So Urn and I officially have a radio show! It’s called Off-Topic, and it’s a weekly talk show. It’s going to start Winter term, and it will be on Monday nights from 10pm to Midnight. Yes, it is kind of an odd time-slot for a talk show, but seeing as how we didn’t have any options, we figured we’d roll with it. On the plus side, as Jeff pointed out, everyone is in town on a Monday night, so our potential listening audience is pretty high.
Oog. It’s been quite a day. I got up this morning, and filled out applications for TEN different places. They were charming work locations such as Jack-In-The-Box, Ellensburg Bowling, Mr. G’s Mini-Mart, TWO separate 7-11s and a couple gas stations. Have you ever filled out TEN applications in a row? It sucks. It’s a lot of boring, time-consuming work. So I killed time by playing a bad sci-fi movie in the background. It was some horrible thing on the sci-fi channel about an outpost on a far planet who’s discovered alien life and is all angsty about the implications for philosophy and religion.
Then, after Annie and I had some soup (crucial detail there… no way I could have left that out… you would have been like "But WHAT did you have for LUNCH, scott?"), we walked all over this stupid town and turned in every single one of them. And every single one of them told me the same thing. "We’re not hiring right now, but it can’t hurt to keep it on file!"
Jack-In-The-Box said they might be hiring someone for some odd hours and that the manager might call me. I’m not holding my breath, but I’ll call back tomorrow to make sure they know I’m interested. Also, the Thunderbird Motel has decided it’s hiring again (this is one of the many places that already turned me down in the last two months). So Annie and I filled out new applications, and the guy said the owners would contact us within a week, hopefully. They’re in Korea right now, so I can’t harass anyone yet, but once they’re back, I’ll call.
Why the rush? Meadowlark turned me down. She decided that while she’s still interested, she can’t afford a web page right now, especially since some competition just opened in town. So there goes the $500 of rent we had paid. She’s a really nice lady and I’m not mad at her at all, but it’s very frustrating.
However, the crisis was averted when we returned home this evening, to beg our parents for money. We were sort of expecting to bum about half off each of our families, but Annie’s parents agreed to GIVE us the full $800. Not a loan. Awesome. And that leaves the Vandehey Family Bank (just kidding, Mom and Dad) untapped, in case of emergency next month, which we hopefully won’t need.
In other good news, Jill asked me to participate in a weekly news radio interview segment… sort of a human interest feature. This week I’m going to be interviewing her dad, who was a fighter pilot in WWII! How cool! I bet he has some great stories.
Miles, you’d be proud. Annie’s on the radio right now, playing a Tom Waits song she’s never heard before, just on the basis that he’s a cool old guy.
Ugh. I’m so tired of job-hunting. I’ve applied for a ton of jobs, and been turned down for a ton of jobs. I applied for the webmaster position on campus, which would be perfect for me, and I’m totally qualified, but there’s a few things that make me nervous that the job’s already been filled. I’ll find out in five weeks when the state gets done processing the application. It’s ludicrous that I have to wait that long just to find out if the position is even still open. Maybe I should send an email to webmaster@cwu.edu and ask if the job’s been filled…
Today I dropped off applications at Papa John’s, Albertsons and Safeway. Annie also dropped off an application at Papa John’s. The guy told us both to come back tomorrow at noon. With luck we’ll get hired. I’m so tired of job hunting I’m willing to take anything at this point, just so I can stop being so worried about money all the time. I really really really really want the web job, but five weeks is too late. I need a job this week or we can’t make rent in time. Best case scenario: I get hired at Papa John’s immediately and quit when they tell me I’m hired for the webmaster position. That would be sweet. Less than best, I get hired at Papa John’s and turned down for the webmaster. Worse than best, I get turned down in both places, and have to apply for a fast food job. I don’t even want to think about what would happen if I got turned down for fast food.
AAAGH! God, I want to get that webmaster job! It’s so sweet! I’m qualified! I can do it! I’m perfect! The pay’s great, it’s something I’m interested in, and I would do a great job!
I’m afraid I’ve already built up the job too much in my mind. I’ve been trying really hard not to, in case I get turned down, so I won’t be crushed, but it may be too late. It’s so perfect, and I want it so bad. I try not to let it affect my self esteem that after two months I still can’t get a job and I’m down to applying at grocery stores and fast food, but it’s hard.
One positive note, job-wise… Annie went by the bed and breakfast place to beg for a job today (didn’t get one), and the woman told her she was looking for someone to design a webpage for her. I’m going by tomorrow. I’ll try to get it as a paying gig, but if it looks like she won’t give it to me, I’ll do it for free just for the resume experience. All my sites now are for me or friends, except for the CNS site. Need more professional stuff. It would be sweet if she would pay me to create a web site. It would make me feel like a real professional web designer. No more of this amateur crap, I’d be getting PAID to do what I love!
Tomorrow: Job Interview (?) at Papa John’s, and try to get a web design job, plus our shift at the radio station. Sunday: Breakfast Burritos, and Becky agreed to come over! Woo Hoo!
Side Note: We were watching the Simpsons tonight, and we got to hear Marge scream “SHUT UP BECKY!” Urn and I need to get a sample of that, and play it around Becky… *grin*
Other Side Note: rented High Fidelity with Urn and Kat again tonight. Awesome movie.
Other Other Side Note: Kat makes good brownies.
I want to get a webcam. Then everyone could stare at me staring blankly at my computer monitor… excellent.
Urn apparently has a digital camera (someone loaned it to him?). Anyways, Annie’s really excited, because we’re going to do something we’ve been wanting to do for awhile now. No, not dirty pictures… We’re going to make a paper-doll kinda thing for her. It’ll be awesome.
Other 80s synonyms for good: fresh, awesome, radical, cool, bodacious (which the Central Washington Fair has based it’s ad campaign around… yuk).
Urn and I applied to be specialty show hosts. We want to take over the Industrial Trance show. I’m not sure what our chances are. On the one hand, they like us a lot, but on the other hand, I think they are nervous about giving the show to us, since we’re so new, and the show has an established audience who expect certain things. Oh well. If they don’t give it to us, we’ll just have to keep kicking ass as ordinary DJs.
Hopefully, annie and kat will start getting into this site soon. Urn and Pat and I all post elsewhere, so it’s not really exciting or new to see us posting here, but the girls don’t post anywhere yet. It’ll be cool to get “the female viewpoint.” Kat’s already said she wants to post, if for no other reason than to correct Urn.