Monday, August 30

the hunt for red october.. i mean a job

well today is the first day of my unemployment. i didn't mean to, but i slept in. it felt nice. i will admit that.

but now i've eaten and stuff so i'm working on my resume and cover letter. there are a ton of companies in the ottawa area that will be receiving both these things very very soon.

man, i'm one boring girl these days.

though i did go to peterborough this weekend. that makes me cool, right? we weren't even there for 24 hours and we didn't do much but we had to go.

that's all.

Thursday, August 26

does it matter anymore?

today is a good day. i slept in and didn't get to work until 9. then i have a doctor's appointment and we have a year-end lunch that we're allowed to leave afterwards. and then i only have tomorrow left. i'm hoping my next job doesn't suck.

yesterday i went to the tennis courts near our place and saw that you can just go and play on them. i thought you'd need a membership. i thought tennis was generally like that - a rich-man's sport. "give us money!" but apparently it's not. and even if the gate is locked i'll just cliimb the fence. i like how they have those half courts with the concrete wall as the opposition. i'm hoping to become the next anna kournakova (of however you spell that) and maybe nike will give me short short skirts to wear. and maybe a huge computer viirus will be named after me. i'll dye my hair blonde for the event.

i'm toying with the idea of getting some sort of exercise videos (dvds likely cause we don't have a vcr) but i'm not sure that i would be motivated enough to work out in the basement. so i don't know if i'm going to follow that pipe dream.

as of tomorrow i have been in the longest relationship of my life. i guess that's a good thing considering my marital status these days. i still don't have my signature down yet. that'll come with time.

Wednesday, August 25

movies

most of my spare time lately has been spent watching movies. last night we saw anchorman. it was funny but i think i'm a little jaded when it comes to will farrell. but movies are always fun with vlatko cause he laughs so loud.

with my summer job coming to an end i feel a huge sense of relief. relief because it's done and hopefully i won't even have to see the dumb girls again.

i had more but it's gone so i'm going to go look at everyone else's blogs and waste more of my time.

Tuesday, August 24

the countdown is on!

that's right everybody. i have only 2 and a half more days of my crappity-crap-crap-crap job. and i'm happy about that. next week is my looking-for-a-job week. that should be buckets of fun.

i'm an assistant coach this fall for the new girls fastball team at carleton. i'm looking forward to it. i even got my coaches' shirt. it's about three times as wide as i am. but then i realized it's probably a good thing seeing as how the season goes until after thanksgiving and last year in the final tournament we had rain and snow and hail and wind and sun and thunder and lightning. every possible type of weather.. except a hurricane i suppose. or a tsunami.

Friday, August 20

bells are ringing

yesterday was a weird day. i didn't get yelled at at work, which is strange cause the boss was in the office. i did manage to not work for most of the day as well. i ran into two of my best friends from while i was little. we ended up going to different high schools so we lost touch. sad considering we lived on the same street, but you know how those things go. so that was nice. i also went out and bought clothes for the wedding we're going to tonight. my $5 shirt will make me shine hopefully.

sorry i'm not more entertaining.

Tuesday, August 17

picnic what?

the beetle is not for me. too little visibility in the back. so we test-drove a jetta instead. that still comes in a diesel.

but i still need a job.

Wednesday, August 11

if wishes were cars....

we might have an idea for a car for me. if you know me you know that i drive lumi - a 12-year-old, off-white, rusting chevy lumina, who doesn't like to start when it's wet .. or cold.. or on any day of the week that ends in y. the car doesn't like the winter. the past three have been spent in kingston where the winters are relatively mild compared to ottawa, and one week dan and i had to deliver gw through the passenger-side door cause the driver's door would not open. how is my lumi going to handle "real" ottawa winters? i don't know.

so we're thinking that if i score a half-decent job then i can afford a new (new-to-me) car. maybe a beetle. we have a plan for that too.

more to come later.

Tuesday, August 10

this life

so work is still work, but it's a job with only three weeks left for me. and the countdown's on! it's strange how last week they emailed all the summer students and invited us to this lunch thing to meet everybody... because it's not the end of the summer or anything. alcatel's a little slow on that one.

i've been looking for another job. it's not the easiest thing in the world, but this time i'm in the right city so that should make my hunt a little easier. i'm really hoping for something biology-related, in fact i'm going to hold out for a bio job, at least until the new year. if i haven't found something by then i'll be so poor and do desperate that if subway offered me a job i would take it.

Wednesday, August 4

kick in the box

i don't like advertised programs and how alcatel thinks i don't know enough to install them myself and that my computer automatically restarts when the program's done installing cause i don't have a ton of things open on my computer. fockers.

that reminds me. movies. they made a meet the parents sequel called meet the fockers. i thought it didn't look terrible, but the boys i was with disagreed. they also didn't like the look of the new julianne moore movie (disappeared, or something like that). i thought it looked good. i guess that's where being a girl differentiates me from the boys. though i'm not half as bad as a lot of girls. i don't think that little black boook will be a good movie. i don't generally like chick flicks, nor do i generally like the shitty music that's playing on yahoo! launch right now. it's soft rock. there couldn't be worse music. actually that's not true. there are some other genres of music that i like less than soft rock, but not many.

ramblerambleramble.

Tuesday, August 3

monday monday

it is in fact tuesday, but we'll let that one slide since it's the first day back after the long weekend.

and long it was! i ended up doing, and trying to do, so much stuff. among the stuff was: driving around looking for someone's house in the pouring rain, getting stuff for free from the bay, dinner and a movie with three boys, sitting out in the sun and burning my chest and stomach (itchy!), and biking downtown and seeing one act of the busker's festival.

i bought a front and back light and a lock for my bike recently. here are my troubles. the lock is too big to fit inside the frame of my bike (read: my bike is too small for the lock to fit inside the frame), but i managed to rig it up so that it's mounted properly and i don't notice it while i'm biking.

we have a forest growing in our living room. tons and tons of baby trees that will grow up to be masterful bonsais. if you move out of your parents' basement, guess what your apartment-warming gift will be!

i've done a lot of research recently on wills and life insurance and rrsp's. i don't think i'm any smarter having done so. i need someone to take me by the hand and tell me what to do about all three things. i'm lost.