I just finished this.

Now I’m going to do this one.

Why am I anticipatory?
Maybe a job.
A job that matches what I did. A lot. Contract work at ASU – hopefully
on Monday I will find out the details from Aerotek and get an interview.

And doubly good is the fact that my advisor, the one who won’t write me
a decent letter of recommendation for getting into a PhD program, he
actually gave me a good reference when called by Aerotek.

I think if I get this job, I’m so sending the lady at Aerotek a card.
Maybe some flowers. Chocolate? I don’t know. I don’t want it to look
like I’m coming onto her or anything but I certainly want to get across
the point that I am damn grateful as she has been wonderful.

Quietly excited and full of potentially good anticipation.

borrowed from here:

T.H.E. W.H.O.S

Who is in the house with you?
- Possum, Boots and Zeppo

Who was the last person to IM you?
-Ben

Who are you thinking about now?
-Boots  

Who did you last talk to on the phone?
- Stephenie at Aerotek

Whose house did you last go to?
- My parents

Who are your best friends?
- Amy, Colleen, Kristin and MJ

Who is (was) your favorite teacher?
- Mr Ron Buesking

Who’s birthday is next?
- Niece Darcy’s, I believe

Who was the last person you told you love them?
- Hubby

Who do you wish you were with right now?
- Someone who could either a.) give me a job or b.) someone would could entertain me

Who’s you favorite relative?
- Right now, Uncle Bruce, he’s taking me to CostCo today

T.H.E. W.H.E.R.E.S.

Where do (did) you go to school?
- Ohio State and Bowling Green State University

Where do you live?
- Mesa, AZ

Where is your phone?
- In the kitchen

Where are your parents?
- Indiana

Where do you sleep?
- In the bedroom

Where do you shop the most?
- Safeway

Where did you get the shirt you’re wearing?
- I’m wearing a robe

Where did you last take a car ride to?
- Safeway

Where in your house are you?
- In the living room

T.H.E. W.H.A.T.S

What was the last thing you ate?
- A whole wheat pita that I made into a mini-pizza

What was the last thing you drank?
- Coke

What color pants are you wearing?
- No pants

What kind of cell phone do you have?
- Verizon cheap-ass something or another

What is the closest item near you that is blue?
- Chapstick

What is your gender preference (guy or girl)?
- Men

What are you wearing on your feet?
- Nothing

What instant messaging service do you use?
- AIM

What is your favorite color?
- Green

What is your screen name?
- kellybones (surprised, aren’t you?)

What is your most used away message?
- whichever one pops up automatically when the computer goes to sleep

What is your favorite shoe brand?
- New Balance

What do you wear more; jeans or shorts?
- Shorts – I live in AZ

What is the last movie watched?
- Special Edition of The Return of the Jedi

What song do you currently hear?
- Fabulous Places by Sammy Davis Jr

 

T.H.E. W.H.E.N.S.

When did you start school?
- Kindergarten – 1985, College – 1998, Grad school – 2002

When did you meet your best friend?
- Amy – 1992 (I think), Colleen – 1998, Kristin – 1998 and MJ – 1998

When is your birthday?
- 02-21-80

When did you last go to the mall?
- End of March , we went to see the Arizona Mills Mall

When did you last buy a new pair of pants?
- Hmmmmm, the last
pants I bought I bought right before I got married (and then I got
married in them) so that would be sometime before Dec 21, 2005

When did you last burn a candle?
- Today

When were you last at school?
- When I picked up my diploma from OSU in Dec of 2004

When did you last see your dad?
- Before we left for AZ, mid-Marchish

When did you last take a shower?
- last night

How sad is that right now I’m waiting for it to be 10am so that the
library will be open and I can bike there and check out some new books
(and get some amount of exercise on the way)?

I suppose it’s better than just having pizza and coke…wait, that’s what I had for breakfast…damn.

This weekend was lazy. LAAAAA-Zy.

We didn’t wall-climb or go for a bike ride. We did fix our bike tires -
amazingly enough I am bright enough to change an inner tube on a bike.
I do, however, seem to lack the hand strength to get the stupid tire
back on the rim.

We are planning to do more planning. We’ve been doing lots of flying by
the seat of our pants kind of deals lately. So, today, in addition to
the library, I will be working on a list of meals for the week (and
guaranteeing that we have the necessary supplies) as well as starting a
new chore list. I’ve been putting that off in the hopes of getting a
job. When I get a job, the chore list will have to change, I’m sure. I
suppose it will just be a temporary list.

***Another edit***
Yes. I’m too lazy to type a whole new entry.

But now I’m just so beyond irritated it isn’t even funny.
I got the mail.
And, as expected, there was the news about the forensics position
(which I didn’t get, though that is secondary to my irritation).

