The best thing about Tuesday

[cmk418]

Watching the latest episode of "My Own Worst Enemy" on hulu.

The show is phenomenal. It's interesting to see the limits of how far Henry will go each week, and everything that Edward and the rest of the Janus team do to keep Edward safe. I'm really enjoying it. Expect slashiness soon.

Last night I had a less than stellar night squaredancing, but so was everybody else, so it wasn't just me. We're starting to learn some of the C3A stuff now, which is kind of interesting. (Of course, when our teacher tries to explain the "But" concept to a predominantly gay male group, it has a tendency to get rather silly.)

The nice thing about last night though was that all the guys I talked to could understand why I didn't want to take the Santa Monica job, so I felt a little better about it.

I filled out a couple more applications today. Just have to keep doing that and something will break.

Comments

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely not picking it up on a regular basis.

On the job front, cheer up! At least you're not at my job!

[cmk418]

No? But it's SOOOOOOO good.

What do you do? You very rarely talk about it online.

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I do stuff on mondays and things pop up, you know?

I do business to business surveys. For someone without a college education, it's pretty good money, upwards of twelve bucks an hours, but it's slowly grinding my soul away. I talk to receptionists, mostly, and just keep at it until I get through to whoever I have to talk to.

Seriously, it's ridiculous. Some of our clients, I just want to say, "You know how to sell more stuff? MAKE BETTER SHIT."

[cmk418]

I did telemarketing for about 5 minutes one time. It never took with me. If anything, this job is giving you the persistence and tact that you'll need when you go onto the next opportunity whenever you decide to take it.

I think most jobs are pretty soul-sucking. That's why I'm not minding (except for the financial implications) this 2.5 month period of spiritual renewal that I'm currently having.

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

Surveys!*clings to dignity* Not selling stuff, surveys!

Pretty much. I like my job, I get to learn cool stuff and I get time to write. There are worse things, I guess.

[cmk418]

Sorry. I was actually doing the survey thing too, so I suppose "market research" would be a better term.

[roguemarch.livejournal.com]

I wish I could watch that show here right now, but I have to wait to catch it.

I'm having the same problems in the job front, so my heart is with you! Always!

[cmk418]

Thanks! Good luck with your search! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

I wish you could see it as well - it's a really good show.

[michele659.livejournal.com]

I wanted to see that show and then forgot about when it was starting. So what's the slashiness?? (I'm always interested in the really serious aspects of the shows I watch,of course!)
I can't wait for it,whatever it is!

What was it about the Santa Monica job you didn't like? Was that the human services job?

Yes-something will definitely break if you keep on filling out the applications.

I LOL'd over the squaredancing scenario. I could just see the guys getting silly over the But concept. BTW-What IS that in squaredancing,anyway?

[cmk418]

It's on Monday nights on NBC. You can catch up on hulu.com with the full epis, or I guess they have one of those 2 minute recaps like they have for SVU over on the NBC site. I slashed Raymond and Edward. I have a strange affection toward Raymond. They'll probably kill him off soon because I like him so much.

The Santa Monica job would have entailed a 2 hour commute by bus each way every day. No thank you.

I sent in another application to the USC film school. Maybe I'm starting to wear them down! I can hope.

Squaredancing - Well, by the time you get to the level I'm at in squaredancing, you're supposed to have all the definitions to all the calls memorized (you're not supposed to dance them, you need to know them), so the "But" concept requires the dancers to eliminate the very last step in the call preceding the word "But" and then add the call that follows the "But". And apparently I have squaredancing on the brain right now because the hockey announcer was saying "circle to the left" and I wasn't thinking about geographically on the ice, I was thinking "why the hell are they doing that?"

PS - DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THAT THE BO-SOX ARE GONE?