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let's see if i can keep up with my lack of posting...saturday Mary Beth and i went to David and Phoebe's to hang out and meet the new kitten (which i doubt i need to add was super-cute, but i will anyway 'cuz he was super-cute even for a kitten!) did anything happen on sunday? i don't think so...on monday i stopped by Dustin and Courtney's after work because i had Mary Beth's birthday present shipped there (the company said they couldn't ship it here without identifying themselves on the package, then when i saw the package i realized it was double-good i had it shipped elsewhere; because not only would just the name of the company/organization have given it away, but it also had the actual name of the item she was receiving in even bitter letters above the return address...) also, while i was there i hung out a bit...they gave me a couple presents: this Jerry's Sno Cones t-shirt i'm currently wearing and wore yesterday (i belive it's my first green shirt too, strangely enough...) and Brüno dvd...plus, there's another present that couldn't be given to me yet because it's something Dustin worked on together with Josh so it'll wait til Josh is there too! (and i know that sounds very promisingly awesome!) oh, and weirdly, while i was at their place i got a call from a school (it was pretty late) asking me to interview...oddly it was the Northside Alternative School which i'm pretty sure i already interviewed with(?)...but after he suggested times i was working and i suggested better days for me, he asked me a few questions (of the typical experience-related branch) then said he'd check his schedule and get back to me...i'm willing to bet he won't actually get back with me because of my answers...

then yesterday was Mary Beth's birthday! walked before work (been walking a lot lately and before work when i go in at 11:30)...while i was at work i got a call from ANOTHER school (Manassas High) and i have an interview with them monday morning...i'm sure it'll go the way of the others, but what the hay? after work i picked up some pizza from Little Italy (my lovely wife's favorite) and we had something of a birthday pie for dinner...i think it was in my last post that i mentioned the crazy Criterion sale at B&N, well we got our shipments yesterday and this is what was in my box: Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Oshima's Outlaw Sixties (Eclipse Series 21), 3 Women, In the Realm of the Senses, La Jetee/Sans Soleil, Vampyr, Eyes without a Face, Man Bites Dog, Kwaidan, Onibaba, The Seventh Seal, Night and Fog, and Dušan Makavejev: Free Radical (Eclipse Series 18)...and there's one more coming that shipped separately...and Mary Beth got even more! (at least more in the way of huge box sets...) so we're very Criterion-core right now...we started in on watching some last night...we were up late but still got up even a little earlier than usual (before 8)...anyway, now today's MY birthday...Mary Beth gave me my wedding ring (they were custom made and had taken a long time and for a while were much of headache where Mary Beth was sure the person making them was screwing her over...but they recently arrived finally...) they both have an engraving, mine is a Minimoog and hers is a book...inside is engraved "i'm here to sing you songs" (she said after she had already submitted that she'd thought of something else too late: "without you life would be a mistake"...) inside hers is engraved "for these 1001 nights and beyond" (which is sweet 'cuz she quoted my wedding vows...) mine's a bit tight and i think it'll need to be resized but i'm wearing it now...getting used to anything at all staying on my fingers/hands/arms...the woman who made 'em does free lifetime resizing...anyway, my wonderful wife is making a birthday breakfast right now and i think i'm out of stuff to say...