Today v2.

[napoleonherself]

To-do today:

- Go to the mall. Get there at 7 PM. Find that it's already closing. The mall... closing... 7 PM... Saturday night... and this is California, which, if you didn't know this, is the place that never closes. Follow mom up the stairs because she doesn't believe that it's closing even though half the lights are off and most stores have the gates down. Halt halfway up stairs and wait for mom to rage about having come here for nothing. Leave.

- Go to Wal*Mart. Find plenty of good pants a size too small, and plenty a size too big and in W, but nothing that actually would fit me. On mom's orders, go through entire clothing section twice more. Halt in middle of clothing section and wait for her to slowly come around to the conclusion that if we can't find anything here, we should probably leave. Leave.

- Spy a Tilly's, which I know for a fact sells Dickies, which is what Becky wears to work and which I know would work just fine for interview pants. Go in. Find that there are no women's Dickies -- none -- above a size 11. 11. Fast fact: the average, normal woman is a size 14. Apparently 60% of the female population don't deserve Dickies. Go over to men's side of store, since I have no problem with wearing men's clothes; find pants that would fit just fine around the waist and all but that are about six inches too long. Curse Tilly's name. Leave.

- Go to Ralph's. Be mesmerized for a few minutes by a strange translucent cone sculpture thingy that changes colors due to lights within. Finally run to catch up with mom, go into store, and buy stuff. Wow, you mean a store that actually carries things I can use? Amazing.

- Go to cakemix aisle to get stuff for my upcoming birthday. Notice total lack of carrot cake mix. Go back and forth three times looking for a single box of carrot cake mix. Find none. Glare at mom, who wouldn't let me buy it a few months ago because "we still have a while till your birthday". Suddenly notice that some idiot put a chocolate cake mix in front of the carrot cake boxes. Return the chocolate to where it BELONGS, THANK you you INCONSIDERATE PERSON, and snag what I actually wanted. Buy some other stuff. Leave.

Short version: I still have no interview clothes, but at least I have food to eat. Tomorrow we'll be trying the mall again, in the morning this time. Hopefully the neighbors will not screw up my sleep again like they did today. Right now they're making incredibly noisy and incredibly irritating clicking noises, but I assume they'll stop before 11:00 or midnight... maybe... hopefully...