Sushi cures all

I'm still feeling panicked, stressed and upset about this whole stupid paycheck problem, but I think I've found a work-around. I hope anyway. Since my old (crappy) bank hasn't got branches out here, I opened an account with a new (less crappy, we hope) bank here, but due to a wire-transfer fuck up it hasn't been funded yet. They have a branch office right around the corner from the office I am at this week, so with any luck I will be able to take my paycheck there once the FedEx guy shows up and deposit the check and get enough cash to get me through the weekend. Hopefully they will be speedy about getting me things like a check card so I can deposit the other checks that are on the way and buy my books next week.

Now if they would just approve my expense reports from last week I'd be in good shape. I can't wait to close this stupid old bank account. Having money and not being able to get to it is pretty much the worst thing ever.

Anyhow, last night my hot date for the evening took me for sushi in Manhattan. Yum. Just yum. Something about salmon nigiri makes me insanely happy. After dinner, we walked around midtown, and ended up at the Empire State Building, for which there was a huge line, so we said to hell with that and went and had beer and desert at a brewery, then walked back to the hotel. It was quite a nice evening out actually, and Times Square sucks way less at night than it does during the day. It's almost fun at night actually.

This morning I'm just trying to stay focused enough to get through the day. My really and truly Last Day at Work. It's a bit sad, in some ways, and I feel like I'm not so much leaving as just fading away, which is really kind of sad, but I'm moving on to bigger and better things. And with luck I'll be able to come back here and work in the legal department someday. Hopefully as an intern over the summer, which would be just about the best thing ever.

Tomorrow Someone and I are driving back down to Virginia. I'm really looking forward to this actually. Not so much the loading up of the car, but the driving part should be fun. I get to see two new states (New Jersey and Delaware), and spend 7 + hours in the car with my sweetie just existing. Somehow, that's very appealing.

Life goes nuts when I get back though, I have to figure out all this bank stuff, and get myself together for Monday. My sad PoiS iBook is going to have to see me through classes for the time being, I can't really afford to get a real laptop at this point, which totally sucks because it hasn't got any hope of having wireless. I've got way too used to wireless networking. So now I have to get in a war with the cable company, since the cable outlet in the office doesn't work and that means I have to either get them to fix it, or run some combination of cat-5 and coax upstairs from the cable outlet that does work, but which is in the living room. Should be fixable but it's annoying.

Secretly, I just want to go sit in Bryant Park with some nice tea and knit and write for the rest of the morning.