Rave: My year-end review with my boss went much better than I expected. Much better. Rave: I'll be getting a big jump in job responsibility here this month. This is an opportunity I've been working towards for a long time. Inches away from being promoted to a full time sales rep. Rant: I still have to get over being such a harsh critic of myself. I'm not going to continue working against myself like I did in 2012.
Rant: Well, no trip, 3 hours sleep, and the furnace broke, too. Woke up to a 65 degree house, while furnace was set at 72. Fuck. Rave: Got it fixed this morning. Still another hundred bucks we're out. Rave: Ultimately only out $400 for the trip. Could've been much, much worse.
Rave: Changed insurance providers for homeowners and auto insurance. Saving $500 a year for homeowners, and about $600 a year in auto for the exact same coverage. Yay, State Farm! Rave: Got a refund check from my old insurance provider for the remaining balance of my homeowners insurance that is paid out through escrow since I was halfway through the year of coverage. Called my bank to find out if I needed to re-deposit that money so I wouldn't be needing to pay back into escrow at a later date. They told me that not only do I not need to put that money into escrow, but that my mortgage payment will drop by a significant amount since the new homeowners policy dropped so much! Woo, free money (sort of)!
RAVE: I babysat my 6 year old nephew today and it was awesome. He spent the whole afternoon pretending that my dog was a dinosaur and running from him. Then I bought him legos and fed him ice cream for dinner. Gotta get in good now so he'll care for me in my old age.
Rant: Girl I haven't seen for years turns up again, much hotter than she used to be, and I bungle things magnificently. Rave: Saw her randomly last night and pulled my A game out of nowhere. I couldn't say anything wrong. It's looking up. Rant: Trying to find an investment managment / mergers & acquisitions internship without connections is rough.
Rant: I get that sometimes new moms want to bring their new kids in to work to show them off... but what's up with this new fucking trend of bringing in OTHER people's kids? Two of our fucking accountants keep bringing in grandkids and nieces and nephews... and now, the one has brought in the daughter of her next door neighbour. WHAT THE FUCK?
Rant I won't be getting a room at the hospital I will do an elective in next march. Fun. I found out yesterday. So now I have to magically find a place to stay in Zurich within the next 2 months I can pay with the 1000 CHF I will get paid. I heard other hospitals take in students that do electives, hope they have something for me, but I don't want to get my hopes up because I'm really late. I hate the "get a place to stay" part, it's always the same when I do something like this. Rant PhD can go fuck itself. This will be a fun presentation next week. Rant Exams coming up. Many.
Rave: Trying to turn a lost trip into a productive week. I spent the day de-Christmas-ing the house, then cleaning like crazy. Rant: Wife is annoyed with me. For cleaning. Yeah.
Rant Well, it looks like two solid job leads I have are essentially evaporating. The small silver lining is that I may have a couple more lined up so I may be able to get something going soon. Meanwhile I'll just be slamming my forehead into my laptop to pass the time.
Rave: Started teaching High School math Monday. The kids in my classes are eager to learn and participate in class. The school is small enough (k-12) that I am the only HS math teacher, so I get to see all the students and will have them for all math classes. Class sizes are great, three with under 15, two at 20 students and only one with 27. Overall, I'm comfortable where I'm at and look forward to the next couple weeks.
Rant: Girl trouble. Am I letting my insecurities turn me into the sort of controlling dipshit I loathe, or am I getting played like a fiddle at a hoedown? I'm sure my brain will be entirely unbiased in helping me get to the bottom of this matter. Rant: Apparently my coping mechanisms need work. A $6000 drug and alcohol binge, while said girl is staying at your house, probably wasn't the best idea. Especially when that $6k was on the credit card. Tsk tsk. Rave: Girl trouble. It's been a frighteningly long time since I met a girl I liked enough to look for something more than a FWB arrangement. Like, 7 years. Yes, I've been weirdly emotional for the last few weeks, but considering the 'approaching 0' level of drama I've had for the last 6 or so years, I do feel a little entitled to my freak outs. I'm ashamed of them and upset I wasn't a paragon of rationality, but fuck it: I'm not aspiring to be robocop either. Rave? I really like this one.
Rant: One of the mountain lions at the center I volunteer at is dying. He's an old cat, and in a lot of pain with two slipped discs in his neck. When we got Spike he was living in a tiny room surrounded by his own shit and never learned how to climb. At least he got a good life once he was rescued. Today he just let the workers know he was ready, and he'll be let go this evening.
Rave: My birthday is on Monday, and I decided that today was going to be the start of my celebrating. Part of the appeal of having been underemployed/unemployed/working creepy night shifts for the past three years is that I've been in the audience of a TV show a ridiculous number of times, so I'm on all their lists and I often get emails that are like "Hey, you live in New York! Want to come see our show tomorrow?" For example, I've been in the audience of Anderson Cooper's show about 5 times in the past two years, and I got tickets for today's show. It was a grand ol' time, and then in between the show and work I needed to eat. So I was walking down to my general neighborhood of employment and came across this bar that had an excellent lunch special of food+alcohol which was around the same price as what I was probably going to be paying for a coffee and a sandwich or pastry, so I said, hey, fuck it. I'm counting this as celebrating my birthday - even though I'm about to go to work, I'm getting me a drink. So I got this really nice drink and a tasty meal, and sat at the bar reading my magazine, feeling very grownup and cosmopolitan and generally pumped about life. Then, I was surprised with a credit card minimum - which I really think shouldn't be allowed, but that's a whole other thing - and I figured, well, the cost of another drink is more or less what I'd pay in ATM fees to get cash, so I might as well get another drink. So I ended up getting into work a little tipsy, and everything is so much better this way. And I have lovely things planned for the next four days, so I'm pretty happy.
RantMy part time job just went to a no time job. I didn't get fired, quite simply there was no more work. I worked for a small tandem bicycle company, and I did the grunt work around the shop. January is a slow time, the owner is hardly working. Once we get some more inventory I'll start working but until then I'm fucked. I'm crossing my fingers that the two interviews I had for other jobs pan out this week. Until then I'll be drinking myself into oblivion because I live by myself and now have no income. Fucking eh
Rave: Job interview on Tuesday. I love my current job but when they are paying what they are paying, you really cant say no.
Rave: An impromptu trip to the pub ended in me picking up a hot Ranga. Rant: 40C again today, there are still bushfires everywhere and I'm feeling a bit dusty.
Rave: New job after being unemployed way too long Rave: Truck is back up and running Rant: Flat fucking tire, and no spare
RANT: Working from home pretty much owns bones, but I really need to find something that gets me out of the house more. I feel like I'm starting to get really weird. Like it's only a matter of time before I get 10 cats, start wearing a housecoat everywhere, and mumble to myself in public.
Rant: It's too Goddamned cold to enjoy my Friday night. Rave: It's been said before, and it'll be said again: Goddamn, Steel Panther is fun to listen to.