« Meme, Beme, Fo Femme | Main | Franklin Kieslowski (Scorsese's been done) »


August 02, 2005
Who's bringing over the goat cheese?

mini mini tomato
Originally uploaded by dirtyolive.
I was snubbed today. I pretty sure I was snubbed anyway. I stood there, waiting and waiting and waiting.... and I was ignored.

Snubbed.

But never mind because I discovered TWO tomatoes on my yellow cherry tomato vine. I can hardly wait.

Hardy wait.

I was so excited, I took this blurry photo of the perfect fruit. In fact, this may be a tomato that you would like, Chair. They aren't as acidic as regular tomatoes.

Actually, I have no idea why I feel the need to find you a tomato that you will enjoy. There must be some old Italian Mama inside me.

Speaking of the force-feeding Italian stereotype, I remember performing a piano duet with an Italian girl when I was young. She decided that we both had to wear baby blue to the performance because her skin looked good in baby blue. My only baby blue dress was incredibly too small for me. It was too small because her mother kept feeding me cookies whenever I went over to her house to practice (I like to blame my weight on other people). She didn't speak English, but I understood what a plate of cookies in my face meant.
Ah, the universal language of force-feeding, I mean, cookies.
Nevertheless, squeezing into that baby blue dress resulted in finishing the song at the concert without being able to feel any of my fingers. The arm pit holes were cutting off the circulation to my chubbed up arms.

We still got a trophy though. I'd scan in the picture of the two of us but it's slightly pornographic. The dress was stretched t-h-i-n and my friends weren't into the whole "bra scene" quite yet - ifyouknowwhatimean. My mother showed a lot of restraint letting me on stage wearing that dress. Of course, what coud happen at a piano recital held in a Christian Reform Elementary school gymnasium?

Why did I feel that I needed to add in the fact that I won?
Pathetic.
However, I think I may have used up all my winning karma before I hit high-school. Since then, my track record has been dismal.

This is my way of telling you I didn't get the job I interviewed for last week.

This has nothing to do with the snub. The snub is laughable and something I just wrote to start me writing tonight. Unfortunately, missing out on an extra $268.00 a month isn't as funny.

Ah well.
Onward and upward.
Posted by Ada
Comments

Rats! O well like you say onward and upward. Is there anything as good as fresh garden tomatoes?

Posted by: marc @ 08.03.2005 8:55 AM | #

I'm sorry you didn't get the job :(

Posted by: Kristeen @ 08.03.2005 9:13 AM | #

I'd offer up some kind of optimistic drivel such as "one door closes, several more open" or some such, but honestly in the same situation I'd turn to the drink.
So have a drink for yourself, then several more to hold you over until the next time you see a job you want :)

Posted by: Kyle @ 08.03.2005 9:52 AM | #

Sorry 'bout the job, thar babe. Maybe it Wasn't Meant To Be. Or whatever. Sorry, enough of the cliches, you're perfectly welcome to snub Kyle and me.

It's not the acidity of tomatoes that bothers me, it's something about the meatyness of it. But thanks for thinking of me.

Posted by: Chair @ 08.03.2005 10:08 AM | #

Hell, with you guys as my advisors, I'll just get sloshed from here on end - a few for the lost job, and a whole lot more for the interview.

Works for me!

Posted by: Ada @ 08.03.2005 10:18 AM | #

Oh and I am SO bringing over the goat cheese. You can have your tomatoes and I'll just eat the goat cheese. I LOVE goat cheese. Seriously. If all other cheeses in the universe disappeared and all that was left was goat cheese, I would still be happy.

Posted by: Chair @ 08.03.2005 7:27 PM | #


Post a comment

   

August 2008
S M T W T F S
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31            
Category
Ada - dirtyolive
chemicals are bad, mmm-kay?
D - husband
dear so-and-so
dirtyoliveness
don't listen to me
Eliza
family life
Franklin - the son
job search 2005
pregnancy
this and that
ugh
urban garden
vagina friendly
welcome to the neighbourhood
Archives
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
August 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
June 2003
May 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003
July 2002
June 2002
April 2002
March 2002
February 2002
January 2002
December 2001
November 2001
May 2001
April 2001
February 2001
January 2001
December 2000
November 2000
July 2000
June 2000
May 2000
April 2000
Recently
FYI - we had salmon, not spam

That bird was sooo fake
Really, really sad
Now I'm Taking it too far and Starting to Bore you
Alternatives
Chemical World
Sappy Gardening Crap
Critical Mass
Children