Dear Diary . . . day by day

Wednesday, October 10th, 2001 - With a little help from Mom

Ah, had a great interview today! I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I feel really good about how the interview went, and I think I'm perfect for this job (and vice-versa). It didn't hurt that the interview was at the Sierra Club and that the first bit of conversation I had was about my mother and her involvement with the Sierra Club and her Urban Sprawl committee volunteerism. It's nice to go into an interview and reallly care passionately about what the organization does and not have to feign interest about elevators or interior design or what-have-you. It wouldn't be hard to work hard at this job at all. The fact that Mom is so involved already gave me a good idea of what goes into trip planning at the Sierra Club, and it made the interview a very comfortable experience. I also liked both the guys conducting the interview very much; they're both about my age, laid-back and friendly. In other words, if I got the job, I think I'd have more in common with my co-workers than most of these other jobs I've been interviewing for. Which is always a plus.
Anyway, this interview was spur-of-the moment this morning. I guess I had other plans for the day, but those can easily be moved to tomorrow.
What else? Had coffee with Susan yesterday, which was nice, as I haven't seen her in awhile. Tim came home and we indulged in some fast food and a rented video ("Bridget Jone's Diary" which is so very different from the book it's startling in some places). I've been on a house cleaning/rearranging kick lately (I think the approaching work this weekend helps me value my time more), so I vacuumed the dining room and my bedroom. The floors look so nice! I wish we had our own vacuum so I could keep them looking like this; I have to borrow David's, and while he's always nice enough in letting me borrow it, it's a drag lugging a vacuum cleaner around.
Anyway, think I'll write some tonight while Tim is working on his own stuff. Hope you all had at least as good a day as I did today!

Exercise log:
Vacuuming counts, even more than vigorous shagging.
Writing log:
Didn't get much done, other than a little research last night.
Check out my new Bibliography page.
Current Publications:
In the Shade of You a poem at Speculon.
San Francisco City Guide at EGrad.com. Written by me, edited by someone else.
I'm currently reading:
Out of the Everywhere by James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon
If There Were Wolves a poetry chapbook by Tim Pratt
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt
Okay, so I'm just reading the very rough first draft of the chapters fresh off the 'puter, but damn, it's already good!
My PO Box is:
Heather Shaw
P.O. Box 13222
Berkeley, CA 94712-4222

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