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05:02 pm
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Ah, shit.
As I have suspected, the position was already filled and they didn't update the website.
Oh well.
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11:18 pm
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Well, holy shit.
It looks like I am getting all my ducks in a row. I just hope no one shoots them down before I am ready.
There's a job opening in Marquette, and I am highly interested in obtaining it. They are very familiar with me there (they are a youth drop in community center, and they helped me out more than I can repay while I lived off campus.) I actually called there a couple months back, wondering if they had any openings. They did not, but the woman I called, Becky, remembered who I was and sounded delighted to hear from me. She told me to email her my resume, which I did, and if there were any openings in the near future, she would keep me in mind. Well, I hope she is true to her word. I called her on Friday, expressing my interest in the position. Unfortunately, I did not get a hold of her directly, but I left her a voicemail. I am going to call again tomorrow. I reaaallly don't want this to pass me up.
I'm not keeping my car. It would barely make the trip upstate, if at all, so I am going to sell it. I have a couple of potential buyers already, and I might be selling it sooner rather than later. That would cover the cost of renting a truck and moving my furniture upstate. Oh! Speaking of furniture! :D
I was planning on buying a loft bed for my new bedroom. It won't have a closet, so I was trying to think of ideas of storing my clothes. I don't own a dresser anymore; I keep my clothes hanging in my closet. No closet, no dresser, what is a person to do? Well, one of Thomas's roommates just moved out. What did he leave behind? A loft bed. What's under the bed? A huge dresser. I offered him $100 for the set :D This, of course, is contingent I can sell my car.
Here's hoping things work out! :D
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08:02 am
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...D:
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03:46 am
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Oh my God, seriously?
I am getting undressed for the night and I just now realize my boxers are on backwards.
Epic.
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07:36 pm
[Link] | Has anyone else ever stopped to think that Google might turn out to be a real life SkyNet?
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06:46 pm
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Tee hee!
That's still so weird to see!
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05:25 pm
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Woo!
Very productive day today. Called my academic adviser and am now registered for my first semester of graduate courses! PY 410 Sensation and Perception as well as PY 541 Advanced Child Psychology. I also discussed the possibility of attending the Morningside Teacher's Academy in Seattle, WA over next summer. It's a 3 week training program that teaches you their fundamentals of teaching/coaching.
http://www.morningsideteachers.org/
My adviser said I would be able to attend, tuition and housing paid for (I would have to worry about travel and food) as well as receive 8 graduate credits! I could be done in a year and a half!
This is all very exciting and overwhelming. Now I need to track down some letters of reference and write up a personal statement/CV.
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02:50 am
[Link] | Something I learned today.
Apparently, when I was incredibly young, my parents entertained dreams of moving to the upper peninsula of Michigan to open a video rental store in Newberry.
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I know, right?
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01:35 am
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Hahaha.
Okay, I haven't done this in a while, so you're all just going to have to deal with it.
Seriously. Best icon ever.
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11:54 am
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Writer's Block: Job search
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HA.
Tags: dream job, job search, writer's block
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07:38 pm
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"Things are looking brighter and I’m feeling better."
+5 if you get the lyrical reference.
-5 if you Googled it (hey, at least you broke even!)
-10 if you're ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) oreowhore .
Well, so, yeah, the job thing kinda stinks, but I refuse to let it get me down. Srsly, my body could not handle waking up at 5 am every day, it wasn't going to last for much longer, anyway, sour grapes or not.
Things I've done today:
- Dropped off my work badge.
- Made some inquiries about seasonal employment. I'm sure I'll find something as a retail wage-slave.
- Checked my bank statement. Of course, this would be the week that direct deposit kicked in, but hey. I have some money to float on for the time being.
- Got a hold of an old professor of mine. Seems like he has no issue with being my academic adviser. He was busy when I caught him so we'll talk at more length tomorrow. He said because I am a first generation college graduate in my family, I should be able to qualify for grants and the like. Unfortunately, I have pretty much zero chance of landing a research assistanceship.
- Told FAFSA that I want to go to NMU for grad school. But apparently, I didn't tell them ENOUGH that I was going to be a grad student, because I am still listed as a dependent of my mother. Oh well. When that processes in 5 days, I need to do it again and check one more little box, then let that process again. Then maybe NMU can give me an idea of the financial aid I can expect to receive.
- Got a hold of an old contact/acquaintance of mine at Lutheran Social Services - Voices for Youth in Marquette. They're not hiring now, but if anything opens up by the time I start school, I should be getting really good consideration. She also said she'd keep an eye/ear out if anything remotely related opens up in the area. Emailed her my resume.
- I also checked the websites for Pathways and Great Lakes Recovery Center in Marquette. Tomorrow during business hours I will call again and introduce/reintroduce myself, respectively.
- Introduced myself (online) to a potential roommate I might be living with come January. I've met him before, and he seems really cool. He likes Tegan and Sara and Kimya Dawson, so he can't be all bad.
January holds a lot of promise, it's just a matter of waiting out until then.
