harbl, how do feel, where are you located on the ecstatic—>flat continuum?

(hopefully far far to the left.)

she’s probably off sighing somewhere.

i would sigh at a sardine party too

but yes hoping for leftmost like estela said

eating sardines right now in honor of harbl

i’d do anything to honor harbl (but i won’t do that).

i am honoring harbl by donating my share of the sardines to her

i was relieved but not really ecstatic so i was actually pretty close to flat but that’s just how i am. i was pretty sure i passed before but a tiny bit worried i might not have.

very proud of you and also happy

thanks, jergins

unofficially have 1st round interview @ intended job in january. not sure if they’re really hiring.

running out of money, getting sad about it

i am v qualified but not v confident

i can’t believe i have my own encouragement thread wtf

gonna be workin with omar little and friends at jail for a few months. kinda scared but mostly excited.

still got interview on tuesday and was rudely reminded by email i only have 2 of 3 reference letters in. i knew that because my third and most important person seems to have disappeared or retired. uh oh.

harblog

i found her, she has breast cancer :(

interview was ok, felt like i bungled some qns but i dunno. i’m sure everyone does and they were nice people. you get a score that tells whether you move on to bonus round. i might make up for it in on-paper stuff and recommendations i guess

<3

i <3 it when people bungle qns.

thanks estela. actually today i feel more worried about it :(. i hate interviews. i get too nervous and do not give thoughtful answers like i would normally because i am pretty thoughtful normally. not like they have any jobs for me anyway though. most of the hiring will be in rural areas because they have fewer attorneys in those offices, if one leaves they have to hire someone else. i really want to work in the city and don’t want to relocate to appalachia so much. gahhhhhh

i passed first round but i have to wait for a vacancy somewhere to get second round :(

that’s good! and while you wait you can do stuff you like that you won’t have time for post-vacancy.

joblog

i got a letter about a 2nd round interview but i’m conflicted because it’s in another county and i want to stay here and i wonder if it means they will be hiring here soon. i love the ppl in the office i’m in now a lot (i’m working there because i got a grant to “volunteer” so i’m not an official hire yet) and i want to stay. maybe i should ask my boss and boss’s boss what they think.

no other place would be as perfect as here for the following reasons:

• jail is a 5 min walk from my house

• people hate every cop here, you win all the time

• everyone and everything is funny and intersting

also my boss is a hilarious gay and i made a best lawyer friend in the office <3333333

wonder if i can get a poster of that

i encourage thee to ask your boss and your boss’s boss what they think. they might be able to help you stay there where you are happy, which is the idea.

i am gonna email the hiring committee lady and say i am doing this interview but i would like to know if any openings are coming here. they are all on the same budget so it should be true imo. also called to schedule this interview & left message. either way money will be made soon, i hope.

i already have a list of all the stuff i’m gonna buy lol

spray tan

push up bra

‘eat, pray, love’

chihuahua

lolstela no more like a couch, a tv, clothes, running shoes :)

i’m getting ahead of myself though, i just feel like it is closer than it was last week

well in my inimitable encouraging way i feel like it is too and i am glad.

finally talked to the lady and she told me the reason they are able to hire is they got a grant to hire one person on a contract basis.....................meaning no benefits and no union. gonna interview for it anyway because i gotta. i bet a lot of people want it too SUXXXXX

2day i am writing a cover letter for a job in ohio :/

aw shit

interview should be sometime though, and people keep saying they’ll have to hire here too. the job is kind of perfect so i figured i might as well apply ˘\(o_º)/˘

i just feel despondent about life

i got a thin letter about that job today but it just said they’re going to interview for it in may

still waiting to hear back from other job i’m supposed to interview for after they get the funding. i get home from jail too late to call sometimes. gotta make myself do it.

other than that i am doing 1 or 2 trials tomorrow and i am scared and not v confident but my gay boss said one of the cops i’m talking to is cute lol

i dunno what happened with that job in the other county but i got another letter about the juvenile division here. so i’m gonna interview for that. i’m scared though, i don’t have much to say about juveniles. not sure how many people they interview for each vacancy.

tell them how much you hate teenagers, the job should be a cinch to get

they’ll say “if you hate teenagers, you’ll *really* hate these teenagers”

my sister was in juvie for a while. i never visited her while she was in, thank fuck

the juveniles i have worked with have been mostly ok. boys i mean, the girls are more demanding. i had a juvenile robber the other day and the intake lady was filling out the special form for juveniles where they ask about life and she was like “do you have any hobbies?” and he laughed and said “i like smoking” and i lolled. she scolded him, i didn’t like that.

