I was there for 2 hours before it started pouring rain. Riding the streetcar back to canal street I bought an ordinary, black umbrella at a nearby Walgreens. The weather immediately proceeded to stab me in the back and clear up for the rest of the day. Not wanting to pay for more back and forth rides on the trolley I decided I'd conquer that part of town another day. The rest of the evening was spent at Envie writing letters, reading short stories, and chatting with a Spanish woman and Rob (the barista on duty who also has a hot date with Amanda today :].)
Wednesday was not much more trying but incredibly more productive. It was my job hunting day. After printing out some résumés I trekked up and down Esplanade Ave and throughout the French Quarter passing them out and filling in applications. It was terribly hot and I was rather smelly by the end of my journey. Despite my smell I feel like I made some rather good impressions. I applied to 1 restaurant, 3 coffee shops, and 1 hip, trendy clothing store. 2 of the coffee shops and the clothing store told me on the spot that they'd contact me by the end of the week to set up interviews.
The next few hours were spent in celebration, on the couch, watching short documentaries with Amanda about various backwoods folk of the US. Once I worked up more traveling energy we went shoe shopping at the local Urban Outfitters to better equip Amanda for her date with Rob and the grocery store to get supplies for our delicious dinner of black bean burgers. The only other odyssey of significance that evening was much later on, when we were hungry again. Amanda told me of a Burger King in Uptown that after midnight makes everything fresh to order because of the inefficiency of keeping cooked meat around with a lack of customer flow. We ventured out and had surprisingly wonderful double cheeseburgers in our bellies before bed.
I'm sorry but I've only taken 1 picture in the past 2 days so I leave you with this:
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