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Jul. 7th, 2003 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightbluegirlI am so tired today. I was tired yesterday, but I attributed it to my "wake up at 4am and not get back to sleep" reverse insomnia. Last night Andrew massaged me to sleep, I only had to get up ONCE to pee (yes, worth celebrating), and I slept really well for 8 1/2 hours, but I'm still exhausted. Maybe I'm coming down with something. That could suck.
We were going to have sushi last night, but I forgot that none of the Japanese restaurants in town (or at least, the ones close to us), are open on Sundays. Which isn't surprising - quite a few Japanese restaurants even in Toronto aren't open on Sundays either. So we went to Kelly's and he had a huge bacon cheeseburger and I had chicken tenders (well, I had slightly over half of them, I gave the rest to him). I checked this morning, and I apparently stayed under 1500 calories even so. Pretty cool.
My mother told me yesterday that my grandmother is doing Novinhas (sp?) for me. It's a special 9 day prayer. She's praying for me to get a job in Ontario by the end of August. That's really sweet.
The past couple of nights I've been having cool baths and reading "Decoding Advertising", an old book we picked up at a flea market for 50 cents. It's interesting, although I've researched this before. One of my classes in University was The Philosophy of Media and Advertising. In one of my Women In History classes, I did a paper on how advertising towards women changed it's focus between the First and Second World Wars. I got to look through tons of old magazines, it was so much fun. (I find advertising absolutely fascinating)
That's one of the few papers I wish I still had. I have no idea what happened to them, because I used to keep them. I probably lost them in one of my many moves.
In other news, I gave my friend/manager (the one who writes science fiction) the first two chapters of my book. I'm wracked with nerves, as a result. I mean, I really want some feedback I can trust (all my friends and family said "I love it, write more, I want to know what happens!", but you know, they're friends and family), and I know he'll give it, but what if he says it's crap? Ah well. I can only learn by feedback.
In other other news, the company in Ottawa that I cancelled the interview with has just put their job posting back online. I feel kinda bad about that (that I jerked them around) but also kinda good. That means that at the time they were pretty certain they were going to hire me.
We were going to have sushi last night, but I forgot that none of the Japanese restaurants in town (or at least, the ones close to us), are open on Sundays. Which isn't surprising - quite a few Japanese restaurants even in Toronto aren't open on Sundays either. So we went to Kelly's and he had a huge bacon cheeseburger and I had chicken tenders (well, I had slightly over half of them, I gave the rest to him). I checked this morning, and I apparently stayed under 1500 calories even so. Pretty cool.
My mother told me yesterday that my grandmother is doing Novinhas (sp?) for me. It's a special 9 day prayer. She's praying for me to get a job in Ontario by the end of August. That's really sweet.
The past couple of nights I've been having cool baths and reading "Decoding Advertising", an old book we picked up at a flea market for 50 cents. It's interesting, although I've researched this before. One of my classes in University was The Philosophy of Media and Advertising. In one of my Women In History classes, I did a paper on how advertising towards women changed it's focus between the First and Second World Wars. I got to look through tons of old magazines, it was so much fun. (I find advertising absolutely fascinating)
That's one of the few papers I wish I still had. I have no idea what happened to them, because I used to keep them. I probably lost them in one of my many moves.
In other news, I gave my friend/manager (the one who writes science fiction) the first two chapters of my book. I'm wracked with nerves, as a result. I mean, I really want some feedback I can trust (all my friends and family said "I love it, write more, I want to know what happens!", but you know, they're friends and family), and I know he'll give it, but what if he says it's crap? Ah well. I can only learn by feedback.
In other other news, the company in Ottawa that I cancelled the interview with has just put their job posting back online. I feel kinda bad about that (that I jerked them around) but also kinda good. That means that at the time they were pretty certain they were going to hire me.