<3

interview is next thursday. better read up on juveniles and get some people to say good things about me. last time i met the lady who is interviewing me it was st. patrick’s day and i was drunk. oops.

this thread has reminded me to track down proper mason jars in australia, which i just have, but the question is before i order some, are regular or wide mouth mason jars best for drinking out of, because i forget what f.‘s mom uses but i always drink out of them when i am at her house. supposedly wide mouth jars say wide mouth on the side of them but i wasn’t observant enough (because i never am) to notice whether hers did or not. help me sandbox and you will be helping f. for he loves them also, we had an effusive discussion of praise about them sitting at his mom’s table.

― estela, Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

yes, wide mouth for sure, i got rid of all the other kind in my house

― lxy, Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

i can’t believe lxy has never gone off on the sandbox about my love for mason jars

― jergins, Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah they’re so great. i don’t really believe in having nice glasses or china or anything, it’s all about utility and mason jars provide just what you need, while also being very attractive

― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:54 (8 months ago)

i finally got myself a dozen wide mouth pint jars, i had to get them shipped from melbourne, i truly love them. they are so satisfying to drink from. and to look at. and to hold in my hand.

good luck for your interview, harby.

i liked it when we were driving around seattle last year and jergins pointed towards where his sister went to juvie.

thank u estela.

i got a box of quart mason jars when i had a free shipping coupon for jcpenney.com. i’ll get some smaller ones next time, too. i had a couple drinking glasses i got at a thrift store but i got frustrated with them and threw them out. they were too narrow for harbl megahands to clean without a dishwasher. mason jars are great.

i was getting used to the idea of juvenile but i think because i told this other guy in the office about my interview he was like, oh a vacancy i’m gonna transfer there (i’m not mad, like i told him i didn’t wanna go there), and now the interview is for his job in the office i’m in now. now i feel anxious there will be some unknown obstacle like another person interviewing for it who has been here longer? ughhdg;dlgkjdfg;lkdjgdfg;lkjdfgdfl;gjk

that’s so weird you posted that, i read all of harbs’ posts in a stuart smalley voice

going forward i do too.

i dunno i feel like good stuff just doesn’t happen to me guys

c’mon kid, that just won’t do.

^^

also what, my small(ey) compliment doesn’t count for anything??

it’s today, i think i’ll be ok. if not...........oh well

i’m not gonna find out for another month. they are interviewing 20 ppl :-/

i feel so bad about this! i can’t wait that longggggg

<3

gosh i have such a weakness for rotten girls.

there’s this girl at pilates i love. the other day she (who is way, way better at pilates than me) was lying on a mat next to mine doing nothing while the instructor was busy with someone else so i said to her in a stern voice, ‘instead of just lying there you might want to study my form and pick up some useful, improving tips.’ at first she was startled because she thought i was serious but then she lolled and said, ‘i can’t look at you, it’s just too intimidating,’ and we lolled and lolled then later from across the room i shouted at her that she was marvelous and she did this terrible smug nod and i thought, ‘i bet the sandbox would <3 you’.

i really feel terrible estela! like i don’t want to go on. now i have to go back to this office for 4 more weeks while the boss and 2 other ladies think about it, and then they’ll hire one of the other 19 and it’ll be like, oh. ok. bye? everyone there likes me i feel except the boss, i can’t tell with him. he’s extremely serious while the rest of us spend a lot of time laughing and being vulgar. i do a good job though. i’m going to get my last grant paycheck soon. i might go spend some time in ny w/ my parents instead of working because it will drive me crazy.

ugh i feel like it’ll be super awkward there for the next few weeks, and then awkwarder if they don’t hire me

the awkwardness is on your side! make it as awkward as you can! that way they will feel way too stink to hire anyone else!

i’m sure this advice is redundant, since they probably already hired you and just want to make you wait a bit.

i think i was the first one interviewed just because i called first last monday morning. probably like 16 to go at this point. i am going to have to explain this to my work friends tomorrow and it will probably make me cry. i hate how pessimistic i am all the time. my head hurts.