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05:43 am
[Link] | I lost my job. My car wouldn't start this morning. There's no way I would be able to keep that job without a car. I was already on thin ice at work: had I called in, I would have been fired for sure. I guess at least I left on my own terms, though when I go to try to find a new job I will have to tell them that I quit my old job, no, I did not give them two weeks notice, and no, you cannot contact them as a work reference.
I give up. I am tired of everything in my life turning to shit and I am quickly running out of energy for this uphill battle. I am going to listen to sad Kimya Dawson songs about death and sexual molestation until I pass out.
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10:13 am
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Lawls.
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04:19 pm
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I has job.
Woo!
Finally got in at ReCellular through Manpower, a temp agency. ReCellular fixes and refurbishes cell phones. It's classified as "light industrial". $9.00 at 50 hours a week. I start Monday, 6:30 am. This gives me the next half week to adjust to a sleep schedule where I can wake up at 5 in the morning and be comfortable with that.
Also, while I was still on the phone with the Manpower staffing agent, I made sure to get some critical dates off: 09/16/2009 (my bankruptcy hearing) and 10/02/2009 through 10/05/2009. You know who you are. You know why. It's on.
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01:20 am
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Why is Thomas friends with this guy?
So Thomas has a friend. We'll call him Asshole. I'm hanging out at Thomas's house and Asshole drops on by unannounced. He's also bragging about how he got wasted at this bar, that bar, and then the other one. Mind you, he drove here.. Thomas is about to go to bed, and Asshole says he'll be leaving in a bit. I say, "Yeah. I'm gonna wait about 5 minutes after he leaves before I hit the road."
Clearly offended, Asshole defends his masculinity thusly, "Dude, I drink better drunk than you do sober!"
Well, good, Asshole. That just makes me feel better about everything.
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02:26 am
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Man, I haven't done this in AGES...
I am a bad person.
( It's Asshhlleeeyy... )
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02:50 am
[Link] | "If Mars came here it would be ugly
nations would band together to hunt down
and kill Martians
and being the stupid undeserving life forms
that we are
we would also hunt down and kill what
would be termed Martian Sympathizers
As if the Fugitive Slave Law wasn't bad
enough then"
This is precisely why I want to see District-9.
Cookie to the first person who knows who I am quoting. No Google or no cookie.
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12:58 pm
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DEAR MARQUETTE FRIENDS
Okay, this is mostly for Ashley and Heather. Maybe Skippy if she's dragged along.
THE RAGBIRDS ARE PLAYING IN MARQUETTE.
7/21/2009 and 7/22/2009. The Upfront.
http://www.theragbirds.com/html/flash.html
GO SEE THEM. HAVE FUN.
That is all.
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03:49 am
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HOLY SHIT I DID IT.
I'm learning LINUX.
:DDDDD
I was chatting with Skippy online for over an hour while she tried to help me get the drivers installed for my PC's graphics card. Eventually she went to bed, and I almost did as well, but I kept at it and NOW I HAVE A PROPER SCREEN RESOLUTION. Srsly, 800x600 FTL. 1024x768 FTW.
I feel so geeky! :D
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05:18 pm
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Good things.
Well, today marks my first day of classes for the summer semester. Things are going well. I almost went home about a half hour ago---a migraine coupled with nausea made for an unhappy Alex. But 5 Excedrin later and I'm feeling a lot better.
I got approved for $2,750 in loans! Woo! Now, if they'd just LET my mom apply for a PLUS loan... (there are no paper applications. It's all done online, and the website is broken. Fuckers.)
My first class was Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare. It's a Philosophy course, and so a lot of our first class was going over fallacies and what is "right" or "good". I enjoy these kinds of discussions. Lots of room to play Devil's Advocate. ;) Also, throughout the course of the semester, there's a possibility to earn 560 points. A student needs to earn 420 of those points to get an A. Yeah, I need to get 75% of all possible points to get an A. Hell. Yes.
My next class is Interpersonal Communications, which I'm hoping will be easy. I also figure it's something that will enrich the quality of my life. :P
Oh, and I know at least one person on my friend's list has expressed this concern: I know I shouldn't take out more in loans than I need. However, I do have a long term plan for all this. I need to 1) pay for a lawyer to get that bankruptcy underway and eliminate my immediate debt. 2) I'd LIKE to buy a new computer, one that has the specifications to handle Open Office so I can use it for school, and 3) whatever is left over (I'm projecting $3,000) will go into a savings account and I will. Not. Touch it. It's going to be used to help me move in a year when I start going to graduate school.
Oh yeah! I'm also signed up for motorcycle lessons. >.> I'm going to make a switch to e-cigarettes (www.blucigs.com) instead of regular smoking. I went to a physician and told them about my anxiety issues, so I have a prescription for Paxil. I'm also going to do other things like make sure I'm up to date on my vaccinations, getting back into therapy, and my physician also wants me to do some lab work to check my cholesterol. So... yeah. Making a lot of steps to improve the quality of my life. I'm also going to look into starting a DDR Club here at WCC. >.>
Maybe the next post I make will have more forethought and be less freewrite, but either way, I'm feeling good right now, and that's very important.
P.S. DEAR INTERNET AT THIS CURRENT MOMENT IN TIME I DO NOT FEEL THE NEED TO MOVE MY BOWELS.
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