WEEK 1 OVER!

...I didn't oversleep once this week! My drive is awful! I feel like I arrived at work everyday in the short bus!

Other than that, life isn't bad...

A tradition I'd like to break...

I've started a (real) new job exactly 5 times since graduating college. And 5 times, during the first week of each job, I've overslept one morning, having to come up with some stupid excuse involving car trouble. I'd like to break that little tradition.

Okay, so I'm having a minor case of the nerves. And there's nothing like starting a new job the same week that your live-in boyfriend's MOM and SISTER are visiting. Stress is such a miraculous thing.

I have the outfit picked out. Dark green velvet skirt, black lace top, black ankle strap heels. Got the Mike seal of approval, which worries me, as he commented on the conservative length of the skirt as compared with the more daring fabric choice, complemented only by the strong color of the shoes and shirt. I really really hope he only got that from my constant viewing of "Queer Eye."

There is something strange about the nervousness that you get when you undertake something new. There is nothing in this job that I can't do, or haven't done before. But my biggest fear is screwing up the phones and dropping a call.

I wish I could just skip this whole first week and start next week knowing everything I need to know.

Isn't that how it always is?

I GOT A JOB!!!

I am joining the ranks of Dreamworks team...live action, on the Universal Backlot.

Stevie Spielberg, here I come!!!

A new door opens...

10/10/05

Mike and I had a very lovely day yesterday, hiking up at Malibu Creek State Park - we hiked through the old MASH filming site, climbed through an old ambulance from the show, encountered a hopping deer (I dunno - it didn't run away from us, it hopped...or maybe I had sun poisoning, who knows). It was a beautiful day.

On the way home, he asked me if we had a good standard of living. It was an interesting question. Friends from home are married now, parents, home owners, concerned with acreage and property taxes and raising their children well. We rent an apartment. I have no job. We have few responsibilities other than financial. I am in no different of a place than when I got out of college. What's different? Well, 5 years, for one thing. Living in a complex with streams and ducks and pools and hot tubs, as opposed to crack dens and the homeless. Having someone else who can do the dishes for a change. What's not different? Sleeping until 11 on a Sunday and then spending the rest of the day hiking in the mountains. Having my friends and family totally support my decision to just quit my job, because I have no real responsibilities.

I think, yes, we have a good standard of living.

What did I DO??????

I quit...that's what I did. I went and quit my job, with no money in the bank and none on the horizon.

Was that stupid?

Yeah, I think so. I think that stupid might be too gentle of a word.

But I also don't really feel that bad about leaving. And the support I've gotten so far has been great.

But if you could all just keep your fingers crossed for me that something better comes along SOON, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Otherwise, if you could recommend something that might keep the recurring waves of panic away, that would be helpful too...