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I would like to say that while nothing in my entry from yesterday was false or even really exaggerated, it was probably the worst day since I've been home, so it's not like every day has been as bad as that one. Despite the fact that nothing's really changed from yesterday to today, today so far has been a lot better. Good dreams last night, or something. I should hear back tomorrow about Barnes and Noble and the nonprofit job, and I found another nonprofit I can call about tomorrow.
I was looking through the papers today, and trying to find jobs, and the sad thing is that... well, a) I'm not qualified for most of the jobs in there, or they're salaried positions where by the time they picked a candidate, I'd be gone again already. Not summer jobs at all. Or they're jobs I would just either hate or fail at. Can you really see me trying to be someone's secretary for a law firm or something all summer? And even a lot of the secretarial positions are meant to be long term.
The only ones that caught my eye were the nonprofit ones. RF, you have spoiled me rotten. If I'm not saving the world or unlocking its deepest secrets, I don't want the job. See what you've done to me?
On the plus side, both nonprofits want specifically summer help, which means they're still hiring, since these ads are from like, two days ago, and that they should hire quickly. Both are in downtown Baltimore, it looks like, but both also seem to pay ridiculously well for a nonprofit. Not sure what that's about. Then again, my nonprofit only has five paid staff members, and they don't pay any of their part timers. They're also considerably smaller than either of these places as well. I guess it makes a difference.
Still no word on the car. My dad says I may be able to borrow my grandmother's for most of the summer though. Or he said he'd consider buying me a car and paying the insurance for the summer, and he'd just sell it again at the end of August. Which sounds like it might work, I'd just have to get on that quickly. I'm also going to look into stealing one of my other grandparents' cars, but the choice there is between an SUV and a Taurus, and I'm pretty sure they'd keep the Taurus. So I'm not sure that would fix anything, as far as mileage goes.
I don't know. Like I said, nothing's changed between today and yesterday, except that I have enough sleep hours piled up to last me a week (in the past 48 hours, I've slept 24, which is something I NEVER do), and like I said, I had good dreams, not that I can remember anything about them. It was also warm today for the first time since I've been home, really, so I wasn't cold when I woke up.
I really hope I hear back from the nonprofit tomorrow, or that when I call the new one, they can have me in for an interview quickly. The second one sounds even better, actually, and they said they'd get back to me within the week. Of course, if that means not until Thursday or Friday, I'm not sure that'll help much. It's the end of May already. I'm both horrified, since I still don't have a job, and relieved, because time isn't crawling by as much as I feel like it is.
On the negative side... Stephen is coming in near the beginning of June for a family vacation, but I'm going to get to see him at least a little while he's down here, which should be cool. And then my cousin comes in later the same week for ten days. This is both excellent news, because I want to see both Stephen and Lara, and kind of absolutely rotten, because I wanted to buy a ticket to see Tom as soon as possible, and unless I leave my cousin, whom I love and haven't seen in a year or two at this point, not to mention she'd kill me if she bought a plane ticket out and I bolted, or Stephen, after all our planning, for two years now, to come down to Baltimore, I won't get to see Tom until almost July, which pretty much kills me. So I don't know how to handle that one yet. I definitely don't want to put it off for so long, but I also don't know who to skip out on. It also depends on my job, and when I can take off for that. My nonexistant job, that is. I'm pretty much not thinking about that problem until I have to. i.e., until Tom finds out his rooming situation, and I find a job. I don't know. Maybe I could get out the first weekend in June, or maybe Lara's going to stay with Aunt Ellen one of those weekends, in which case, it wouldn't matter if I was here or not for that period. Or maybe she'd be flying back out to Colorado, and I could work something out so I get to see her there instead. I don't know if she's going home though or not. I'll talk to her once I figure out my job situation.
And now, I think I have to go help with dinner and such. Here's to tomorrow being as much better than today as today was than yesterday.
I was looking through the papers today, and trying to find jobs, and the sad thing is that... well, a) I'm not qualified for most of the jobs in there, or they're salaried positions where by the time they picked a candidate, I'd be gone again already. Not summer jobs at all. Or they're jobs I would just either hate or fail at. Can you really see me trying to be someone's secretary for a law firm or something all summer? And even a lot of the secretarial positions are meant to be long term.
The only ones that caught my eye were the nonprofit ones. RF, you have spoiled me rotten. If I'm not saving the world or unlocking its deepest secrets, I don't want the job. See what you've done to me?
On the plus side, both nonprofits want specifically summer help, which means they're still hiring, since these ads are from like, two days ago, and that they should hire quickly. Both are in downtown Baltimore, it looks like, but both also seem to pay ridiculously well for a nonprofit. Not sure what that's about. Then again, my nonprofit only has five paid staff members, and they don't pay any of their part timers. They're also considerably smaller than either of these places as well. I guess it makes a difference.
Still no word on the car. My dad says I may be able to borrow my grandmother's for most of the summer though. Or he said he'd consider buying me a car and paying the insurance for the summer, and he'd just sell it again at the end of August. Which sounds like it might work, I'd just have to get on that quickly. I'm also going to look into stealing one of my other grandparents' cars, but the choice there is between an SUV and a Taurus, and I'm pretty sure they'd keep the Taurus. So I'm not sure that would fix anything, as far as mileage goes.
I don't know. Like I said, nothing's changed between today and yesterday, except that I have enough sleep hours piled up to last me a week (in the past 48 hours, I've slept 24, which is something I NEVER do), and like I said, I had good dreams, not that I can remember anything about them. It was also warm today for the first time since I've been home, really, so I wasn't cold when I woke up.
I really hope I hear back from the nonprofit tomorrow, or that when I call the new one, they can have me in for an interview quickly. The second one sounds even better, actually, and they said they'd get back to me within the week. Of course, if that means not until Thursday or Friday, I'm not sure that'll help much. It's the end of May already. I'm both horrified, since I still don't have a job, and relieved, because time isn't crawling by as much as I feel like it is.
On the negative side... Stephen is coming in near the beginning of June for a family vacation, but I'm going to get to see him at least a little while he's down here, which should be cool. And then my cousin comes in later the same week for ten days. This is both excellent news, because I want to see both Stephen and Lara, and kind of absolutely rotten, because I wanted to buy a ticket to see Tom as soon as possible, and unless I leave my cousin, whom I love and haven't seen in a year or two at this point, not to mention she'd kill me if she bought a plane ticket out and I bolted, or Stephen, after all our planning, for two years now, to come down to Baltimore, I won't get to see Tom until almost July, which pretty much kills me. So I don't know how to handle that one yet. I definitely don't want to put it off for so long, but I also don't know who to skip out on. It also depends on my job, and when I can take off for that. My nonexistant job, that is. I'm pretty much not thinking about that problem until I have to. i.e., until Tom finds out his rooming situation, and I find a job. I don't know. Maybe I could get out the first weekend in June, or maybe Lara's going to stay with Aunt Ellen one of those weekends, in which case, it wouldn't matter if I was here or not for that period. Or maybe she'd be flying back out to Colorado, and I could work something out so I get to see her there instead. I don't know if she's going home though or not. I'll talk to her once I figure out my job situation.
And now, I think I have to go help with dinner and such. Here's to tomorrow being as much better than today as today was than yesterday.
