COCK FABRICS...

Jess and I saw this as we drove down Madison Ave. last night after a stop at Wal-Mart for pizza fixin's. We laughed for far longer than appropriate for twenty-somethings who teach college and have hobbies such as: reading, attending limerick contests. Apparently the "HAN" part of HANCOCK FABRICS were burnt out. We considered returning with a camera--a nice picture of me under the sign would have been lovely--had Jess not wanted her pizza and me my hot fudge. And despite Jess's belief that my purchases (hot fudge, ice cream, frozen french fries) were the purchases of a woman in the midst of her lady time, they were really the impulse buys of someone who doesn't exercise nearly enough and lacks Vitamin C in her diet.

Other things that have been keeping me from communicating with others:

1. finishing my thesis (mostly--I probably have one more small revision)
2. waitressing (I almost made $10 today in tips--a record!)
3. cleaning the in-laws filthy garage (apparently the boy's mother felt it necessary to keep every stuffed animal he ever owned in garbage bags in a leaky garage--even the ones that looked like they were carriers of ebola and polio and bird flu
4. making cupcakes for people at work--with orange frosting. it got me extra cheese on my potato wedges.
5. going to wyoming. probably could be a blog in itself--forty hours in one weekend in a small car with the boy, the dad-in-law, the flatulent sis-in-law, no radio stations, one "town" every hour (some even had gas stations!), a CB, and more trips to McD's than I care to think about. i met the boy's uncle--the one who talks a lot but you don't really know why no one's heard from him in seven years. i saw the boy's other uncle--the one who weighs less than me, dying from some rare bone cancer. and yellowstone, old faithful, fears of stepping off the path into boiling water holes.
6. thinking about the job interview at SCC that Panko hooked me up with. not quite as cool as Japan, but it's a start. i'll let ya know.