Jots and Tittles

I'm sitting at work at the moment, going through the emails and whatnot.  It's still early in the day, unfortunately, so I've got to drag this out some or I'll run out of things to do and that's always sad. Or... something.

I still need to find another job, one that gives me more hours than Rosie can at the moment.  Wal-Mart is always an option, though this time I'm going to be smart about it and make myself unavailable after about 9 pm and before about 8 am.  I'm not getting up any earlier than 7 and I'm not getting off any later than 9 or 10.  Even that is freaking ridiculous but I remember how things get around 6 or 7 in the evening, and I know they'll want me then.  So maybe a compromise would be good and I'll say  I can't work after 8.  If they ask me why, it's because I have to work regular hours at my other job and I can't afford to work overnights at one job and then go straight to the next.  Or, something like that.  Actually if I worked at the Harmony Wal-Mart that wouldn't be a problem because they close eventually.  At, like, 11 or something rather lame, but they do close.

I'd be okay with working until 11 if I was at Barnes and Noble, actually, but that's probably about the only place I wouldn't mind practically living in until they kicked me out, and it's quite possible that I'd hate it after I was done there.  And that would be sad, wouldn't it?  Can you imagine me hating Barnes and Noble?  Good heavens!  I'd die!  Or Gelazzi? Heaven forbid.

However, Troy had an absolutely brilliant idea yesterday: work for Sylvia and the Voices of Orthodox Women!  Of course they couldn't pay me, but it would be experience and it would placate my mom, who would then allow me to stay in Fort Collins, and that's really the important part anyway.  So I emailed Sylvia about it, as well as my next article for the newsletter, and here's what she had to say:

I'd love to meet with you and I'm also intrigued about receiving some help with this work.  We're all volunteers, so there's no money involved.  But let's put our heads together. 
I was eager to read what you'd written.  It's good!  And, it's not too long.  You've made a strong point.  By the way, your name came up today because I was talking with Rich McDermott for a few minutes at break time during presbytery.  He had very good things to say.  So did I!  Now, let's set up a time when we can meet face to face.  Take a look at your schedule and let me know when it would work for you.  Then I'll look at mine.

Yay!  That's so exciting!  I can't imagine how this summer is going to work out, but if I'm working for VOW, paid or no, it'll be awesome.  Yay for God!  Now, if I could come up with something that pays so I could keep doing this for the rest of my life, I'd be quite well off. We were talking yesterday about me writing a book about all this stuff, which is something I've been considering for a while now, so maybe this summer would be a good time to start working on a manuscript.  I'm counting on all of you to keep me accountable, though, because without an external deadline of some sort I'm likely to just waste my time on the internet or something equally useless instead of working on what God has called me to do.  It's amazing how easy it is to waste your life completely away doing neither what you liked nor what you ought.  (And yes, for the more astute of my readers, that was a somewhat-mangled quote from Screwtape Letters.)  Like, perhaps, making long, boring and pointless posts on one's livejournal?  Yeah, I think it's time to sign off.

-Jaya-