First, the bad news:
This past weekend, I was supposed to go see Henry Rollins’s spoken-word performance at Work Play in Birmingham.
It was also supposed to be a reunion of me and my partners in crime (Platinum Edition), Mere and Brandi.
Long story as short as possible, I didn’t get to go.
The problem?
What else? Money.
Yep, this Bachelor Girl’s pretty broke. Not like “can’t pay the light bill” broke (thank God), but more like “can’t justify a 450-mile road trip, two nights in a hotel and the-Lord-only-knows-how-many Martinis” broke.
I love being a freelancer, and more than I love the lifestyle it affords me is the fact that I get to do what I love for a living. The trade-off is, of course, that freelancing is very unpredictable. I never know for sure what each day holds, and, likewise, I never know for sure how many paychecks each month holds.
Therefore, it became necessary for me to get a part-time job. Dun dun DUUUUUN!
At first, I thought for sure that this part-time job would involve me either wearing a g-string or asking people if they want fries with that multiple times per day.
Now, the good news:
Fortunately, one of Jessica the Web Mistress’s friends was looking for a part-time editor!
So not only did I find a part-time job with relative ease, it’s writing-related and I don’t have to wear pasties or a hairnet!
I started today, and it’s super cool. The people I work with are awesome and funny, I get to sit at a desk instead of a rickety kitchen table, I GET TO WORK ON A MACBOOK (can I get a amen?), I get to wield a red pen and
I GET TO WEAR CLOTHES INSTEAD OF PAJAMAS EVERY DAY! Woot!
It’s going to take me a little while to get back into the work-a-day routine again, though. Therefore, I’m streamlining and cutting myself a little slack this week. So if I’m late answering Bachelor Girl comments or lax about commenting on your blogs, it’s just because I’m enjoying being an active part of normal society again getting used to my new job.
Get ready to pee your pants, ’cause here comes the best news:
I got an interview with Henry Rollins!!!!!
Actually, I’m gonna give credit where it’s due: Intern Chris got me an interview with Henry Rollins. It took a lot of plotting, scheming and crossing of fingers, but yes, ladies and gentlemen, my future baby daddy graciously agreed to answer our questions, including a few that were…um, how shall we say, less than professional. You’ll see what I mean when I post it, which will be
TOMORROW!!!!!
It’s the first Bachelor Girl Celebrity Interview! Can you even believe it?! Do you kind of want to barf from the excitement?! I know I do.
After our Henry interview was complete (and Chris and I were finished jumping up and down and squealing in my kitchen), we were all like, “Oh my God! We can actually do this! Celebrities will, like, talk to us and s–t!”
Riding high on a wave of Henry-induced excitement, Chris said, “We gotta do another one. Who’s it gonna be? Think. Go big.”
I paused for just a second before I screamed the first name that came to mind:
“PATRICK STEWART!!”
Your dreaming-big
Kel
OMG!!!!! I can’t wait to read the big interview!!!
Glad to hear you’re mainstreaming well. : )
Thanks! So far, I love it!
Intern Chris would like to vehemently and categorically deny jumping up and down and squee-ing in Kel’s kitchen. This, ladies and gentlemen is a total fabrication, and we (my imaginary friend and attorney, Luther Ignatius, esq.) will prove as such in MANCOURT. Please look forward to an Intern Chris post where I tell the real factual events of this aforementioned gay-ass recollection where there is not jumping up and down involved!
Kelly thinks the intern doth protest too much.
First… Complete “win” with the p/t job. Any time you can avoid food, retail or stripper poles, you come out ahead.
Nice karma with the Rollins interview!
And if you get to interview Patrick Stewart, you have to ask him to do you a voicemail message…
“Please have a full report on my desk at the sound of the tone… Engage!”
EXCELLENT idea re. Patrick Stewart! And it’s way classier than asking him to recite the lyrics to “Gin and Juice,” which is what I had in mind.
Darn it, now I wish you were single again so you could have some heavy office romances and talk about the designer clothes you’re wearing each day as some office boy takes them off of you on the conference room table layer-by-layer. Not that I would know anything about that.
If only I worked with The Guy…
However, one of the girls in my office is a real fashion bug (seriously, she could accessorize a flour sack and make it look amazing), so I’m really going to have to step up my game, clothes-wise.
HENRY ROLLINS???? Holy crap! That’s flippin’ awesome!
Isn’t he, though?! *dreamy sigh*
So sad to hear you had to miss going to the ‘Ham, but so incredibly awesome that you found a part time job that will help further your career! So, so lucky!
Thanks! I absolutely love it. I get to use my copy of Strunk and White EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. What more could one want?!
Congrats on an amazing interview opportunity! How cool is that?!? Sorry ’bout the p/t job thing, but life happens. Meh. Take the good and get excited about that, yeah?
Sooo awesome interview!
You always have the best attitude, Cristy! It sucks that freelancing has slowed down, but it rocks that I found a part-time job I really LIKE! So I’m definitely looking on the bright side!
When did we graduate from gold to platitinum?
Srsly, we missed you but totally understood. Weird handmade gift plus two yrs of bday presents will be shipped to you instead.
Haha! You’ve been platinum for a LOOOOONG time, baby!
Thanks to my craft addiction, you’ve got some handmade gifts coming your way, too! Hint: I’m also scheming to pass my craft addiction on to F. Hook ‘em while they’re young, you know…;)