Eseme's Den

I've had a very good birthday.

Friday Mom gave me the book I had asked for (Making Money by Terry Pratchett) and something I didn't ask for. It turns out that a couple of years ago she bought some of Bryce Muir's prints at a fair, and forgot about them. She framed two of them for me. They are both of my hometown, one of the little park with the cannon and a view of the Town Landing Place and the other of smelt shacks on the river. How cool!

Yesterday I went to Halcyon with M and made a bag. A very cool bag with a castle on it. I learned you can felt with an electric sander. Not sure how someone figured this out, "Hey, let's add electric tools to this old art form that uses hot soapy water!" but it works very well. Since I had a 10% discount that day, I bought a copy of The Happy Hooker which I'd been wanting for a while. What? It's about crochet.

A co-worker makes candy as a hobby, and broght me in peanut butter cups. Yummy!

And I mailed five packages. You couldn't see me behind the stack of boxes. Whew! Now I just need to finish Lissa's leter.

I had my first phone interview on Thursday. I enjoyed it and thought it went well (the Search Committee on the other end laughed a few times). However, it is impossible to tell how it went from the interviewer's perspective - you can't see people on the other end of a phone call.

I have about nine more jobs to apply for this week. That means lots of cover letters to write, which is honestly the worst part of the whole business as it is very repetitive.

The weekend was fun. Went out for dinner with my parents on Friday at Richard's, a local German restaurant. The food was delicious as always. Saturday I went to three different rummage sales profiting three different charities (the largest one being the Bowdoin Yard Sale, formerly known as the Dump and Run Sale). We also went to an estate sale which was a very odd experience as we wandered through a dead person's house, opening drawers and cabinets to look for things to buy. Sunday I drove to the Windsor Fairgrounds with M to go to the Maine Fiber Frolic. Sheep, llamas, alpaca, rabbits, and fiber, fleece, roving, yarns, dyes, and stuff for sale, oh my! So much color and texture. We paid for a felting workshop and made lovely pouches, then we shopped, having lots of fun wandering through the stalls. We got ice cream and watched the Llama Drill Team, which was certainly a sight. People and llamas marching to "Anchor's Away" was really quite stirring and patriotic.

I love felting. *sigh* All my supplies are packed and in storage in Buffalo. Darn it.