A couple of weeks ago I applied for a promotion at work to part time Manager on Duty. Yesterday they conducted second interviews. When it was my turn, they brought me in, closed the door, and our General Manager basically said "we really, really like you but you didn't get the job" (I actually replied "Wow! Shortest interview EVER ( Read more... )

Life can be so random and weird and circular sometimes.

I had to work tonight, so I taped The Simpsons and just sat down to watch it a little while ago. On tonight's episode, Marge made a joke about dialing "91" on her cell phone just in case.

Um, yea.

The single most disturbing thing I've heard all day ( Read more... )

It's hard. It's hard being at work. It's hard being reminded of happy times. Debbie talked to me about her daughter and totally made me cry. It surprised me. I kind of thought the crying part of this crisis was over ( Read more... )

So after I wrote my last post I logged off and called Dan again. A nice, long talk about a lot of things, including revenge fantasies. I realized I don't have any -- about Rob, about anyone, including the one person that I do hold sort of a grudge against (namely my ex-roommate). He said that was further proof of what he often said: that I was a ( Read more... )

I wanted to update my journal once again because I'm still pretty freaked out about yesterday. Today's thoughts are mostly along the lines of not wanting to die alone, not wanting to be like Richard Brautigan, who lay dead in his apartment for weeks and was only found because the neighbors started to notice the smell ( Read more... )

Today, at work, our General Manager died.

At work ( Read more... )

I just got sent home from work. I'm not completely sure, but I think I got dumped via email. That'll teach me to check my email when I'm at work -- worst fifteen minute break everSo then I got all weepy and it was remarkably bad timing as the HR Manager and the General Manager were both in the store ... luckily, there was sympathy there, but ya, ( Read more... )