:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Friday, March 14, 2003 ::

you want me to what?
Well, I spoke with Lillian. She's from Kiddie Academy in Riverhead. They're looking for an Admin Assistant, but a part of that job is to watch the kids while the TA's go on break. I don't know, we'll have to see about this one. It's a great location compared to all the others, but the pay is only $8/hr and it doesn't look like it's full time. If it's not, I might not get benefits, like health insurance and stuff like that. Lillian's going to forward my resume to the director and see if they can change the hours... I can't be there until the time they said they need me, which is 6:30. My classes all start at 6.

interview news
The interview for Motivators went pretty well this morning. Ken said he was seeing a few more people after me and that he'd get back to me next week about a possible second interview. I had applied through LIJobs.com for their webmaster position, but he doesn't think I have enough of a background for it. However, he's got a position that's not quite sales, but not quite webmaster. It's in between. I would be assisting with the website issues, as well as assisting with the sales department. It's more along the lines of customer service, because there's no cold calling. I hate cold calling... I don't want to be a telemarketer. I hate telemarketers... I don't want to be one.

Anyway, he's concerned about my commute. I told him (which it's the truth) that I just have to go where the jobs are. If I want a particular job bad enough, I'll travel for it. They're not that far south of the Hicksville train station. It took me about 40 minutes in clear sailing traffic. It'll probably be about an hour during the winter rush hour times and maybe a little longer during the summer, when everyone's traveling from the city to out east, or during bad weather, when everyone on Long Island suddenly has this brain fart on how to drive.

insurance
The adjuster came earlier today... That was interesting, having a strange guy in my house while I was getting ready to go to the interview. I had to get up an hour earlier than I normally would have just so I could take my shower and be out of the bathroom by the time he got here. He looked over the bathroom, how our tile is messed up on the floor and the wall behind the toilet is all water-stained. I also heard Dad pointing out the huge water-stain on the ceiling. I don't know if he asked about the carpet, but it looked a little more pulled up than when I went to bed last night, so he might have. Dad forgot to ask about our table, though. Not that the table's in great condition to begin with (it's really old), but it got so wet and the wet tablecloth sat on it all night, so the finish got all messed up. Dad called a little while ago and said the guy still hadn't called back.

achy cat
Marbles looks like he's really hurting today. He's walking as little as possible and taking a lot of sit down breaks when he goes from the living room to the kitchen. Poor old guy. You can see where his left leg is all inflamed from the arthritis. It's basically where the ankle is if you were to compare his bone structure to a human's. It's not just regular swelling, you can feel the difference. He lets me touch his leg, so it must not be really bad. If it was, he'd react in some way.

Of course, he's loving the idea of having canned food twice a day to get the medicine the vet gave us for him. We normally only feed them crunchy food because the canned stuff isn't cheap. Unfortunately, the medicine is in powdered form, so the only way we can give it to him is by mixing it with something soft, like tuna or canned cat food. I doubt Marbles would complain about that. Canned food is a special treat for these guys... except Ivy. She hates anything that has to do with fish for some odd reason. Since most canned cat food contains some type of fish oil, she won't eat it. Dad found that amusing this morning when Marbles didn't finish and he offered some to Ivy. Prudy ate it instead.

meeting...
I have a meeting tonight. I forgot about it completely.. ^_^;; Estelle and I are going to hang out tomorrow night instead. I'm going to call her when I get home from tutoring Jennifer.

I have no idea what to discuss. St Patrick's Day is on Monday, but we never made definite plans at the next meeting for a dinner like we usually have each year. Maybe I'll figure out a couple of dates and see if we can have some sort of fundraiser dinner. It would have to be a family style dinner, though, with set serving times. Since we're down to basically just Aly, we really don't have people to serve restaurant style.

phone bills
I have to call Sprint back. I called earlier, but I couldn't find the bank statement that showed I paid them twice. They don't have the extra credit down in my account, and I never saw it on my statements from them. I know they collected it because I couldn't take money out of my account one time when I knew I should have had it in there.

Grr...