Tricky vs. Shifty

While I didn't really read any more of the magazines I have waiting for me, the awesome did continue when I skimmed an article about no-cook meals, and found three meals that I could adapt to make for this week (including instructions for making couscous really quickly without using the stove). And then I went out and bought all the stuff I'd need, and now I'm set! So last night I made (fake) chicken salad in lettuce cups (it was supposed to be raddichio, but 79cents for red leaf lettuce that I could use for a bunch of other stuff verus $2-something for stuff I wouldn't really use sealed the deal). I threw in some ingredients from the other meals I'm going to make, and voila! Dinner last night and today's lunch. Awesome.

Also, thinking to myself, "it would be awesome if there was fake chicken at the grocery store, but I've never seen it before, so I'm not getting my hopes up" (it's not always the best-stocked for fake meat), and then going in and seeing exactly what I wanted was pretty awesome.

As was seeing Halloumi for sale (what I used to call "squeaky Cypriot cheese" but I'm hoping I'll remember the proper name now), and finding out it's supposedly good on the BBQ. I didn't buy any this time (mostly because we STILL don't have a working BBQ. My dad has been totally slack on that - he was going to fix it back in April), but I will in the future. Oh yes.

Not so awesome:

The annoying co-worker, who I'm not supposed to have to deal with until tomorrow, called me this morning, solely to tell me she saw the Harry Potter movie on the weekend. Why couldn't that wait until tomorrow, when she's actually in the office? It's gotten so that the little stupid things like this annoy me. Le sigh.

I think there was some other not so awesome, but I can't remember it now.

ETA more awesome: I just got an email from the place I did my internship at, and they've got another freelance project for me this week. Awesome! (Well, really it's a continuation of stuff I already did, but whatever.)

I applied for a couple of publishing internships a few weeks ago. I heard from one, and had an interview, but then didn't hear back from them again (and neither did my classmate, who was being interviewed right before me). But I hadn't heard anything at all from the second place I applied to. But today, in my email, is a reply stating that they would like me to be their editorial intern! Craziness. It's one day a week, which is perfect, because I have one weekday free! Hopefully Fridays will work for them, but if not, it shouldn't be hard to rearrange my work schedule. Oh, exciting. I should email them and find out all the details. They're in Mississauga, which is a bit of a pain in the butt to get to, but it should be possible. Woo!