August 8, 2000.  Tuesday

    So I was writing a cover letter today for an internship, and I noticed that at the bottom, where I was telling whoever it was that I was writing to where they could see my writing, instead of giving them the url of The South Pole, I accidentally gave them the url of Daily Aggravations and Regrets. oopsy.  So that lead to a sort of paranoid freak-out, because the place I sent the letter to was the same place I was interviewing in an hour.  I don't really care if they read it or have read it, I just didn't want them to be able to read it moments before interviewing me.  I don't think they've even checked it out, and the proper url was on my resume, which is what the people i was talking to were reading from anyway.  Still, i gotta stop making these boneheaded mistakes. By the way, the jobs I'm applying for involve a lot of proofreading. So does my current job, come to think of it.

    Before I go any further, I finally retrieved the pictures of the Atlantic City trip from my camera.  Only four of them came out the least bit usable. So you can see them at the page I call "Four Pictures From A Victorious Night in Atlantic City, NJ."

    Anyhow, I'm not sure how the interview went. i was there for a little over an hour and talked to three people.  I was somewhat nervous, this being only my second-ever job interview and first in NY.  Lately, whenever I'm nervous, I for some reason speak in a much deeper voice. Not sure why.  So the first person I spoke with had the misfortune of bearing witness to that.  Also, I couldn't enunciate at all.  It took two tries and five awkward seconds for me to spit out "intricacies."  the word was only in my head because I had used it in the cover letter I wrote shortly before going to the interview.  I'm not quite sure what the status is on this internship.  It wasn't really clear before I got there, and it's still not clear.  I'd like to work there though.  It seemed like a fairly small operation, in an imposing, megacorporation kind of way.  I'd probably learn a lot about a lot of things.       I like to learn...

    So after the ambiguous interview, I went over to Rodzilla's place and had lunch, which consisted of some leftover food she brought home from the restaurant she works at.  After a brief nap, which was made almost intolerable bt the deblitating humidity, I ventured out an sent out another resume. How industrious. By the way, i just can't sleep when it's hot and sticky.  My whole body just feels gross and sticky, like someone just doused me with jam or something.  Not pleasant. thank goodness for the man-made climate control device I have here in my room.  Or "air-conditioner" as they call it.

    Speaking of hear in my room, I've been listening to some MP3's I got off a cd Geoff borrowed, of some Weezer songs.  Very catchy tunes.  Weezer is playing Irving Plaza in about two weeks.  I'd like nothing more than to go to the show, but it sold out in less than a day, which was somewhat surprising.  Everytime I've read anything about weezer in the past two years, it's always been in a deprecating "yeah, what the hell happened to them" kind of way.  And then they go on tour, without even an album out, and they're selling out shows? the show in NJ sold out in 15 minutes.  They're one of the bands on my increasingly small list of bands I'll actually go to see, and now I can't.  they put on a good show too. I saw em 5 years ago in Allentown, PA with Teenage Fanclub and that dog. Coincidentally, I got to see them because I won tickets from the local radio station in Reading, PA.  They were giving away tickets every hour, and i stayed up till 3 am so that the fewest amount of people would call. that was the one and only time i've ever won anything from a radio station.  Anyway, in retrospect its odd to me that a Top 40 radio station in PA would be giving as a prize tickets to Weezer of all people.  Not exactly the most mainstream band out there.  But after the initial disappointment of not being able to go to the shows, the fact that Weezer shows are selling out everywhere actually gives me hope. I'm glad.  It gives me hope that rock is coming back.  That this most recent wave of insufferable teen pop is coming to an end.  It's certainly been long enough.  By the way, I still can't believe 1995 was five years ago.  Oh, where does the time go?
 

I'm noticing lately that most of the peopel I mention are really depicted as flat characters.  I don't really convey any sense of depth to them at all.

that's no coincidence. They're boring fucks.
 

Ok, that's not really true. But it's better that the fault lie with their personalities than my shitty writing.
 

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