Adventures of the suburban kind

Yesterday, I continued my ongoing job hunt by having my mom drop me off in downtown Huntington, where I hit up every hair salon and even filled out a few applications at retail establishments. After I was more or less finished, I decided to walk to Maggie’s job, since it was only about a mile up the street.

Or, would have been a mile. If I didn’t start walking about half a mile in the wrong direction first.

Not to mention, the heat and humidity were pretty brutal yesterday, so by the time I got to Maggie’s job, I was practically dying. Since they were ready to close up shop for the night and it was only her and one other vet tech there, she decided to show me around all the exam rooms and kennels.

On our way back to Joe’s (her fiancee, who lives right up the street from me and whom I’ve known since roughly third grade), Maggie called him up and explained how she “found something outside of her job” and asked if she could keep it. I couldn’t hear Joe’s end of the conversation, but Maggie kept convincing him that she’d “feed it,” “make a box for it,” and despite all his protests, she was “bringing it home anyway.” She even asked him if he could at least help her bring it in from the car.

It, if you haven’t already deduced, was me.

At Joe’s, we hung around for a while, and witnessed a house fly going into its death throes. I took some macro pictures of it, and Maggie accused me of being morbid and weird. Yeah, tell me something I don’t know. After a while of doing nothing much of anything at Joe’s, we decided to go out, but we didn’t know where. Joe suggested we find the Huntington Fireman’s Fair, which we attempted to do, to no avail. So we drove around some more, through Downtown Huntington. Huntington Station, and then finally we headed back out east.

We ended up at an IHOP, where Joe and Maggie were both appalled at the amount of sugar I loaded my coffee up with. What?! Fourteen packets of sugar is a perfectly respectable amount for one cup.

After IHOP,we came back to Joe’s for a few hours, before I decided I was tired and I went home.

July 18th, 2010 | Friends | Leave a response