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Thanksgiving 2000

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Yesterday was kick-ass! We decided to have a local thanksgiving dinner with friends, and the whole thing just kept getting bigger. I guess everyone thought it was a good idea, because everyone came! We had two turkeys, like three bowls of stuffing, and a ton of other food.

Annie and I were there, of course, and Annie’s parents came, with her two bothers. Then Eric and Jill (and Gavin) came over, and then Urn and Kat showed up with Urn’s mom, and then Jesse and a friend showed up.

It was great. I was a little nervous as we frantically cleaned the house, but it went really well. Everyone was laid back and seemed to have fun. We watched Thumb Wars (a star wars parody), The Grinch, and goofed around on Am I Hot Or Not. At least, that’s what we geeks did. I’m not sure what all the women and adults were doing, except that Kat and Annie did their usual trick of disappearing into a bathroom together, emerging ten minutes later wearing each other’s clothing and giggling.

On Wednesday night, we’re hitching a ride to Tacoma with Urn and Kat to visit Annie’s family. Dave and Zach (Annie’s bothers) are already plotting to see how many computers they can get together so they can do a lot of network gaming. Should be fun!

Oh, and Urn and I will probably find out today whether or not we get the specialty show.

That's a Lot of Food!

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I almost forgot to post this… Kat agreed to buy me lunch today. I walked back to the table with the lunch tray containing both my lunch, kat’s lunch and Urn’s lunch. When I set it down, Eric, Jill and Annie all looked at the tray, and looked and me. Annie said: “Jeezus, Honey! That’s a lot of food!”

I paused for a moment, not really believing it. “It’s not all for me!” Perhaps Obeso the Pirate wasn’t the smartest name choice in the world, but it stunned me… Did they really think that I could eat four large burritos, two sodas, a hostess snack cake and a bag of sour apple rings? Come on!

So Tired of Job-Hunting

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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.

How I was Introduced to Red Dwarf

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Last night, as Urn and Kat and Annie and I dined with Eric and Jill (our fabulous managers from the radio station), Jill mentioned that she wanted to throw a Red Dwarf themed Halloween party. When I mentioned that I had never seen the show, everyone got that horrified look and gasped (even Annie!) and Jill immediately sat me down on the couch to watch the out-takes tape, while Urn explained the basic “plot” of the show (I have a feeling that plot is too kind a word).

Needless to say, I’m hooked. I’m going to start borrowing the tapes from Urn and educate myself in the ways of Red Dwarf.

Radio Show Plans

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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.