Thursday, Bloody Thursday

Today, I go in for an interview. Not an interview with a staffing company (I get so weary of those: application after application, testing program after testing program), but with the company itself.

Job includes benefits; that alone makes it desireable to me.

Bad news: it's 50 minutes away, without traffic. Which means, it could potentially be 1 and 1/2 hours away WITH traffic. But I'm hoping, nonetheless, that I get it. I can always take public transportation, if need be, AND frankly, who cares? I will make minimum of $15 an hour, and I'm going to press for $35k/yr.

I leave for that in about an hour.

So that's THAT news.

On the other front, Peter and I have done our "I love you's." I asked him to change the rule, since I found it very silly--to say the least--that we're talking of marriage but saying "I like you." He agreed to change the rule in part. For him, 'love' just means a whole lot more than it does for other people. To say "love," there has to be at least that promise of marriage (engagement), and even then. It's a committment word that, while he is willing to say, he can't really mean fully until he's made that formal committment.

So we compromised. He told me he loves me, very much, but that he cannot say it flippantly or very often at this point. But he DOES love me. And I, of course, responded likewise.

So that's well and good. It's amazing how just hearing something vocalized can make such a difference: it's understood, yes, but not really grasped until it's said aloud. 'Bout time, in my book.

I need to go shopping!

I'm doing the portfolio thing again for grad school. Trying to get one together. It has to be my absolutely best work, and since they don't look at flash fiction, this means I have to write outside my form a little bit. Which is fine, you know. It's just difficult.

It's amazing how hard just "saying something" can be.

A story isn't just entertainment; the storywriter and the story, too, have a duty to SAY something meaningful, enduring, truthful.

Off to the day, then.