You Better Work

Well, the company that I was expecting an offer from finally got around to giving me an offer on Thursday. I accepted, since income is priority #1 right now. I start on the 9th, at $22/hr as Quality Engineer. It is so 1998 all over again. In fact, I bought a 1999 Honda Accord, since I need a car, and didn't have a lot of money.

Incidentally, RuPaul's Drag Race is awesome, you should watch.

Whyyyyyyyyyy

The sure-thing schmuck job never called and is not responding to my email inquiry.

And I have apparently gained a chunk of weight over the winter because none of my shorts fit anymore.

It's always darkest before the dawn, right? I'm ready for the sun to come up!

EDIT: Just got an email from sure-thing company, apologizing for the delay. She said they would most likely have a decision on Monday, and she hopes I am still interested. That implies I am front-runner. Pre-dawn glow may be starting...

Irish Eyes are ... Doing Something

Rather quiet, non-eventful week. Still no advancement on the job thing.

Today I met up with Brad and Danny. Cris joined later, as well as Brad's friend Gina and her bf Chip (who did shot-boy at Blu), Lauri and her new bf (don't remember his name). About 40 and lightly raining today, not the best for wandering the city, so we pretty much stayed in the Quincy Market area the whole day, though we did go to some of the old Irish pubs in that area, not the chains and food court stuff.

Here We Go Again

I had an interview again this week. (Sad that an interview is newsworthy.) It went very well, and I feel like a no-contest winner. Of course, I had that similar feeling when my friend Nish was going to hire me, and then his boss said No Way In Hell. But this job would be depressingly not what I wanted (despite the happy face I gave in the interview). Quality Engineer (my job title in 1998) at a small (ugh) family-owned (augh) manufacturing (ughh) company in Woburn (awhh). Redeeming factor one: I need a job, and this would pay money. Factor two: it is an AS9100 registered aerospace component manufacturer, which would open up a number of doors to aero jobs once I had this firmly planted on my resume. They apparently have a 'few more interviews' to do yet, and will let me know. So, there is still a chance this will turn into abject failure, as well.

On a completely different topic, Nauber has taken to watching telenovelas on the Spanish channels at home (Univision and Telemundo). There was this really hot guy on one of them the other day. Shortly after seeing that, I saw a run-down of the competitors on the new Dancing with the Stars. The hottie on the list looked REALLY familiar. Well, now I had a name! Which means I could Google Image search!

Say Hello to the ridiculously handsome William Levy:

Loser

Well, that interview never happened. Can't even get an interview... But two more prospects coming down the pipeline. Not gettin' my hopes up.

Ronny made a mysterious comment about Nauber "saying something" that he shouldn't tell me about. I said you can't say THAT and then not tell me what it is you are hinting about, but he wouldn't. I'm sure it all boils down to the fact that I need to start working on losing weight. A little more and I could try out for Biggest Loser. I'd definitely choose Dolvett!