is cold in this house, when they renovated it they left out this little thing called insulation, and well you get the idea, right? For those of you who don't know what that is, insulation is this magical stuff that mysteriously keeps the heat inside and the cold outside in the winter, and in the summer it keeps the cold inside and the heat outside. Amazing! Isn't it? Well this house has no insulation and though the central heating and air system is in perfect working condition now my electric bill is ridiculously high and the warmth goes right outside leaving my toes more like ice cubes than little piggies.

Dinner was a granola bar, which I stopped into a convenience store to pick up tonight while I was out aimlessly driving around getting warm in my car preparing myself for the cold house and a long winter's nap. A nap that I will take just as soon as I finish this chamomile tea

Currently listening to: Everything is Illuminated soundtrack.

Currently Reading: P.S. Elsner's "A Heart Remembers"

"Women who are taller than me are Lesbians"
- Maddie



P.s. if you've seen Everything is Illuminated then you'll get the sign-off.