Headline: BEEN HERE A MONTH...
WHERE: Here I am in Key West.
WHAT: Job Searching sucks!
WHO: Me and everyones door I knock on to plead plaintively for a paid position. (hows that for aliteration?)
HOW: In bits and starts because some days I just can't handle rejection.
WHEN: Since I got here, well... except for that brief fling in the Bahamas.
WHY: Because otherwise I won't be able to buy food soon, and I'll end up hanging at the soup kitchen.
ALL ABOUT ARRIVING IN DEC:
I'm sitting in a cute little coffee shop that has free internet, and an old friend Chris Fleming is here with his computer and showing me beautiful photos!... Beth is sitting on the other side doing art work... ooo, she just snapped a polaroid of me and glewed and drew until I became ART!... I'm now a mermaid!... very cool... wish I had a camera here
I'm staying a few nights on the schooner Appledore, a bit humid and lovely stinky boat smell, but I love that I'm there!... right in the harbor... looking for a place but first I need a job so I can afford it!
did a job interview this morning, so may go out tomorrow on a boat doing Eco-tours, to see if I want to do it... but when there are no people booked there is no money... the owner is a bit intense...
will do the kayak guide stuff this afternoon as a training run to see if the routine is about the same...
had a good journey down... stayed up way too late the night before in Austin TX with Kurt at Antones Bar, listening to amazing music (Storyville: Malford Milligan an albino black guy as the singer/songwriter, with Stevie Ray Vaughn's old band, Double Trouble and a couple awesome guitar players)... so tired and grumpy the next day
flight was fine, but at Ft Lauderdal airport in the hot, humid struggle of trying to find the bus stop, I was just in time to see the Greyhound bus go by; I missed it!... AARRGGHH... so I stagger back into the AC looking for the rental car place....
"how much to rent one day and drop in Key West?" I ask. -- "$120, it is Christmas week"
I can't afford that and I turned to walk away.
"do you have any discounts?" she asks-- "nope"
"triple A?"-- "that would be a good thing, now wouldn't it?"
"that will make it $56.88" and she starts writing me up... "oooo, so you're saying it's Christmas, thank you."
she consults the computer and then looks up, "I'm sorry we only have the hard top Mustang, will that be okay?"
"Mustang? sure!" ...that's one of those zippy little things, oh boy...
just to put it into perspective, I've been driving a 1989 Isuzu Trooper for the last month that has the "aerodynamics of a refridgerator" (and that's according to the owner) and the power of a sewing machine (okay a big sewing machine, and it did get us from Oregon to Texas)...
I had trouble just getting out of the parking lot because when you step on the gas it goes... no I mean, GOES!!
I can't believe you can rent that kind of sport car, that is all about prestige, and sex appeal... it's a bit heady, the power of possession!... it's almost like it comes with an "attitude" and how could you not drive fast!?
so I drove like a nut case down to the Keys!... music blaring, singing along, windows down, sunshine, blue sky, sunset and the last stretch in darkness zipping past Christmas lights... of course most of the time within the speed limit, can't imagine the nightmare it would've been hitting a key deer in that little plastic car!
got into Key West just in time to see the lighted boat parade, and bump into friends John and Elio, and Chris Fleming in town... found my yoga friend Siobhan... planning to go to a Spa today with Beth to help my sore ankle
will do the kayak guide stuff this afternoon as a training run to see if the routine is about the same... and then the hot date later tonight... I'm so stoked at all this interaction and people to catch up with!...
down side is the panicky moments, when I wonder what the hell I'm doing here... and it's so expensive and how wil I be able to live!... just can't seem to think of it as a long term place, at least not without someone as a partner to pay half the rent!
well, that's future ... today I'm fine, I've eaten... I have a place to sleep that isn't my Mom or Dad's house and life goes on...
Weather:
Its sunny and warm most days. Some wind too, so the yachties here for Race Week couldn't complain too much.
Sports:
Race week means tons of race sailors are in town taking up space but they all seem to spend very little money and have limited interaction with anyone in town. Strange week here.
Book reviews:
I actually read Clive Cussler's Sahara to see how they translated it to a screenplay. Interesting exercise. Made the mistake of asking one of someone at my writer's group if the chapter could be compared to it as he was apologizing for it being so "guy" oriented, he was not happy with the comparison.
Movie Reviews/News:
Saw "Painted Veil" last night. Period piece with beautiful scenery in the limestone outcroppings of China, but so sad. Wept walking home.
Quote of the Week:
“Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?" --bumper sticker.
Coming Events:
Ping pong game night at the Blue Heaven restaurant.
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