The Quest for Employment

Well, I'm bored. Might as well continue with my blogging. I'm now down in Washington DC trying to make it into the ranks of working America. So far, I'm not there yet. But I'm talking to a lot of people and writing lots of emails (seriously, my typing skills have exponentially improved from all this computer time). Hopefully it will lead me somewhere to something. When I get there and do it, it will be great. I can't wait.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying DC. I'm house/dog-sitting for the Todds, so I'm spending a lot of time with Chanel, the sophisticated mini black French poodle, and Sasha, the affectionate half-wolf/half-husky. They're great.

I forgot to mention, in my first 24 hours here I got a job! Linda called and asked me to babysit for Alek and Hana. Not quite the pay rate and hours I was looking for, but definitely high on the fun-and-rewarding scale. Best conversation from the night:

Andrea: Hana, can you flip on the light?
Hana: Why?
Andrea: I can't really see my cards. [We were playing a game]
Hana: Do you want to die?
Andrea: [slightly taken aback] No, not yet... why?
Hana: There's a global warning. Turning on lights is bad for it, and it can make us all die. We need to conserve energy. Do you want that to happen?

Touché. I suffered through, after we had a really interesting conversation about "global warning" and what she had learned about it in school. Fun stuff!

We're all going apple picking and horse riding tomorrow, woohoo! That will be fun, considering my highlight of today was supposed to be a pickup frisbee game. But after getting all the way downtown to the National Mall, I couldn't find a parking space. After driving around for a half-hour, I came home. Boo.