telephonos son malos

so, my first morning of not really having to be up at any particular time was rudely ruined by a weed whacker outside my bedroom window at the lovely time of 7:30 am. i eventually gave up trying to sleep and got some stuff done. i eventually made it to school with the graded exams, and found a nice stack of books in my mailbox, along with a graded paper from the vandy gill. both the books and paper were a pleasant surprise. lots of andean fun. and even a reproductive health book in there too.

later i was supposed to swing by her apartment to pick up some stuff, but her phone was off, so the plan went amiss, and i didn't talk to her until i was already at the dinner party. we made a plan for 8am. dinner was delicioso as was the conversation. after filling our bellies to their brims, the other gill convinced us to come out with him to u street.

it was a good time, but by the end i was feeling old. of course the casanova told me i am young and lovely and beautiful, but that's not what it was about. i feel like i wasted a number of years. i don't necessarily regret them, but then i hear these stories about 20 year olds working for harper collins, and its a bit depressing. i mean, i know enough people in publishing to realize that it is no dream job. its no glamorous life. and hell, i worked for nyrb for a time, but still. what have i done with my life? not much.

hopefully more in the future.

anyway, eventually the artist and i were dropped off at the dupont red line, and his phone rang as we approached the zoo stop. it was mr. casanova calling to say my phone was at his place still. but of course, being on the metro makes real communication difficult so no plan was figured out. and he, of course, has no internet at home. so i'll have to wait until he gets to work tomorrow for any method of phone recovery to be put into action.

which is well and good and fine. except a) i have to be at the gill's apt at 8 am. and now have no alarm clock and b) i have to make calls at 9 and 10am for cic, and after my snafu on tuesday, i feel the need to set things right.

so nell the problem solver has been set into action. i downloaded an alarm program for the computer. i pray it works. i know gill's apt number, so i guess i can go directly to her door and knock. and i can use the phones at school, but i'll have to purchase a calling card to dial off campus. but i still have the cic am ex, so hopefully that will work.

and if all goes well, i'll have my phone back by the time i need to do my 2:30pm interview.

it will be an interesting day, no doubt. but no matter how it works out, at least i get to spend the end of it at an anthro bbq.

woohoo!