Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

Yesterday was my interview. I think it went really well!

Their office is amazingly pretty. I heard it was in an office park, but they totally had the building made to their specifications. There was a stream and a pond out front, the facade was a green wall, solar panels were set up in a nearby field, and the back of the building butts up directly against a state park. Certainly beats working in dc every day.

The first part of the interview was a little weird. They went over salary and benefits with me. Isn't that something you do after you offer someone the job? Anyway, salary and benefits were comparable to what I have now. So that's good.

Then we talked about the job itself. It seems like it could be interesting. The position is primarily maintaining all of the online ads for the organization. At first it seemed like a lot, but when I thought about it, it's probably going to be much easier than babysitting our marketing agency every day.

I asked a lot of questions about the office atmosphere. I want to make sure that it's the right place for me if they offer me the position. From what they talked about, it seems like it could be a fun place to work. I think I could be happy there.

The interview got off topic at one point, when we were discussing perks of the office like being able to bring in pets. The woman interviewing me has a pug! We ended up dropping everything so she could show me pictures of her pug. I want a pug so badly. Little curly tails!

I left the interview feeling pretty confident and excited. I really hope they think I'm the right person for the job.

I am full of the pain. Running in heels (thankfully chunky heels) was a bad idea. I wasn't even done recovering from tae kwon do yet either.

Also, I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night. Ben had to come to bed before I was able to sleep peacefully.

Today is going to be very long. :(

I knew as soon as the alarm went off this morning that today was going to be rough. In fact, I refused to get out of bed for nearly an hour. Instead I whined to ben I wanted to die.

I had a bunch of bad dreams last night. ( Nightmare )

So yeah, I wasn't in a good mood this morning. And ben was too sleepy to hug me and make the scared go away.

Then at work, my boss is back in the office. After two peaceful weeks of getting things done at a relaxing pace, everything needs to be done NOW because everything is SO URGENT. It's quite jarring after my relaxing time. I had a ton of stuff to do today but I actually got it all done. I just didn't take any breaks. I am very exhausted now though.

Tonight I need to go back to spring cleaning. I need the apartment clean before jess and tara come visit. It's so soon!

Oh, but I did get a tiny bit of good news today. Defenders of Wildlife sent me an application for employment. It's not a contract though, so I won't get my hopes up. Still, it's a good sign if they want you to fill out paperwork.

Interview today was a fantastic success! I think they really liked me! I am definitely qualified for the position. In fact, I might be a little overqualified.

The job is a lot like what I'm doing now, but less busywork and more managing. But the best part is that there is NO micromanagement. *happy dance*

So I think if the pay is not too low, I would accept this job. It's not really the direction I want to go career-wise, but it would be good experience to help me get in that direction and it would be for a good cause. Maybe I can even move to other divisions area that will be in the direction I want to go. It's a big organization.

I've got to wait for them to interview a few more people before I hear back from them. I really think I made it into their lost of top candidates though.

To celebrate my interview and ben's last day of class, we had hibachi for dinner. It was tasty. And now it's the weekend! Yay!

Ah! An interview! Next week! Yay!

Just as I was getting all mopey and hopeless, I got an interview!

This one is for Defenders of Wildlife. Maybe I can win them over with my childhood memory of putting my candy money in their collection bucket to save the wolves. They gave me a cute wolf mini-poster in return that stayed on my wall up until I moved.

Must now decide on clothes and must make a portfolio and I guess I need some references too. EEEE!

I have another phone interview with that company. They sure like phone interviews. I'm guessing they must have a lot of applicants and are trying to break them down to a more manageable number before the in-person interviews. I hope it doesn't mean they don't like me as much as I thought they did.

After yesterday morning's excitement, the rest of the day felt painfully slow. I was glad when 5 finally hit and I could go home.

Ben and I bought celebration tacos. Then we played video games until bedtime. FFTA is silly and fun. Though I wish I could finish it faster. I want to go back to playing zelda so ben is forced to play phoenix wright. Then when he finishes that, I'll be able to play it!

Today is extremely slow, but I think that is because it is friday. Fridays are always long.

This weekend I have many grand goals and plans. Tonight I am going to make cupcakes to bring to anime club tomorrow. They are showing TWO shows I want to watch now, so I guess I have to show up. Sometime tomorrow afternoon I think I might go find that yarn shop. I'm stealing cassandra's plan and will buy small amounts at a time to avoid realizing the painful cost. I hope the store will have what I need, or at least can help me find a suitable substitution. And then I'll have something to do while ben is off taking his driving lessons on sunday. It'll take me at least a day to relearn how to cast on. I ALWAYS forget how to do that.

And wow, it is REALLY windy today. I hope my dog doesn't blow away during our walk later.

I haven't heard yet from that company that was supposed to call me. I think I'll call them tomorrow if I don't hear anything. *worried* I just got an email from the company that was supposed to call me. They'll call me tomorrow morning! Yay! Tonight I'm going to go over all the sorts of questions they might ask me to make sure I think them through and have a good answer.

Also I applied to another job. Cover letters are much easier to write once I have one to modify. Then it's just replacing a few things here and there, and adjusting the skills and stuff to match what they are expecting.

In a few minutes I've got to leave for a seminar though. Something about producing e-newsletters. At least that's something I like doing so it shouldn't be too bad.

Oh! And tonight I pick up the next phoenix wright game! I hope it doesn't get in the way of my job search. :P I should make ben play it first.