The Wait

A grey day. It started out that way, even before the sun came up. I didn’t sleep so well since Bill was in some pain due to his back problems. I did what I could to help him out, and of course, every moan I heard made me wake up to check how he was doing. He does have some meds, but the prescription calls for no more than 3 every 24 hours and at 3:30 last night, he was half way through the first go round. I told him about some tricks that I use, sleeping on my back, a pillow between the knees.

I think I got about 4 hours of sleep. I also worked at Maxwell’s last night, off at 11:00 since it had slowed down considerably. Back on Friday and Saturday nights, with Friday being a double header, 2 different sets with 2 different bands. So many rumors going on around Maxwell’s- Is it closing? Is it moving? No one knows anything. I certainly don’t know anything about it yet I still get asked. Various friends have their take on it and they proceed to tell me which does not help me out at all.

Today was busy once I got myself started. I heard from Juan as well. After feeling on the outs with him last week, today I found myself ironing his khakis and his shirt since he was running late and about to start a new job at a restaurant in Hoboken. It’s obviously not Maxwell’s since pressed clothes were required. He also went to Mr. L’s for a quick haircut since he felt he needed one. I know he wanted to make a good impression at the new gig and I was happy to help him out.

Now it is cold and rainy and I’ve got nothing to do. I just made some penne, pesto and chicken and that was good. Bill is running around Manhattan taking care of his mother and doing things to further his career. Good night for TV. I did watch the first episode of Hannibal, but decided not to watch it any more. Too gruesome and without the style and finesse from Silence of the Lambs. I’ll aim for comedies that are on tonight.

And I will hear all about how Juan’s evening went since his clothes are here and he’ll need to pick up his skinny jeans with his skinny genes.
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Poetry, Man

You bring the sadness
I’ll bring the madness
Together we’ll have a real fine time

We’ll carry our sorrow
Back into tomorrow
And none will be the wiser

until that day
which we held at bay
will be easily forgotten

for as to you
this much is true
as it is for me.

I wrote that last night. Juan was hoping to come by but I didn’t respond until too late so he stayed home. It doesn’t really mean anything, just having a go at some poetry.

It’s been a low key yet busy kind of day. Laundry and grocery and another night back at Maxwell’s.

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I was going to take a nap but I lay in bed and thought about some staffing agencies Fred Nealon emailed me about, which are “more like places to collect staph infections since they’re generally useless” to Fred Nealon.

Staffmark- Used to be decent, not so much anymore. C-

Green Key Resources- Crap company at 32nd and Park Avenue. F

Bayview Consulting- More crap, circle jerks a specialty. D

Millennium Group- with a name like that, they probably had more of an impact in the 1990’s. Now archaic. D

Bacharach Group- People working in an office that is decaying with each keystroke. C.

Addison Group- Ineffectual website. Really, what’s the point? D

Core Staffing Services- Featuring Bobby Russo. Half hearted promises, zero leads. D

Office Team- Had a counselor who told me they wanted to work at the position they were telling me about. Did that mean it was a great job, or that Office Team was a crap to work for? C-

These are not the only agencies I dealt with. Just the ones that rose to the top through the muck.

All the best to you in your search my friend,
Fred Nealon
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