good-ish news

So as many of you know I'm currently surviving on babysitting jobs. I have sat for five different families to date, three of them on a regular basis. The last two weekends has been for the first family I interviewed with here (who waited a month to call me back, btw) and I just found out today that they're in the process of adopting a second child, and when they do they might hire me full time. Considering the length of the adoption process (and I have no idea where in that process they are), this could mean either a full time job fairly soon or waaaay down the line. 

By the way, every job I've worked for this family, the parents have stuck around in the apartment. They don't actually need a babysitter, as far as I can tell, they just don't want to deal with their daughter all day (she is a bit of a brat, but she's from a rich nyc family, they're ALL like that). It's really uncomfortable for me, but they haven't commented on it, so I guess it's normal for them. 

I also had an interview with a temp agency that went pretty well, but I'm not holding my breath as it's a huge agency with lots of applicants with way more office experience than me. But apparently not many people are good with Powerpoint nowadays, and I'm pretty comfortable there, so that was a plus for me. See mom and dad, I have one whole marketable skill! yay!

Oh, and Sam and I went and saw Avenue Q for a big discount, and literally every single person sitting by us, all 360 degrees, had run the new york marathon the day before. It was really creepy... I felt like an unfit island in a sea of muscles. But the show was fun, and none of them had seen it or knew anything about it, so it was even more fun re-discovering the show through their eyes. 

ok, time to crash and fight the cold I feel coming. Love to all! 

ACK!

I'm the worst blogger ever! If I hadn't received multiple messages about it this week, who knows how long I would have gone before updating?! 

Ok, I'm actually about to go have an adventure of some kind (that's what we tend to do, just decide to have an adventure and ride the subway until we find one) so here's a list of completely unorganized thought to quench your collective thirst:

- We may go see Avenue Q tonight, if it's at the half-price tickets booth

- Both small child and I have discovered that Sports Night (an excellent pre- West Wing,  Aaron Sorkin show) being on youtube is a dangerous, dangerous time-sucker. You are warned!

- I MET MANDY PATINKIN! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAL!!!

- The afore-mentioned legend was starring in the excellent production of the Tempest we saw for Sam's birthday. I miss doing theatre. A lot. Gotta fix that...

- I am currently subsisting on babysitting gigs, and furiously applying  for ANY OTHER JOB IN THE UNIVERSE

- I have a library card now, and I really really enjoy riding the subway with a good novel. It's the best commute ever. 

- Speaking of subways, the other day the driver of the subway I was riding treated us to a 3-stop monologue about the glories of the Metro Transit Authority and how "it's gonna change your life from the ground up! Watch the rainbows!" and everyone on the train gave him a huge round of applause when he finished. love it. 

- I had the incredibly surreal experience of walking through an incredibly impoverished ghetto in Brooklyn, where I was looking for a cheap bowling alley with my friend matt, and seeing gangs of people blocking the street up ahead. It was 11 at night, I'm thinking I'm about to get mugged. We get close, and we see that it is a ghetto... a ghetto of Orthodox Jews. There was loud music coming from the houses, and for three blocks the streets were full of Orthodox Jews just wandering about. It was magical. And really, really weird. 

- I miss Whitman. Not all of it, but college life is pretty sweet.

- Our freezer is completely broken, and our fridge is slowly following the path of demise. Our super, Zef, who was so great when we were moving in, has apparently forgotten how to answer the telephone. This is worrisome. 

- As it gets colder, we're discovering that the main way our apartment is heated is through a single pipe located in our bathroom, which has some kind of steam pressure valve thing that loudly hisses out what we're assuming is heated air of some kind every now and then. It smells like a yeasty, honey bread dough, and really creeps me out.

- I think we have all the furniture we're going to buy! Now all we need are some plants and a few decorations for the wall, and it'll really feel like home. Pictures soon. 

Ok, that's all the thoughts I can muster right now, hopefully I'll never let the updating slip this long again. If I do, however, just badger me! It's the best way to get things done.

Love to all!