Oh, of COURSE it wouldn't be so simple. Okay, so, I showed up this morning for my first day of work... the HR lady photocopied my ID cards... then she asked if I'd worked there before. I told her I had, in fact, though it was seven years ago. She looked panicked and held up my application. "You didn't write it down here on your job history!" I ( Read more... )

So as of tomorrow, I'll be working at a movie theater. My more loyal readers might feel as though they've somehow stumbled upon an internet-diary portal to seven years ago, especially since it's the exact same movie theater. But a lot has changed in those seven intervening years! For one thing, California minimum wage is now $8.00 (or will be, in ( Read more... )

( worrying about the job crap )

I just got back from an "interview" with the video game store. You know... the one where I worked before, in 2006, and quit just before Christmas. Looks like I'll have the chance to pick up where I left off, almost exactly a year later, because the reason I put "interview" in quotes is that it mostly consisted of me being asked when I can start. ( Read more... )

My brain is completely dead today. I think I worked it a bit too hard yesterday. So today I'm taking it easy-- too easy, some would say-- and this entry will be distractedly written ( and that's that. )

( snippet of an IM conversation with a very well-educated person, regarding my crippling inability to do math and/or remember certain things )

Yesterday was amazing. So I didn't quite get that day of rest that I wanted... so what? The universe provides: turns out I have today off, too ( Read more... )

Dear EVERYTHING ( Read more... )

( Oh man, yesterday! Awesome! )

I spent most of my day uploading, tagging and captioning photos to my Flickr photostream. It seems I hadn't uploaded any pictures since May (!) so... yeah... if you wondered what I was up to all that time I wasn't updating my journal... uh...

Anybody want to see 119 friggin' pictures, starting with this one? (Browse 'forward' in the photostream, ( Read more... )