the ongoing saga of my job

A Good Evening

Good things were to be had in my Gmail this evening. It was difficult to decide which thing to get all giddy about first…

I ended up looking at all four rolls of lomographs on Snapfish—not from any conscious decision to look at the photos before completing my Amazon shopping spree, but from the fact that I just get sucked into photography easier than I do shopping. (Am I an abnormal female because of this? Who knows…) Anyway, I’ll post my better lomographs tonight for all to see. (And I’ll add to my lomohome.)

On to the next exciting piece of Gmail: my Amazon gift certificate. w00t! I never imagined I’d get to go on an Amazon shopping spree, so this is pretty frickin’ sweet. Coming to me mid- to late next week are:

  • Epson Stylus R200 Photo Printer
  • Kodak Premium Picture Paper, High Gloss, 100 sheets
  • Epson Heavyweight Matte Paper, 50 sheets
  • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 capture card
  • Carlo Robelli Acoustic-Electric Guitar
  • Tubular Guitar Stand

And I still have about $80 left to spend! I’m sure I’ll think of something. Like, oh, all the Muppet Show DVDs I’ve been wanting, or the Indiana Jones DVD box set, or I could fill out my CD collection. There’s still a lot I could buy with eighty bucks!

Sheryl, I think this is where my frugal, thrifty side is coming in quite handy… 😉

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SSDD

Hmm. Seems I had more to write about when I was journaling longhand in addition to blogging. Now that I’m reading The Stand instead of jotting down all my daily blah, all I can think of to write here is said daily blah.

Finally got my SuperCertificate from Sky today! Only thing is, I was looking forward to buying my stuff NOW, when in reality I have to wait up to 24 hours for my order to process and for me to get my Amazon.com gift certificate. Oh, well… in the meantime, at least I can play with the cool new Fender amp that Aaron bought.

Went to Meijer during lunch yesterday to buy cold medicine. Failed to buy the non-drowsy variety. Took it at work anyway and felt my fingers become cottony fluff as I tried to type all afternoon. Don’t worry—it wore off by the time I had to drive home. 🙂 I’m feeling better today, though, especially after yesterday’s after-work marathon napping session.

So, um… yeah. Good times.

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Let’s Hear It For Personal Days

Mom stopped by today on her way down to Texas. Yep, I took the day off and had a couple few hours of quality Mom time before she continued on her move South. I guess Gary still hasn’t closed on the house, and their stuff is living in his parents’ garage. (They live a mile away from the soon-to-be new homestead.) Anyway, Mom is planning to drive down to Texas over a span of about three days, after which she’ll join Gary in staying with his parents until they can find a mortgage broker that is willing to work with their credit. (Yikes.)

I’ve pretty much finished tweaking my portfolio page, although there are still a few things I’d like to add. As it is, if the nice folks at HR happen to look at my portfolio (hi, guys!), I won’t be embarrassed about it. Which is a good thing in a job hunt.

As predicted, tweaking my portfolio site helped me remember all the cool shit I used to do (when I had more access to expensive software and hardware). Even better is the fact that I can tell where my shortcomings were in some of the pieces I’ve posted, which means I haven’t gone rusty from being out of the academic environment for almost three years.

Doesn’t it figure, though—on my day off, when I was spending time with my Mom and tweaking my portfolio and hanging out at home with Aaron, I was also experiencing the beginnings of a pretty righteous cold. Now I have to go to work tomorrow with a nose like a faucet. Great.

Hey, HR? If you’re reading this, you might want to hold off and just do a phone interview or something until I get this cold under control. For your sake. 🙂

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Upwardly Mobile?

Well, I hadn’t been going to mention anything yet… but I have a job lead. I’m not saying where, but it’s in my same zip code. I’m all about that.

Anyway, I’ve been updating my portfolio page in preparation for sending the URL to the nice HR people. I don’t want them to look at a page that hasn’t been updated since… well, since 2002, possibly, or maybe sometime last year.

At least I’m not completely redesigning it again. I’m actually pleased with the design for now. It’s the details that I missed that are bugging the shit out of me.

Oh, and this may or may not be a good idea, but since I’m so proud of this new personal page of mine, I’m including it—and a link to it—on my portfolio page. Don’t worry, people will be forewarned; the link says, “caution: may contain strong language.”

And now for something completely different: A Very Large Cat.

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I Made A Pretty

Check it out—I made a Favorites Icon! If you’re using Firefox, check the address bar. If you’re using IE, check out the bookmark for my site (that I’m sure you have at the top of your list).

If you can’t see it… it looks something like this:  

Heh. I’m so geeked by the smallest things. Go me.