good luck harbl

you will be fine, harbl, i know it. i think you might be a defensive pessimist. i am one. <3

exactly! i think if i don’t try to anticipate every bad thing that happens it will happen and i will be surprised. it really works! i feel better today, i guess. everyone was shocked when i told them how long i’d have to wait. boss went out to do more interviews. the office manager pulled me aside and told me she had told him he had to hire me, but i don’t think he listens to her, she’s just an office lady. some people think maybe they are interviewing so many people either because they are required to or because there will be more than one job opening up in the near future. i don’t know. no more thinking!

today my boss thanked me for coming to work today, he’s so awkward. at least that means he likes me, right? guy who is transferring said he *knows* i will get the job but ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

<3

i work in here http://wjz.com/local/central.booking.wjz.2.1667135.html

it’s not much of an “inside look” though.

|:-{

i saw a sjc tonight and thought about putting in a good word for you but there was not really an appropriate time.

oops i mean a scj

i’m distraught because they said within a month and it’s been 29 days. on monday my boss came to me and awkwardly asked if i “like it here.” i think that’s good? but i still haven’t heard anything and i don’t wanna call them and ask because it feels awkward and i’m afraid of the answer.

he also asked me on friday if i had read a court of appeals case that came out 2 days before. i said no but i volunteered to read it for him and then i did and told him what i thought.

guh i hating waiting for shit, its easy to convince yourself bad news is coming

i asked him today when i would find out and he said i don’t know, i’ve been bothering “them” about it, i hope it is soon. he wouldn’t have told me he hopes if he didn’t recommend me, right? this sucksssssss

you’re in!

i’m not at work today because i don’t want people to think i’m trying to give them pink eye (although it won’t be contagious if i wash my hands and don’t touch my eyes). maybe i’ll get a call, or a letter.

nope still nothing! i’m getting angry. it’s rude of them to make me wait after all the interviews have been done for almost 2 weeks.

so what happens if you don’t get this position? Do you stay with what you are currently doing at the same place where this other job is?

I hope they don’t make you wait much longer >:(

Also, that yr pink eye clears up fast.

pink eye is mostly gone, symptoms started sunday. the job i’m doing at the same place (same exact job, basically) was a volunteer position i got a grant for when they weren’t hiring. i would have to find something else to do at least part time because i stopped getting paychecks from the grant last month.

oh man, that truly sucks. They need to man-up and get you hired on.

I will send the boss guy a durian if you think it will help.

i think i did everything i could to help myself and now it’s out of his hands, i’m just waiting on the hiring committee to care about my feelings

oh guess what he did recommend me and really wants me to work there but the other 2 ladies who interviewed me and don’t know me wanted someone else so i didn’t get the job and it’s gonna be forever until they have another opening

he brought me into his office and told me because i hadn’t gotten the letter yet and kept telling me how i do a good job and stuff (i think it was sincere) and i wanted to disappear. i am so mad and i don’t know what to do now.

:( sorry harbl.

of course i feel like it’s something i did wrong even though i can’t think of anything i did wrong, everyone likes me in the office and i never feel like everyone likes me :(

I’m so sorry :(

Can you (or the boss guy) ask the 2 ladies what needed to be different for them to have considered you more strongly? It could be a bunch of guff, but also could maybe be useful info for the future.

i’m guessing the other person had prior trial experience, which like no one has when they start w/ this office. i honestly don’t want to know. i feel like i’m not a good interviewer. he said he was trying to see if they might make another opening and he called a few people for me to see about other jobs. i am appreciative but it’s not the same :(

sorry harbl, that sucks balls :/

hey harbl im really sorry to hear that. their loss. really.

like everyone has volunteered to be mean to the new guy, whoever it is

i finally got the interview with the county office i was supposed to interview with a long time ago, and then i called my boss and he was very willing to fax them a recommendation letter today. i have mixed feelings because i don’t want to commute that far but maybe i won’t get it anyway!

good luck with this! and maybe (banal sentiments here) the long distance will turn out to be a blessing in disguise, esp. if you’re comfortable where you’re living but want a bit of exposure to new ppl and new communities.

sooooooo i got that far away job. hello commute!