In which I miss the loss of unlimited naptime, but otherwise feel pretty damn positive. Bonus: includes the return of nested parentheses! Overheard at work today: “Yeah, I understand that. I just don’t understand how a buffer overflow translates to root access.” (Rampant nerd-speak! I love my job!) I spent about eleventy hours this weekend […]
In which the ‘box celebrates a very important occasion. Six years ago today, I registered the GOBLINBOX.COM domain and immediately the hilarity you’ve come to know and love ensued. Yay! Now buy me something! 😉
In which I’m gainfully employed! HURRAH! I reported to work this morning at ten; a totally reasonable and human hour to do so. T was finishing up with my ‘new’ computer, and my desk was not only clean and stocked with paperclips and things, but there was a plant on it! A plant! The picture […]
In which I’m EMPLOYED! This morning I drove over here and met with M.S. for an hour. We had a great meeting. They need an all-around office chick, to do their data entry and bookkeeping and billing and various other officey stuff. I start tomorrow! I would have offered to start immediately but they need […]
In which I’m all a-quiver. I have an interview here tomorrow. I’m going now to register for temp work here. I will be employed soon. Cross your fingers, my babies! In other news, I hope to have coffee with S. and maybe a drink with Coot while I’m in Iowa City. Yay!
In which the irony is not lost on me. I talked to Kelly Services again today; I have an appointment to go in tomorrow at noon and take all their competency tests. Like, Writing A Letter in Microsoft Word and Using Excel to Total A Column. (It’s worth it. I’ve temped for Kelly twice before […]
In which I bore my non-knitting readers half to death. I’ve been knitting myself a hat. This is the third hat that I’ve started for myself; the other two I gave away because when they were finished they weren’t my hat. This hat is brown and pink, which are totally my colors. It’s not fuzzy, […]
In which it turns out that complaining does do you some good. Yesterday I felt all shitty and marginal and rejected and sorry for myself, so I wrote a big old whiny post about it. Within an hour of posting I’d had two heartfelt private emails and a long IM conversation aimed at helping me […]
In which I’m utterly directionless. I’ve mentally reviewed my second interview here and have convinced myself that I’m not going to get hired. They told me last Tuesday that they hoped to have decided “by the end of the week.” Although I exchanged email wishes with the HR chick for a pleasant weekend last Friday, […]
In which I’m almost afraid to be excited about it. I just got home from a second interview here, this one with both the HR manager and the CEO, for an office manager position. The CEO is very sharp, mellow, and nice, and I liked him as much as I like the HR woman. They […]
