:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, May 22, 2003 ::

another one??

Another FREE NYC Concert!

This message goes out to all of you in the New York City vicinity. Next Tuesday, May 27th, Jewel will be giving another free outdoor concert performance and you are all invited! It will take place at GM Plaza (59th St. & 5th Ave.) and Jewel will be playing there from noon to 1:00 pm.

CBS will be taping this performance and they are hoping for a big, supportive crowd for the taping. Footage from this concert is tentatively scheduled to air the following day on CBS morning programming. We'll keep you informed about broadcast details when they are finalized, but in the meantime, we hope many of you will come on by for the taping.

> Posted May 21 (source: JeweLink)

WOW! But... I don't think I can go. {{pout}}

jobness
Well, I hit the two Open Houses this morning, but didn't make it to the fair in NYC. The Open House at GEICO took FOREVER!!! I wrote down a whole bunch of things that I was thinking there and at the Astoria Federal Open House.

thoughts of the day
One of the longest application processes ever! Will NOT be going to NYC fair as it is now almost 11 am. NYC fair ends @ 3 pm. May or may not make Open House @ Astoria Federal this morning. May have to go to evening session.

Figures.

Don't remember if I signed & dated the back of the application. Oops.

Need water... {{gets some from water cooler in lobby}}

{{takes first test (reading comprehension)}}

Test was kind of silly. People are *still* filling out applications. Too many forms.
11:30 am.

Definitely not going to NYC, may have to go to evening Open House @ Astoria Federal.

Need more water. {{gets more}}

Very bored... hair keeps getting stuck under visitor sticker. I hate visitor stickers.

Middle aged guy w/ eyebrow ring & gay "boy-band" haircut. O.O;; Yikes.

Maybe I'll meet Dad for lunch. I really don't want to have to come back this way later. I hope I have time to hit the other open house.

{{talks to receptionist, gets permission to continue process another time, leaves}}

At other open house now. Was able to ask to leave & come back at a later date. I'll go back next wk.

This one looks like another long wait. Lots of people here. LOTS of ppl.

Thirsty again, but no water cooler here.

Looks like another long process, too. Tests, etc. I took one @ GEICO.

The girl in charge has an annoying accent & seems very "busy".

GEICO actually requires Direct Deposit. I was surprised by that. Some companies don't want to pay for the service. {{shrug}}

There's a woman distributing literature on their free checking accts... I already have an acct w/ them.

(doodle I drew at Tuesday's open house coming soon) from last open house @ TFCU... I didn't draw anything today... just wrote.

They might not have positions in Suffolk... I'm not driving to Nassau to be a bank teller... I can do that closer to home.

45 MINUTES! I have to wait that long?!

Benefits summary. Sick time accrual is a little odd. This other girl talks really fast.

Busy-body girl demands that everyone HAVE A SEAT...
LOL

Strange creepy guy next to me digs through all the stuff on the table.

Cust just walked in with a dog in his arms... I think it's a bichon friese or a poodle with a flat cut (not that dumb french cut). Most likely a bichon. Cute.

Still thirsty.

I'm next! Strange creepy guy is on cell phone discussing dinner plans w/ "Steve's" voice mail. O.O;;

{{interview}}

yeah...
Well, I was wrong anyway and it was a good thing I left GEICO when I did. They were actually the ones having the second Open House session this evening and Astoria Federal was only this morning. O.O;;; Almost missed out on seeing strange creepy guy try to fill out an application on a piece of paper inviting everyone to a Syosset Chamber of Commerce Networking Party. ^^;;

I also didn't have to take the test at Astoria Federal. She said that, if they were interested, they would try to schedule testing for me closer to home. Whew...

So, yeah... that was my day in a nutshell. I came home, chatted with Estelle, left John S a message about getting together tonight (which he never returned... {{pout pout}}), and then took a long nap. I was lightly sleeping until Dad came home... He didn't wake me up right away... Came upstairs around 8 pm. Mom wasn't home, yet. I think she had some sort of doctor's appointment that she had to take Nana to.

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make up your mind already
I was telling Mom about my day. Not that long ago, she was telling me to just go and get something... anything. Which is basically what I'm doing. I mean, hell... I applied for a bank teller's job. Totally out there, right? Now she says I should go to an employment agency because I'm not going to find anything in my field otherwise. What happened to 'just anything'??

_-_ <---anime fall

I give up. My parents can be too confusing sometimes.

Dad was a bit more supportive when I was telling him how the day went. He was saying that one of his former coworkers had called him today. She was saying that her daughter is out of work, too, and having just as much trouble as me. She's been out for quite some time as well. {{shrugs}} I was telling him how I go back and forth between feeling productive and getting interviews and sending out résumés to feeling discouraged and depressed about it and just not bothering.

It's just frustrating, I guess.