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missroseroseA couple of entries ago I mentioned that a bunch of loose ends in my life seem to finally be tying themselves together. Well, they are indeed...and then some. Two semesters ago I had no long-term companion (though that fixed itself pretty well), no clue where I was going to live after this semester, and no idea what I'd be doing this summer job-wise (and no certainty if I wanted to keep my comfortable but low-paying job at the library after this year). And suddenly, magically...it's all coming together.
Cut, because it's probably going to be long and I've always wanted to make one of those huge entries with multiple cuts. ;)
Two semesters ago, I had no clue what I was going to do at the end of this one. I didn't want to go back to Barrow again, but I had no clue what I'd do for housing here in Juneau - I know I mentioned before how expensive rent is here (real estate has skyrocketed in this town), and even if I did manage to find an apartment, it wouldn't feel like a semi-permanent home, which is what I've really wanted for some time. Apartments are slightly less transitory than dorms, but not by much.
Well, Brian's mother was planning on letting us stay with her to avoid having to pay through the nose for rent, which was really nice of her. However, a couple of relatives of hers are moving out of their FRELLING NICE condo down in the TriCities area in Washington, where her entire family is located. Since she's not particularly happy up here (she mostly came here because Brian's father had a great job, and since he died a few years back and she doesn't like her current job, there's not a lot keeping her here), she's pretty much decided to buy their condo and move down there. Which would put Brian and I back on the apartment market (he has a really great job here that he wants to stay with, and I'd rather work on my degree here - the UA system is incredibly inexpensive), except that with the remains of her husband's life insurance money plus the money she'd make from selling her house (see above note about local real estate), his mother can buy the condo in Washington outright and have plenty left over to give us money for a down payment on a condo here in town. Which would give us the opportunity to put our money into equity rather than just paying rent. Not to mention that a mortgage payment would actually be cheaper month-to-month.
Job-wise, I applied for (and apparently got, though I didn't hear back from them until just now) the position over at Four Seasons Marine. It sounded like a nice enough job, though there were the aforementioned scheduling issues. However, when I went in to work earlier today, there was a sign posted saying they were looking for a circulation assistant - basically the next step up from the student circ assistant position I've been working. The pay is much better ($13-something an hour rather than $7.75) and there's more to do, so it's somewhat less mind-numbing; plus there's the fact that I could keep it through the school year. Since I happened to have my résumé mostly updated, I gave it a few tweaks and turned it in along with an application.
I think I might just get the position. The one thing that could've been a major problem would be if Rebecca, the girl who's been working the position as a temp (and also a friend of mine) had applied; she would probably have qualified better just through experience. However, I talked to her today and she's not planning on applying, and my only other competition is looking to be Lana, one of the other student circ assistants. I'm hoping I might just edge her out on the basis of experience - I've worked at a couple of other libraries, including the one in Barrow where I had more responsibilities, and I've been working at the Egan Library longer than she has by about a semester. Plus I apparently have excellent references (more on that in a second). However, her personality is, how to put this...somewhat less intense, and a bit more inoffensive as a result. Considering that they already have one uber-intelligent semi-forceful sarcastic joke-cracker (a.k.a. Danél) in the other half of the position, they might want a bit of balance. I guess I'm just going to have to hope that I haven't accidentally offended anyone on the search committee over the last couple years and not had them tell me about it. (Hey, it's happened before.) After all, there are advantages and disadvantages to standing out when amongst normal people. Either way, though, I'm not going to resent it. We're probably both equally capable of doing the job, and I'm sure she'd do a perfectly decent job.
