I’m going to be in New York City for a week starting next Tuesday. I’m going to see ‘les, who is visiting with some friends. I’m hoping to make it UpState to see the Lagoys as well.
So, is there anything that I Should Do while I’m there? Places to eat? Neighborhoods to see? I’ve only been to NYC once and that was during the Republican convention so I spent most of my days getting chased by cops and melting in the heat. I’d like to avoid cops this time around.
I’m bringing the ‘blad with me, so any particularly good spots for photos is also information that I’d like. :)
So I posted about that job that I applied for and got asked in for a second interview.
I sat on the email for a day, trying to figure out if I really wanted to work full time right now in general and if I really wanted to work full time as a tech writer/product designer. I wasn’t sure about the prospect of working full time while trying to go to school in general, let alone working full time doing something that I’m not planning on doing once I get out of school. I was going to pass on the interview all together but the next day I had a bit of a panic attack about trying to afford rent and taking out student loans and generally being pretty broke, which I really hate. So I emailed them back and scheduled an interview for today.
The interview went ok. I know that if I were just looking for any old job, I would probably be totally happy with this one. It is in SF, which is sort of nice because I actually really like being in the city. So yeah. If I was still interested in working doing a tech sort of job, I’d be pretty stoked right now. It’s really too bad that I don’t want a tech job right about now.
I don’t know what I’ll do if I’m offered the job. I’d still be able to manage one or two classes this semester even working full time. San Jose’s program is really set up for people who are working real jobs while going to school. They offer a lot of their classes online or as weekend, night, or monthly courses. It’s doable. I just don’t know that I want to do it.
I think that I’d probably just pass on the job, but I have this, like, horrible anxiety about passing up a perfectly good job. What if I run out of money? What if no one ever offers me a job again FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE? If I don’t take whatever’s offered to me I’m going to end up on the streets! The streets, people!
Which is crazy. Because first of all, I can take out student loans to cover my living expenses so I’m not going to be penniless in the coming months. Second of all, I’m staying in this nice loft right here rent free so I’m in no danger of ending up on the streets. Hell, I’m going to be living here by myself for like a month starting in the middle of November. Third of all, I’m clearly employable otherwise these people with this here job wouldn’t be interviewing me. And I have good references and my resume is dandy so I don’t actually have anything to worry about. Fourth of all, I’ve been pointed to a company that places temporary library workers at law firms around the Bay Area. I could totally work there if I need to be working. Which would probably be better since it would be both flexible and related to what I want to be doing.
Clearly I need to calm the fuck down.
Hrm. The first week that I was back, I felt like a huge slacker what with not having a job or a permanent place to live. So I started looking for apartments and I applied to a few jobs on Craigslist, assuming that, like most of my attempts to apply for jobs via Craigslist, I wouldn’t get a response.
But then I did. And about the same time I found out that I was accepted into San Jose State’s library science program, which I’m planning on doing. (I’ve been meaning to post about this, but just haven’t gotten around to it. I was being all indecisive about it at first but the more I think about it, the happier I am with the idea.)
I just got an email asking for a second interview at one of the jobs I applied for.
So now I’m trying to figure out if I want to go ahead and interview. If I get the job it would be full time, in an office. I don’t know if I would be able to balance that and school. I don’t know if I even want to try.
So yeah. I hate being broke. But I’m not really in love with the idea of working tech again. Which is why I’m going back to school in the first place.
Bah. I just have…issues…about being unemployed. I always feel like I need to just take whatever job comes along because god only knows what’ll happen to me if I don’t.
Plus I really want to move out of the loft and rent’s expensive.
Bah.
Holy good lord, Glenn Beck (CNN anchor and syndicated talk show host who has already made a name for himself by actually devoting whole hour long shows to talk about The End Times and how fast passes are a tool of the Beast. And no, I am not kidding about the fast pass thing.) is a goddamned idiot.
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.
There are so many ways in which is the an idiotic statement, not least of which is the fact that the areas of So Cal that happen to be on fire right now are among the most conservative areas of California. It seems a bit…what’s the word I’m looking for? Oh yeah! Insane! It seems a bit insane to be attacking your fundraising base, doesn’t it? I mean, those are his people, right? Does he think all of California is San Francisco or something?
Although I guess since immediately before that he was babbling about how he strongly disagrees with Schwarzenegger that Republicans should care about the health and educations of Americans so maybe he really does think all those rich Republicans really do hate America.
In other news – I’m really impressed with the evacuations going on down there. They’ve actually gotten people out of harm’s way with the help of public services like they’re a proper first world nation or something. I have to wonder, though, if they’d manage to employ all those school buses and open all those hotels and stadiums if this fire had been going down in Apple Valley instead of Canyon Country. I think all those retirees would be shit out of luck if a wildfire somehow managed to break out in the Mojave.
Also, I’m highly amused by the fact that almost every story I’ve read about the evacuations mentions people leaving with their pets. Aw! The puppies and kittens are saved!
So, yeah. 29. I think I should start lying about my age and say I’m 30 now.
I went to a craft show yesterday and bought myself an octopus pendant from Stellanova Jewelry as a birthday gift to me. I loves it.
I don’t have any plans for today. It is very pretty out, though. I feel like I should maybe leave the house or something.
I was talking to my housemates about watching TV last night. Neither of them watches much TV. I used to watch lots of TV before moving in with ‘les. But then I moved to countries were I didn’t speak the language well enough to understand most of it and ‘les doesn’t like TV anyway so even if we’d lived in the US, I probably would be watching less of it.
Anyway, during this little discussion, I made the realization that I actually get a lot less done when I don’t have a TV. I used to come home from work, flip the TV and decompress a bit. Then I’d knit or bake or do any number of other tasks that only took up half my attention while the TV was on. Having two things to focus on actually made me more engaged to the project I was working on. Knitting is a little too boring for me without more going on.
This all explains why it is taking me hours just to pick up the stitches on along the neck of my sweater. I should be sewing this damn thing up right now but instead I keep putting it down to read the internets or something. God, I want this thing to be done!
While I was in Europe, I held off on buying a great many things either because they weren’t useful to me right then or because I didn’t want to have to move them in a year. Now that I’m back I still want all sorts of stuff, but I can’t really justify the cost in many cases.
So! Stuff I want, a short visual list:
You’re Impossible
Is Is
No Sheep For You
Fitted Knits
Yarn Core
Film Development Tank
Reel for 120 film
Banneton
Left Handed Scissors
She Blinded Me With Library Science
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice
The server that ResidentHipster is hosted on had a bit of a crash the other day. Most things are back up, but it looks like the last few weeks of journal entries may have been lost. I have them all somewhere and sometimes soon I might go ahead and repost. I dunno.