Interesting things are afoot.

Andrea came into town this weekend. Lots of fun was had by all - drinking, gambling & tongue piercing for the girls!! :^) It was good. Still waiting for the swelling to go down so that I can say words like "silly" without sounding like Christopher Lowell but I'm definitely working on it.

By the way - I noticed in my last post that I forgot to mention the funnest thing of all: I am at war with Papa Murphy's. I received customer service so bad that it made Taco Bell look good. So, I ended up going to the website and complaining and the Regional Franchise Director was supposed to contact me....but HE NEVER DID! Assholes. That is all that I have to say.

Had my first job interview last Thursday. Still waiting to see how that turns out. I am much more anxious to hear from the airport authority, but we'll see what happens.

By the way, you have to check out Andrea's Blog. I'm a republican, but even I don't like George Bush, so you have to go read his most recent ridiculous quote. It's some good stuff.

Anyways, I'd better get off the internet. I figure no one can call me for interviews if I'm online.

Hasta la Pasta!

Wow....so, the last time that I wrote, I was still a Californian. Now, here I sit, a full blown Nevada resident and, I've gotta tell ya, Reno is a lot different that I thought it would be.

1) It never gets dark here. I feel like I am spending the summer in Alaska. The sun comes up at like 5 a.m. and goes down at 9:30/10:00. It's so wierd....and so incredibly hard to sleep in.

2) It is so windy here that I worry that we may have a tornado....although, from what I understand, it doesn't happen in Nevada. Still, the winds are always 20 mph and up and coming from all directions. Believe it or not, it has encouraged me to make my hair shorter.

3) They gave us an apartment above two grumpy old people who got irritated the other day because I moved the table while I was vaccuming. Oh yeah, and they referred to Nevin as a "noisy little bouncer". They've already complained about us twice, but it was daytime both times so the manager told them to call us back when it's between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. (you know, quiet hours). we're never loud then. It wouldn't surprise me if that old hag decided to key my car.

4) You can get just about everywhere in this town on one street. It runs in a big circle all the way around town. When you are outside of it, it's awesome. When you are inside of it, it's ghetto. Oh yeah, no matter where you are in town, you can always see at least one Casino (except out of my window - Yay!).

5) Produce is ridiculously overpriced. I guess all of their fruits and vegetables have to be shipped in from the surrounding states so it costs a freakin' fortune to buy them. You know how a head of lettuce is usually like 69 cents?? Yeah, here it 78 cents a pound. Who ever heard of selling a head of lettuce by the pound?? And I won't even tell you how much you're going to pay should you want to eat bell peppers or asparagus or an avacado. Sheesh.

6) There is a large population of gay people here under 25. However, they are not the cool ravy happy gay people that we all know and hang out with. These are whiny little teen wanna-be homos who complain all the time that the other gays in Reno are all "jaded" because of the Casino vibe. Whatever that means. These are the kind of queens that most gay people are ashamed to be associated with. It makes me want to fly a bunch of my friends out here and introduce them to some real gay people. Sheesh. Bitches.

That is about all I've learned thus far....except that you can't get to my house from 4th street (don't even ask).

I've got my first job interview tomorrow at 2:30, Andrea is flying in at 7:45, we are getting our tongues pierced on Friday & going to "Star Spangled Sparks" and then we are gambling & clubbing on Saturday (and squeezing in a showing of Legally Blonde 2). Should be a fabu weekend. :^D

Adios!