Ups and downs...
May. 11th, 2004 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseToday, like a lot of days, has been kind of a mixture.
On the good side, I finally got a copy of Dune's History, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eventhewaves. I also got a package from Ryan, consisting of my kite and a couple of extra things he tossed in.
I also managed to nab the Tuzzy Library's copy of The Da Vinci Code, as well as an interesting-looking book called Library: An Unquiet History. I'm looking forward to reading both of them.
On the not-so-good side, I talked to the library director while I was there, and things aren't looking so great so far as job openings. He seemed pretty impressed with my résumé, but funding for the entire North Slope Borough is tight, and while he has a couple of special projects on the back burner, he's probably not going to be getting word back on whether or not they'll be funded for a few weeks yet. Which basically means I'm back to square one so far as job searching goes. If I wanted to, I could work at Arctic Grocery (or even Arctic Pizza) again, but I'd really rather not, especially for the whole summer - if I'd wanted to get paid $8 to $10 an hour for that kind of work, I could've stayed in Juneau and at least had a better climate.
In addition, I found the reason the wireless network my brother set up was so slow/unreliable: he had it hooked up to a POS computer with a 14.4 modem. I shit you not. No wonder it was taking eBay five minutes to load a page. My mother shelled out hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for his computer equipment over the past few years, and when he moved out and she asked him to leave a wireless setup for her, he gave her the crappiest piece of junk he had. My god, I want to strangle the kid.
I'm beginning to wish I'd run off to California to stay with Brian for the summer. If it weren't for the fact that showing up penniless (not to mention car-less and job-less) on a friend's doorstep seems kind of uncool, I might just save up the seven hundred and fly down there...
On the good side, I finally got a copy of Dune's History, thanks to
eventhewaves. I also got a package from Ryan, consisting of my kite and a couple of extra things he tossed in.I also managed to nab the Tuzzy Library's copy of The Da Vinci Code, as well as an interesting-looking book called Library: An Unquiet History. I'm looking forward to reading both of them.
On the not-so-good side, I talked to the library director while I was there, and things aren't looking so great so far as job openings. He seemed pretty impressed with my résumé, but funding for the entire North Slope Borough is tight, and while he has a couple of special projects on the back burner, he's probably not going to be getting word back on whether or not they'll be funded for a few weeks yet. Which basically means I'm back to square one so far as job searching goes. If I wanted to, I could work at Arctic Grocery (or even Arctic Pizza) again, but I'd really rather not, especially for the whole summer - if I'd wanted to get paid $8 to $10 an hour for that kind of work, I could've stayed in Juneau and at least had a better climate.
In addition, I found the reason the wireless network my brother set up was so slow/unreliable: he had it hooked up to a POS computer with a 14.4 modem. I shit you not. No wonder it was taking eBay five minutes to load a page. My mother shelled out hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for his computer equipment over the past few years, and when he moved out and she asked him to leave a wireless setup for her, he gave her the crappiest piece of junk he had. My god, I want to strangle the kid.
I'm beginning to wish I'd run off to California to stay with Brian for the summer. If it weren't for the fact that showing up penniless (not to mention car-less and job-less) on a friend's doorstep seems kind of uncool, I might just save up the seven hundred and fly down there...
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Date: 2004-05-11 04:04 pm (UTC)Excelente.
> I also managed to nab the Tuzzy Library's copy of The Da Vinci Code, as well as an interesting-looking book called Library: An Unquiet History. I'm looking forward to reading both of them.
Hope you enjoy The Da Vinci Code. I haven't read it, but I've heard from a few people that it's better than Angels and Demons. More refined, better realized, better written -- that sort of thing. And let me know how that other book is... It does, indeed, sound interesting.
> On the not-so-good side, I talked to the library director while I was there, and things aren't looking so great so far as job openings. He seemed pretty impressed with my résumé, but funding for the entire North Slope Borough is tight, and while he has a couple of special projects on the back burner, he's probably not going to be getting word back on whether or not they'll be funded for a few weeks yet. Which basically means I'm back to square one so far as job searching goes.
Well... shit. That really sucks, and I'm equally sorry to hear it. Know you were looking forward to having that job over the summer.
> ... if I'd wanted to get paid $8 to $10 an hour for that kind of work, I could've stayed in Juneau and at least had a better climate.
Yech. Yeah.
> In addition, I found the reason the wireless network my brother set up was so slow/unreliable: he had it hooked up to a POS computer with a 14.4 modem. I shit you not. No wonder it was taking eBay five minutes to load a page. My mother shelled out hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for his computer equipment over the past few years, and when he moved out and she asked him to leave a wireless setup for her, he gave her the crappiest piece of junk he had. My god, I want to strangle the kid.
What. The. Fuck? Having asked that, I'd also have to ask if there are -- perhaps -- any kind of extentuating circumstances for that?
> I'm beginning to wish I'd run off to California to stay with Brian for the summer. If it weren't for the fact that showing up penniless (not to mention car-less and job-less) on a friend's doorstep seems kind of uncool, I might just save up the seven hundred and fly down there...
Hey, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: so long as I'm walking, wheeling, or breathing on the face of the Earth, you'll always have a place to stay. If you feel like it's something you want/need to do, just let us -- or me -- know when to expect you, and I'll take care of the rest...
Lord knows you've certainly got a room you can use for the duration, if it came to that -- and there are plenty of jobs and cars to go around the greater Los Angeles area.
Hope your day winds up on the positive side of the scales.
--Brian
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Date: 2004-05-11 04:31 pm (UTC)"Arctic Grocery" conjures up images of a pretty quaint little burg... how many people are there in Barrow?
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Date: 2004-05-11 09:53 pm (UTC)heard The Da Vinci Code was a bit too conspiracy-theory for some people, but still damn good.
I'll have to prepare a stiff drink, then a stiff beating for your brother. Classes as "geek" along with him makes my ego and soul hurt after reading that.
Hey, least Arctic Grocery can pay your checks... and "quaint" fits it, I guess. And "respectable". :)
Not willing to stay with me this summer? Im just heartbroken.
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Date: 2004-05-12 12:36 am (UTC)I too have heard lots about The Da Vinci Code, and would like to read it, but my current to-read pile really is unseasonably vast and growing...