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Keeping in mind I didn't get to sleep till sometime around 5:30 am thanks to having to reinstall Windows on my computer, I force myself out of bed at noon. I have a few emails telling me that I can call and set up interviews for Monday, and then a few telling me that I should apply for the open position over there beacuse I'm a perfect fit. When I try to pull these emails up on my computer versus my crackberry I am haulted by how....OLD my computer is. We're talking technology from the stone age of computers at this point. Windows XP. And we're operating on the oldest version of Internet Explorer available for XP. Wow. I try to progress forward but apparently, computers are pretty smart and realize that they need to be updated to today's standards. I allow the updates and then realize that there are 72 updates. This may take a while. Small price to pay, I say, given that all my files were kept.
With all that done, I reply to an email, sending my resume, and then respond to another email that asks me to call. When I get a call back, I schedule an interview for Monday. YAY! Never heard about the company. Who cares, I'm interviewing!
I think of going to Harris Teeter to follow up on a tip from a friend. But I opt to call first to see if someone I sort of know who works there was actually there. I sit on hold for ten minutes. Aint worth that. I'll beat that dead horse next week as well.
By 7pm, Ive applied for all of one position, but I've made contact with a few people regarding open positions. Mostly I hear that I need to make contact on Monday. Target though, tells me to come on in, apply at the kiosk as they are hiring. Will do. Either way, I know from a retail managers perspective, people applying on holiday weekends are NOT getting a job. I decide to pay a few bills and otherwise take the weekend off. Monday morning I'll hit up the Target, Harris Teeter, Barnes & Noble, call TK at Concord Mills, and go to my interview.
I call Nationwide, paid that bill. They don't know yet what my new insurance bill will be thanks to my accident back in January. I make contact with Time Warner Cable. They make the very generous offer to reduce my bill by seven dollars. I opt to maintain my mission, cut out the cable. Which cuts my bill by 20 dollars. So the cable goes out on the 15th. I pay the credit card minimum balance and the full college loan isn't due until 6/10. Where I would normally pay a hundred dollars every other week to not have to pay the full 200 at one time, this time it will simply not happen.
I have dinner with Danny. Papa Johns Pizza and a gallon of McDonald's Sweet tea hits the spot with a movie from on demand. Carnage. Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and John C Reilly. Originally a play, the film turns tension into comedy, even as the tension rises. What could have been a very serious film used comedy as a way to make a point and I love it. One set, four actors, one story that unearths a million little dramas. I love it. I add it to my amazon wish list of a million other things I want to buy but won't be purchasing anytime soon, mostly thanks to my current employment situation.
I return home and my fragrance fetish along with my pyromania forces me to light up my Cranberry Woods candles. I burned this candle for about 5 hours When I returned home from lunch with Laura on Wednesday. We can clearly say that I have an addiction to this fragrance, as evidenced by my four extra Cranberry Woods candles I have in backstock.
Settling in for Nick at Nite, I begin to cough. Feeling in deep in my chest I begin to wonder if I'm about to get sick. Goodness help me.