Girl in wreck survives 10 days on noodles, Gatorade
'It's amazing she was able to live that long'
Um.
... is that story about me? I am not even in a wreck and thats what I live on.
I mean, I know its very serious and sad but it is sorta funny too. What a headline.
Detroit today=
(i wrote this in an email to Erick today):
Today's weather is fantastic. I really love it when its nice out. The interviews I am doing are going alright, fairly short and to the point. The men in Michigan are much more forward than I am used to, though. I get approached a lot more which makes me mostly uncomfortable. I miss Chicago aloofness.
I met the rest of the ACT staff today. Our chief of staff is like this little black woman who if you saw on the street, you'd just plain never assume she'd be in this business...you probably wouldn't assume that about most of our staff. My first and probably only friend is Zack, this guy who is younger and very funny, John Stewart style...he's married so that takes off that inevitable "are we just friends" pressure which I hate so much. The Royal Oaks area downtown is quite hipster...and its right below a salon so we hear the click click of heels and boots all day--we have the entire basement...there's offices which to me only resemble room-sized cubicles set up symetrically downstairs. I don't know which one I get yet.
The director is funny, his name is Lon. He's from DC (Everyone is! And they all claim to be originally from MI but they're so funny about it:)--he wants to do some big publicity thing tomorrow be/c its tax day to to get the word out to DC that we're an active branch and also so that the media gives us some attention right away. Its nuts. He amuses me, and he took us all out to lunch today and ate a hamburger about the size of his head. He told me he felt like the waiter was challenging him and he loves a good dare. This from the man who also ate two boxes of cheerios in college just be/c someone said so...odd what ticks people's clocks.
But Zack is really the coolest. He's funny and makes me laugh. We evidently have alot of ties within the office with Senator Lieberman, and Zack assured me he could hustle me into his office with a couple phone calls at the end of this whole campaign, but truth be told I don't know how I feel about Lieberman or DC at this point either.
But anyway. Thats all at least seven months away from now. I am at the library (our office hasn't any phone lines or internet access yet. I don't know why we were even there today)...its such an amazing place. They even have a drive through.
I have three more interviews today and then who knows. Yesterday I went shopping and bought an insane amount of clothes out of boredom....I bought like two of everything. I haven't shopped like that in ages. I can't keep doing that but I honestly haven't much else to do.
Anyway...
'It's amazing she was able to live that long'
Um.
... is that story about me? I am not even in a wreck and thats what I live on.
I mean, I know its very serious and sad but it is sorta funny too. What a headline.
Detroit today=
(i wrote this in an email to Erick today):
Today's weather is fantastic. I really love it when its nice out. The interviews I am doing are going alright, fairly short and to the point. The men in Michigan are much more forward than I am used to, though. I get approached a lot more which makes me mostly uncomfortable. I miss Chicago aloofness.
I met the rest of the ACT staff today. Our chief of staff is like this little black woman who if you saw on the street, you'd just plain never assume she'd be in this business...you probably wouldn't assume that about most of our staff. My first and probably only friend is Zack, this guy who is younger and very funny, John Stewart style...he's married so that takes off that inevitable "are we just friends" pressure which I hate so much. The Royal Oaks area downtown is quite hipster...and its right below a salon so we hear the click click of heels and boots all day--we have the entire basement...there's offices which to me only resemble room-sized cubicles set up symetrically downstairs. I don't know which one I get yet.
The director is funny, his name is Lon. He's from DC (Everyone is! And they all claim to be originally from MI but they're so funny about it:)--he wants to do some big publicity thing tomorrow be/c its tax day to to get the word out to DC that we're an active branch and also so that the media gives us some attention right away. Its nuts. He amuses me, and he took us all out to lunch today and ate a hamburger about the size of his head. He told me he felt like the waiter was challenging him and he loves a good dare. This from the man who also ate two boxes of cheerios in college just be/c someone said so...odd what ticks people's clocks.
But Zack is really the coolest. He's funny and makes me laugh. We evidently have alot of ties within the office with Senator Lieberman, and Zack assured me he could hustle me into his office with a couple phone calls at the end of this whole campaign, but truth be told I don't know how I feel about Lieberman or DC at this point either.
But anyway. Thats all at least seven months away from now. I am at the library (our office hasn't any phone lines or internet access yet. I don't know why we were even there today)...its such an amazing place. They even have a drive through.
I have three more interviews today and then who knows. Yesterday I went shopping and bought an insane amount of clothes out of boredom....I bought like two of everything. I haven't shopped like that in ages. I can't keep doing that but I honestly haven't much else to do.
Anyway...