G and I adopted a cat. Boris Moscowitz. G came up with a story (admittedly while under the influence) about Boris' background--his grandfather was a stow-away cat on a ship that came through Ellis Island. He supported his wife and three sons by shining shoes on the streets of Brooklyn. Boris' father, Yuri, made the family rich through investment banking, and would have had a lot of issues with Wall Street's recent fall but he was smart and put away a lot and so they're okay for now. This cat is hilarious. He has an amazing personality. I'm in love :)The Jewish new year is this weekend and G first wanted to go to his usual temple, a reform temple, but decided that it wasn't "traditional enough" and so now we're going to Saturday morning services at a conservative temple, and to be honest I'm nervous. I'm wearing a black dress, black pantyhose (hah) and black shoes. I'm nervous because I HATE ritualistic traditional things like this, and sitting through 2 hours of conservative Jewish stuff doesn't sound appealing to me. Buuut it's important to him so I'll try. And I'm gonna bake challah hahaha. I'm personally a big fan and it's an appropriate occasion so there we go.
The job market seems to be working out for my friends, but I'm still having issues. I've had a couple of interviews that haven't led to anything, and a couple of scams as well, but otherwise I'm just saturating the market with my resume and getting ignored. I'm trying to stay optimistic though. But I've been sick lately and I've missed two days of work this week already, which is a problem since I get paid hourly and it adds up quickly. But a friend of mine in Seattle started writing for a start-up news-blog/service/thing and threw my name out there so I'll give it a shot. I'm not sure what to write about though. She suggested sending in this blog but I'm not sure. I'd write about the Middle East and throw out my opinions there but I don't want to alienate anyone or be too controversial from the start. I should be doing that now but instead I'm doing this. My facebook has a lot of stories and commentary, maybe I could do a huffpost kinda thing. I don't know. I haven't been too inspired lately, which is sad. I have all these books I want to read but I lose interest right away.
I've been sick lately. I can't seem to eat anything without getting nauseous (no, I am not pregnant). My sinuses hurt, I have constant headaches, and I just feel like crap. I'd like to go get checked out but I can't really afford it at this point. Hopefully it won't kill me. It's making me miss work though. There's a woman with MS who works there and I'd rather not contribute to her demise. The office is so negative and unpleasant though, maybe that's what's making me sick. It's such a terrible environment there. There was a huge shake-up last week, and the director and VP of our department got fired, and now the IT department, who I technically work for, is in charge, so I'm slightly optimistic that they'll pull some strings and buy out my contract from the temp agency. They've been hinting at it. Of course, I could just be making up all these signs and they'll let me go as scheduled. I don't know. I'm just trying to make it paycheck to paycheck. Student loans are coming up though.
Overall though I think things are going well. We've settled into a routine. It's already mid-September, which is insane. Time is moving so quickly.
