So, yesterday was probably one of the best days I have had in years. I got a buncha laundry done, I had an excellent job interview at a company I've wanted to work for for a long time, and the East Bay Express put out the Best of the Bay issue.
So, I had about 15 items in this year's Best of, and the whole time I was pitching and recieving the go-aheads on these items, I was thinking "My god! How can they give me so many?"
Well, the answer came in the form of an issue that was 40 pages thicker than any they'd ever published. This was the largest East Bay Express ever. So when I retruned from SF at around 5, thanks to bad bridge traffic, I went to pick up V and Beverly (her co-worker), they were at Van Cleef's, the new bar downtown next to city hall. I'd nominated it for best bar, but they wrote the write-up in-house. V told Peter Van Cleef this, and when I walked into this shwanky, coolest bar in Oakland, the place where Jerry Brown goes after work, the bartenders shouted "Heeeeey! He's here!"
I was pulling out my wallet to buy a drink, when V informed me that Peter was ensuring that I drank free that night.
I've been in that place about 20 times now, and I have yet to buy a drink.
SO, yeah, I had a job interview. That is all I am saying. I don't want to jinx it. Only 3 people outside of that office know where I interviewed and for what. I am not taking ANY chances on this one. But it went really well, and I have multiple inside tracks on this one.
Oh yeah, I also finished up my two remaining stories, so I have nothing left to work on at the moment. But Scott Cory's parents finally got back to me and gave me his schedule so I can go follow him around and do an EBE feature on him. That's good too!