Anyway, this made me a bit nervous about the whole thing with Four Seasons Marine, since they'd already pretty much offered me the job, and I didn't necessarily want to turn it down but I probably would have to since I wasn't going to know if I got the library job until likely after the season had already started. Oddly enough, though, there was a message from them on the machine when I got home; they switched the job requirements around a bit and ended up giving the position to some people they already had working in the company. However, they wanted to offer me a different job. So I called the lady back and listened to her offer - she was apparently so impressed with me/my references (she specifically mentioned that they checked out excellently, though I had to tell her that in Barrow at least if you show up on time regularly it's pretty much enough to get you an excellent reference) that she wanted me to work for them at their lodge (basically where they take the tourists to eat after they go whale-watching). I'd get to take a 20-minute boat ride every morning and evening out there, and basically help prepare and serve the meals. It's less money ($10/hour), but with the possibility of a raise partway through the season and a bonus at the end - plus they were willing to work around my schedule.
It sounded pretty fun, but I was frank with her and told her that I'd applied for a job with the library that would be better for me, since I could keep it through the school year, and I wouldn't know for a few weeks whether or not I got it. I figured that would pretty much be that, but she was very understanding, and actually asked me to call her back if I didn't get that job - she evidently liked me enough that she really wants me to work for them, and she was pretty certain she could stick me in somewhere - tour companies are like that in-season.
So it appears that any way you slice it, I'm going to have a pretty decent job over the summer. Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me about the library position...
Meantime, just something I found vaguely amusing/puzzling - on the way to work from downtown, I pulled up behind a Ford Excursion Limited (their huge urban-assault-mobile, limited to however many they can sell) that was jacked up on tires about six inches to large for it. Not only that, but the rear window had a sticker of a dude with his pants pulled down and a lip mark on his butt, and the license plate read "K1STHS".
Is it just me, or is that a bona fide, 100% sure way of telling people, "Look at me! I'm a dipshit, an asshole driver and I have a microscopic penis!"?
Ah, well, to each their own.
Cut, because it's probably going to be long and I've always wanted to make one of those huge entries with multiple cuts. ;)
Two semesters ago, I had no clue what I was going to do at the end of this one. I didn't want to go back to Barrow again, but I had no clue what I'd do for housing here in Juneau - I know I mentioned before how expensive rent is here (real estate has skyrocketed in this town), and even if I did manage to find an apartment, it wouldn't feel like a semi-permanent home, which is what I've really wanted for some time. Apartments are slightly less transitory than dorms, but not by much.
Well, Brian's mother was planning on letting us stay with her to avoid having to pay through the nose for rent, which was really nice of her. However, a couple of relatives of hers are moving out of their FRELLING NICE condo down in the TriCities area in Washington, where her entire family is located. Since she's not particularly happy up here (she mostly came here because Brian's father had a great job, and since he died a few years back and she doesn't like her current job, there's not a lot keeping her here), she's pretty much decided to buy their condo and move down there. Which would put Brian and I back on the apartment market (he has a really great job here that he wants to stay with, and I'd rather work on my degree here - the UA system is incredibly inexpensive), except that with the remains of her husband's life insurance money plus the money she'd make from selling her house (see above note about local real estate), his mother can buy the condo in Washington outright and have plenty left over to give us money for a down payment on a condo here in town. Which would give us the opportunity to put our money into equity rather than just paying rent. Not to mention that a mortgage payment would actually be cheaper month-to-month.
Job-wise, I applied for (and apparently got, though I didn't hear back from them until just now) the position over at Four Seasons Marine. It sounded like a nice enough job, though there were the aforementioned scheduling issues. However, when I went in to work earlier today, there was a sign posted saying they were looking for a circulation assistant - basically the next step up from the student circ assistant position I've been working. The pay is much better ($13-something an hour rather than $7.75) and there's more to do, so it's somewhat less mind-numbing; plus there's the fact that I could keep it through the school year. Since I happened to have my résumé mostly updated, I gave it a few tweaks and turned it in along with an application.