Not only could the HR lady have told me that when I emailed her two
days ago, she put the whole thing in the wrong name. My maiden name.
And why, does this irritate me?

Perhaps because I have already corrected her about this problem at least once, if not more.
Is it so hard to get my name correct?
Grrrrr.

I should know better by now than to look at homeless puppies and kitties.

But I do it anyway.

And I’m in love with this one.

Awaiting the mail – the real mail that is – to let me know if I got the forensics job or not.
Upon emailing the HR lady, I was informed that the letters were mailed
and should arrive sometime Friday. Not much of an answer, at least not
in my book.

Weekend plans?

Climb on Saturday. A bike ride on Sunday – this one to see outdoor art
displays in a part of the city a bit north of us. And also, going out
with my relatives that live here. I hate to base all events and
interactions around food, but I don’t really know what else to base
them around. Dunno – perhaps they hike or bike. I can’t really see
either one of them wall-climbing.  I know they bowl – but I don’t
do so well with bowling.

***Edit***

101 Moves to see before you die (at least according to what’shisname):
Of which, I’ve only seen 17 (see strikethroughs).
Apparently I have no movie culture.
Only 84 to add to my NetFlix list, I guess.

“2001:
A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stanley
Kubrick
“The
400 Blows” (1959) Francois
Truffaut
“8
1/2” (1963) Federico
Fellini
“Aguirre,
the Wrath of God” (1972) Werner
Herzog
“Alien”
(1979) Ridley
Scott
“All
About Eve” (1950) Joseph
L. Mankiewicz
“Annie
Hall” (1977) Woody
Allen
“Bambi” (1942) Disney
“Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei
Eisenstein
“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William
Wyler
“The
Big Red One” (1980) Samuel
Fuller
“The
Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio
De Sica
“The
Big Sleep” (1946) Howard
Hawks
“Blade
Runner” (1982) Ridley
Scott
“Blowup”
(1966) Michelangelo
Antonioni
“Blue
Velvet” (1986) David
Lynch
“Bonnie
and Clyde” (1967) Arthur
Penn
“Breathless”
(1959 Jean-Luc
Godard
“Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard
Hawks
“Carrie”
(1975) Brian
DePalma
“Casablanca”
(1942) Michael
Curtiz
“Un
Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis
Bunuel & Salvador
Dali
“Children
of Paradise” / “Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Marcel
Carne
“Chinatown”
(1974) Roman
Polanski
“Citizen
Kane” (1941) Orson
Welles
“A
Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley
Kubrick
“The
Crying Game” (1992) Neil
Jordan
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert
Wise
“Days
of Heaven” (1978) Terence
Malick
“Dirty
Harry” (1971) Don
Siegel
“The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis
Bunuel
“Do
the Right Thing” (1989 Spike
Lee
“La
Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico
Fellini
“Double
Indemnity” (1944) Billy
Wilder
“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb” (1964) Stanley
Kubrick
“Duck
Soup” (1933) Leo
McCarey
“E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven
Spielberg
“Easy
Rider” (1969) Dennis
Hopper
“The
Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin
Kershner
“The
Exorcist” (1973) William
Friedkin
“Fargo”
(1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
“Fight
Club” (1999) David
Fincher
“Frankenstein” (1931) James
Whale
“The
General” (1927) Buster
Keaton & Clyde
Bruckman
“The
Godfather,” “The
Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis
Ford Coppola
“Gone
With the Wind” (1939) Victor
Fleming
“GoodFellas”
(1990) Martin
Scorsese
“The
Graduate” (1967) Mike
Nichols
“Halloween”
(1978) John
Carpenter
“A
Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard
Lester
“Intolerance” (1916) D.W.
Griffith
“It’s A Gift” (1934) Norman
Z. McLeod
“It’s
a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank
Capra
“Jaws”
(1975) Steven
Spielberg
“The
Lady Eve” (1941) Preston
Sturges
“Lawrence
of Arabia” (1962) David
Lean
“M”
(1931) Fritz
Lang
“Mad Max 2″ / “The Road Warrior” (1981) George
Miller
“The
Maltese Falcon” (1941) John
Huston
“The
Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John
Frankenheimer
“Metropolis”
(1926) Fritz
Lang
“Modern
Times” (1936) Charles
Chaplin
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry
Jones & Terry
Gilliam
“Nashville”
(1975) Robert
Altman
“The
Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles
Laughton
“Night
of the Living Dead” (1968) George
Romero
“North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred
Hitchcock
“Nosferatu”
(1922) F.W.
Murnau
“On
the Waterfront” (1954) Elia
Kazan
“Once
Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Sergio
Leone
“Out
of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
“Persona”
(1966) Ingmar
Bergman
“Pink
Flamingos” (1972) John
Waters
“Psycho”
(1960) Alfred
Hitchcock
“Pulp
Fiction” (1994) Quentin
Tarantino
“Rashomon”
(1950) Akira
Kurosawa
“Rear
Window” (1954) Alfred
Hitchcock
“Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas
Ray
“Red
River” (1948) Howard
Hawks
“Repulsion” (1965) Roman
Polanski
“Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean
Renoir
“Scarface”
(1932) Howard
Hawks
“The
Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef
von Sternberg
“Schindler’s
List” (1993) Steven
Spielberg
“The
Searchers” (1956) John
Ford
“The
Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira
Kurosawa
“Singin’
in the Rain” (1952) Stanley
Donen & Gene
Kelly
“Some
Like It Hot” (1959) Billy
Wilder
“A
Star Is Born” (1954) George
Cukor
“A
Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia
Kazan
“Sunset
Boulevard” (1950) Billy
Wilder
“Taxi
Driver” (1976) Martin
Scorsese
“The
Third Man” (1949) Carol
Reed
“Tokyo
Story” (1953) Yasujiro
Ozu
“Touch
of Evil” (1958) Orson
Welles
“The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) John
Huston
“Trouble
in Paradise” (1932) Ernst
Lubitsch
“Vertigo”
(1958) Alfred
Hitchcock
“West
Side Story” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
“The
Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam
Peckinpah
“The
Wizard of Oz” (1939) Victor Fleming

