Sucktastic day at work. I don't want to talk about the specifics, because I cannot deny it was due to my own mistakes and in every case I really should have known better. None of it was that big of a deal, I don't think, but still, I'm pretty sure I made a negative impression on several of my coworkers today, and I haven't been in such a bad mood ( Read more... )

Listening to the Indigo Girls and doing the aforementioned cleaning.

God, how I love them still. As I said after I saw them in concert the first time, they just make me so glad to be me, all the potentially conflicting sides of myself. I was totally moved, even as a 14-year-old who was not consciously aware of who I would grow up to be, by how ( Read more... )

You're obviously all on tenterhooks about my job situation, and I have good news! I got rehired by the company I was with before, for a different project. Similar job, similar hours, same pay (which is nothing to sneeze at). I took the train back to Portland so I could get trained tomorrow (ha ha) and start on Wednesday. Hopefully this one will ( Read more... )

So, um, that bilingual call center job I was so enjoying? It is no longer. We all got let go today. We just weren't getting very many calls. The volume was expected to pick up Tuesday or Wednesday, but it never did, and it quickly became apparent they were not going to continue paying us to do nothing ( Read more... )

Today Buzzy and I got approved for an apartment! Our first love nest! It's not somewhere we're hoping to stay for too long, but it should be a nice placeholder while we get stable employment and look for something better. It's a studio, but we're small and our major possessions are a bed and a loveseat. Walk-through closet, fair-sized kitchen ( ( Read more... )

Argh, job hunting. Well, I knew it was going to be hard. The job market in general sucks right now, and in Portland it's particularly difficult. I'm trying not to let it faze me... every day I just check the job databases, send off as many applications as I can, and hope that someday the odds will be in my favor. I haven't gotten any sort of ( Read more... )

Ooh, also, I'd like to do a discussion group on vegetarianism. This is an issue that's a lot more complicated than I used to think, and again, if only I'd known it back when I was a young teenager. I became a vegan when I was 12, for ethical reasons. It seemed like a simple way to do good, and I still think it is. However, I was a really strict ( Read more... )

Also, I've learned how much I appreciate the mystical over the last four years. The wordless feeling was always there - I remember it even from my early childhood - but I didn't realize that I sought it out, or what sparked it, until very recently. (See, this is why I'm so introspective. After about 10 years of seriously trying to figure myself ( Read more... )

Another day in which I cried repeatedly. I swear this happens every winter break. Not a bad thing, though. Just processing in a way I don't have the time or space to do at school. And my parents, thank goodness, are quite patient with me ( Read more... )

Rob was right; it was rainy and icky almost the whole time I was in Boston. And I didn't have time to explore, either; the training kept us busy from morning 'til night. (At least I got to ride the T.) But I met some very inspiring people and gained a lot of confidence. The people who trained us are so cool, too. How I would love to have a job ( Read more... )