Summer's lease hath all too short a date

I'm trying to find out if my insurance will pay for the Gardasil vaccine. Seems like something it would make sense to have. But I always feel kinda iffy about new medicine. I was on the OrthoEvra patch for a while and Serevent for my asthma, both of which ended up killing people. Maybe I should talk to my obgyn...oh wait...I don't have one anymore.

Speaking of which, my cycles have been abnormally consistent. 31 days on the money. Aunt Flo comes about 3 days after the full moon, and for the past three months, it has also been when my student loan payment is due. I blame it on J. When she fired me back in January, I started my period almost two weeks early. I thought maybe that my heart had actually broken and was bleeding out, you know, hemorrhaging. It was more of a metaphorical thing, but I still wondered what it would be like to be the first person to die of a broken heart via profuse bleeding.

It's not that I mind really, but it is a nuisance. I was getting used to my 45 day cycles. It was kinda nice.

I finished Angels in America a few days ago. I can't even really process it, and I feel like I would need to read the screenplay or watch it over and over again to really get the full effect...it was so verbose, and sometimes you miss out on the poetry just caught up in the emotion. I was slightly disappointed in the ending. I don't know what I was expecting, but that kind of resolution wasn't it. And I want to know what happened to Joe. I'm not sure that I like the way that Kushner abandons him in the end. He has an opposite trajectory from Prior, and I can sort of appreciate that as Prior reclaims life Joe abandons his, but I was dissatisfied. I thought Meryl Streep was just phenomenal (surprise, surprise) and Al Pacino easily gave her a run for her money.

I interviewed at GS yesterday. It is hard to tell how things went. It was like a tribunal hearing, six of them and one of me. They all read off these silly questions that came straight out of the "Interviewing Candidates for Dummies" book. But luckily, I know how to tell a good story. I refrained from using the word "like" (thanks Marina Van Zuylen!) and was very articulate and coherent. I'm really really good at bullshit, but I didn't really have to do that here, and hopefully it showed. When I interview, I try to pick out the person or persons who appear to be the hardest won. In this case, it was the HR lady and the one RLC that I didn't know already. I couldn't get a good read on the RLC, but I had the HR lady hook, line, and sink. What sucks is that I could possibly not know anything until the end of June. I need to get a self-help book on developing patience, because I am just terrible at patience.