a rather blustery day

There is, in fact, an easier way to get to where I was going yesterday. It involves walking up Huntington Ave, which I didn't think of yesterday because I wasn't sure how all that stuff back there connected to anything I did know.

Apparently now that Fleet is Bank of America, you can't buy stamps from ATMs any more. That's less convenient than it could be, and I'm still out of stamps.

Speaking of buying stamps, some day somebody should invent a vending machine that can give back $1 bills by way of change. (Sounds like a million-dollar idea to me; too bad I don't have the skills to invent one, considering how much complaining goes on when people get $1 coins in change from post office or T token vending machines.)

I keep seeing leaves blowing around out of the corner of my eye and thinking they're butterflies. I think it's something about the shape of the leaves and how they move in whatever odd air currents I've got over my back porch.

errands

I went out this afternoon with the intention of going up to the ATM in Chinatown where I used to buy stamps, and if not getting them there, going up to the Chinatown post office. No luck with the ATM, but at least I remembered where the post office was and got the electric bill mailed. (And the Chinatown post office isn't staffed entirely by curmudgeons any more, either, hooray!)

Having got that done, I wandered off to Borders for a while, just because, and then decided to go up to Coolidge Corner by way of Park Street. Unfortunately there's a used CD store between Borders and Park Street...but while I was there, I got a call from the department-specific Harvard HR person I talked to yesterday, so now I have an interview with the Dean tomorrow. I really hope I don't end up talking to five people and not getting the job anyway.

Anyway, I got on the T and went off to Coolidge Corner, because I discovered last month that Paper Source had some adhesive dots that are exactly what I want to put together the collage I've had bits of kicking around since before grad school. They were out of them, of course. Oh well. I think today ends up on the positive side of the ledger anyway. It was even sunny and decently warm.