you know what’s great?

Suddenly having SO many nanny jobs that you have to figure out how to juggle them all.

The downside is, two of them are weekend jobs, and the other is a weekday job, so it’s likely I won’t get to go back to Boston to visit until July, but Frank is probably coming down for the 4th anyway. 

know what sucks?

Job hunting.  Have been at it nonstop for two days (I know, I know “only two days!” but two days as in, I have been filling out applications and digging through search engines for almost fourteen hours now with only a break to go get dinner).  No luck thus far.  No one is hiring, or at least not for my limited qualifications, or for the amount of time I’ll be in Texas.

what an idiot

Flew back to Texas today.  That in and of itself was uneventful, however this evening, as my stepdad was driving home from work, he was rearended.  Twice.  By a middle-aged man who decided approaching a stoplight was an excellent time to open and begin perusing the contents of a manilla folder.  So he rearended my stepdad twice, then dashed off — a clear hit and run.

Jerry wound up going to the hospital (he’s mostly okay) and filed a police report, of course. 

Here’s the real kicker, though.  The other man, guilty of a hit-and-run, left his license plate embedded in the bumper of my stepdad’s car.  Seriously.  Darwin award, anyone?

In other news, I need a job.

earthfest and misc.

Saturday took Frank and Curtis with me to meet up with some friends (Stef, Jessye, and Sarah, plus a few) at Earthfest, a big free concert put on by Whole Foods and some radio station by the Charles River.  We got there pretty late but still got to enjoy some overpriced crummy carnival food (fried dough? ew) and dance to some cool tunes, haha.  I’ve actually always wanted to go to the summer concerts that Boston frequently has there, and hopefully I’ll go to a few more during my trips back here within the next two months, or once I’m back in August.

In other news, I’m headed back to Texas on Monday.  I’m actually quite excited about being home and seeing my Texas friends and not having to deal with public transportation EXCEPT that I’ll miss the few friends that I still have here in Boston quite terribly.    I hate having two homes and only being able to be in one at a time.

I know I haven’t caught up with my Ireland entries yet.  This week I will, alongside job hunting, as well as scanning in my polaroid shots.  I’ve taken some super cute photos.

Saw Up last night, the new Pixar movie.  I definitely recommend it.  I cried probably four times, haha; it’s an adorable and endearing movie.

Also made another blueberry pie for the boys, per Frank’s request.  Unfortunately, I had an hour in which to construct and cook it, and my blueberries were frozen.  Instead of being a normal intelligent person and defrosting them with like a microwave or something, I used the heat from the oven, which means they were still quite chilled when I put the pie in.  I forgot about the fact that while frozen, they have a LOT of juice which I drained last time, to keep the pie from being too runny.  So, go figure, the pie is really more of . . . a blueberry soup with some crust.  Frank and Richard have both very kindly insisted it’s perfectly fine and that they love blueberry soup as muh as they love blueberry pie, and both ate heaping plates (should have been in bowls . . . ) in front of me.  Boyfriend and boyfriend’sbrother win, haha.  I didn’t cry because my first pie for them was darn near perfect, but it still was a baking failure, and those are never fun.

Really wish I had a scanner and already could post my polaroids, but since I don’t, I’ll settle for these two photos Jessye took of me at earthfest with a D80.  A D80!  She checked it out from our school for her summer digital imaging class, which means I’ll have access to it when I take digital imaging in the fall.  Hurray!!

That’s me and Stef listening to the music.

And that’s me and Frank.

Have I mentioned my friend Jessye is an awesome photographer?  You may have seen the portraits she did of me for her photo project about a year and a half ago, as well as a couple portraits she took of me while we were in Europe.  She definitely knows how to make me look good in a photo.