Elusive Ink

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I'm In Love With a Girl
Gavin DeGraw



Continuing on my theme from my last post...I am SO excited. I sent my resume in for a phenomenal job, which I feel I'm perfectly suited for. I'm hoping that the fact it's Tuesday and I've still heard nothing from them doesn't mean they aren't even going to interview me. Regardless, I have been seeking out new employment maybe something with better promotion opportunity and a little bit better pay for the amount of work I'm doing. It's exciting looking through all of the jobs on craigslist and knowing that they all might be life-changing for me. That at this point, the whole world is open to me. I'm in no rush though, I love the people at Target (well, for the most part) even if the pay isn't wonderful, and the communication through the ranks is pretty sucky.

On another, equally as excited note...

I can now buy sudafed!!

Hah, kidding...although I can. Actually I've been considering my options for a trip next summer. I'm very proud at how well I've been doing with saving my Money since I've started working at Target. (Although, I do owe my Grandmother some money from framing my parents anniversary gift.) As I continue to save, it's become clear to me that I want to go somewhere after graduation, before college. I have yet to decide whether I want to go to the Carribean, or Hawaii, or Europe, or South America...ahhhh too many choices!! Regardless, I am going somewhere.

I'd also like to take a short trip to NYC over winter break in February. Although I'm not sure if I can find someone to go with me. I am tempted to go alone, it's significantly cheaper if I do...and I adore traveling alone. The thought of wandering through museum after museum, and spontaneously popping in wherever I want is so appealing. My Grandmother, however, thinks that going on my own would be a bad idea the first time, that I should have someone with me. (Even if it's someone who's also never been.) I've been trying to weigh this suggestion with the fact that my Grandparents, and Parents, are all very protective. Don't get me wrong, I love this about them...and I do realize that I'm young and I don't want to jump into something unprepared. The other, more adventureous (and probably overconfident) part of me, says that I could handle myself fine, it would be an experience of a lifetime, an adventure. It would be a determining factor in whether I wanted to take a larger scale trip alone during the summer. Better to get lost four hours away, than in another country, right? I love wandering around places, with just my camera. Picking a bench to sit on and photographing people who pass for a while.

Not that it's an issue for a while, just lots of exciting things going through my head. I had to make a really tough decision over the weekend...whether to be a good, committed employee, or take the rare opportunity to spend time with my PaPa. In the end, he understood my decision to go to work - rather than the family outing with them. I really wanted to go with them, but I'd already taken a day off last week to get caught up with school, and I couldn't afford another. I don't particularly like my supervisor, but I don't want him to think badly of me either. (I don't really want anyone to think badly of me...ever...lol...maybe I still have my naive points?)

One thing I do love about working at Target is all of the people. I am discovering more and more that I am a people person. I'd gotten into a rut, but the more I get out, the more comfortable I am with striking up conversations with people at work, or going to sit next to them in the lunch room. And hey, I'm good at it..and people like me! Go figure. Anyway, I was sitting with one of the cashiers the other day, and we were chatting about the area and I asked how long she'd lived here, and it turns out that she moved from India less than a year ago to live with her parents and brother (who have lived here for eight years.) --- it was so cool to hear about her country, and what it was like making such a big move. She said that all of her friends still live in India, and have no intention of moving here. She's engaged, and her fiance is going to be here in December before Christmas, and she told me that if they have the wedding here she'd like to have me as her photographer. How cool is that? She also paints, which is really neat. I'm considering seeing if she wants to go into the National Gallery of Art with me since I don't have a lot of people around here to hang out with, either, and it's always neat to find people who value their families and art as much as I do. Just one example of the diversity of people I work with.

I've taken to the very odd habit of carrying around a little memo notebook with me everywhere I go, it's about 2"x 3" (I bought a package of five of them) and carry pens with me everywhere I go. That way, if I'm inspired I can immediately write it down, rather than following inspiration down the path of no return. Which seems to be detrimental to my study habits. Darn-you real life!! It has proven to be a really useful tool, though, because sometimes I'll just have an entire paragraph of a story pop into my head...and I'll take a "bathroom break" at work to go write it down. (Yeah, this means that I don't actually use the bathroom until my break. Which can be uncomfortable, at times. But anything for the sake of art, right?)

Anyway, just some random thoughts. I had a great weekend hanging out with the family. It's always nice to have my Grandfather here, even if he doesn't usually stay long.

OH MY GOSH...okay I'm sitting here writing this and my phone beeps that I have a voicemail. So I listen to it and I JUST got a call back for a second interview with the position I interviewed for last week. She wants to see me for a job interview TODAY! Thus ends my rambling I suppose...more later!! :D

-Lindsey