Reading and job finding

So I've been slacking off this year when it comes to what I'm reading. Either I'm just too tired to pick up a book and read it, or there really hasn't been anything that I've been wanting to read. Well, I got this offer online for BOGO (buy one get one) on books from Borders and I decided to go in and see if there was anything new that caught my eye. I ended up leaving with 4 books for the price of 2 and some good early summer reading.

I'm reading two of them right now and I like them so far. Alice in Zombieland is the first one. This book is written in the same style as Pride and Prejudice and Zombie and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. They are fun more modern takes on the "classics" and he does a good job with it. He keeps the writing style and tone of the original author and twists it around to include those newer themes. I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on the notion of Alice, but I'm only halfway done (I've just gotten to the croquet game) so we'll see how it ends up.

The second is Red Riding Hood, but not the fairytale version. Apparently this book was based on the screenplay for the movie of the same name which came out earlier this year. It is pretty well written and is reading at a fast pace, which is nice for me. It has many of the same elements of the original fairytale but seems to mix in elements from M.Night Shyamalan's "The Village" and the whole werewolf thing that is popular right now. They gave Red Riding an actual name, which is nice, and they make Grandmother a bit more mysterious instead of being this nice old lady.

I'm still in the middle of the second book from the Sword of Truth series, but that is my car book, so I don't get to it as often. I tend to have books in various stages of reading throughout the house and my car, and occasionally my sidebags so I always have something available to read if I am waiting for something/someone.

Now, on to finding a summer job. This has been more difficult that I thought. Apparently teaching experience isn't considered "customer service" experience so I keep getting turned down for jobs because of that. I refuse to do fast food service, but I may have to start applying for hostess or waitress jobs yet again (not something I'm looking forward to). And when I tell employers that I'm looking for full-time work during the summer but I would have to go to part-time when school starts back up, they usually say "thanks but no thanks" and show me the door. I may have to leave that part out from now on. I am looking to go part time in the fall so I'll have two jobs, but that may be difficult depending on what my job is in the fall. I still haven't heard back from the schools that I interviewed at and I sent them a little message this morning. There is a teaching position available in Park City, but that is a drive from where I live at the moment and I don't think I want to make that drive everyday next fall/winter. I still applied and I'm waiting to hear back from them. Perhaps I need to find an apartment in Park City and stay there during the week and then come back down during the weekends. Eh, we'll see if I even get called for an interview.