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The phone was my friend today. Nothing but good news and good conversations. I got a call to interview for a major entertainment network. I don’t expect much will come out of it, but it would be a good experience and really awesome to work there. We will see I suppose. I try not to jinx myself before major interviews anymore. All I get is disappointment. But we will see with this one. It is exciting nonetheless.

Mandy (pictured above), an old traveling nurse that worked with me a few months ago called me out of the blue today. We had been playing phone tag for a really long time, so it’s nice to finally talk with her. She hates Arizona with a passion and longs to come back to LA. Her contract expires in June and I am hoping that she will be able to come back here. That would be fantastic. She is so much fun and we enjoy each other’s companies very much so.

I had a long phone conversation with Lindsay today about our futures and work and school and stuff. She’s so funny. She didn’t know that I had this blog and so I gave her the website. I forgot that I sent one email a long, long time ago when the site wasn’t even nearly what I have right now. No colors and no pictures. No wonder why no one reads this. I can only think of like 5 people, but I’m okay with that. It scares me to think that there may be more than 5 people reading this. I retell everything that I say on here to everyone I hang out with anyway, so it’s not like they’re missing anything. It made me realize that it’s not hard to find me at all, if anyone cared to look for me. So weird, yet so cool.

M and I had a conversation about work on my way to Costco and on her way home. We agreed that we don’t like bosses who have less education than we do. It just seems wrong in many ways, even though that sounds bad. To me, if they are not educated, I would hope to think that they are really experienced in the field. Most are and most are great managers. But there are those that mismanage and seem clueless, but yet they are still making more money and will never get fired. It’s just frustrating sometimes knowing that the bureaucracy of the office will allow people like them to exist. And as I talk to M and help her find her ATM machine in Westside Pavillion, I realized that I am pathetic. I know where every Bank of America ATM machine is located on the Westside, even in the malls (on the 1st floor in front of the Steve Madden store/3rd floor food court near the Coffee Bean cart at Westside Pavillion and at the base of the “down” escalators near Black & White in Santa Monica Plaza). So sad but useful.

My sister, Nakara, called me today and told me that my uncle from Texas is in town. This means that I will probably go home this weekend, which is wonderful because I need to do laundry and I miss my uncle and cousins and family. I found out that both of my cousins (who are both younger than me) are engaged. One is getting married this summer and the other one is going to do it next summer. It’s so weird to grow up with someone all of your life and watch them get married. I know that it will feel a lot weirder when the day comes. Anyway, my sister will be in Mexico City for the summer. She travels so much more than I do. I don’t even have a passport and she’s been all over, even Cuba. I don’t even think that she will be working there at all. I think that it’s just a really long and fun summer vacation for her. I am jealous. I am going to probably be stuck in an air-conditioned office all summer. Fun fun!

I think Josh is going crazy. He has to shoot his experimental film this weekend. So much pressure and many, many time constraints.

Oh and thanks to Kate. She sent me an “I miss you” card. It’s funny because I just bought her a similar one today from Flax and was going to mail it out tomorrow. We think way too much alike, even though she is 3,000 miles away. It was sweet and I miss her so tremendously.

Happy Birthday Tripp!

S&TC quote of the day:
“I mean, if you put a phone up on that platform, it's just a typical Friday night waiting for some guy to call.” – Carrie (Season 6- One)