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I would have put this up earlier, but my site was down. :P Anyway…HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :D

As disappointing as it was, I had class, so I couldn’t really celebrate. I DID wear my blue clay horns (the ones I bought at the Ren Faire) to class, though – I was the ONLY one that dressed up. I was like, “Come on, what, are we a bunch of Ivy League sticks-in-the-mud now?” A couple of little kids on the subway wanted to feel my horns – they’re constructed in such a way that you really can’t see what’s securing them to your head. “Are they real?!” “Yep. Growin’ right out of my head.” “REALLY?” Heh. :) Makes me happy that I want to have kids someday, because I’ll have a ball taking them trick-or-treating and stuff.

How did YOU celebrate?

So Scott’s best friend Bart and I were IMing and he asked me if I ever heard of overheardinnewyork.com. I told him I hadn’t, so I went to check it out. As I was scrolling down the page, I saw the following exchange:

Columbia Co-ed #1: “Does this have, like, a ton of caffeine in it?”
Columbia Co-ed #2: “That’s milk.”

Overheard by: applying elsewhere.

AHAHAHAHA! Apparently I am among my people at school. Clearly. Because y’all have heard some of the stuff that comes out of my mouth.

Here’s to you Columbia. I [heart] you.

(I [heart] you too, Bart, for showing me that site. Fanks. :))

As promised, this is the first half of Lloyd and Norman’s Excellent Adventure. ;) Friday, the day before Rhinebeck, we went to Manhattan to sight see and be touristy. If you think about it, we really had a Green Acres weekend – the city and the farm, fresh air and Times Square! :D

Because my Flickr page has such detailed descriptions, I’ll just post the photos, link them back to Flickr, and let you explore them for yourselves. After all, a picture IS worth a thousand words.

The past few days were insanely fun, and I’m going to present them vaguely backwards. Amanda (also known as Lloyd) came to visit me for a few days. We went to Manhattan on Friday, but on Saturday…Saturday we got up early, jumped in the car, and drove two hours to Rhinebeck, NY for the NY Sheep and Wool Festival.

(I’m cutting this entry because it’s so picture heavy. And it’s LONG. Just follow the “Read More” dealy there.)

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So I got that job I interviewed for last week. It’s working for this huge company, doing a “special project,” which amounts to scanning and tagging a ton of duplicate documents. Not exactly intellectually stimulating, but it’s 15 hours a week, and the office is 10 minutes from my apartment. Oh, and the company is a holding company, and one its companies in holding makes Boye knitting needles, so how bad can that be? ;)

I feel really bad having to quit the other job, because a.) I only worked three days, b.) I was only really employed for a month, and c.) it’s a little old man who was hiring me to work out of his in-home office, so quitting requires actually letting down a real person rather than a big company. But…he really didn’t hold up his end of the bargain, which was 10 hours a week (I worked less than that), and he sort of disappeared for two weeks and only gave me a days’ notice, which isn’t good AT ALL if you’re trying to make money to pay bills and stuff, which I am. So I’m trying not to feel TOO guilty – people quit, happens all the time, right?

I’m not sure what the new job pays yet – I’m assuming it’s at least $10 an hour, and there’s no way it’s the $18 I was making at the in-home office, but figure that I’m working a steady 15 hours a week and that I’m not burning money in gas to drive half an hour to and another half an hour from work and on money in tolls, it probably works out to the same amount of money, maybe a wee bit more. Another thing that I really liked is that the girl that hired me, Diane, is really nice and very friendly – personal warmth was not something that I really experienced in the in-home office, so it’s a welcome change. :)

In other, more random (and more fun) news, I managed to finish my homework for the entire week, so I have today off. :D This actually worked out really well, because now even with my new job starting tomorrow, I’ll have plenty of time to clean the house before Amanda gets here Wednesday night (don’t worry, Lloyd, the house will sparkle ;) I’m really excited to be having a houseguest, and we’re gonna tear up the city…well, as much as one tourist and one semi-local who are really only interested in museums, toy stores, double-decker buses, Project Runway displays, and yarn CAN tear up a city. And then we’re going to have crazy adventures driving upstate – and I say crazy adventures because I’m driving – to Rhinebeck where we will probably need to rent a small crane to take home all of our yarn/fiber purchases. (OH! Lloyd – Scott says if I see any Angora bunnies I like, that I can…I can…I CAN BRING THEM HOME! Just please remind me before I go around scooping up bunnies that Angoras get big and are high maintenance.)

I’m about to go pop in some DVDs (Scott just bought me My Neighbor Totoro, so at least I have a new one) and work on my mom’s gloves. I have about an inch and a half of cuff done on the first one, which really isn’t worth a photo just yet. I might go join the Warm Hands and Handknitted Gift knitalongs to keep myself motivated. We’ll see. :)

…And this means the return of the list posts.

- First and most exciting: in around eightish days, Amanda is coming to visit me! YAY! We’re going to go be touristy in Manhattan, watch movies, eat pizza, and…go to Rhinebeck, that yarn mecca otherwise known as the NY Sheep and Wool Festival. Woohoo!

- I have a job interview tomorrow. Yes, I technically have a job, but…I worked one full week. Then last week, I worked three hours on Wednesday. On Thursday, I got a phone call saying not to come in on Friday. On Saturday, I got a phone call saying my boss was going away on a business trip, that I wouldn’t be needed for two weeks, and that he’d call me if he needed me when he got back. I looked for a new job. So, yeah…job interview tomorrow. At least it’s only 15 minutes from home.

- I’m supposed to be writing a paper, applying either Freudian psychoanalysis or Alderian therapy to a case study. Guess how well THAT’s going. ;)

- I had lunch with my friend Jess from college today. We went to the huge Macy’s right across from Penn Station, and spent a considerable amount of time ogling the Project Runway challenge winning dresses in the front window. I love me some Project Runway, but I’m still mad that they kicked off Kayne. I loved him, even though his design asthetic was a bit…Vegas drag queen.

- My mom’s Christmas gloves have been started. And restarted. And started again. I finally moved up from US 0s to US 1 dpns, and that works fine. I have no idea what this will do to the pattern – there’s no gauge information on it. So I’m wingin’ it and I decided that the 0s made the ribbing too stiff. I have about a quarter (read: 1 inch) of the first cuff done. Blame the psych paper.