another person’s b-day here. cake and ice cream, and she has presents on her desk. she’s only been working here for like 6 months, too.
i’m GLAD i have an INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and here’s a web page i did in CSS!! don’t believe me? view the page source and look for any tables!! ha HAA!
http://www.katew.com/photoshowcase.htm
i have a job interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and, as i sit at my desk that is covered in crap to do (trade show is a
week from today – eeek!), i think to myself, oh what joy to be had to
not work. (good news! i go in to an employment agency to fill out an
application for a graphics job i applied for online. a good sign? let’s
hope so.)
and enough about my cruddy job! at least i get paid well.
‘nawlins.’ (check out my homies link.) all i gotta say is this: who builds a city below sea level
without adequate protection?
this weekend will be peaceful. no rellies coming over, no driving to
see rellies. i might even go to church. 😮 i will be doing wedding
stuff, i’m sure, and i’m getting a haircut on saturday, but other than
that, peaceful. i look forward to lazing around on my couch, reading a
book or watching mundane TV or doing homework (gasp! i’m back in
school).
give me a topic to write about. leave me a comment, and i’ll write a buttload on said topic.
i called thelen advertising because i sent a resume there last week and was wondering a)if they got it and b)when they were going to have interviews. turns out, they aren’t even going to start interviewing people til the end of august, which is a good thing, cuz if i quit this job 2 weeks before the tarde show, oh i’d feel just bad.
i dropped off my resume at the place sharon works at: screaming eagle. they might possibly be looking for a graphic designer, which i am happy about.
i go to see the dress alterations lady on thursday so she can see if she can do anything with the dress or if i have to exchange it…again
i have made my website future-employer friendly. take a look: at this!
i am sick of working here. that’s not new.
the kilts are coming along nicely. i have to get measurements from everyone, then i send in the info and they reserve them.
i am still sad/confused as to why my mom worries i’m settling. ugh. why do i constantly have to validate my choices? first it was friends, now it’s my mom. i’m 26 years old for crying out loud. you’d think by now i know what i want.
and just because it might be interesting, here are the books i have on my desk at the moment:
dreamweaver: the missing manual
the inspired retail space. attract customers, build branding, increase volume
marketing by design
flash mx magic
macromedia flash 2004
come on people i sent resumes to….call me!!! i need to get out of this dump before my job description changes AGAIN.
i was job-searching today, and there’s a company in princeton looking for someone who does nothing but list ebay auctions! pay is $12-19 (not bad for internet work all day), but it would be a heck of a commute (30 miles) and i’m sure it would get boring after a while, since all they do is list truck parts. but a full-time ebay lister! that has some appeal
so, hmm…
not much is going on. i had a surprsingly calm weekend. thursday i had a company christmas party and got two gift certificates for restaurants.
saturday i finished cookies (finally) and then went to nate’s sister’s for a mini xmas. so weird. her bf’s entire family was there, as well as nate’s mom and dad. so weird. these people i didn’t know. so weird!
anyway, today i went to shopko and target (i know, i know, week before christmas in the mall???). it was pretty boring. i got some stuff, but i can’t remember what i got. yep, preeeetty darn boring.
in other news, it’s cold in here.
i’ve been uber-busy at work and therefore haven’t had time to think about writing in my lovely LJ. there’s a trade show coming up sept. 17 and i’m getting inundated with stuff to do. it’s very disconcerting! i’m hoping i don’t screw stuff up, that’s all i hope for.
besdies that, school starts in like, a week, and although i’m only participating half-time (i’d do less than half-time, but then my current loans wouldn’t get deferrend), i have a feeling i’m going to be overwhelmed anyway! one of the classes is on mondays at 5, and another on thursdays at 4. of course, i will miss the second class of the thursday class (mass media law) because i will be in bloomington at the trade show! oh joy. hopefully the prof isn’t a poo.
over my lunch i’m off to buy one more book for school. ah, another $80 for a semester. rapture rapture. let’s hope i like this mass comm crap, otherwise all this money’s going to nothing!
got a job!
yay!
at office depot in the tech dept.
meanwhile, i still work at my same old place but i want THIS job!!
🙂
so to counter the evil megan entry, here is a good megan entry.
i got three emails tonight while i wasn’t online and was watching tv endlessly. 2 from megan and 1 from my coworker who was my coworker at the newsleaders too. turns out she’s bored with this job and she would rather have stayed at the papers! interesting. she wants to use me as a reference if need be. that’s fine with me, but if she leaves i will be kind of a lone person at work. i think the main thing working against me there is the age difference. everyone is so much older except for the snotty csb student. so i’m not quite sure what to do. i will definitely stay there until after i get done with school (remember KATE’S GRE FUND??? paypal prairey@hotmail.com!) and then i’m not sure what to do. that’s at least 2 more years there. at least i’m getting paid well enough to handle being there, even if i am bored a lot of the time. after i’m done i’ll have a masters in advertising, which counts for something. maybe i’ll start my own company, web design and graphic design. hmmmm, i dont’ think it would be as boring as what i’m doing now! there’s just so much artistic freedom with animal supplies. meaning = not much. the catalog is same old same old for about 120 pages, but i’m looking forward to the cover, a 4-color extravagnaza. i really like working with covers and photoshop. if i could find a photoshop job, that would be ideal, working in cool photoshop all day, the best program ever coded.
ugh it’s almost 1 a.m. and i have to work tomorrow, so i should sleep sometime. i wish i worked at 9 or 10 instead of 8.
my kitty has been ultra-affectionate lately. i think she finally understands i am her owner. she’s excited to see me when i get home and sleeps right by my head at night. she rumbles like a monster truck, but that’s ok, it’s cute.
ok, must sleep. bed is calling.