A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
One Down

From:          Elizabeth  
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Friday, December 11, 1998 3:06 PM
Subject:       One Down
 
One down, one to go.  My friend said the test was a "ball buster."  I don't know what the female equivalent term might be?  I've heard one sort of similar for females, but it is rather crude.  As usual, I was about one of the last to leave, but I know the last few people with me there last night always, as I usually do, make among the highest grades.  One person left after 45 minutes, and I was still on the very first page (of eight)!  But I talked with a friend and she said the guy had been having personal problems all year, having lost his job, etc.  So maybe he just gave up.  I don't see any conceivable way he could have finished. 
 
Totally off any subject--do you ever eat fast food.  I don't eat very much, but when I was traveling I had a Taco Bell "Gordita" (alot of gas stations on the interstate now have drive through only Taco Bells, etc.) I rather liked it.  Its a taco, but on pita bread.  I've only tried beef, as that was the first I tried and liked it, but there is a chicken and steak choice as well.  Do you even have fast food places in your area?
 
I just heard the public library has hired the SECOND person to fill my job since I left two years ago.  The first person was a flop, and basically he has been transferred to another slot (but the job and other staff are horrible so I don't fault him, just as I don't fault myself). I absolutely CANNOT believe the person they have hired.  She's my age, maybe a few years older, retired from a state librarian job EARLY because of stress and, from what I heard, mental problems.  Why she would even apply for the most god-awful, stressful, demanding library job in town, I have no earthly idea. Also, the fact to be already retired, and THEN to take on something so demanding--it makes no sense to me.  Also, I know she is perfectionist, and that will absolutely do her in there, because I'm somewhat that way, and it's not even an approachable standard there--the place is so mediocre.  Anyway.  I'm glad I'm here.
 
My "friend" I mentioned across the hall has an interview today for the job she applied for.  I fear she will be leaving and I will be left basically alone. 
 
I have a real yen to build something, you know with woods, nails, etc.  I don't know why, and I'm afraid I would get bogged down and never finish if I tried, but some reason I just want "to build something."  I fantasized doing just a small end table of sorts.  I'd like to do a platform for my futon, but I don't have the energy/strength to lug sheets of plywood upstairs.  I thought about having the store cut sections for me that would be manageable, you know like cut one sheet in thirds or something.  Oh well, just rambling.
 
Hope you have a decent weekend.  But, however, I just recalled you are off to Baltimore anyway and won't even get this.  Change that to "had" a decent weekend.  Elizabeth

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