It's a Small World After All.

Got a call from Peggy Plants today. It seems that my contract has run out at the B.S. Squared. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Since I hadn't gotten dressed or had any coffee yet when I found out, I didn't really react at all except to thank her and hang up. Then I drove the b.h. to work and went to find another job. Went to the new location of an old health food store, where as it turns out, they no longer carry any food and are focusing on vitamin supplements and skin care products. They are not hiring, but they were doing free organic facials (tee hee), so I stuck around for a few minutes and let a total stranger rub a bunch of goop onto my face. It never ceases to amaze me how much crap people actually wear on a daily basis. I thoroughly enjoyed the cleanser/toner/moisturizer portion of it, but the rest was pretty hilarious. Clown-like, even. I smiled and thanked the woman and left.
I don't know if i have ever mentioned it before, but Athens is an incredibly small town for it's size. Some might say too small. They would be (sort of) right. When I got to the Other Health Food Store, I stopped and chatted with my friend D, who works in the grocery department. I mentioned my free facial and my discomfort with the amount of makeup I was wearing, but he didn't seem to notice. He gave me an application, and while we were standing there a former co-worker of mine walked up. This former co-woker and I are not really speaking, for reasons that I don't care to go into, and D had no idea, and so felt the need to introduce us to each other. We both kind of looked uncomfortable for a minute and quickly and awkwardly assured D that we had, in fact, met. Then we exchanged some pleasantries and she moved on. I have no wish to intrude upon this person's pleasantly hey bartender-free existence, but I really, really need a job, and the Health Food Store is one of the few places in town that has a good health insurance plan. Plus, I really like healthy food. So i hope she will indulge me.
I went and sat in the cafeteria area to fill out my application. On the way there, I saw three people I knew. Two of them work at the Health Food Store and one of them was shopping. (Did I mention how small this town is?) Anyway, there were only two other people in the room where i was sitting, and they were having a loud and very lively (to the point of distracting) conversation which involved several people with whom I am familiar. Apparently these two dipshits have no idea how small this town is, because the woman was loudly discussing her ex-boyfriend (first and last name mentioned at least five times), with whom I am quite familiar, having SHARED A NEEDLE with another person they were talking about. SHe said it without any malice at all, and having heard so much of this conversation I was sure that they are still friendly with one another, which is all the more reason why I was appalled that she would repeatedly mention his first and last name in the same sentence with SHARED A NEEDLE. These people were truly idiotic and so completely compelling that it took me well over fifteen minutes to fill out a very simple application form. I almost went and got myself lunch just so I could stay in there. There was talk of his divorce, of a woman whom he had befriended who wound up stalking him (puzzling to me once I turned and actually saw him), a woman who, of course, the woman he was speaking also knew, because everybody knows everyfuckingbody here. She apparently sent him pornographic pictures of herself. It was seriously entertaining. I am going to leave you now and see if I can't find them on MySpace, because I just know there is more to the story.
Oh, I also made another stop and I think I found myself a job, but I don't want to jinx it so I'll have to tell you about it later.