Moving

Will and Jamie are moving to Louisiana and Alex is moving into his family's place. I am moving back into my old apartment into my old room with Nathan Raider. I'm have reservations about that but here I am.

the weird world of employment

April 30th: I got shot down for my old workstation support position. It was later revealed that my old team lead was the only person that didn't want me back. It was horribly depressing. Silver lining he has had to explain to his Boss why he didn't hire the person she wanted for the job. I also got told of a job at The Company Hospital that my contracting agency wanted to put me up for.

May 3rd: My contracting agency called me up and told me that The Company wanted to talk to me and could I do an interview tuesday the 3rd. I accepted a 9am interview.

May 4rd: I had the interview and felt that I did poorly on the technical aspect but that I turn it around in the social part. I didn't feel that I was going to get the job

May 5th: My contracting agency let me know that there was another job on the horizon and that it might not be necessary because the team lead at The Company liked me and was trying to convince his manager to hire me.

May 6th: I was offered the job at The Company.

May 7th: Off to zombieville to sign paperwork to get the job.

May 10th-11th get tested to prove I have all my shots.

May 12th First day of work

May 19th first direct deposit hit my bank account Woo Hoo!

May 23rd realize that I haven't updated my journal about all this shit.

I've been a real wreck. Socially and Psychologically it has been grueling. I don't want to work but I don't want to be unemployed. I'm settling into work and am getting things done. The fun thing is that the job is a contract gig and the contract is up at the end of June! I might not have a job after that which is scary. They can reup me and that is my hope. We'll see what happens

The interview at was unimpressive. The people who interviewed me had no plan, no prepared questions and while they definitely need someone to do the job (three separate positions) they didn't give any indication that they thought I was the "Rock Star" they were looking for. It is currently ranks in my personal realms of likelihood right up there with other "don't bother worrying about as it may never happen" items. Best of all it is probably the best that I am going to get in Lexington.

In conclusion if they get their shit together, have me in for a second interview, hire me, I get the "honor" of working my tits off for the sweat shop of the IT world in a tiny little poedunk shit hole.

What eating me is not eating

If I buy groceries I want to eat those groceries. If I'm sharing groceries I want to get out what I put in. I am not in either of those places and it upsets me. Given the rest of the things that are going on in my life small issues like these tend to blow up.

Grrr.

What we eat and what's eating us

A number of people say that the method by which we gather our food and ingredients is nearly criminal; not just on a humanitarian scale but ecologically and sustainability scale as well. That we are poisoning the land, the water, and ourselves. I am told that if things continue in this fashion that we, as a race, are doomed to starvation.

Good.

We deserve it. Our greed and ignorance should be our downfall. I can take responsibility for my actions and can change them but I can't change the actions of the human race as a whole. If I can't change their actions then I can't be responsible for them. So it's kinda hard to care even if it means I'm gonna starve to death. I can eat a bullet before that happens.

Things are gonna be interesting.

A failing of blogger

I can't make a public blog with private postings. I want to write stuff down so that I can remember it without letting other people see it. I'll submit this as feed back.

No New Job

I didn't get the job on 4th st. Oh well.

Got some response from a rinky dink organization here near Lexington that would be work. Maybe if the environment is good enough it'll make me forget that it would be a 19 thousand dollar pay cut from what I had been making.

I also got contacted by some fly by night in Des Moines for a cool job for great money. It is in Des Moines. Iowa. I think i'd need an extra 20 dollars an hour just to work there.