Guess where I am? Not at the library, not at Kinkos, but at an Internet Cafe near the library in Glendale that charges $2 an hour!

I went to the library at 2.45p and couldn't get a slot until 4p, so I signed up and was going off to weep at the gates of Gateway until they at least gave me a date as to when I would be getting my computer back, when I walked by this NetCafe that I never noticed before.

Hey, $2 an hour versus waiting over an hour for a free computer is worth it to me! And much better than Kinko's usurious prices.

Yesterday I was going to come out to Glendale, but Mom asked me as a special favour if she could use my car and I can't drive her car, so I was stuck in the house until she came back. Which was actually fine, I don't mind hanging around the house. She had an audition, you see, as a patrician lady and she thought that she would look more patrician if she drove over in the car that has air conditioning rather than the old Bug, which I don't know how to drive.

I watched Arrested Development, a show that I was interested in seeing but never got a chance to before, until they played six episodes last Sunday on FX that I was able to tape. What a terrific show! It's almost unwatchable, the way everyone is so creepy and all of these embarrassing things keep happening, but also, somehow, it's impossible to turn away, and is literally laugh out loud funny.

Now here's my question--what insane lunatics over at Fox decided to put it on at 9p Sunday opposite two shows that I cannot ever miss, Alias, and Criminal Intent? What kind of hideous Hobson's Choice is that? Anyway, I never thought I'd love a Jason Bateman show, but my God, it's brilliant.

While I was watching, three things happened, two phone calls and an event.

Slightly out of chronological order, the event was that I finally figured out why there is always water all over the kitchen floor. You see, we have two sinks in the kitchen, and the right hand sink leaks into the cupboard under the sink and then onto the floor, it had done that for ages and we don't run water into that sink.

Sometimes water splashes in there accidentally, and that is why we have a towel on the floor, but lately there has been a flood almost every day. And it took me until yesterday to realize that the left hand sink leaks, too. So that means washing dishes in a bucket and pouring the water in the backyard. Pretty soon we'll be beating them on rocks like the settlers.

The second phone call was from Gateway, regarding not my computer that they have had for days and weeks and a month, but Mom's computer, that they have had for a minute.

They asked permission to replace the hard drive. Now, I still want to get one or two half-written entries off of there, but I'm afraid that if they send it back to Glendale and I get the entries off then give it back to replace the hard drive, they'll notice that the repair warranty that it's under has no business covering a free hard drive and they'll charge us a bunch of money. But neither do I want to pay $50 to get a couple of half-written entries off that computer.

So I said that I'd call them back, then talked to Mom, who agreed that since they were replacing the hard drive, we probably wouldn't have to spend $100 to have them reload Windows onto it, so it's worth spending $50 to get the entries. So I called them back and left a message. My Gateway guy was right when he said that I'd probably get the second machine back before the first!

Then the other phone call, which actually happened before the sink revelation or the Gateway call, which was at last I got a call from the agency for me to audition for the voice over agent. After a month, finally.

My audition is Monday, which is actually the day that I was going to go home, even though I knew that I wasn't, it's when my flight was. Hooray! So I'll finally get to stop hanging around, either she'll reject me and I can go home or she'll sign me and I will hang around for awhile longer and audition and hopefully book some work. Anything is better than this limbo I've been in.

Today's horoscope:
Your social conscience is in overdrive. Your resources are stretched uncomfortably. It seems as if your life is taking on a different shape. See how you feel tomorrow before calling this a permanent change.

One year ago today:
Have I mentioned that I don't watch that show? Because I don't watch that show, and if anyone starts talking about the war to me, which thankfully happens very infrequently, I tell them clearly that I. Really. Don't. Watch. That. Show.

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