So earlier this morning I got a call from enterprise, I guess I am one of the finalists for the position which is great! She told me that they work long weeks (50 hours), but I could not care less. I want this job...I need this job...the pay is decent enough though...between $32,000 and $40,000 a year. This kind of money would more than allow me to live and start paying off my loans to the government, my friends and family, and myself (credit card). I really hope that I get this job, it sounds like it has great potential for advancement.

I also picked up my diploma today...and it makes you feel good about yourself. It is a different kind of feeling that graduation day. I mean it's only a piece of paper...but it is my piece of paper showing that I made it through college. I usually don't feel proud of myself, but for a glimmering moment when I saw that diploma I felt proud...and I felt accomplished; it was a great feeling...

I am also learning how to play guitar. On comcast on demand there are free guitar lessons, and since stephs parents brought up a guitar I thought I'd take a stab at it. Steph I guess is specializing more or less on the piano and I am doing the same on the guitar. It is pretty tough, my hands get cramped up, but I enjoy it...well until my hands really hurt and I get frustrated because I can't position my hands the way I am supposed to. I imagine that will come in time.

Okay, off I go...leights.
posted by Congofeet at 1:53 PM

Frustrated and angry best sums up how I feel right now, and my grandma forgetting to stay home so the piano can be picked up is just one thing contributing. Damn scanner.
Damn unemployment. I need to de-stress.
posted by Congofeet at 5:28 PM

This new internet explorer is weird.
posted by Congofeet at 2:07 PM

how the hell do you make movie like popcorn?

I saw the guy making it at the movies (see post below) and he sprinkled some orange substance on the kernels before putting them in...what is that stuff?!? CRACK!? I bought that bag once with the oil and kernals (it was supposed to be acutal movie popcorn) and it tasted great...but it had that damn orange powder too... if I could only find out what it is...

*EDIT*

HAH! I found it...I win!

See, I am not crazy!
posted by Congofeet at 1:14 AM

So steph and I saw Happy Feet today, you know that movie about the dancing penguin? Yeah that one. I thought it would be a hoot...but not really...actually not at all. The movie is not even about what the movie trailers alluded to. This is what I got from the movie trailer.

1. Fuzzy baby penguin cannot sing, but he can dance
2. Fuzzy baby penguin is made fun of, "best looking" penguin feels sorry for him.
3. Fuzzy baby penguin grows into adult who still cannot sing, but can dance...still
4. Adult penguin is banished from penguination and/or leaves to find himself
5. Penguin meets up with group of smaller comedic penguins, hilarity begins
6. Penguin finds himself while away, returns to woo said "best looking" penguin
7. Penguin is accepted by penguination, girl gets freaky with him, have kids
8. They live happily ever after

This was the story that I was expecting, however this is not the movie. There were no real funny "laugh out loud" moments. The only point I remember laughing was when the little penguin (I forget what his name is) voiced by robin williams says "I once heard another penguin make that sound before, but when they rolled him over he was dead"...well that might not be an exact quote, but I still chuckle thinking about it...oh I also laugh at the thought of crippled love lace. On a scale of 1 - 10 I think I would give this movie about a 3.5 - 4.2

Now you are thinking was it really this bad...and the answer..without question is yes. Allow me to elaborate:

Instead of being a comical movie about being different is okay, this movie turns into a political statement that fishing the ocean is bad and kills dancing penguins... oh it also leads you to think that zoo's are horrible places. I don't really want to post an argument for or against these things, because I could do both, but I just don't feel that this has any place in an otherwise kiddie movie. From all the trailers that I watched I never once thought that there would be a search for where the fish were going...okay, I am done with the movie ranting now...

On a separate note, the pop corn there was very sucky...I think the guy put on maybe two little squirts of "butter flavor" onto the pop corn. I guess this is in stark contrast to that one time when the lady made them swim in the stuff...but believe me I would rather have them swimming than dry and plain. I usually love movie popcorn.. and I was sad when it left me unsatisfied...guess I'll have to make some on my own...

Okay so I am pretty sleepy so forgive any typo's and no I am not going to fix them.

night.
posted by Congofeet at 12:39 AM

"Look at her [Hilary Duff], she looks like Kevin Sorbo"

-Steph

Haha I just saw that music video again and I had to laugh at what steph said.

On a less comedic note, why are employers suchs asses. I applied to this one job that said "open until filled", and even though I knew that it was probably filled (it said the job was going to start a week ago) I decided to ask. And instead of replying to me that the job had been filled the jerk just takes the job posting off the internet. This irratates me to no end. In the age of email, when a person does not have to speak with you, is it so hard to send me an email saying that the position has already been filled. I wish people would have some class and respond to emails...common now jerks.

On an unrelated note, I know this guy who works for Peter C. Wainwright (his full name used to for search engines) that also thinks that he is a complete ass. His truck broke down on the side of the road after he had just finished catching fish for Wainwrights lab. He called Wainwright to tell him that the truck had broken down, and all he could do was complain that the fish were damaged, then he packed them into his car and drove off. He did not even ask if he could use a ride, since he was on the side of the road. Even another guy, he is a post doctoral researcher at bodega, says that Wainwright is a jerk. I am glad I am not in the minority when I say that Wainwright is an ass. Too bad people who approve of grants do not take personality into account, because I am sure he would be done for.

On the job front...BAH!
posted by Congofeet at 11:09 AM

So my mom told me that my uncle was going to go out and buy some PS3's to resell on ebay. She thought it was a good idea so she told me about it. She suggested that I go out and do the same. My response "HAHAHA. That is like telling a crack addict to go out and buy some crack and let it sit on the table for a month, not touching it mind you, then selling it." Yeah, I didn't think it was such a good idea either...well for me anyway. I have been playing video games for...lets see 15 or so years, so I am not going to have a PS3 just sitting there not in use...

Am I an addict?...yes...is it a problem?...yes...do I plan to change?...not any time soon. At least I have not bought any games since I graduated...well I did buy a baseball game for like $2, but that was it...I swear...don't look at me like that.

On a separate note, my planted tank is going down faster than a drunken prom date. I am not too sure why it is crashing, but most of the fish in there are dying or dead. I am going to have to do something...what I don't know, but something is needed.

I sent out applications for a couple promising jobs, hopefully I'll get a response. Somebody hire me please...I'll be your friend.

Maybe that's the offer that has been keeping me unemployed...leights
posted by Congofeet at 8:34 AM

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
- Charles M. Schulz

I thought this quote was fitting for me.

So life has not been going very well, I was really hoping to get this fish tagging job, but I guess there is somebody else more qualified than I for that position. I have been having troubles falling asleep...and when I do fall asleep I am having trouble staying asleep. This translates to me taking naps during the day which I really hate; but I am just so damn tired. These past few months of my life are taking years off the end of it...luckily those are all the bad years right? So on I go looking for more jobs, emailing random people that friends suggest I talk to; hopefully it works out. I took a unisom to try and help knock my ass out, I bought some a while back when I was having troubles sleeping...around the time I was planning the family vacation. Okay, I am going to stop before that stuff kicks in...leights.
posted by Congofeet at 1:49 AM