After much wondering about whether I should bug my potential employer again so soon, I finally decided that I would make a call and ask him if he had in fact received the application that I had asked another store to fax to him (as this was the only variable that I couldn't account for on my own) and thereby remind them of myself and my interest ( Read more... )

I have finally secured that much talked about second interview and it is on Saturday, which is naturally when all my friends are coming down...but that's what you get for living with a Murphy. Murphy's laws squared. (Actually I'm lying, nothing has ever happened to make me think that, it was just fun to say.) On the plus side, the interview is at ( Read more... )

I am very shortly going to have to make a decision; something that I want to do or something that pays me better. How annoying that I cannot simply cannot choose the one that I would be happier doing and not lose a moment to wondering. Not that I'd do anything differently, but I really wish I weren't quite in my current financial situation. Grr. ( Read more... )

OMG. My poor car. For the record, baseball size hail (I have a piece of hail that has melted somewhat and therefore shrunk that is still a solid 3" across) is not healthy for your car, and while I have full coverage it is not healthy for your bank account either. Stupid $1,000 deductible--because why would I need to pay the extra and get the $500 ( Read more... )

It is far too late to be attempting a real entry, and it only reinforces the pathetic nature of my Friday night--yes, technically it's Saturday, but it's still my Friday night--that I am here and even thinking about writing a journal entry, but I feel like writing something after reading a week and a half worth of friends' LJ entries (yes, I have ( Read more... )

I am back. I am tired, and I am culture-shocked, and I miss China, and I am lost and lonely and absolutely abhorring the job search that I will have to undertake (and really should have all ready started, I suppose); but I am back. I suppose that I shall have to find a new default icon now. I am also amused that I am spending mental energy on ( Read more... )

Well. It has been almost six months--not that you'd know it from my lack of entries or anything like that--but I am very shortly to deal with the stress and general uncomfortableness of returning to the US. Perhaps when I am back and living with only my memories of China I will finally be able to chronicle some of the experiences this LJ was ( Read more... )

I received today some quality Chinese Chinglish (if it even qualifies as that...) spam and I just had to share this (
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Also, I am getting to be bloody restless. I am in some serious need of travel. I have been in this one city for far too long. Methinks that the mountains are calling. At the very least I am sure that there are cultural streets that need visiting. Yeah, nothing like being sick and unable to get about to make one really need to get out. Pity that ( Read more... )

Well, once again I am a million light-years behind and I have to write what is happening just now to be able to write at all, owing to the impossible amount of backlog that is drowning me as I speak (type?). I suppose that I should be realistic and acknowledge that I will never really catch up with the aforementioned backlog, but I am not quite ( Read more... )