Quote from the Impressions exhibit (thanks Dona for writing it down!)

"There is only one true way.  Paint from the very beginning just what you see. If you get it, you get it.  If you don’t, you start over.  All the rest is just fooling around." — Edouard Manet

ok. What’s for dinner and who took the few brain cells I had left to think about questions like this?

Made my phone calls and follow up re the verification. All is well. Phew. Interesting that I got handed off to another person within the same organization to be considered for a different job.

Did a little quilting but then the vacuum cleaner was feeling lonely so I vacuumed the rugs and floors a bit. Looks better as always. Did some wash. Washed the front door rug.

Making some coffee now because I need a little something. Maybe I’ll have a little nosh too. Bill the cat was just bugging me for a little pre-dinner nosh. Maybe we were both feeling a bit peckish.

Had a chat with Pat who asked me to remember to be brutally clear in instructions for future blocks. Leave NOTHING out. Assume nothing. Be proactive. It’s interesting what people do.

Dona and I had such a good time in Western Mass yesterday. Met up at 43/22 and condensed into one car.

The Impressionist exhibit is worth every penny of the $10 and more. It was very crowded which was probably the only drawback, but even so. Nicely arranged and displayed. New work and familiar. I bought the accompanying book, and many of the prints in there were worthless compared to what we actually saw. that was really shocking! So go in person to see art and go whenever the opportunity arises.

Have to make some phone calls this morning about jobs. Two that contacted me, and then have to follow up with the agency doing verifications for Apple. Seems they tried to contact Lycos for verification that I worked there and no one returned their phone calls. How rude is that? I am eternally grateful that they called me. geesh.

Oh, after we did the impressionist exhibit and lunch (poached salmon on salad greens with green beans, tomato, greek olives and hard-boiled egg), Dona and I went to the Waverly outlet and to another place with similar fabrics and even more and better wall paper. We stopped in between the two shoppings and had pie and beverage at the Red Coach right in Adams. Just down the street from the down-on-its-luck Miss Adams Diner. Dona had Chocolate Cream pie which looked to die for. I had “Banana Fluff” which was described as banana pudding mixed with cool whip. It was much better than that. If there was cool whip in it, it was what made the banana cream part so light and silky. The taste was wonderful In a homemade crumb crust and with just a right amount of whipped cream on top.

Slept well for the first time in weeks. Maybe it was the final interview nagging at me but I woke up after a whole night’s sleep and felt great.

on to the day now.

I felt today’s interview (#3 with Apple) went pretty well. I’m always amazed at what some of the questions are and the insights they can get you. Sometimes it’s the simple ones that are tough – Talk about a time when you had to take things into your own hands.

I was totally stumped. I bumbled around and then told the guy that what I’d come up with probably wasn’t a good example, and that I was having a tough time with the question. (Then it occurred to me – it’s because you do that all the time. It’s not a unique moment in your life. You don’t wait around. You just DO. Ahhhhhhh!) When I summarized that for the interviewer he said – oh, so that’s part of who you are. Ahhhhhhhh! Yes!

what an interesting moment.

Will know sometime between Thursday and Sunday. The Apple store is due to open on Sept 28.

Got the fabric needed to make borders for the raffle quilt – now in iteration #6. Dropped it off with Pat and had a nice visit in her office. Had forgotten what it was like. Also visited with Nancy Holmes. Saw another CopyCenter customer who told me how much he missed me (after three years!) because the people there now won’t collate his weekly stuff. They’ll copy it, but won’t collate it. How stupid is that? Mind you, it’s the MACHINE that does the collating and stapling, not the people.

Probably didn’t learn how to do that. duh.

went to staples to buy CD-R because I am having a CD burning problem that I can’t get past. Thought I’d try a new batch (didn’t work).

Of course all the back to school stuff is out.

Best find of the day (no not the 200 sheets of wide rule paper for twenty-nice cents!): a lime green notebook. Bound type. “The Original Marble Cover – 100 sheets” of GRAPH PAPER.

Yes! For 99 cents apiece, I bought two.

I love working on graph paper and then hate myself for ripping out pages! Often those sheets form the working outline of my design and construction process.

Came home, wrote my thank you letter. Been vegging out since then.

Tomorrow – The Impressionists at the Clark Institute!