exhausted.
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elvendollit has been such a long, stressful day.
i odn't know if i can muster sentences for this entry...
i got up way early to be ready for an interview scheduling email... even called there before 10:30... ( i was going to do it earlier, but got talked into driving bill to work)
everything was gonna work out so that i could go to lunch with maxie zeus & pick up the pirntouts he had for tobi, and then go off my interview.
the timing should've been perfect - leaving the house at 12:30, lunch at 1, leave for interview at 2, which owuld have left more then enough time.
one prob. there were no legal parking spots to be had... i decided to accept a $20 ticket and just park after 10 mins of circling around. the car behind where i was had a ticket, so the 'tow zone' sign didn't do much to me - most of them say that.
and usually, most of them don't tow you. just ticket. repeatedly if necesary.
but...
when i got back to where my car should have been, no car was there.
first moments were just sheer panick.
i was just flabergasted - i had an interview to get to and my car is gone.
called maxie zeus, near tears.
he quickly got me the phone # to call to find out where my car is (thank you!), and 10 minutes later i was in a cab headed towards southie. at first the cab was in traffic & i was in utter despair.
then i realized there were people here, called home & got the phone number to reach the person i'd be interviewing with.
by thi time traffic relaxed,and i was almost there. it was like 2:30ish. i thought what the hey - the place is only in braintree, is hould be able to make it there relatively quickly, and resceduled for 3:30 rather then tomorrow like i was first thinking to do.
hindsight, always 20/20,
turns out i beat my car to the towing place.
spent about a half hour pacing there, while the car came in & the paper work was done.
which put me running late for 3:30
i felt worse then shit.
i tried sounding cheerful in the voicemail i was leaving about being late again.
i was working so hard on trying to calm myself down - i could feel that i was one step away from giving myself another ulcer ache. i am actually pretty proud of myself that i did that...
when i got to the place, though, my day started getting better.
deirdre (who told me about the position - thank you!!!) was brought down to introduce me to the persn i'd be interviewing with - i thought that was majorly cool : )
the interviews were all on the informal & brief side... and.. the good news...
i got the job!!!!
*bouncebouncebouce*
i go in for a training session on friday and then start full time on monday.
the hours could be better (they're 8:30-5) - but i'm sure not complaining! : )
i'll be doing tech support, mostly by email, with some calls...
i am just very excited about this...
and now i am prolly gonna try & relax a bit & then decide if i wanna go out to celebrate : )
i odn't know if i can muster sentences for this entry...
i got up way early to be ready for an interview scheduling email... even called there before 10:30... ( i was going to do it earlier, but got talked into driving bill to work)
everything was gonna work out so that i could go to lunch with maxie zeus & pick up the pirntouts he had for tobi, and then go off my interview.
the timing should've been perfect - leaving the house at 12:30, lunch at 1, leave for interview at 2, which owuld have left more then enough time.
one prob. there were no legal parking spots to be had... i decided to accept a $20 ticket and just park after 10 mins of circling around. the car behind where i was had a ticket, so the 'tow zone' sign didn't do much to me - most of them say that.
and usually, most of them don't tow you. just ticket. repeatedly if necesary.
but...
when i got back to where my car should have been, no car was there.
first moments were just sheer panick.
i was just flabergasted - i had an interview to get to and my car is gone.
called maxie zeus, near tears.
he quickly got me the phone # to call to find out where my car is (thank you!), and 10 minutes later i was in a cab headed towards southie. at first the cab was in traffic & i was in utter despair.
then i realized there were people here, called home & got the phone number to reach the person i'd be interviewing with.
by thi time traffic relaxed,and i was almost there. it was like 2:30ish. i thought what the hey - the place is only in braintree, is hould be able to make it there relatively quickly, and resceduled for 3:30 rather then tomorrow like i was first thinking to do.
hindsight, always 20/20,
turns out i beat my car to the towing place.
spent about a half hour pacing there, while the car came in & the paper work was done.
which put me running late for 3:30
i felt worse then shit.
i tried sounding cheerful in the voicemail i was leaving about being late again.
i was working so hard on trying to calm myself down - i could feel that i was one step away from giving myself another ulcer ache. i am actually pretty proud of myself that i did that...
when i got to the place, though, my day started getting better.
deirdre (who told me about the position - thank you!!!) was brought down to introduce me to the persn i'd be interviewing with - i thought that was majorly cool : )
the interviews were all on the informal & brief side... and.. the good news...
i got the job!!!!
*bouncebouncebouce*
i go in for a training session on friday and then start full time on monday.
the hours could be better (they're 8:30-5) - but i'm sure not complaining! : )
i'll be doing tech support, mostly by email, with some calls...
i am just very excited about this...
and now i am prolly gonna try & relax a bit & then decide if i wanna go out to celebrate : )
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Date: 2000-12-06 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2000-12-06 07:56 pm (UTC):)
*hugs*
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Date: 2000-12-07 06:29 am (UTC)And I felt terrible... I felt that if I hadn't stalled you with lunch, you could have just popped back in the car and been on your way. It's just a good thing you dined with one of the few people in the city who could get you the tow lot number... most people have to wander around waiting for a random encounter with a cop... and there's never one around when you need them.
It was almost as if, once again, any attempt I make at social interaction ended in disaster. I'm just glad I was right about karma getting a big dose of bad luck out of the way before the interview to save up for getting you the job. :)