The state Jobs office turned out not to be humiliating, just depressing. And I had
to register and enter past job history on a horrible DOS application. Maybe they
should put a few of their more technical jobseekers to work on making that
application less miserable. Nah....too sensible.
Today was the first
time since the layoff I've spent much money, but it was all on groceries, so it
doesn't count. Of course, I could have minimized it a little bit, including not
buying the escarole lettuce. No one starves when deprived of escarole. Actually, I
bought it by mistake, because they had the endive and escarole labels, and I have
a few recipes that call for endive. I thoughtescarole was the frillier one,
but they had everything else labeled right, so I decided to trust my supermarket-
produce-labeler. Wrong move. After all, if he was smart, he'd be out of a higher-
paying job, like me. Oops, maybe that's not a good line of
reasoning.
Anyway, I imagine whatever salad I end up making will be
just fine with escarole. (Note, later: it was)
Picked up a very old
half-finished embroidery project -- it's a wedding thing, so maybe I'll leave the
names until last, in hopes someone will get married and I can give it away. I was
originally going to embroider in our names and wedding date, but I've decided the
dusty-pink heart theme exceeds my abnormally low preciousness tolerance.
It's not really that bad -- no cutesy sayings, no quotations from
Corinthians, I'd probably hang it on the wall if someone else gave it to me -- so
I can give it away with a clear conscience.
I may drop by the craft
store one day, though, for a more congenial project. I've decided the major
problem with cross-stitch is that you can't turn pages while doing it. I can't
imagine how Natalie gets so much done.
Natalie? Do you really spend that much time not-reading? How do you do that? (Or
not do it, rather.) And does anyone have a suggestion for a one-handed crafts
project, or should I just check the library's selection of books on tape?