Job hunty and miscellaneous updates
* My apartment has a lovely porch outside of the bedroom. Currently it has all of my husband's camping crap piled up on it. But it would be a lovely place for a person to sit and hang out. Perhaps with houseplants. So I have made it a mission to de-crap-ify it. I've been removing an item each day and redistributing it around the house. Or junking it. I will update.
* Somebody stole my water bottle at the gym (my bad for leaving it and optimistically hoping it would show up at the lost and found). I'm sad - it was a great bottle. EM Jr loved to drink from it and it was so much better to have an unbreakable bottle on the coffee table rather than a glass of water - I now have to be triple-vigilant about picking up my water glass.
And who the hell would steal a water bottle? I mean, GERMY much? Ewww!
* Job-hunty updates:
- A temp agency has been in talks with me. A prestigious company in the Peninsula wants to hire a well educated person with [specific experience I don't have] at peon wages and shitty benefits on a 6 month contract. The temp agency has wisely determined it ain't gonna happen like that so they can either get a desperate but smarty-pants (like me) or be out of luck. We shall see. If I got it I'd probably take it - it would give me some good experience in a different field, connections within the company and (quite importantly!) $$ and extension of my UI benefits.
- A little birdie told me who was the lucky candidate for the job I failed to attain. Turns out it's a respected former colleague of mine. I have absolutely nothing against this fellow and (hell) if I were the company, I'd totally have chosen him over me, given that he has a bazillion times more experience than I do and is a sweet fellow to boot. Sweet enough to send me some connections and pledge to keep me informed of any opportunities. Woot! This is taking a good portion of the sting out of my recent loss, let me tell you.
* Somebody stole my water bottle at the gym (my bad for leaving it and optimistically hoping it would show up at the lost and found). I'm sad - it was a great bottle. EM Jr loved to drink from it and it was so much better to have an unbreakable bottle on the coffee table rather than a glass of water - I now have to be triple-vigilant about picking up my water glass.
And who the hell would steal a water bottle? I mean, GERMY much? Ewww!
* Job-hunty updates:
- A temp agency has been in talks with me. A prestigious company in the Peninsula wants to hire a well educated person with [specific experience I don't have] at peon wages and shitty benefits on a 6 month contract. The temp agency has wisely determined it ain't gonna happen like that so they can either get a desperate but smarty-pants (like me) or be out of luck. We shall see. If I got it I'd probably take it - it would give me some good experience in a different field, connections within the company and (quite importantly!) $$ and extension of my UI benefits.
- A little birdie told me who was the lucky candidate for the job I failed to attain. Turns out it's a respected former colleague of mine. I have absolutely nothing against this fellow and (hell) if I were the company, I'd totally have chosen him over me, given that he has a bazillion times more experience than I do and is a sweet fellow to boot. Sweet enough to send me some connections and pledge to keep me informed of any opportunities. Woot! This is taking a good portion of the sting out of my recent loss, let me tell you.