I had a great time visiting Michele and Catherine. We ate absurd amounts of really tasty food, did a little window shopping, watched some good tv/movies, and had a lot of really good chat time. Then Cath and I picked out some cds to listen to while we made the 5-6 hr trip back together and never actually ended up turning the music on -- we just chatted the whole time.
And can I just say how incredibly happy I am that it's actually acting like Spring outside? It was *so* lovely all weekend, and although I was prepared for slushy rain on the drive back today, it was partly cloudy instead and gave us a beautiful sunset to drive into for the last two hours. Apparently it snowed here Saturday morning, but it had melted by the time I got home.
I'm really looking forward to Spring and Summer in my little apartment. I'd been considering moving fairly seriously, but now that I've decided to stay, I'm very happy about the decision. My complex has a pool, I'm attached to the place, and I'm quite settled in and wouldn't like the hassle and costs of moving. I might spend some time this Spring throwing away some old stuff I never use anymore and maybe painting the walls. I might even go really nuts and find something to hang on my pathetically blank walls. It's weird -- I don't want to hang up posters under the rationale of I Am Not a College Student Anymore, but buying real art is expensive and I always think, well, geez, I'm an artist, I should just make something. But anything large I've done in the past few years has been of naked people, which might make dinner guests uncomfortable and would definitely make things a little weird when my roommate's baby brother comes to visit.
On a similar note, I've decided I really need to figure out the whole art school thing this year so I can apply somewhere in the fall. I'm really ready for life to move on -- it's good to have a job, but typing someone else's emails for a living can get a bit mindnumbing.
Heh, yeah, I realized that once we hit Lansing or so. Oh, well. It was good to catch up. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, that was a positive statement! I think the best thing you can say about a car ride with a friend is that you never got around to turning the music on. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat is your job exactly?
ReplyDeleteI'm assistant to the editor-in-chief at a publishing house. My boss is in his 60s, never learned how to type, and I spend a *lot* of time typing his emails for him. I also handle incoming/outgoing unsolicited proposals, draft contracts, maintain a couple of databases, open mail, and perform random tasks. I get pretty bored.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of publishing do you do? (I should totally write a book super-quick!) (JK!) (Kinda!)
ReplyDelete:) Religious academic books -- theology, seminary textbooks, commentaries. Also some kids books -- we won a Caldecot last year. I avoid calling it by name because I know the marketing department does a search through blogs, but you can connect the link halves below to check it out:
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We publish the sort of stuff I almost never read myself, but that I'm glad exists simply because it means there are intellectual Christians out there, despite overwhelming evidence otherwise. (Side note, if you ever want a vocab lesson, just click through our subject links: ecclesiology, eschatology, soteriology... I don't even know what half of them mean and I've been working there three and a half years.)