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[jay-ell]

...sort of go on a job interview, I guess?

The game store where I play has two part-time openings for evenings and weekends, and apparently the new management (which is really the old, old management, which bought the store back from the people who bought it from him ten years ago) wants people who can help manage the internet side of the business & social media stuff as well as run the register, supervise tournaments, keep things clean, handle money & bookkeeping, stock shelves, etc. Sounds like the kind of jack-of-all-trades kind of gig I love. My BFF applied for one slot and I sent an email inquiring about the other.

I went in today and the owner basically talked nonstop for 40 minutes and then shook my hand, thanked me for coming in, and said, "I'll be in touch." Which is exactly how my BFF describes her interview. I could not get a word in edgewise. He didn't ask me about my credentials, my past experience, nothing. I was able to squeeze in that I had retail experience and that I'd been freelancing as a writer for a few years, but that was all I could manage to say. Strangest interview I've ever been on.

He seems like he would be OK as a boss -- presumably he does occasionally let other people talk, and he won't even be in the store most of the time after training is complete -- but I have no idea how he's going to decide who to hire without actually hearing what the applicants have to say.

I don't know if I'll take the job even if it's offered -- if they don't offer the other position to my BFF, I'll turn it down flat -- but it would be two nights a week at a place I enjoy, so it would be a hobby job more than anything else. He was nice, he just...doesn't seem like he's good at hiring people. Which is probably why he's trying to run a store and simultaneously work a night job with absolutely no support staff.

[wombat]

Of COURSE you should take this job. You're a writer, it's all material.

[jay-ell]

Of COURSE you should take this job. You're a writer, it's all material.

This has also occurred to me, absolutely.

Although now I kind of want to go around applying for a myriad of jobs and write a book about bizarre interviews and hiring processes.

[theinevitable]

My overachiever roommate finally goaded me into buying some fingerstyle guitar books. I do not want to say that his pestering was what I needed, but I just successfully played my first fingerstyle blues song. I am going to call it "Those Corny Arpeggio Blues." Because "Lesson 5: Blues in A" is a little too boring.

A little sick, but trying to motivate myself to pack things. We get the keys to our new house tonight. Very exciting. My imaginary goal is to move essential clothing and my bed/mattress today, so I can sleep there tonight and I can feel like I have accomplished something.

[theinevitable]

At work a visiting dude from corporate told me my latte was "delicious--nearly perfect." Then this girl I am seeing came by the store to visit. Then I went home and moved several carloads of stuff to my new house. Then this girl I am seeing came by the new house to check it out. She is mad that it is so big and nice. Welcome to St Louis.

Oh my god, this new house is so big and nice. But my room is pretty small. There is going to be some major purging.

[Doc]

... do my washing in my bathtub and make too much risotto.

Does risotto keep? I've never had this problem before.

[Choop]

risotto will keep for a few days in the fridge, unless it's made with shellgiraffe. if you want to reheat it, just add a bit of water and break it up before you nuke it or in a small pot on the stove. halfway through, stir it and put it back in/on. i used to do this for lunch quite a bit.

[CortJstr]

At work a visiting dude from corporate told me my latte was "delicious--nearly perfect." Then this girl I am seeing came by the store to visit. Then I went home and moved several carloads of stuff to my new house. Then this girl I am seeing came by the new house to check it out. She is mad that it is so big and nice. Welcome to St Louis.

Oh my god, this new house is so big and nice. But my room is pretty small. There is going to be some major purging.

At my current resolution the two phrases of "Then this girl I am seeing came by the" are directly above each other. I want to believe this was done on purpose.

[theinevitable]

Duh, I have done a lot of research on each of your screen resolutions so I could pull off effects like that, and avoid rivers.

[jay-ell]

Learn that that typographical thing that bothers the shit out of me has a name. Thanks, Inev.

Also, today I'm gonna get a part-time job at the local board game store. Looks like I'll be working the Thursday night/Saturday day shifts for two weeks, then Friday night/Saturday night for two weeks, lather, rinse, repeat. I start August 8, but I'll be in and out for training a few hours at a time starting tomorrow.

My BFF got the other position, and we're the only two employees, so the owner said that we could split up the shifts however we wanted. So we grabbed subs for lunch and sat at my dining room table and worked up a rotating schedule that works for both of us. She'll work every Wednesday, the owner covers weekdays and Sundays, and the store is closed Monday and Tuesday nights.

I think it's going to work out really well. It's $8/hr for two weeks for training, then $8.50 for the first month and $9 after that. So the money is crap (compared to what I theoretically could have been making as a freelancer, had I actually been working) but it's a fun, easy job at a place I like to spend time anyway. And, like Wombat said, it's all research.

[pmcd9]

I love that you've been talking about this with us for days and only mentioned it today over at the Facebook.

[wombat]

I approve of this. I think it's going to generate a lot of interesting messageboard posts.

Today I'm gonna remember that I never get any work done in late July and August and I should just give up and relax.

[jay-ell]

I love that you've been talking about this with us for days and only mentioned it today over at the Facebook.

Well, yeah. I mean, I didn't want everybody and their brother to know I applied for a job until a) it got offered to me and b) I was sure I was going to take it. No point getting everyone all worked up over it unless it was actually going to happen.

But it's worth mentioning to you guys because you care about the process more than the end result. Which is why I enjoy spending time here more than I do with most of the people I know IRL.

[JorgeFabregas]

At work a visiting dude from corporate told me my latte was "delicious--nearly perfect." Then this girl I am seeing came by the store to visit. Then I went home and moved several carloads of stuff to my new house. Then this girl I am seeing came by the new house to check it out. She is mad that it is so big and nice. Welcome to St Louis.

Oh my god, this new house is so big and nice. But my room is pretty small. There is going to be some major purging.

Still in the same neighborhood, I imagine?

[theinevitable]

In the Shaw neighborhood, a few blocks west of Grand.

Jesus, this sore throat is horrific. No other symptoms. But I have been doing Tylenol AM shots like a frat brother on his 21st birthday and got no relief.