I think I might just get the position. The one thing that could've been a major problem would be if Rebecca, the girl who's been working the position as a temp (and also a friend of mine) had applied; she would probably have qualified better just through experience. However, I talked to her today and she's not planning on applying, and my only other competition is looking to be Lana, one of the other student circ assistants. I'm hoping I might just edge her out on the basis of experience - I've worked at a couple of other libraries, including the one in Barrow where I had more responsibilities, and I've been working at the Egan Library longer than she has by about a semester. Plus I apparently have excellent references (more on that in a second). However, her personality is, how to put this...somewhat less intense, and a bit more inoffensive as a result. Considering that they already have one uber-intelligent semi-forceful sarcastic joke-cracker (a.k.a. Danél) in the other half of the position, they might want a bit of balance. I guess I'm just going to have to hope that I haven't accidentally offended anyone on the search committee over the last couple years and not had them tell me about it. (Hey, it's happened before.) After all, there are advantages and disadvantages to standing out when amongst normal people. Either way, though, I'm not going to resent it. We're probably both equally capable of doing the job, and I'm sure she'd do a perfectly decent job.
Anyway, this made me a bit nervous about the whole thing with Four Seasons Marine, since they'd already pretty much offered me the job, and I didn't necessarily want to turn it down but I probably would have to since I wasn't going to know if I got the library job until likely after the season had already started. Oddly enough, though, there was a message from them on the machine when I got home; they switched the job requirements around a bit and ended up giving the position to some people they already had working in the company. However, they wanted to offer me a different job. So I called the lady back and listened to her offer - she was apparently so impressed with me/my references (she specifically mentioned that they checked out excellently, though I had to tell her that in Barrow at least if you show up on time regularly it's pretty much enough to get you an excellent reference) that she wanted me to work for them at their lodge (basically where they take the tourists to eat after they go whale-watching). I'd get to take a 20-minute boat ride every morning and evening out there, and basically help prepare and serve the meals. It's less money ($10/hour), but with the possibility of a raise partway through the season and a bonus at the end - plus they were willing to work around my schedule.
It sounded pretty fun, but I was frank with her and told her that I'd applied for a job with the library that would be better for me, since I could keep it through the school year, and I wouldn't know for a few weeks whether or not I got it. I figured that would pretty much be that, but she was very understanding, and actually asked me to call her back if I didn't get that job - she evidently liked me enough that she really wants me to work for them, and she was pretty certain she could stick me in somewhere - tour companies are like that in-season.
So it appears that any way you slice it, I'm going to have a pretty decent job over the summer. Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me about the library position...
Meantime, just something I found vaguely amusing/puzzling - on the way to work from downtown, I pulled up behind a Ford Excursion Limited (their huge urban-assault-mobile, limited to however many they can sell) that was jacked up on tires about six inches to large for it. Not only that, but the rear window had a sticker of a dude with his pants pulled down and a lip mark on his butt, and the license plate read "K1STHS".
Is it just me, or is that a bona fide, 100% sure way of telling people, "Look at me! I'm a dipshit, an asshole driver and I have a microscopic penis!"?
Ah, well, to each their own.
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Date: 2005-04-22 01:17 am (UTC)"The aerodynamic design of the Ford Phallus has been in use, with few exceptions, everywhere in the world. Our updated, cutting-edge implementation of this powerful design is sure to please."
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Date: 2005-04-22 11:21 am (UTC)People'd buy it.
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Date: 2005-04-22 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-22 02:07 am (UTC)And some people just feel obliged to advertise their idiocy via vehicle, spending so much money on it, even. I don't get that. Is awe ever a reaction to such a display of cretinism? If there is a tainted subspecies which would fawn over such arrogance, I'm not sure I want its attention, actually.
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Date: 2005-04-22 07:04 am (UTC)They can stay in their caves and I'll stay in mine and never the twain shall meet, hopefully.
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Date: 2005-04-22 11:24 am (UTC)And don't you mean "books r güd"? Because we're being all, like, postmodernist and stuff, rather than just ignorant? =)
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Date: 2005-04-22 04:27 pm (UTC)But I endured grad school for too long -- sometimes the line between po-mo and stoopid gets a little...blurred.... If you're willing to believe me consciously sardonic instead of merely moronic, I'll take that.
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Date: 2005-04-22 12:27 pm (UTC)Yah, I just love seeing cars like that. My favorites are the really low to the ground, addition-filled, decal-lined sports cars with young(ish) men driving them. :p
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