I applied to a whole bunch of places in downtown. Nine, actually. Two or three explicitly said they weren't hiring at all at the moment, but I left resumes in case things change. Indigo (a large chain bookstore) said they were hiring, and a smaller independent bookstore said they were as well. This one comic book store said that they might be ( Read more... )

So I just found out that the girl they hired for the last two years to be the groundskeeper? Yeah, she's the niece of the woman who now does the hiring.

There goes that.

Any ideas? :S

~ Alana

Ugh. I broke a bowl a few days back, and I thought I'd cleaned up all the bits of ceramic (?) from the floor. Turns out, I missed this tiny little shard, about a centimetre long and very thin. I stepped on it, and the whole damn thing went right into the ball of my foot. There was some swearing, a surprising amount of bleeding, and now it hurts to ( Read more... )

Unemployed Alana is still unemployed. Ack. Is it wrong that part of me is still clinging to the hope that I'll get a phone call from somewhere (anywhere ( Read more... )

Kieran wanted me to show her pictures of me during frosh week -- that's university first-year orientation week, to you old fogeys -- when I had short hair... because, yes, I made it into a mohawk. Using lots and lots of shaving cream to hold it in place. It was a beautiful, wondrous thing. I miss it so. Under the cut they go!

( Dirt + shaving cream + me = WHOO! )

So, I dropped off my resume to a bunch of stores at the mall. I've never really done this sort of stuff before. I wish they'd call me either way; even a 'no, thanks' would be preferable to sitting around twiddling my thumbs! Yes, my impatience is showing, but I'm curious ( Read more... )

I have a shirt that reads, "The yoke's on you!";
A cartoon broken egg offsets the red.
A pun, indeed, is rotten through and through,
And so I feel the yoke's on me instead!

~ Alana

I've come to accept some inevitable truths as a university student. I will now share some of them with you so that you can chuckle along with my monotonous existence.

As a university student, I know exactly how much gas is in my tank, and I know exactly how much money gas costs at every station within a five-kilometre radius of both my house, and ( Read more... )

Alright folks. While I know that the chances of anyone but Dave responding are slim, I figured I'd ask my LJ friends for a wee bit of advice. I'm trying to figure out where to look for a summer job ( Read more... )

My mother informed me tonight at family supper that the cat I was given as my sixth birthday present will be put down on Saturday.

I think my heart broke.