~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

another second guessing thought - they mentioned that all of the applicants were outstanding, and they were surprised by the quality, which is nice for me i guess but also made me immediately think of the other 3 applicants and imagine that they're like the twin rowing assholes in the Social Network.

go get drunk & forget abt it

this is a milestone i can get behind

ok, need to stop. deactivate.

/interview mode personality

more second guessing - there's an energy efficiency component to the job, and also a improving city services element, and it sounds like the emphasis is much more on the city services stuff. which is fine, but it's the energy efficiency stuff that really attracts me to the job.

That sounds overwhelmingly awesome!

OK dammit - I tried to post that comment three times now, and you keep adding more second guessing.

ffs STOP second guessing, ZS
go have fun in chicago, you did the best you could and that's all anyone can ever do ever

also congrats on doing well, all i mean is just roll with it like steve winwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWptXUblA4E

why can't it be 7pm at Delilah's right NOW?

btw i will be the skinny dude who looks like ZS and wearing tan colored pants with a green jacket (or a grey shirt that says

MIDI
MIDI
MIDI

if i beat everyone there and have removed the coat)

Z_S, good luck. The interview is over now. You did everything you could do. Now do something to get your mind off it, cuz it is out of your hands for now.

i feel like every time i open this thread there's someone talking abt moving to chicago. the new thing to do.

get drunk btw, chicago is awesome. worst case scenario here is you enjoyed a trip.

some xposts there cuz my internet connection is blah

xpost one more thing to do: draft follow-up email to all 4 people, to send out later today. but yeah, that's easy enough, and i already feel 100x more relaxed than i have over the last 2 weeks.

h8 all that followup email stuff tbh

or a grey shirt

i'm british now btw, hope that's alright

I wish it were 7 @ Delilah's now, too.

I will be the thick dude in brown cords who looks nothing like ZS.

Jenny and I were just talking about how we spell it "grey," which is correct American spelling, just not the dominant one.

h8 all that followup email stuff tbh

god, me too. and it's going to be especially difficult with the guy who is making the hiring decision, because he seemed somewhat disdainful of generic formal interview stuff (the greeting, smiling, making eye contact, orienting the answer to the "tell me about yourself" question so that you end up mentioning how awesome you are at life, etc

Congrats (and jealous), Z S. Were most of the people you met Chicagoans as far as you know? Rahm people?

i don't know what i'm going to be wearing at delilah's. most of my clothes are already vacationing in DC without me.

xpost all of them had some sort of connection to either chicago or to the obama administration, or to rahm himself.

btw i will be the skinny dude who looks like ZS

Not helpful. I see skinny dudes who look like ZS all the time.

they all also mentioned something about "the order of the sacred beastly brotherhood" and had the same scar beneath their left ear lobe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJo7aljnQg

xpost i am skinnier than skinny dudes

I never knew that the Twin Peaks theme had words. I love that music.

I've been refreshing this page like mad to announce that I was mistaken - I DID know that it had words b/c I remembered the episode where what's her face sang it.

I will be the fat woman in the blue dress with the amazing hair.

Also:

who mentioned that there are other jobs in the mayor's office that they're looking to fill, just in case i don't get selected for the job i'm applying for, and gave me his card.

This is fucking golden (as we like to say in local government around here).

JULIE CRUISE

I just told you it was Julie Cruise on the phone.

I too will be the fat woman in the blue dress with amazing hair.

You're wrong, it's Julee Cruise.

I can't believe you're wearing the same color dress as me.

Last day of work that I stupidly volunteered to come in for even tho its only skeleton staff
Why did I do this? I have nothing to do :/
At least in here there is aircon, whereas its 30deg outside so at home I'd be boiling like a Zoidberg, I suppose
Will go home early anyway as I have to finish a load of xmas food shopping which uuuugh.

News: the guy at the bar who looks like ZS is not ZS.

Not news: I have the face blindness.

God damn it, not-ZS keeps looking at me.

-got the truck running with the other battery

-traded in the old defective battery for a new one, picked up my meds and my money

-still sick; can't do anything else tonight

"but if its upside down jesus will slide off!!!!"

No He won't. He's nailed on to it.

yaay ZS - have fun in chicago with chicago people!
i want to visit chicago one day soon

having a cold during the holidays should not be allowed, like all colds should be banished. i decree.

went climbing again tonight. am kicking ass tbh. mostly my own. climbing is kind of crazy; i love it.

- cosign on sickness: me & Mr Veg rocking the glazed donut monster look this Christmas :/
- finally watching Breaking bad for the first time
- 2 days off work, fuck yes!
- sneeze

Yay climbing! Pls get enough exercise for both of us, I haven't moved more than 20 ft or so on my own in 5 days.

Prob not going to change that too soon as I appear to be coldy as of this evening. Advil to the rescue!

http://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/

everyone get over those colds! now!

i did a lot of climbing tonight and am going next week too, so will think of yr atrophying muscles as i work mine ;) srsly tho climbing is intense. also i think a friend of mine is going to get back into it, so yaay, more people to climb with!
totally going to pass out now

Fuck. First time in years I was going to be all ready to fly home for vacation time plus 2 solid weeks of meetings, and I'm not ready, and I have to go into work tomorrow when I had the day off, and I have to pack tomorrow morning when I was going to pack tonight, and be ready to get in the SuperShuttle by 2.44pm, I am dreading work meetings in January anyway because I messed up at work in a non-fatal but very noticeable way by not spending enough money (arguably not my fault as no-one wanted to spend any with me, but won't be seen that way).

Want to be fappin' in Chicago.

Wait, your job requires you to...spend more money...with other people? I am confuse. :(

I'm trying not to be too specific about my job here, but I have a small budget to spend on getting people together to work on research ideas. I can't spend it unless I can persuade a bunch of people I work with back in the UK that the time is right. They only want to bring people together to work on research ideas if there's going to be a route to funding afterwards, and right now they are being very, very slow about agreeing those routes to funding. I have tons of ideas and many of them will come off next year, but I needed to get the money out of the door by March 31 and that's not going to happen. I should have started spending it on second-class ideas for events earlier in the year rather than holding out for the ones I wanted to come off.

And I allowed other pressing work stuff to get in the way. I am a terrible, terrible organizer/deliverer of deliverables. When it comes to practical detail, I like starting things off and then for someone else to implement. Not possible most of the time in life.

-laid down in bed, felt lungs fill with fluid, had massive coughing fit to the point of seeing stars

-will be sleeping in computer chair tonight

-worried

-sometimes the only reasonable response to ppl is "get your head out of your ass" because the only conceivable way they could believe what they believe is if they had literally been staring at the insides of their rectums their entire lives

but if someone had literally been staring at the insides of their rectums, and only the insides of their rectums, i'd think they'd have a very minimal set of beliefs.

And THEN yesterday after the work lunch, he said we could leave at lunch today, but he hasn't mentioned it again this morning and I don't know if I can just go or if I have to wait for him to bless and release us or what but I finished all the work I had and I'm not about to start a new case because I'll forget it all by the time I come back and and and WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME????

work Xmas lunch, I should say. Also there was booze involved so maybe he was drunk?

-- home from visiting fam in Ohio
-- on my way to visit a Laurel in Michigan!
-- ready to hang with a big family of complete strangers who like to eat, drink, and sing
-- feelin v positive and well rested

hooray wintertime holidays!

ZS was distraught:

http://i.imgur.com/LkrC7.jpg

But then n/a showed up and he was all better:

http://i.imgur.com/tEwO8.jpg

toddlin' town