So, call me a total fangirl, but I bought an iPhone last week and it totally rocks. So far I’ve checked my feeds while on breaks at work (new job, by the way!), rescued a lost motorist during my first trip to San Francisco, and posted more photos to flickr using the built-camera in the past week than I have in the past two months. I <3 my iPhone!
From flighty. Directions: Go to careercruising.com. Enter nycareers as the username and landmark as the password. Take the “Career Matchmaker” survey. Post the top ten results.
1. Anthropologist
2. Historian
3. Criminologist
4. Professor
5. Activist
6. Political Aide
7. Writer
8. Archaeologist
9. Communications Specialist
10. Print Journalist
Hmm, not too far off. I guess you could call the field I’m actually in criminology, and I’ve thought about doing the top two and number eight at times.
Woo, the past few days have been pretty busy. We had visitors over the weekend, which was fun. Yesterday, Bryan and I ran a lot of errands, and this morning, we took my car into the shop to be repaired. It has been overheating fairly often, and with the drive to Seattle coming soon, we need it to be in good shape for it to be trusted to make it over the Rockies. It turns out that it needs a new water pump, there’s a coolant/antifreeze leak, there was some fluff and various stuff stuck into a spot where it should not be, and the air dam needs to be replaced, all of which have been contributing to the overheating. The total cost will be $500, which is high, but is still just a quarter of what I had been steeling myself for. We biked back from the car repair place, which took us about an hour. We go on long rides like that maybe once a week, but for some reason my legs were like jelly when we got home! We also spoke to a U.S. immigration lawyer this afternoon, and she said that Bryan will be able to come into the states earlier than we had been thinking. He’s still going to stay in Victoria for a while since he already agreed to rent a room from a friend of a friend, but will join me in Seattle once we’ve found a place to live. As to making it so that he can stay in the states for the next year or so, we might have to rearrange some plans, but nothing is settled yet. We’ll know more after we actually meet the lawyer, who is in Seattle. Speaking of Seattle, I’ve applied for a few jobs, and have heard back from one of the prospective employers. I got an email from them letting me know that I’ll hear from them within a couple of weeks, so wish me luck! It’s a research position, which is great because my master’s program was very research-focused, but the research would be in relationship studies–not really my area. I’ll see what happens and keep applying for jobs, though!
And now for the knitting! I’ve also been busy on that front, as you can see:
My Sockapalooza socks arrived yesterday! Many thanks go out to Odie, who picked a pretty shade of red for me! I also really like the cable pattern. Thanks, Odie!
I also got my Dish Rag Tag team’s box today. This is the dish rag that the previous team member knit for me. I like the pinks!
She also gave me these cute beaded stitch markers. I’ve never had nice stitch markers before, and can’t wait to use these! I’ll use them on this project first:
An Ogee Tunic! The brown is actually a bit deeper than it looks in this photo, but you get the idea. I lurve this pattern: it’s pretty simple to knit, but has lots of visual interest.
I have tons of patterns in the queue, and I just wish I had more time in which to knit. If only I could figure out a way to squeeze more hours out of the day…
This has been my morning.
Around 7:30, Bryan woke me up to tell me that my car’s driver side window had been smashed in. It was just sitting on the service road between the house and the actual road, and someone apparently decided it would be fun to smash the windows of several cars along the street. Mine was lucky enough to be one of them. My insurance company says I have glass coverage, but with a $500 deductible, so I might as well not have glass coverage. Meh. I’m in the process of filing a police report and will call a few auto glass repair shops for quotes once they open in a few minutes. Nothing was stolen, because I didn’t have anything of value inside the car.
I think the most irritating thing is that they laughed when they did it (Bryan says he heard a noise from outside, then laughter). I really can’t afford this right now, but I have to suck it up and pay because some jerk decided to have fun at my and several other people’s expense. Ass.
The toilet flooded and got water all over the bathroom and living room floors. We managed to get the monster back in working order, but the living room floor is carpeted, so now water is soaked into the stuff underneath and won’t dry out for a day or so. The neighbors downstairs just asked what was going on up here, because water is leaking out of the light fixture in their bathroom and also out of their dining room ceiling. The landlord won’t answer his cell phone, and the plumber in town, who we called while we were still wrestling the madly flooding toilet, wouldn’t come out because it’s after hours and we’re not a current client.
All I can say is, “Ewwwww!” and that I’ll be walking around the bathroom and living room in my Crocs for a few days until everything is dry and clean.