The Blog to Nowhere

Hooray, no more unemployment! I had an interview on Wednesday, but I totally bombed that. Thankfully the employment agency came to the recuse and lined up another job interview. I was super caught off guard though. They phoned me around 8:30 am this morning, saying the new company wanted to have a chat with me. And so followed a mad rush to find the company - it's in the middle of an industrial park but not a bad bus ride - eat breakfast, get cleaned up, and then get out of the house. It's a small company, but the people seem real nice and I'll be working on their documents, formatting, proofreading, editing, etc. Though, being the lame person that I am, I forgot to ask about benefits and pay. Whoops.

I don't start until the 26th so I have one more day to enjoy unemployment before I'm gone for a week in San Francisco. I have to admit I'm sort of glad I bombed the other one. The other job sounded so boring and structured. And this new company has a cool name. Ghostpine.

In other exciting news that isn't about job hunting, the first photos from Dollhouse have been released! This first one is of Echo in the Dollhouse, which looks like a pretty set. It looks like a cross between a Zen garden and the Angel Wolfram and Hart set. The second one is a cast photo. Look, it's Helo in a suit. No sign of Amy, but since she's recurring I guess she doesn't get included. Seems the Dolls wear yoga clothing (and no shoes) when they're not out on jobs. ;-) Sadly, we won't see Dollhouse until January, but the episode count is now at 13. If you want to put a positive spin on it, the later date gives FOX, and fans, time to promote the series.

So last exam ever today! :-D I'll be off soon to go write that then I'm free of university forever.

I had expected to ease into the whole permanent job thing. I'm going on vacation near the end of May so there's about three weeks there where I thought I would have a temp job. I was fine with that. A few weeks work, get some money for the vacation, then chilling in San Francisco. Suddenly the employment agency's on the phone and they're offering me a real job. Whoa! I totally wasn't expecting that.

It sounds easy enough. It's with an insurance agency for high risk people and I'd be proofreading and other admin things. But I totally did not know what to say to the agency lady. I was all, "Wah? I is not done skool yet." Thankfully she was nice enough and she said I could phone her back tomorrow with a decision. Wow. A real job and I didn't have to lift a finger. Okay, so no guarantees that I'll get the job. Still got to do an interview and such, but it's mostly there for the taking.

But first, must write last exam and totally not fail.

ETA: My sister made this for me. I'm beginning to suspect she doesn't do any work while at work.

As Mal likes to say: I had a good day. And I do realize the day isn't over yet but I've been up since 5:00 am so my day started a lot earlier than normal. I have my Bio-Ethics final exam to thank for that. Do they really expect us to think clearly at 8:00 am? Bio-Ethics was hard enough to follow when I was wide awake. But aside from that setback, everything else that followed wasn't half bad. I took my first steps towards finding a decent summer job. I stopped off at an employment agency on the way home; I was all prepared to just hand over a resume and then get a call back saying that would want me to come in, but they saw me right away. Naturally I was dressed like a slob, 8:00 am exam after all, but these were only the people trying to get me a job so it wasn't the worst first impression I've ever made. The only downside was I was really tired and hungry so when they asked me to do some tests, I'm sure I could have done better. Also, my math skills are like non-existent; I haven't taken a math course in four years so the math based questions probably made me look really stupid. But I'm all registered now so they could be phoning at any second to tell me there's a job waiting. I can dream, right? :-D

When I got home, I found some lovely e-mails telling me all of my academic stuff has been sorted out. Which now means I don't have to worry about that stupid half credit of Comparative Lit. I was moaning about previously. The Assoicate Dean is allowing me to take the entry level Comparative Lit. course, which is really nice of him. Plus, everything is in the right place now over at the degree navigator. All I need to do now is finish off my 20 full course credits and I'll be done university! Next year. A year later than I planned. Oh well, it's all good.