I spent a while in Craigslist looking for a different living situation, so I could live with people I would actually be friends with. It would be cool if I could find something and move before the summer's over, but I doubt it. I miss the old collective houses I used to live in, in Minneapolis and Chicago and a long time ago in Portland.

So now I'm procrastinating looking for a job on Craigslist, because I need your advice (yes, you!) about my resume. I need to revise my resume before I start sending it out again, but I have a problem: Should I list my previous job, or not? If they call Natacha for a reference, the only thing she could say about me was that I was late on about three occasions (other employees were late more than me while I worked there). But I *did* get fired.

But it was a barista job, we served Stumptown coffee (the Portland gold standard), so it would be good to have as experience, because I want to find another very similar job. I have other coffee jobs on my resume, but they're all from a few years ago. So do I list it, and then explain to the potential job that I was fired for no reason? Or leave it off and say I just got back from Thailand and haven't had a job yet? Help!

The other possibility is to list Pete as a reference, since he's the chef at a restaurant here. He said he'd lie and say I was working for him and give me a glowing reference. But I don't like lying, and I wouldn't want to have to pretend that I'd worked at his restaurant, it would just get complicated. But that's still an option.

Until I get some feedback from you, my dear readers, I'm stuck in resume limbo. I brought a book. I can wait.

Last night I switched from taking Brian's klonopin to Ashley's klonopin, and even though I took the same amount, hers must have been much more potent, because I slept until 2 pm today! So I got off to a late start, and headed over to NW on the bus. Lately I've been really into that neighborhood. The energy is almost as good as San Francisco -- if you ignore the yuppies, there's a lot of other stuff going on, and I like going to Coffee Time and talking to strangers about my life.

I went shopping too, to celebrate being clean. I bought myself a pretty necklace, and bought a present for Donna, though she hasn't called me back yet about retrieving it. I was just in a celebratory mood and saw something I thought she'd love. After that little shopping spree, and the acid I bought yesterday, I need to stop spending money.

In response to some guestbook questions: Brian is back at his old job of running a petitioning business. He got a sweet deal with one of the big petitioning companies in Oregon, so he came up and set up a crew, which means he's not only making money off the signatures he gathers, but also a cut of what his crew gathers. He's good at this and has been doing it for 14 years so I'm sure he'll build his life back up pretty quickly. He told me that he pursued work in Oregon so he could be close to me.

And about his World of Warcraft thing that was being charged to my account... Back in March, I canceled my check card and ordered a new one because my bank couldn't figure out a way to stop the monthly charge. He had been in an awful motorcycle accident so I don't even think he was playing the game at the time. But I haven't had to pay any more fees since March.

And as for the financial mess he left me in after I went to S.F., I got my bank to cancel some of the overdraft fees, but I did end up paying about $50 in overdrafts, plus about $20 he spent talking on my phone, in addition to the $200-something I spent on our hotel room and other expenses while I was there. He'll pay me back, though, so I'm not too worried.

Regarding the orange shirt: I was exaggerating a *little*. I did wear the same orange tank top almost every day for the past month, and when I wasn't wearing it, I was often wearing other orange shirts, so it could have appeared that I was indeed wearing the same shirt every day. I've been really into orange lately and I have been known to leave the house wearing head-to-toe orange -- shirt, skirt, socks, shoes, headband, jewelry, jacket, etc. A couple of the regulars started to comment on my orange-ness (favorably). Maybe Natacha has something against orange. Being from Paris, she of course has impeccable style. Maybe it was just too much for her.

The necklace I bought today is orange, too. It's carnelian, which is an orange stone. It matches my carnelian ring.

Anyway, I don't know if I want to stay at this coffeshop until the bitter end when it closes at midnight. It's still raining, but I brought an umbrella. I think I'll walk home now and read my book and try to get up earlier tomorrow.