- Lovely weather
- The opportunity to be acting culture editor for two weeks. Ridiculously stressful, but a good opportunity to make the editors notice me!
- The real culture editor (who is at the office, having a great time just writing things and not being in charge for two weeks) saying he spent a lot of time talking about how great he thinks I am at an editors meeting today. He says he’s mentioning to the other editors that they really can’t afford not to hire me permanently every chance he gets. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the power to do anything about it, and it’s unlikely he’ll get anywhere with that any time soon. But it’s great to know someone there really wants to keep me and tries his best to help.
- Reports that Cora is having a ball with my parents. I’m so exhausted with this editors thing, and I have to work longer hours, which means more time alone for Cora. My mother came over yesterday, and I went on and on about that, so she probably felt guilted into bringing Cora back home with her to give me some time off. But my dad is totally supexited about having Cora over, and just called me to report that he and Cora had spent hours at the beach today, and she’s constantly supexited about her luxury life at grandma’ and grandpa’s:)
- A sparkling appartment, as my mother spent a day cleaning it while I was at work yesterday. She said she’d just cleaned the windows, but she just can’t stand dirty and messy appartments, so she decided to clean the whole place, probably more thproughly than it has ever been cleaned.