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Hey! I don't usually do posts two days in a row. I wanted to tell everyone to look at the picture I edited into the last post.

I am really looking forward to this weekend. I requested Saturday off so I can go to the OSU game! Nikki is going to be in town so we are all going together. Mom had an idea that she might get her hands on some tickets a while ago but I didn't let my hopes get up too much until she said that she had them ... now I just can't wait. It will be the first game I have gone to and I went to school there for four years!

WoW!!

I am weak. I bought World of Warcraft yesterday. I installed it and played my character up to level 5. It probably took me longer than it should have, what with all my trying to climb the mountains around noobton. I am playing a gnome/warlock. I know that gnomes in our group of friends are very uncool but I thought it might be fun. I just started yesterday and I am already a charter member of a guild. I am playing at Twisted Nether, it's an rppvp server (whatever that means!) I kinda know, you can kill other player characters. I already killed a dude in a duel, 'cause I pwn. He was a level lower than I was so I don't really know what he was thinking. I have died a couple of times because I ran into a troll cave when nobody else was in there fighting trolls and aggrivated all of them and tried to out run them ... into a dead end. I think i had five on me. I really like trying to climb mountains.

Besides the few accomplishments of last night i am totally overwhelmed by the enormity of the game. They have holidays during the year and carnivals. You can join parties and do quests together or alone. There are guilds. There are a million skills and spells and paths there are even jobs. I can't keep that all straight. So like, there can be different types of paladin depending on things you choose to learn and use and you get different kinds of bonuses depending on what race you are. I have a hard enough time remembering what quests I accepted, what I need to do to complete them and where I can find the guy who will reward me. I always forget where I picked up the quest! You can sleep, sit, tell jokes, flirt and I don't even know what else. On top of all that there's a long history of the HUGE land with 8 perspectives! I get lost in the snow all the time. I don't even want to start thinking about what can happen in contested land as opposed to enemy territory or your own land.

I am having a happy two days off. I applied to a couple of NASA jobs. I guess they aren't going to have an independent job site anymore but are going to be mixed in with the USAjobs site. That might totally suck. Today I have to look into a couple of companies, update some old applications, work out, shower, scrapbook for work, play wow, watch House and clean the house!

Here's a picture of my character, dancing on a mountain.

shallow thoughts with crystal

okay, I tried this story out a couple of times and it didn't come off funny. But it is still really funny to me, so i am telling it anyway. My bike is awesome. I got it when I was ten. It's bubble gum pink and has purple lettering on it "Schwinn" and "Caliente". It's super girly, it's a track bike and it has the girl-style bar that dips for a skirt. I am driving to the gym a couple of days ago and I see a squat lookin' dude riding my bike! It wasn't really my bike, after I was done in the gym I went home and checked. It was just ridiculous looking. He was riding really slowely so I had a chance to even read that it was the same bike.

I got my hair butchered a couple of days ago. Well the hairdresser would say that she cut it. But ... it was attacked. It's uneven over my ears and messy over my forehead. It just looks bad all around and it's too long towards the top of my head so it sticks out and makes my head look square. That is the last time I let someone use a straight razor on my hair. And she told me that I looked like I had moved to the states, that I don't have typical "american" features. Whatever! Like there is such a thing. Almost everyone in america isn't native american. I didn't know what to say to that so I just said "i'm like all german."

I had a follow up interview from that one last thursday. I didn't think the thursday one went that well but I guess it was okay because I got a call back. The second interview went well I thought so maybe I'll be flying out there some time soon. It would be crazy. As much as I want a real job there is just sooooo much change involved and it's kinda freaking me out. I know everything winds up working out but it's just pretty scary to look at it all at once. If I get and take this job I would be moving to California. I don't know how my classmates seem to do all of this without any worries. Maybe they are all just more grown up than i am.

