Still unemployed

This was supposed to be easy. Alas, it has not proven to be so.

On the upside, I am still very much enjoying Maine, 'the way life should be.' People are still proving to be disarmingly friendly, but I'm getting used to it. The friendliness was fun especially this weekend at Southern Maine Pride. It was no Montreal-scale pride celebration (the parade started at noon and it was already over by the time I moseyed down about 12.45), but I made friends with one of the DJ's at the gay club. Being friends with DJ's is always a good thing, I figure.

Yesterday, my roommate and I drove up to a cottage that some friends of hers go to for a week every year about an hour and a half north of Portland on the coast. Beautiful. Wonderful. I was out on a boat for the first time in ages. We fished. I caught a mackerel. We ate it with dinner. It was yummy. I often said that I would want a house on the coast of Maine as a summer place. After yesterday, I definitely definitely do.

I need to find a job first, though. One of the bookstores that I left my CV at phoned me last week to set up an interview. I missed the guy's call and phoned the first thing the next morning. He told me that the other manager wasn't in yet and would phone me back when he did come in. I never got a call back. I went in on Thursday and the manager was on his dinner break but the fellow that I spoke to told me that they were still interviewing, so I would likely hear from them soon. As for the café, I haven't heard back from them either. Word has it, though, that the guy only hires cute little blondes, which probably means I'm shit out of luck. Even if I dyed my hair, I don't have what it takes to fit those criteria. And still nothing back from the publishing company either. Though that is likely a more proper job application process and I only responded a week ago. I would think I would hear back from them this week. Unfortunately, not even any of my roommate's resto connections seem to be panning out. *sigh*

This really needs to sort itself out sooner rather than later.

Also, posting is likely to be rather sporadic as I think my neighbours have caught on to our borrowing of their wireless internet because I've not been able to get online at home since Thursday. I'd very much like to just get our own high speed, but we don't want a landline or cable, which presents something of a problem. Right now, I'm downtown at O'Naturals, which offers both yummy food and free wi-fi.

Lastly, I finished reading Gregory Maguire's latest book, 'Mirror, Mirror' today which was decidedly 'meh'. His first two were great but these last wto have been just meh.

And that's about how I'm feeling right now: meh. I'm really tired of having nothing to do. And I need to make money.