The job hunt plods along. I shelled out $15 to overnight an application to a small university in southern Virginia. I'll be doing the same for a larger university in New Jersey tomorrow. Or maybe, late tonight. My life has taken on a decidedly psychotic tilt as far as sleeping patterns and caring at all about the current job. Oh wait. I'm not ( Read more... )

I loathe writing cover letters and groveling for work. I really, really do ( Read more... )

Project Runway - gotta love it. I have a feeling Wendy is going down in flames next week. There's no way she can compete with Kara Saun, Jay, and Austin. I think Kara Saun and Jay are really the most talented. Austin is very gifted, no question, but he cannot adapt to styles other than his very dated, but elegant line. I think Michael Kors summed ( Read more... )

I couldn't make this up if I tried ( Read more... )

Maybe it's a little sad, but I tell the days of the week not by a calendar, but by what's on tv ( Read more... )

So, the inauguration of the Monkey Boy in Chief is this Thursday. (Also known as "just another day I don't get paid".) Streets are already being closed and the whole day today has just been a sea of sirens and the thump-a-thump-a-thump-a of helicopters. Late this morning, they practiced the air power tribute to the president, which meant that, ( Read more... )

I have decided that I need to restart using the rubber art stamps and wonderful papers I have at home. For a long time, I stopped doing creative stuff. I'm not sure why. But lately, I've been feeling more inspired again. I've actually been obsessing over a sympathy card I need to send out. I realized I had no appropriate stamps to create my own ( Read more... )

I decided to start this journal after my friend Robin suggested it. I had a blog on Diaryland (merujo.diaryland.com) but I had a problem with some really rude and nasty folk bugging me there. So, here I go again. That reminds me - I need to copy my entries from Diaryland somewhere. Some of them were good. Some were really lame-ish rants, too.

I'm ( Read more... )