bethb's Diaryland Diary

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counting chickens will only bite you in the ass.

the shop called in the 11th hour and i actually got my car back last night which was nice.
25 minutes of drive time = 1 hour 20 minutes on the bus with only one transfer. i think i can get it down to 50 minutes, but it involves 2 metro lines, one bus line and 3 transfers therein.
so i drove home last night and in doing so watched an accident occur in my rear view mirror (it was about 100 yards behind me and i didn't really understand what/how it happened since i saw it in reverse so i didn't stop. which maybe was bad, but i'm a big believer in not-clogging up crime/accident scenes. if you have a legitimite excuse/reason/report than yes. be there. but if you didn't see the cause or who ran the light or which one took the bag than really, you're just gawking.
so, i saw one accident happen....passed the fall-out and subsequent back up from two accidents on the road and i get home and there's another letter from the clarice smith people.
and i think "uh oh. well...wait....they just said friday that i was still being considered..."
well, i guess they took the weekend to change their mind. "although i had impressive credentials" i got the 'thanks but no thanks' letter.
i can't believe how attached i was to the idea of that job. this is so stupid. i should be smarter than that. i am smarter than that. on my tombstone it's going to read "didn't count her chickens before they hatched. and oh yeah, probably not really buried here since she favored creamation" but i did. i totally counted my chickens.
and what's worse, i put those chickens in a house. me and my chickens in a craftsman bungalow in the woodbridge section of dc.
i guess it was just daydreams, but still....very powerful those stupid daydreams.
so today i'm taking the day off to mope and maybe go to the zoo and maybe a movie or something.
i'm going to take my doggie bank to the bank and cash in the change and see where that gets me.

9:21 a.m. - 2005-09-28

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