Today someone I don’t know gave me $50 and told me to pay it forward, like Haley Joel Osment. I totally will. Probably not monetarily. But I will do something nice for someone soon, something that is of equal or greater value.
I can’t say that I’m terribly surprised by the fact that my alma mater raised its tuition again for next year, but I think it might have been nice for the tuition to be frozen, like it is at Missouri’s state schools. Interesting, but not surprising, juxtaposition from the news this evening.
I got an interview, or at least the promise of setting an interview up, at the latest job that I applied for. It’s nice to have some good news! I mean, they did tell me that they’re not looking to hire any new staff at this time, yes, but it’s still nice that they want to see me. Plus, who knows, I could charm their pants off and get offered a job. Anything is possible. Well, some things are possible, assuming I get a haircut before the interview. I’m starting to look a little shaggy.
Aside from this breaking story, it has been business as usual here: looking for jobs, not finding jobs, becoming frustrated and terrified, xanax, a nap. Today at lunch I may have come up with a million-dollar idea that can potentially save the world and the American Education System: word-of-the-day toilet paper (patent pending!). It looks like this British vendor may have beaten me to it (it also comes in Sudoku). I am not quite sure how I feel about writing on toilet paper before use—seems unhygienic—so maybe mine, which will be simply read-n-wipe, is a better model anyway. I have so much thinking to do. And so much time on my hands.
I should invest this $50 in life-changing personal tissue products, I think. Yes. There is no better way to pay it forward than for me to keep America’s bums clean and minds sharp.
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