:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, March 13, 2003 ::

two sides to the same coin?
Here's something I found interesting... These guys must have hit the "Post & Publish" button at the same time, but I just thought it was terribly ironic that they were on the front page at the same time...

The New Hip Hop, Political Correctness Trend is pro hip-hop... I think.

10 Reasons Why Hip-Hop Is Dead is obviously anti-hip-hop.

And I'm so pathetic that I found it amusing enough to take a screen cap...



Just thought I'd share that with all of you...

job fair results
Well, it was mostly sales types of positions again. However, I was able to find some that are inbound call centers. I'm not a salesperson and I'm certainly not going to pretend to be one. I don't have the personality for it. However, if someone calls me and says, "Hey, I wanna buy something of yours," I'm good at doing that. ^_^;; I talked to Cablevision about it. They only had inbound shifts that run 3 pm to midnight and required weekend hours. Unfortunately, I can't do that shift until after the semester is over. {{sigh}} I also talked to Long Island Rail Road. They were looking for IT people! {{dies from shock}} They even liked the fact that I had Visual Basic and Microsoft Access under my belt. I don't have Oracle, but I can learn and I know SQL, so that's an edge on the Oracle issue. I spoke with a few other places, but there weren't really all that many companies there. A vitamin place in Hicksville (not NBTY) was hiring for inbound call center sales staff as well, and they have flexible hours, which is great while I'm going to school. I talked to the girl from there and scheduled an interview for next Tuesday at noon.

All in all, it wasn't as disappointing as I thought it would be. If only I could get my lovelife to start looking up, then everything would be perfect... >P Oh well. Can't have it all, I guess.

hmmm...
Maybe I'll leave the skirt on and see if eye candy in class tonight notices... If he's not taken anymore, it might be worth it. Just to see if I still got it, ya know? ~_^;;

kitty update
I also got the call from the vet today. He said Marbles still has the hyperthyroid issue, which has certain hormones in his blood elevated. He's also got an infection of some sort, since his white blood cell count was slightly up as well. The vet's not too worried about the blood count and Marbles isn't anemic anymore. But, his blood sugar was up a bit, but the vet thinks it's stress related. x.x;; Like a cat that sleeps all day could have stress. I think any kind of stress he might be having is probably related to his leg pain and this infection he's fighting off. Either way, Dr Savino wants to see him again at the end of next week, so I made an appointment to take him back at 8:45 on Friday morning. I called Dad first and asked if he wanted to come, too, since Marbles is technically his cat, and he suggested an early time so he could still go to work if he couldn't switch his day off.

Poor old guy. The hyperthyroid is probably the reason he's drinking a lot again. He was doing that last time it flared up on him, but the medicine they gave him for it really helped, so I'm hoping it'll help again.