Apparently my resume got eated by my old dead laptop and wasn't on my zip drive like I'd thought. Rewrote it and catered it to this particular place, but it was a rush job. I'm sure it's awful (speaking of jobs requiring abilities to write well, the latest interview for boss lady's position apparently sucked at that, which I'm glad for because I sussed him as a douche just by the way he walked. And when we shook hands during a brief introduction he was mightily grim. Dude, I know you're not a young eager beaver, but, public horticulure! Have a pleasant personality!). But, hey, if this doesn't pan out, at least now I actually have a resume that I can now get help on polishing up.

My resume skills are non-existent. I wrote one up once. I've had all of two professional jobs. One was an in-house hire and one was pretty much nepotism from a dude who respected me and knew me from my first job.

Heh. I'm picturing y'all saying "tool off" like "Face off" in the movie. "...take his tool...off" with hand gesture and everything.

I'm sorry the pain is creeping back, ita. That sucks an awful lot.

And I also wish you didn't have that information, Kat.

I am so grateful that this glass of wine is making my cramps feel much better. It doesn't seem like that ought to work, but if it's placebo effect I will take it.

Sinkholes have been freaking me out for about 20 years. The physical behavior of soil (in the sort of fluid dynamic but not really sense, at least) is not well understood. Can you believe that? THE GROUND is MYSTERIOUS. EARTH! How can we as a species hope to survive?

OTOH that hairpin piece on popsicles is great! The yogurt and granola idea especially is genius. I would also like to have popsicles for breakfast lunch and dinner and perhaps for the writer to be my new best friend. I've got both the books she mentions. Of course. But I did not know about the light saber pop molds and I might need them.

Also very amused by the Yolo County sign that's the thumbnail for another story.

Huh. My city is third most diverse in the US and nearby Vallejo is #1. [link]

It's kinda the general sense that I have from just attending municipal events and grocery shopping and whatnot. I'm mostly surprised that our small population didn't disqualify us from counting as a bona fide city.

Also, to those who know of the Boothbay area, thanks for the wonderful picture you've painted. I love NJ, but living here isn't easy when trying to find an affordable place. And the NE is in my blood. I hope at the least the I get an interview, and then I can have an excuse to drive up, and bring my mum with me (she's been going on about the place for the last three years). It's the sad life of a gardener (busman's holidays, sort of, maybe backwards, I'm not sure. Something ironic.) in that when I finally get the chance to visit other gardens, it's the hottest, most miserable dead time of the year for blossoms and being outside.

I'm mostly excited about this place because of what it could mean for my mother. My god, she loves Maine. It was originally her plan to retire somewhere near Kennebunkport until the market swallowed up their stocks and they got stuck in their house.

-t! What are you doing the evening of 7/24? I will be all up in your general neighborhood. (Then Thursday night I have to drive to San Jose. Fun)

meara! I have no plans for 7/24. I should be off work by 4. Dinner? Drinks? Some combination thereof?

The drive from hereabouts to San Jose is not awful, if you don't have to do it with a lot of traffic. Not super quick, but not awful.

Sounds good -t! Profile address good?

Yup!

A car-sized sinkhole opened up in front of my house growing up. I remember hearing a weird scraping as a car went by, peering out my bedroom window and seeing the street looking swollen and lumpy and water gushing forth from cracks. A little while later, I'm out looking at it as the city trucks arrive, and there's a thump and with a great glug, a car sized swath of asphalt breaks free and sinks into this hole.

Once they got it all pumped out, the hole was about 10 feet deep. It took several dump trucks to refill once they repaired the main.

wretchedly humid around here today. Just checked the numbers. 29%. I will just die if I have to live in the normal world in the summer again.