so i have a new job. :D starting monday. :D as an admin for (i think) comp sci folks. nerds! :D at the same u where i already am. :D i don't know who exactly i'm going to be supporting, but i'll find out. mostly i won't be unemployed and i won't have to leave the u. i'll basically be across the street from the office where i am now, which ( Read more... )

what happened tuesday (last week) was that one of my department heads is retiring next month. O.O surprise? and then on wednesday the power went out at work! all over the block! you could tell everything was down (altho we had wifi) because everyone was standing around chatting. some guy was on his way to a meeting and got stuck in the ( Read more... )

so this is what happens when you don't post for two weeks (seriously, i think it's been that long, not counting my entries for lj idol) - shit happens. like, you know how i'm currently only a contract worker at my job? and they actually posted the job and suggested i apply for it? and i was the strong internal candidate? well. i didn't get it ( Read more... )

today is apparently national dragon appreciation day. also the ladies' room at work is FUCKING FREEZING. these things are not related ( Read more... )

on friday, to celebrate my last weekday of unemployment, i went to see the kitchen, and i think i liked it. it was pretty violent, but it's about mobsters and criminals, and at least most of the violence was of the "dead with one shot" variety, rather than a lot of spraying bullets and people getting beat up. the soundtrack was good, nyc looked ( Read more... )

my interview yesterday must have gone well, because i got a call from the employment agency this morning that they wanted to offer me the job. :D they had another couple of interviews lined up and canceled them. :D i said yes, because a. a place i want to work, b. a department that i think would be really cool to work in, and c. GAINFUL ( Read more... )

i hate being unemployed. i just need to put that out there. i do however have an actual in-person interview tomorrow, and one next monday, so hopefully i won't be unemployed for long. i had a phone interview today and when the woman i talked to asked when i'd be ready to start (theoretically, in a "do you have anything coming up that would ( Read more... )

so i had an actual job interview today, and i think it went ok! i met one of the admins. she talked, i talked, i learned about the job, etc. former coworker deb came down to meet me as i was leaving and gave me a tour of the first floor of the office, where some conference rooms and the kitchen are, and told me about the benefits and how much ( Read more... )

i did not put enough garlic on my green beans tonight and i'm still annoyed about it. hmph, self ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw once upon a time in hollywood on saturday and overall i liked it. brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio have some nice friend chemistry, and brad has a pretty good bod for fifty-something. a lot of it felt kind of like a technical exercise in how historically accurate quentin tarantino could make it - how detailed was the world, how ( Read more... )