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This week has had its ups and downs. Recap...
Last weekend was SO unproductive. A person should not watch that much TV. Luckily, it was a three day weekend and I took full advantage of Monday being off and got a lot done. I was coming home from the coffee shop Monday night and ran into my landlord for the first time in a few months. We were chatting. He asked about my work. I told him I was temping...and then this is where the conversation turned into one I felt like I was having with my god father or uncle or someone. He goes somethign like this: set the bar high - it's important for a young woman to set the bar high. Not so much guys, but especially young women. And not just in life, but with men. Men are dogs. [A little while later] Do you drink coffee? [Me: Not as much as I used to.] Don't drink too much coffee cause it can ruin a young woman's reproductive health system. .... Seriously, this is what this guy was telling me. I couldn't help but laugh. To round out Monday, that night I joined plentyoffish.com. (Run down on that momentarily.) Then, I had dinner with Libby. Prayers - she's going through a rough time right now.
Tuesday watched the swearing in at work. I don't know if my work is super cool because A) its not a law firm and thus, people aren't working 24/7, B) its just super cool, or C) everyone is getting laid off on May 1 because the company is moving to New York and thus they all don't give a rats ass now. We stopped working and watched the inaugeration in the conference room blown up on the screen and had Obama cupcakes. It kinda rocks that I get paid for that. Sure, in law firm life, I get to get paid to sit and watch trials, but at least that's job-related. This, absolutely not.
Tuesday night was not as good. First, I waited over 40 minutes for a bus home from work. Usually I wait anywhere from no wait to 10 minutes. Typically, its like 3 minutes that I wait. So 40 minutes was crazy. In that 40 minutes, I witnessed a cab hit a biker. It was so scary. In law school, when you prep for trials at first, they are almost all car accidents because its easy to practice questions because it is an easy subject. But it brings a whole new meaning to when I used to do mock trials with car accident victims. Then, Tuesday night, I started thinking about my lack of money, lack of love, and lack of job and it was not a pretty sight.
At some point during the week, I had an IM convo with a random guy from the dating site. It was after work and I was about to leave and when he messaged me, I tried to tell him that but he took it as I wasn't interested. I tried to chat with him a little bit. Meanwhile, I was scoping out other guy's profiles on the site. At one point I said, so what grade do you teach because I saw it said on the profile that he was a teacher. He said, I'm not a teacher, I'm a professional poker player. At first I thought he wrote teacher because he was afraid to put prof. poker player on his profile....until I realized that I was looking at the window with another's guy's profile and not his profile up. Insert foot in mouth. I felt bad. I would have been angry at myself if I really like him but that wasn't the case. Needless to say, he hasn't messaged me since then.
Wednesday, I interviewed at a legal temp agency. It went very well. If I get put on a project, I'd make $25 to $35/hour. That's what I'm talking about. These days, I can barely pay my rent, let alone my loans. This would help immensely. As would the second job at the Princeton Review. But I'm not that optimistic about that. If I got hired, I would have expected to hear this week. However, training probably wouldn't start until mid Feb. so its possible I could still hear.
Friday, I made the trek out to one of two Walmarts in the city of Chicago. It was wayy west of the city. I'm pretty familiar with north of the city, been to the west side a handful of times, and the south side maybe once. I forget that this city is SOOOO huge sometimes. I really have only explored 1/4 of it. And Chicago changes so much depending on what part you are in, even in a mile. It reminded me of the only other few times I'd been out on the west side--for State's Attorney's work. I miss working there so much. So much.
Friday night I watched a French film I had gotten from the library. I had put that I was somewhat fluent, but rusty in French on my app to the temp agency. After watchign the film, I realized I could only pick out words here and there. Maybe not as good at it as I'd been ab. 4 years ago. I'd call the temp agency to correct my app, but there is never any legal work involving the French language.
This weekend is for resumes and headed to a classmates tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed that I hear about a job soon!
Last weekend was SO unproductive. A person should not watch that much TV. Luckily, it was a three day weekend and I took full advantage of Monday being off and got a lot done. I was coming home from the coffee shop Monday night and ran into my landlord for the first time in a few months. We were chatting. He asked about my work. I told him I was temping...and then this is where the conversation turned into one I felt like I was having with my god father or uncle or someone. He goes somethign like this: set the bar high - it's important for a young woman to set the bar high. Not so much guys, but especially young women. And not just in life, but with men. Men are dogs. [A little while later] Do you drink coffee? [Me: Not as much as I used to.] Don't drink too much coffee cause it can ruin a young woman's reproductive health system. .... Seriously, this is what this guy was telling me. I couldn't help but laugh. To round out Monday, that night I joined plentyoffish.com. (Run down on that momentarily.) Then, I had dinner with Libby. Prayers - she's going through a rough time right now.
Tuesday watched the swearing in at work. I don't know if my work is super cool because A) its not a law firm and thus, people aren't working 24/7, B) its just super cool, or C) everyone is getting laid off on May 1 because the company is moving to New York and thus they all don't give a rats ass now. We stopped working and watched the inaugeration in the conference room blown up on the screen and had Obama cupcakes. It kinda rocks that I get paid for that. Sure, in law firm life, I get to get paid to sit and watch trials, but at least that's job-related. This, absolutely not.
Tuesday night was not as good. First, I waited over 40 minutes for a bus home from work. Usually I wait anywhere from no wait to 10 minutes. Typically, its like 3 minutes that I wait. So 40 minutes was crazy. In that 40 minutes, I witnessed a cab hit a biker. It was so scary. In law school, when you prep for trials at first, they are almost all car accidents because its easy to practice questions because it is an easy subject. But it brings a whole new meaning to when I used to do mock trials with car accident victims. Then, Tuesday night, I started thinking about my lack of money, lack of love, and lack of job and it was not a pretty sight.
At some point during the week, I had an IM convo with a random guy from the dating site. It was after work and I was about to leave and when he messaged me, I tried to tell him that but he took it as I wasn't interested. I tried to chat with him a little bit. Meanwhile, I was scoping out other guy's profiles on the site. At one point I said, so what grade do you teach because I saw it said on the profile that he was a teacher. He said, I'm not a teacher, I'm a professional poker player. At first I thought he wrote teacher because he was afraid to put prof. poker player on his profile....until I realized that I was looking at the window with another's guy's profile and not his profile up. Insert foot in mouth. I felt bad. I would have been angry at myself if I really like him but that wasn't the case. Needless to say, he hasn't messaged me since then.
Wednesday, I interviewed at a legal temp agency. It went very well. If I get put on a project, I'd make $25 to $35/hour. That's what I'm talking about. These days, I can barely pay my rent, let alone my loans. This would help immensely. As would the second job at the Princeton Review. But I'm not that optimistic about that. If I got hired, I would have expected to hear this week. However, training probably wouldn't start until mid Feb. so its possible I could still hear.
Friday, I made the trek out to one of two Walmarts in the city of Chicago. It was wayy west of the city. I'm pretty familiar with north of the city, been to the west side a handful of times, and the south side maybe once. I forget that this city is SOOOO huge sometimes. I really have only explored 1/4 of it. And Chicago changes so much depending on what part you are in, even in a mile. It reminded me of the only other few times I'd been out on the west side--for State's Attorney's work. I miss working there so much. So much.
Friday night I watched a French film I had gotten from the library. I had put that I was somewhat fluent, but rusty in French on my app to the temp agency. After watchign the film, I realized I could only pick out words here and there. Maybe not as good at it as I'd been ab. 4 years ago. I'd call the temp agency to correct my app, but there is never any legal work involving the French language.
This weekend is for resumes and headed to a classmates tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed that I hear about a job soon!