The kindness of people is astounding me today. A couple of people have, upon learning of my move, stuck their necks out for me and offered whatever help they could give in finding me a job/getting me in touch with people out there. One man offered to call a library contact of his after casually meeting me at a big library function earlier this week. We were introduced, he asked where in the library I worked and I told him, but qualified my response with saying that I'm leaving in a week. He asked where I was going, I said Portland, and he said that he lived there for 10 years, worked at the public library there, and would be happy to get in touch (even make a phone call! That is huge in this everything-accomplished-via-email age!) with his former colleagues and see what he could do.
People helping people. It's just nice!
I took yesterday off of work. I was "taking my mom to a doctor appointment back home." But I was actually spending some time with some old friends, and visiting the movie set downtown for "Youth in Revolt." Some of the streets have been blocked off for a while, so we decided to take a stroll and check it out. Yeah, I saw Michael Cera. I'm pretty sure he winked at me and then fell hopelessly in love with me. But I had to go get breakfast at The Broken Egg, so it was pretty bad timing.
My friends left around noon, which left me the rest of the day to get things done. Which, surprisingly, I did! I finally took my broken monitor in to get fixed, and then took a drive to the recycling center to get rid of some trash. Which made me realize that we have a large amount of stuff that has accumulated in the past 2 years of living in our house. And we will have to go through all of it very soon. Just thinking about it fills me with dread.
Going through motions here for the rest of the day. But I'm sure this weekend will be great, as everyone is trying to squeeze every last bit of collegey raucousness out of these last weeks here. I'm getting to be kind of an expert at it during the last, oh, year and a half that I've been treating as a long goodbye.
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