 

Friday’s interview went.
Again, I don’t know how well.
Especially since I probably won’t hear back from them for two weeks.
And the job won’t start until July 6th.

Saturday yielded the finding of a punctured bike tube which put a
serious crimp in our plans to bike to the library. So we drove and got
library cards and delicious new books. That at least takes some of the
edge of boredom off. We also had delicious Chinese food and a
gratiutously long shopping session at a very overcrowded Walmart.

Sunday was a trip to the very large Phoenix zoo. Lots of walking. Very
good zoo. Hubby got a bit of a sunburn. The post-zoo ice cream hunt was
terrible – who knew ice cream places closed for Easter Sunday? Does
jesus not like ice cream? So we settled for going to the grocery and
picking up some pints. I still have some – Godiva’s Chocolate Raspberry
Truffle. Hubby’s Butter Pecan only survived one incursion.

This week?

Waiting.
I have made contact with a temp agency that specializes in science
jobs. Sooooo…I guess that’s what I will have to do if these other two
jobs don’t work out. Careerbuilder and monster and their ilk are not
currently yielding up any good jobs on my altar of sacrifice. Maybe I
need to find something better to give them besides curse words and the
occasional browsing…

***Edit***

This amuses me.

TWEAKED OFF!

Missing: My copy of Singing in the Rain.

ARRRRRGH.
Where is my movie!!

So I’m thinking I want a haircut.
This long messy cut is doing nothing for me and it’s just HOT.
Life in a ponytail or a bun is not a good time.

So.
Any suggestions?
I don’t want to have a haircut that exaggerates my double chin. Or makes me look too mannish. Or that requires too much work.

Not that I’m at all picky or choosey. And maybe a new hair color. Nice dark nutty brown?

EDITED TO ADD:

I think I kind of like this hair. The one on Julia Stiles, not the fat old man behind her. (Same hair, different shot)

Well.
That was an interview.

I have no idea how it went.

I got there about 10 minutes early and checked in at the front desk. I
was given the “test” (note the use of quotation marks here because it
wasn’t really much of a test, more of a “how well do you remember high
school chemistry”) and I had half an hour to do it. It took me about 5
minutes, including going over it twice and trying to make sure that the
essay questions (about why I wanted this job and the like) were
grammatically correct.

Then I sat in the lobby and waited. For about 45 minutes. I hate
waiting. But, I was patient and good and read a magazine and tried to
not tap my feet.

Finally, my turn. And it’s a committee of women. Four of them. All
about mid-thirties or so, all very professional and all very bored with
having to do this all day (the lady before me was seriously in there
forever, I juts wonder if she talked THAT much, or if my answers were
way freaking short). They asked me 12 questions (all pre-planned) and
they asked everyone else the same 12 questions.

I think I was in there about 25 or 30 minutes at most. So I’m seriously
paranoid now. Especially since there was no mention at all of
polygraphing. I don’t know if that’s required ONLY if you are the
person that they decide they want or if that was their subtle way of
telling me the interview sucked.

Positives: there are TWO unfilled positions that are being filled by
this interview, not one – which doubles my chances of getting the job.
There are also no on-call hours required and no weekend hours required.

Negatives: Now I really want the job – as they do in house DNA work and
that’s really where my interest lies. And I am now crazy paranoid that
I simply didn’t answer well or that I simply look way too young. Damn
looking 12 and being short!

I want this dress.

Perhaps upon employment I shall get a present.