"A hat is a symbol of positivity!"

So lately, not much has been going on. Roomie and I are still at Friend B's house, the Purple House. We don't do much during the day except look for jobs and watch a lot of Netflix. I can't even begin to count the number of jobs I've applied to, and still nothing yet, but I have learned a few things:

1.) Beware of marketing jobs! I was scammed in the past by a great sounding marketing position which turned out to be nothing but selling Direct TV memberships in Costco, and unfortunately Roomie fell into the same trap. She went on two interviews with two different "direct marketing" companies which, upon further research, were the same basic thing: door to door sales. So awful!
2.) Beware of job postings that do not include the company name. Now I know this is pretty obvious to the already employed or average person. Unfortunately, because I am not employed and pretty desperate for a full time job, I've been applying to any job that I feel like I'm at least 60% qualified for. I applied to a few Administrative Assistant positions that seemed a little shady (misspelled words and poor grammar) and heard back from a couple. One told me that I'd be making "regular contacts and drop offs" and the other told me that my interview would be conducted over Yahoo messenger. I respectfully declined both since I don't want to be a drug mule or an internet prostitute.

I also submitted a freelance piece to a local Philly website and got a "thanks, but no thanks" respond. Oh well, c'est la vie.

I work at BBW a few days of the week and I've gotten really good at working the bus system. Now, granted, it's only #32 that I'm an expert at, but I was able to help some visiting students from Brazil the other day, so I feel a tiny bit like a local. You meet all kinds of....special....individuals at the bus stop. One man was so kind as to tell me that God was going to kill me and I'd be going to Hell because I didn't have any change to give him. It was so nice of him to inform me, I can stop looking for a full time job now sit back and wait for the All Mighty to come pick me up. Note to self, no need to go to the grocery this week....

Since I have all this free time, I've been reading a lot. Right now I'm working on Pride and Prejudice. That Jane Austen is quite the verbose lady. I chose an easier Austen novel to start with; I've seen a few different movie adaptations of the book so I figured that if I got lost in the prose, at least I knew where the story was going. Of course I'm discovering that the book is way better than the movies. Once I've conquered all seven of Austen's novels (which at the rate I'm going will be in about a year), Sherlock Holmes is going to be my next challenge. Netflix keeps telling me that I'll like the movies, so I'm going to take their word for it. After all, it's on the internet, it must be true, right?

Roomie and I celebrated surviving the Rapture the other night to a pub called "The Happy Rooster." There a more than slightly inebriated gentleman asked me to marry him, he was quite the charmer too:
Roger: "Hey, are you engaged?"
Me: "Ummm, no"
Roger: "Well, do you want to be?"
Me: "Ummm, no. But thanks for asking"
I think I might have broken his heart.

One thing Philly has taught me is that while I might seem supremely high strung and anxiety ridden in CA, I'm laid back and easy going by East coast standards. I'm really hoping that I keep my CA personality and sarcasm while I'm living here though, I'd hate to become even more anxious than I already am!

The other thing I've learned is that cloudy skies mean rain, not a foggy marine layer that will burn off by early afternoon. If the sky is filled with clouds, there is going to be a down pour that may or may not include thunder and lightening. So, bring an umbrella and don't bother doing your hair because it's probably incredibly humid as well. The weather report is not a suggestion of what might happen is parts of the area. The weather report is an accurate prediction of the future. You cannot out-wit it or ignore it!