Wow, how time flies. Here I am sitting in the heart of New Haven, with the Yale Repertory theater and Yale Drama School all in my eyes sight! I've traded the peace and maddening tranquility of rural Maine, for the hustle of a city, which is just 68 miles from NYC!... Its been so long since I have lived in a city that I am often jolted when I walk past a dumpster with the most dubious odors, or street people who talk to themselves or give you stares as though they want to carve your heart out. Since I don't have internet in the lovely ( tongue in cheek) Chez Duncan Hotel, I am at the coffee shop across the street, using someone's wi fi ...
Meanwhile, the cacophony of construction/destruction workers fill the air with jack hammers, and trucks, and god knows whatother noise they make... but it fills my head. Later tonight, after 4 it will be almost silent when these little macho worker bees go home to their families.
Jacko is still in Maine, feeling very very isolated. We rented our property out as of Sept 1st, and I will go back to Maine to help him pack up a U Haul truck with our belongings and bring us down to Connecticut. He has the unpleasant task of having our Mama kitty put to sleep along with her daughter kitty ( Seraghina and Ashley). They're getting on in years and just would not cope well with city life. I feel badly, but then they're old and becoming a bit daft in the head... the thoughts of this make me sad... but on the other hand, I;ll get to see my two best buddies.. Connaugh ( my dog and my shadow) and Mr Squeaks, my devoted black cat who thinks every hour should be nap time... haha.
Work... hmmm... ambivalent about this job I would say. I have decided to stay out of peoples lives the best I can, remain polite, conversant, but not share too much about me. There are too many personalities at this job and some of the nurses I think can be vitriolic... I have to remember, that this job is just to get me through grad school. The nursing ed dept keeps talking about me getting my RN ( I have to be there at least until 2/08 to qualify for them to pay...meanwhile, I have grad school beginning in January... not sure they'll be so flexible with my schedule to let me attend classes, so things are tenuous at best...
Another interesting aspect to living here is keeping to a budget. I have 65.00 dollars to technically last me until next Friday. This has to include my meals, and laundry and stuff....I have become pretty good at finding cheap eats, ( I have lost weight in two weeks!) and how to find entertainment thats cheapo...Saturday night, on the New Haven green is a free concert with jazz singer Regina Bell. I think Sunday, I might try to find a way to get to the beach... all free... I'm avoiding bars because I don't want to piss my allowance down the loo... Next Friday is Payday, and this coming Monday, our tenant in Maine will pay us for his first and last months rent.. I can't wait to get normalcy into our lives.
Meanwhile, the heat is building and time for me to go explore... .ciao!
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