getting things done.

This morning I woke up to my alarm clock for the first time since June 22. It was weird. It was also a necessity, though, as I actually had things to do.

I had an appointment to go get finger printed for the sub job. I went down to the Board of Ed building and took care of that, and then headed out to the Driver's Testing Center to take care of getting my license changed over.

This switching my car and license over nonsense is more trouble than it is worth.

When I got to the DTC, the line was literally out the door. I was standing in the back of it, and from there saw something flash up on the screen that said "acceptable form of payment-check or money order." Poop. I had thought I read credit cards were accepted, and I had forgotten my checkbook, so I needed to go all the way back home and take care of that. The DTC isn't very close by, so this was kind of a hassle, but it was definitely my own fault. Besides all that, though, I had realized I didn't have my title, and figured it wouldn't be possible to register my car without it, so going home made sense.

I came home and re-read what I needed for registration, which included an emissions test, which I hadn't done, so I checked the website, and the one that is closest to me had a pretty short wait time, so I ran over there and took care of that real fast, and then headed back out to the DTC with all the appropriate documents in hand.

This time, there was only one person in line ahead of me (though my wait time was still an hour and a half or so. I can't imagine what it would have been earlier.) When I got up to the counter to explain what I needed (to switch my license and registration) the super sweet lady told me that they couldn't do registrations there, and that I needed to go to the County Clerk for that. I wasn't going to argue with her, but I swore that I read that they did that there, and that was the reason I drove 20 minutes to the other side of Nashville, but whatever.

After several games of Candy Crush, my number was called, and the process was quick and easy. Well, mostly. The camera kept saying that my eyes were closed so I kept having to have my picture retaken, and it is absolutely awful, but whatever. It's done, right? Damn my tiny eyes!

They don't print the license's there, though, so I got a temporary license until my real one shows up, which is weird. My DL is a piece of paper. Also, I had to turn over my NJ license which makes sense, but was still kind of depressing. And I just learned my old DL number, so I have to relearn the new one.

By the time I finished all that it was 3 in the afternoon, and I hadn't eaten since 8am, so I was hungry and tired of bureaucracy so I headed home to eat something, listen to records and try to clean my room. (I still have a few boxes of stuff in the middle of my floor that I have no energy to empty...they are currently serving as a desk and an end table.) I was checking facebook and listening to my record really loudly when I noticed a noise that didn't belong, and it took me a second to realize that my phone was ringing.

Someone from one of the jobs that I had applied to was calling to talk to me a bit (phone interviews are poop. I think this might have been better though as I was totally caught off guard) and we ended up scheduling an interview for later this week! I was pretty excited about that, for sure.

I decided I was going to take care of my car insurance paperwork, so I ran downstairs after the phone call to get something out of my car, and when I came back up, my phone was ringing again. I kind of thought that it was the first lady calling me back to cancel or reschedule, so imagine my surprise when another job application had pulled through for me, and someone else wanted to schedule an interview!

After all that, I decided a nap was in order, as I had been more productive today than I had in a while, and it wore me out. I slept for a while, woke up, ate a very late "dinner" (Raisin Bran at 10pm), watched Kick-Ass with the roomie, and then came up here, wrote this and am now going back to bed.

Tomorrow I need to go to the County Clerk to get my car registration dealt with, and if I have any money left, I might go see if  I can find something cute to wear to my upcoming interviews!