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Okay, no more Ms. Lazybones for today. Now I remember how I passed all that time when I was unemployed before--I poked around the most useless things imaginable while online. This time, though, it hasn't been fanfiction, but mostly wikipedia. For instance, did you know that while Seattle and Portland city limits don't have hugely different population numbers, Seattle is almost twice as dense? Also, when you include the entire metro area, Seattle's has twice as many people as Portland's. Also, Virginia Beach isn't far behind either city population-wise, and is the third most-populous city-that's-a-suburb, in the United States. It's considered a suburb of Norfolk, even though it has more people in it!

Anyway. *rolls eyes* This is why I'm good at Jeopardy. I find damn near everything absolutely fascinating, and when I read something that I find interesting, I just suck it up like a sponge. I love interpretive centers, or signs at historic places, all that shit, and I just remember lots of it.

So, to-do list for today:

*Find phone number for Department of Human Services. Ask if they have an office with public computers where I can get help writing a resume and print it out (alas, we have no printer here). Write down the address and what the hours are and things like that.
*Locate my last paycheck (the one with all the vacation pay on it) and get it ready to take to Jarrod's bank to start a checking account there. I wonder what ID I need...mail and my DL should be enough, yes?
*Do my goddamn laundry. I'm stuck in my pajamas until I wash some clothes. I managed to find all that underwear I lost, and it's all dirty again.
*Put all my receipts in one place from my Seattle trip. Call Wamu and find out how much I've spent on my credit card, yowza.
*Wash the dishes!
*Figure out what I'll make for dinner and make sure I have everything, if not, make a stop at People's.

Okay. That should be enough for today. Seriously. I make that list any longer, and I'm going to get all panicky and shit.

Future things to do:

*Write down somewhere my work history, as much as I can patch together, for the last ten years. Look up any addresses/phone numbers I don't know.
*Start trolling craigslist, yay.

How did I miss the Moby album "Play"? I know everyone else has heard it eight bajillion times. There are some songs on it that I already know, but much of it is new to me, and I really like it.

This has been a very ADD post. In honor of that, I give you two links:

What's It Like to have ADD? The whole thing is good, but the following paragraph is so accurate to my own life, that I just have to quote it:

"In other ways it's like being super-charged all the time. You get one idea and you have to act on it, and then, what do you know, but you've got another idea before you've finished up with the first one, and so you go for that one, but of course a third idea intercepts the second, and you just have to follow that one, and pretty soon people are calling you disorganized and impulsive and all sorts of impolite words that miss the point completely. Because you're trying really hard. It's just that you have all these invisible vectors pulling you this way and that which makes it really hard to stay on task."

Fifty Tips on the Management of ADD, which I recommend that people read, whether or not they have ADD, for two reasons: 1. Lots of people have "ADD days," or occasionally have some of they symptoms, whether they're ADD or now, and 2. I think it helps other people (like my friends and family) understand what I'm dealing with, or know how to help me.

Coffee with chocolate-peppermint soymilk tastes like a Starbucks peppermint mocha. Whoo!