I am not sure what kind of job I want to have. This one that I just interviewed for isn't doing design or analysis it's more business-y. I hadn't really thought of taking a job like that. I got a business minor so that I could understand what's going on around me but not really use it for anything. I just don't know what to do. I don't know if I should keep trying to get the kind of job that imagined having or take the job I can get. Maybe I am thinking too far ahead. Let's just wait and see what comes of this and keep applying to other jobs.

I still don't know what to think about monday night. Mary called me in to work. She said that she had a job that she needed someone special for. So I thought it must be something that takes more than any idiot, so maybe it'll be okay to do. Then she tells me it's grunt work in the backroom. So then I start thinking that she is manipulating me. She tells me she needs someone who is not an idiot to flatter me then I accept before knowing it's grunt work. But then when I look back at the conversation maybe special didn't mean smart but someone who wouldn't complain about grunt work. So maybe she wasn't trying to flatter me but said that I am good for grunt work. I can't get a real job early enough.

Brothers Grimm

Alright, so, in the last post I lied. I saw 40 year old virgin when it came out. I really liked it. Sometimes Steve Carrel is too much to handle/watch but in the movie he wasn't so over the top. I know some people who maybe are kinda like him so it had some relevence.

A couple of days ago I went to the brothers grimm with Justin. There were some problems with the story line and some things that didn't quite click. But it was fun to watch. There were great computer generated parts and the sets and costumes were fun to see.

that's all for today folks

interview

MAN My interview was today and it was bad and good. I really don't want to get into it. I'll just have to wait and see. Yesterday at work I had to dig through trash and then today they tried to call me in, right. Even if I had recieved the message in time, I wouldn't have gone in.

I have been trying to eat less. I normally eat when I am bored, but now I am used to it. If I don't snack before bed, I wake up hungry in the middle of the night and I get headaches. I am trying to be more healthy but I don't like being uncomfortable.

On a better note, I haven't seen next weeks schedule for work but the person who writes it said that she might have to cut a bunch of my hours. I would kind of like it because I have been working extra days. So it will even out and it'll feel like I am getting days off.

We haven't been to the theatre for a while. There haven't been any movies that really interest me. I kinda want to see the transporter 2. The first one was pretty bad but kinda fun to watch. I really hated the girl in it. I thought the brothers grimm might be cool but all of the reviews told me that it might not be so good so maybe I'll wait for video for both of those.

last wednesday I said that I got an e-mail that may lead to a phone interview. I think that is going to go down on thursday. I am pretty sure I have said this a million times but I have this dream. It's a wonderful attainable dream. I have a job where I don't have to take out trash and I am using my education. I have my own apartment and I am not a free-loader. I have a flat screen monitor for my computer and a big mixer for cheese cake. I don't know who i'll be making cheese cake for though. I am 100% sure that when I find a job it is going to be out of town and probably out of state. It's not easy for me to make friends so we'll see.

At joann's yesterday I helped thwart an attempt to cheat the store out of like $12. Some guy and girl came to the store and took the shelf tag off a rack with cheaper canvases and put it over the upc of a more expensive canvas. I could see a new person not noticing ... mostly because they are young and not too bright but this guy came to Catherine and I was standing right there. I couldn't tell if Catherine could see the tag (she did) and I did what I always do (butt in) and said "hey, how did that get there? That's a shelf tag. That doesn't go there!" Anyway, they didn't get away with it. I think it might have bugged Catherine a bit that I stuck my nose in there. She said she would have taken care of it just fine. I am sure she would have. The canvas was big and I couldn't tell if she could see around to the back. We also had a customer bring back two little (but stupidly expensive) pads of paper that were stuck to a pad that she bought. She thought that it was a bigger pad and when she realized that it was three and she hadn't paid for the other two she brought them back.

I know work stories are lame but I don't seem to have much to talk about. Last week i bought a my chemical romance cd and a killers cd. I know neither is cutting edge or anything but hey, at least they are pretty good.

I almost forgot to mention that I helped justin build some shelves for his desk. I really like projects where i follow simple instructions to make things like furniture because it's not hard work and in the end you have something to show for it.