Of reading and gossip.
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010For once, I’m not posting before work. It’s 9:30 at night, and it’s a rare night here in our apartment.
It’s quiet.
One of the things I love about Jim is that he’s opposite of me in ways in which I prefer him to be opposite of me. As a general rule of thumb, I’m the quiet one, he’s the loud one. So, as you can imagine, in our apartment, there’s usually a lot of noise between him, the TV, and me teasing Jim mercilessly. But tonight? Tonight, we cooked, ate, cleaned a little, then curled up on the couch together, just reading, me Dexter and him some sci-fi book he picked up at the library’s book sale last weekend.
By the way, when I was quietly reading, actually managing to bring myself to go through a couple chapters, I suddenly thought, “Huh, reading…I remember doing this before.”
Not a good sign, also an indicator of how I little I read these days. I’ve been reading Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning during lunch, but only a couple pages at a time because, well, I just don’t have time. So it was nice to sit down for a good chunk of time and actually knock out a couple of chapters of Dexter.
So, tomorrow’s Friday, concluding an interesting week at work. For one, they announced today those who got the written positions. Yours truly didn’t get one, but hell, I didn’t really expect to (most people in that unit have been there forever), and I was surprised that I actually managed to get as far as an interview. Most people I know didn’t get even that far, so the way I see it? I’ll definitely have a shot at the next go around.
The cool thing, though, is that between all the competition for those coveted five positions between our office and Springfield, someone in our own unit got a spot, a girl I used to sit next to up until a couple months ago. So that’s really cool…although I think everyone’s going to miss her when she goes. She really livens up the unit.
The other cool thing at work: Another co-worker–this time, a girl who sits across from me–came in all happy. The reason? Her boyfriend had proposed to her that morning. The funny thing is that I had been talking about mine and Jim’s own engagement to her the week or so before, and she had told me that she was waiting for her boyfriend, pointing at her wrist, saying Let’s move it already. So we were all happy that he “moved it” (heh), admired her ring, and it was suggested we have a potluck soon to celebrate all the September birthdays, as well as her and my engagements. My guess is we’ll include celebrating our co-worker’s getting promoted to a written unit as well.
Enough work talk. This weekend is a three-day weekend! Even better: Jim actually got Monday off, too! Just gotta haul our butts through tomorrow. 
