Update

It has been a while since I posted. I have been very actively working on my job search. I updated my monster account on tuesday last week, and I recieved a call on thursday about a job in Springfield, VA. I hadn't applied to the job, someone saw my resume and thought it might be a match. It is with Raytheon. I get really nervous when I am talking to people directly but the guy I am speaking with seems really friendly.

I started reading a book called Normal People. It goes back and forth in time to tell stories about a family of a slightly retarded woman. It centers around her sister, mom and niece. I am about half way through. I don't like how some of it is told ... I don't feel like real people would think the way they do. But maybe people really do. I mean, everyone is different so maybe some people would be that way.

I had my performance review at work on sunday. My manager had several nice things to say and only one thing to work on, but I still only got the middle raise. I was one point away from getting the high raise. I always seem to be one point away from excellent. In elementry school they told my mom that my IQ was one point away from being in the special kids group (i was in tag when we lived in Iowa) and they didn't let me take the high math class until i was in fifth grade. Then when i went into sixth they dropped me down again only to let me take pre algebra in seventh. My grades have always been good enough but I was never the smart kid in class.

At work I had to put up a lot of signs for the new sale that started yesterday and i was thinking the whole time, "how many times have I done this? I don't want to do it ever again. I want a real job." They have been hiring all kinds of new people around the store. One of the new cashiers is doing really well. She should, she's in her late thirties and has been cashiering as her career since high school I think. It may work for her, but there is no way I want to do that.

Besides the work stuff that is kinda getting me down I have been doing alright. I have been going out to movies and dinner a lot. I had dinner at Justin's last night and there was a lot of food. I have been helping him clean his room. It's a dusty, sticky grody job but I really think it's worth while. As much as he acts like he doesn't care that his room is dirty, I think he likes the progress. It's really funny to see how much clothes he has. He has like three times as much clothes as i have but he never wears most of it and he doesn't want to get rid of it either. I have been feeling guilty for hanging onto a couple shirts that are old or don't fit but not any more!