Happy Thursday!
You know, blog, I don't love you anymore. You make me guilt-trip when I don't have anything fun or productive to report at the end of the week. But you know what, blog? You belong to me, and I can write whatever I want.
This week I played Minecraft and watched Doctor Who nonstop. I worked a bit. I ate half a pizza. I biked with Carolyn and right now I'm jamming with my band, which is amazing. I haven't heard anything back from Fry's in case you're wondering.
I started writing a crazy idea I'm calling "Barbara Rider: Woman Journalist" and the twist is it's set in medieval times and it's highly preposterous and I love it.
So it doesn't matter if that's all I did this week. You're just a blog.
-Steph
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Coming up roses
Happy Thursday! What a nice week this has been, on the whole. Weather's still good, Doctor Who is still good, built some good dinosaurs in Minecraft. Gonna be getting a decent amount back from taxes.
Let me tell you about Fry's.
I was going to apply there, I really was. I have an application all filled out (and dated - last month) but I never got around to going down there. The other day my parents went down and skulked around, came back with a fresh application and a tip about an opening in the Computer department.
So I go down, just to hand the application in, maybe talk to the guy if he's there. He is, turns out he's doing interviews at that very moment. I wait my turn, I'm the last one there.
The interview was a quiet one, two parts me waiting around and one part him explaining what the job would be. When I did say anything, it was largely about how confident I was in my ability to sell. After my third chunk of waiting, he took me in to talk to the store manager, who basically just asked if I wanted part- or full-time, I said whatever and he signed me up for full-time.
Then I left and drove out to the drug-test clinic, and once they get back to Fry's, Fry's'll get back to me and let me know what time to come in on Monday.
I don't know if it's just me, or actually, I don't know if it should be this way, but sometimes things just seem to be too easy. I thought job hunts were supposed to be hard and take forever and be soul-crushing. Never in a hundred years did I expect to walk out of there with a job, not on my first try.
It's going to be crazy different, and probably a lot harder than I expect. But I'm trying not to think about it, and let it just happen how it happens. Not that I don't care what happens, but whatever does I'm just going to have to deal with it, because this is what life is. If I do well, then I'm pretty much set for a good long time. Level up.
The crazy part is that I'm already working six days this week at Blockbuster, and if I do get full-time at Fry's I'll be doing five days there next week...and the other two I'll be putting in back at the old storefront. So basically, as of this Tuesday, I'm working at least 13 days straight, and beyond that indefinitely.
$$$ I feel so mercenary these days.
Oh! But also the other morning I baked a cake for tea time. :D
-Steph
Let me tell you about Fry's.
I was going to apply there, I really was. I have an application all filled out (and dated - last month) but I never got around to going down there. The other day my parents went down and skulked around, came back with a fresh application and a tip about an opening in the Computer department.
So I go down, just to hand the application in, maybe talk to the guy if he's there. He is, turns out he's doing interviews at that very moment. I wait my turn, I'm the last one there.
The interview was a quiet one, two parts me waiting around and one part him explaining what the job would be. When I did say anything, it was largely about how confident I was in my ability to sell. After my third chunk of waiting, he took me in to talk to the store manager, who basically just asked if I wanted part- or full-time, I said whatever and he signed me up for full-time.
Then I left and drove out to the drug-test clinic, and once they get back to Fry's, Fry's'll get back to me and let me know what time to come in on Monday.
I don't know if it's just me, or actually, I don't know if it should be this way, but sometimes things just seem to be too easy. I thought job hunts were supposed to be hard and take forever and be soul-crushing. Never in a hundred years did I expect to walk out of there with a job, not on my first try.
It's going to be crazy different, and probably a lot harder than I expect. But I'm trying not to think about it, and let it just happen how it happens. Not that I don't care what happens, but whatever does I'm just going to have to deal with it, because this is what life is. If I do well, then I'm pretty much set for a good long time. Level up.
The crazy part is that I'm already working six days this week at Blockbuster, and if I do get full-time at Fry's I'll be doing five days there next week...and the other two I'll be putting in back at the old storefront. So basically, as of this Tuesday, I'm working at least 13 days straight, and beyond that indefinitely.
$$$ I feel so mercenary these days.
Oh! But also the other morning I baked a cake for tea time. :D
-Steph
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Rocky
Happy Thursday! First off, I'd like to say the weather's holding at a nice springtime temperature. I don't know what's going to happen when spring actually gets here, but I'm guessing we're getting a snowy summer.
Kind of a rough week, all round. I got sick/allergy invasion because of the rain? because of the wind? because of the heat wave? that all happened over the course of two days. So my brain's been rattling around and every day I think the next day I'll be better but I'm not yet.
Had some pretty shoddy sleep the last couple of days, too. And I keep waking up all beat up from like, sleeping wrong. I don't know what I'm doing but whatever it is it isn't right.
Work is like, the dumbest waste of time, but if I'm there I can't go out and look for other things. Or if I'm not there, I'm crazy sick every day this last week. Or it's Sunday. On the other hand, my W-2s finally all arrived, and I think I'm technically in the next tax bracket up from last year, but I still should be getting some $$$ back once I go through it properly.
My birthday is next month, and I want to do something incredibly geeky. But I don't know what? For my 18th I went to a sci-fi convention in Pasadena, but there isn't one this year. There is WonderCon, but I don't know anything about that other than that I have some friends who are exhibitors at it. Just something having to do with sci-fi or even the larger geek world, comics or whatever. I want to identify more with that side.
We just watched Fright Night. "Watched" is a loose term. The fast forward was heavily employed. The best part was the introduction of David Tennant as what I like to call Pirate Jesus. It was pretty terrible.
Speaking of Doctor Who, did you see the cookies we made? Carolyn got some Portal cookie cutters, so you can make portal and portal guy and companion cube and turret cookies, so we did. But we had a bunch of extra cookie dough so she was all "you should make the Tardis" so I tried. And I tried to make a Dalek, too. And we iced them by hand which was both fun and hilarious.
And then I built some dinosaurs in Minecraft. That's all.
-Steph
Kind of a rough week, all round. I got sick/allergy invasion because of the rain? because of the wind? because of the heat wave? that all happened over the course of two days. So my brain's been rattling around and every day I think the next day I'll be better but I'm not yet.
Had some pretty shoddy sleep the last couple of days, too. And I keep waking up all beat up from like, sleeping wrong. I don't know what I'm doing but whatever it is it isn't right.
Work is like, the dumbest waste of time, but if I'm there I can't go out and look for other things. Or if I'm not there, I'm crazy sick every day this last week. Or it's Sunday. On the other hand, my W-2s finally all arrived, and I think I'm technically in the next tax bracket up from last year, but I still should be getting some $$$ back once I go through it properly.
My birthday is next month, and I want to do something incredibly geeky. But I don't know what? For my 18th I went to a sci-fi convention in Pasadena, but there isn't one this year. There is WonderCon, but I don't know anything about that other than that I have some friends who are exhibitors at it. Just something having to do with sci-fi or even the larger geek world, comics or whatever. I want to identify more with that side.
We just watched Fright Night. "Watched" is a loose term. The fast forward was heavily employed. The best part was the introduction of David Tennant as what I like to call Pirate Jesus. It was pretty terrible.
Speaking of Doctor Who, did you see the cookies we made? Carolyn got some Portal cookie cutters, so you can make portal and portal guy and companion cube and turret cookies, so we did. But we had a bunch of extra cookie dough so she was all "you should make the Tardis" so I tried. And I tried to make a Dalek, too. And we iced them by hand which was both fun and hilarious.
And then I built some dinosaurs in Minecraft. That's all.
-Steph
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