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2002-07-01 - 9:05 a.m.

Okay, I'm feeling a good bit less panicky today than yesterday. I think the key is to remember, above all else, that it's not all about me. I know this perfectly well, but I forget sometimes and act as though every single person on the planet is motivated by their feelings about me. (I think a good bit of the unhappiness people make for themselves comes from believing this.) And the move will work out fine. I just need to settle down.

However there is a lot to be done, and this week, I am going to be extremely organized and efficient, much like the German World Cup Team (only I won't go down to Brazil 2-0 in the final game). My feminist action for every day this week is going to be to cross AT LEAST two scary and disagreeable things off of my To Do list. Also, it's the first day of the new fiscal year, so the Repetitive Computer Process (which is the meat of my job) is starting up again. It's boring and mindless as all hell, but at least I won't feel like a big time-wasting loser for 8 hours a day.

The weekend was good--I got most of the things on my List o' Fun accomplished. Friday we did see the 75 cent showing of Some Like It Hot at the Saenger, with a big group of people (except not Adam, who had to work). It was great because 1.) They serve drinks in the Saenger and 2.) The Saenger is an enormous and beautiful theater, and it's pretty exciting to watch an old movie with so many people and enjoy the crowd's reactions. Also, 3.) Some Like It Hot is an incredibly racy, gender-bending movie, with an inordinate number of penis jokes and double entendres. It's really, really great. See it at your next available opportunity.

Saturday Adam and I went to breakfast in the Bywater, had coffee in the Marigny, and then went thrift store shopping on the West Bank. And that night I took him out on a Hot Date to see The Bourne Identity. (Don't see it, for the love of god! I am completely crushed out on Franke Potente, but my love for her was just enough to keep me from pulling my hair out.) Yesterday I read for about 7 straight hours, about two of them at PJ's on Magazine. I'm doing coffee shop time all over the city.

I don't want to leave N.O. feeling like there are a ton of things I haven't done, but I'm starting to feel like I've covered most of the bases. One touristy thing I haven't done is go to the graveyards, but I think I can feel comfortable leaving the city without visiting dead people.

p.s. About my freak-out yesterday: I think raw-voice is right that getting both degrees (teaching and MLS) would be a good thing, and an excitingly feminist/socialist thing. I could get my teaching certificate and be sort of a public school librarian/English teacher person, and I might eventually do that. I guess I'm beginning to feel like I'm racking up post-graduate degrees at an alarming rate, though. What's great about children's public librarianism is that you get to do all this neat socialist stuff, like make partnerships with all the public schools to get kids in there, and start reading groups, literacy programs, etc. etc. The MLS will take 2 years, and I could have a teaching degree a little bit faster and cheaper, but I think I'm going to stick w/ the MLS.



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