Karen picked me up at 9:30. She already had the young woman who joined us at the Rowan University job fair in July with her. We were joined by one more woman, an older lady who lived in a condo near Haddonfield. She chattered on about the job fair all the way to Cherry Hill.
The job fair was in the same area at the Cherry Hill Mall it was in May, the Grand Concourse where the three wings of the building converge. There were a lot more people around this time, and slightly more companies. No Comcast or Walgreens, but I did talk to Sun Newspapers again. Also told the Camden County Career Services I'm looking for a better job. The lady there said to e-mail her when I get back from vacation. She might have ideas that'll help me, too. She also suggested testing to see how fast I type. I know I can type fast, but not exactly how fast.
I honestly got more out of talking to the young woman than I did the job fair. She hoped to be a graphics designer or an artist; she doodled sketches on the folder with her resumes. We both admitted it could be pretty interesting looking younger than you were. I told her about wanting to be a writer. She told me about her side job selling her own jewelry.
(Oh, and yes, I did come home with more goodies. The best this time around was the metal liquid bottle I got from an air conditioning company. I also came home with a squeezy silver star, two tiny red and green balls, 18 pens, three tote bags, a plastic water bottle I gave to a friend, an extra-long nail file, three containers of sugar-free mints - I gave two of them to that friend and her daughter - and a whistle for my keychain, along with candy I ate there.)
When I got home, I went straight into lunch and into some classic Match Game '77. In the first episode, an older woman accidentally slipped and said "retarded" when she meant "retired." The second episode had Gene telling a very tall contestant he'd bring him down to size...by bringing out an extremely short stagehand.
Switched to the second Michael Shayne movie on that collection I picked up last month, Sleepers West. Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is escorting Helen Carlson (Mary Beth Hughes), who is the only witness to a murder trial on a train going from Denver to San Francisco. Her testimony could free a falsely-accused man and keep a crooked politician from being elected. Of course, it turns out that Shayne's old flame Kay Bartley (Lynn Bari), a reporter, is also on board...and that her fiancee Tom Linscott (Don Douglass) is an equally-corrupt associate of the politician in question. Doesn't help that there's train detectives who think Shayne's not on the level and goons trying to get rid of Helen, not to mention Kay smells a story...
Tough little noir is at its best in the confines on the train. It's less interesting near the end, when the engine catches fire and they all grab a taxi to San Francisco instead. It was good enough to make me look forward to checking out the rest of Michael Shayne's cinematic career.
Worked on writing for a while after the movie ended. Joyce explains how she acquired Rover as she and Charles walk further into the forest. She found him rooting around in the trash and sneaked him into Television City, but Ira reminded her that a TV studio is no place for scruffy, untrained dogs. She ran off with Rover when guards looked like they were chasing her.
Got my schedule online at this point. Thankfully after the last two weeks, I work a perfectly normal 10:30 to 4 on Sunday...and after that, it's vacation time! Working that early will give me plenty of time to finish packing and do the laundry, too.
Headed out around 2:30. I wish I hadn't. Even with just four hours and it not being that busy, I was such a mess today. I forgot to ring up three coupons and totally messed up an order. I really wish people wouldn't mix up the Multi-Meal and 4 for 20 meat sales. They're different sales with different labels in different coolers. The lady bought the wrong item for the Multi-Meal sales. I got the right one, then forgot to ring up the rest of them. Of course they didn't come off. How could I be so careless? I was angry at myself for the rest of the night.
Hurried home fast as I could. Went right into dinner and more Match Game '77. Handsome Tom Hallick of The Young and the Restless joined in this week, while Dick Martin took over for Charles Nelson Reilly. The episode started off with Gene insisting he was drinking grapefruit juice and not anything stronger. (He couldn't. He took medication that didn't allow him to drink.) I'm surprised no one craved chocolate when there was a question about what an astronaut saw covering the Milky Way and we had a very sweet answer to "__ Henry" on the Audience Match.
Finished the night with Sailor Moon R: The Movie, which is currently on YouTube for free. Usagi, Chibi-Usa, and the Guardians are shocked when a young alien claiming to be a friend of Mamoru's turns up, offering him a flower. Mamoru doesn't remember him, but Artemis and Luna know the flower on his lapel. It's a deadly blossom that sucks up the energy of everything it comes up to, leaving it a shell. She coaxed the young alien into believing that he'll only have Mamoru's friendship back if he doesn't share it. Sailor Moon and the girls know better...and they're the ones who show him that there's nothing so wonderful in this world to be shared as friendship and flowers.
Stuck with the second season for the unique episode "The Beach, the Island, and a Vacation; The Guardians' Break." For once, the Guardians battle nature, rather than a villain, when they help Chibi-Usa free the baby and mother dinosaurs who saved her from sharks before their cave home is destroyed by lava.
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