In about forty-five minutes, I will be leaving to the “Phoner Appreciation Night” for my class of people at Phone Banks, the telemarketing company that hired me. Not for actual telemarketing, mind you. I’m taking inbound calls. Pledges for PBS stations across the country. We get pizza and our schedules tonight, so there’s really nothing to be this nervous about.

Well, other than the end of an almost four-month era of my life in which I was either unemployed or employed with no work. It still makes me uncomfortable when I get this excited about being able to pay bills again. I guess it’s another question of getting hired and then not getting any work. That is probably a big fear that’s contributing to this nervousness.

On a good note, I’d forgotten how schweet my satellite speakers and subwoofer were compared to the built-in iMac speakers. Harmon-Kardon [sp?] makes really good speakers, there’s just no substitute for the subwoofer. Taaaasty Altec Lansing.