nipperknits

Well, that was fun....

sort of.

I just paid $7 to go make an ass of myself with my favorite comic artist. Sigh. Why can't I learn how to talk to people I don't know? Or, honestly, talk to anyone. I was this weird combination of Shy and Fangirl, "Um... hi. I really like your comic and I want to have a million of your babies! Uh... yeah. I'm going to go now. Thanks...." *run!* It wasn't really that bad, but not much better either. I want to bang my head against a wall or something. Has anyone seen the movie L.A Story? Today reminds me of this scene in that movie.

Lots of people at brunch:
Woman 1: (Woman 2) has been taking conversation lessons.
Steve Martin: [turning to woman 2] Oh really?
Woman 2: ... ... Yes.

I wasn't like that, in fact I was the diarrhea-of-the-mouth opposite, so maybe I should take those conversation lessons... I'm sure there's something in New York. You'd think that working retail for 10 years would give me some conversation skills, but no...

The Art Festival was really cool otherwise. I couldn't spend any money, so I could only look at the art. What I saw was really cool, though. So it wasn't a total disaster and waste of money. heh.

My Swatch interview went really well and I have another with the manager of the Times Square store on Monday. I hope I get it. That would rock. Oh! And just before my interview I saw Rhea Perlman walking down the street in SoHo. I love her, I think she is one of the coolest actresses. And it doesn't hurt that she's super short like me.

Squeeee!

My R2 sweater is almost finished. I only need to knit the hood, add fringe, and sew her up before I am fully finished. I don't want to jinx myself though. We all know what happens when I start looking ahead to my sweaters being finished!

Today I started putting out the first of my resumes. 6 out today, 10 or so tomorrow. AND!!! I got an interview with Swatch! I am so excited. Mostly because I would *love* to be done with my job hunt this quickly! Wish me luck! As a treat for myself, I went to Minamoto Kitchoan for some very yummy Sakura Daifuku. That place is dangerous.

Janice got to go see David Sedaris read from his new book! I am so very, very jealous. Go check out her article she wrote up about it. She got to talk to him and, as you probably already guessed, he's just as funny in real life as he is in his stories.

I get to go meet one of my favorite comic artists this weekend. Vera of Return to Sender fame will be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival this weekend. I'm already trying to fight the fan-girl idiocy creeping into my brain. It's very difficult. I must try to act like a normal, functioning adult and not squee! all over the place. I'm really digging this whole living-in-New-York thing. I get to do way more cool stuff now.

Let's Do Lunch

I went to lunch and the Natural History Museum with Mindy yesterday. It was great fun. Silly me, I forgot to take pictures though. :( We had yummy Indian food on the Upper West Side and then went to the Museum to see the Frogs! exhibit. Those little guys were awesome (and not in the "Awesome Hot Dogs, Only $2.99" sense of the word. hee.) There was this one little teeny-tiny golden frog that is the most poisonous creature in the entire world. "She may be little, but she be fierce" for certain. We would have gone to The Yarn Co. after lunch, but realized that it was closed on Mondays. We decided to go on a yarn shop trip through NYC at some point instead and if you want to join, let me know. ;) Yeay! Knitting field-trip.

Jen has also started on her R2 hooded sweater. They are coming along very fast now. I'm really excited about this sweater... so weird, so cool.

Where Have I Been?

I hope someone else can tell me, because I sure don't know. I'm such a lazy whore; it took me a week just to do my resume and I still haven't started on my cover letters. I need to get this stuff done so I can start looking for a job. I hate job hunting. I want someone to come up and offer me the coolest job ever. I realize it's not going to happen, but that's really what I want. All you people in New York who own fun and funky knitting shops or boutiques or something, look me up!!

My Wavy Line Sweater is coming along very well. The back is done and I am *loving* the way it is turning out. I stopped knitting it for now though. I finally got my R2 booklet in the mail. I can't really be making a woolen sweater that I'm not going to wear for months and months if I can make I sweater to wear now. I'm enjoying making this sweater too and it is going very, very fast. I don't really like the way the yarn looks on the knit side of the stockinette stitch, so I think it's going to be a reverse stockinette sweater. Soon it will be finished and I can go back to the Wavy Line Sweater.

Now, if only I could get this into job-hunting. ;)