well, so much for that New Year's Resolution - I only have peer pressure to blame...
11.54 am:
Losing goth points for waking up at 9am to shower and goof off on the 'net before job interview. I'm rarely ever fully awake before a shower and some slack.
I wish I had a digital camera so everybody can see that this wig (to hide my ever-present mohawk) makes me look like a Mexican-greaser-Chicana extra from the cast of West Side Story - it really does. It's also fooled many people as to what my real hair actually looks like.
Don't know why, but I all of a sudden was remembering Big Stupid Eric's pitch to me for portable mp3 players.
"Look! You can shake it, and shake it, and shake it, and shake it, and shake it [keep in mind that the man is 28 years old], and shake it, and shake it, and it doesn't stop or skip! Just shake it, and shake it, and shake it [oh yeah, and he's actually shaking the demo model at Best Buy], and shake it and - hey!"
[Rozzlyn swipes mp3 player demo model out of his hands, promptly removes batteries]
"There! It stopped playing."
[Best Buy employee, talking through his laughter] "Hey man, she told you and me both that she doesn't want one."
[12.02pm, taking break to leave for job interview]
Well, that was weird. There are three Petsmart numbers listed in the phone book, and all have the same address. After working at Kroger for as long asI had been, I know that it is not uncommon for there to be three different numbers in the phone book for the same business name with the same address. It turns out that the number that I called, while stating that the address was 1116 Rochester Road in Rochester Hills is way the fuck out near Haggerty in Farmington Hills.
Needless to say, when I went to the Rochester Road location, they had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Regardless, it also makes sense of the fact that when I had initially called that phone number, there was an Ameritech prompt to dial "1" plus the 248-area code. I, at first, thought little of this, because there was news that Ameritech might start requiring everybody to dial the area code for every number dialed. This also makes sense of the fact that he didn't have my application "but don't worry, I'll find it. If I don't you can come in and fill out another one."
More job application funness includes the fact that when I called a local restaurant back on my job application there - a restaurant that is three blocks from my home, one location, and I filled out the application right there - they too, seem to have misplaced my application.
Taco Bell, on the other hand, still has my application. I have a job interview with them at 10am tomorrow morning.
In other news, the car is in the shop getting the radiator replaced; I'm still allergic to fluoride; and my head is full of ideas of fun stuff, but the Michigan scene is so reaped with suckitude that I'm pretty much not allowed to... grr....
Losing goth points for waking up at 9am to shower and goof off on the 'net before job interview. I'm rarely ever fully awake before a shower and some slack.
I wish I had a digital camera so everybody can see that this wig (to hide my ever-present mohawk) makes me look like a Mexican-greaser-Chicana extra from the cast of West Side Story - it really does. It's also fooled many people as to what my real hair actually looks like.
Don't know why, but I all of a sudden was remembering Big Stupid Eric's pitch to me for portable mp3 players.
"Look! You can shake it, and shake it, and shake it, and shake it, and shake it [keep in mind that the man is 28 years old], and shake it, and shake it, and it doesn't stop or skip! Just shake it, and shake it, and shake it [oh yeah, and he's actually shaking the demo model at Best Buy], and shake it and - hey!"
[Rozzlyn swipes mp3 player demo model out of his hands, promptly removes batteries]
"There! It stopped playing."
[Best Buy employee, talking through his laughter] "Hey man, she told you and me both that she doesn't want one."
[12.02pm, taking break to leave for job interview]
Well, that was weird. There are three Petsmart numbers listed in the phone book, and all have the same address. After working at Kroger for as long asI had been, I know that it is not uncommon for there to be three different numbers in the phone book for the same business name with the same address. It turns out that the number that I called, while stating that the address was 1116 Rochester Road in Rochester Hills is way the fuck out near Haggerty in Farmington Hills.
Needless to say, when I went to the Rochester Road location, they had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Regardless, it also makes sense of the fact that when I had initially called that phone number, there was an Ameritech prompt to dial "1" plus the 248-area code. I, at first, thought little of this, because there was news that Ameritech might start requiring everybody to dial the area code for every number dialed. This also makes sense of the fact that he didn't have my application "but don't worry, I'll find it. If I don't you can come in and fill out another one."
More job application funness includes the fact that when I called a local restaurant back on my job application there - a restaurant that is three blocks from my home, one location, and I filled out the application right there - they too, seem to have misplaced my application.
Taco Bell, on the other hand, still has my application. I have a job interview with them at 10am tomorrow morning.
In other news, the car is in the shop getting the radiator replaced; I'm still allergic to fluoride; and my head is full of ideas of fun stuff, but the Michigan scene is so reaped with suckitude that I'm pretty much not allowed to... grr....