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So, a great decision was reached recently.
As those of you who should know, do, the world is pretty much
evenly divided in the never-ending and irresolvable
battle between pirates and ninjas. Of course, one may only be one
or the other - they are mutually exclusive allegiances.
For complicated reasons, I have decided that I must throw
down the shuriken, strap on a cutless, and hoist a grubby
skull and crossbones flag to the nearest mast or suitable equivilent.


I do plan on being a d*** sneaky pirate, tho.


10th October, 2005.
Chicken salad sandwiches are supposed to be harmless.
This is the kind of assumption that a reasoned, orderly, non-paranoid,
well-functioning society is based on; if you bite a sandwhich, nothing
bad will happen to you. This is unfortunately untrue, as I learned today at
around 12:10, while on the way to not one but two job interviews. I'm not
sure what sick twist of sandwhich physics snapped the cap off of my front tooth,
but it was a remarkably effective one. Given that I look like a meth-addicted
truck driver when I've only got half a front tooth, I had to call and reschedule
both interviews. To be frank, I'm kinda pissed. It's not the I-have-cancer-and-am-
therefore-righteously-pissed-at-whoever-is-in-charge-of-the-universe type of pissed,
but just the really irritated kind of pissed you get when you realize how small a thing
it takes to royally screw up an otherwise decent day.
I don't even particularly like chicken salad sandwhiches.


19th October,2005.
The job/internship hunt continues.
I really hadn't realized, when I was still at lafayette, just how
unpleasant finding a job really is. I've got it far, far easier than
most people, I realize - my parents are letting me stick around the house,
and that, of course, is wonderful...but I still have the feeling of throwing
myself into an unsympathetic and judgemental meat-market, and I can't say I like it much.


28th October, 2005.
Okay, so as of today, I officially have a job. I will have the
honor of putting clothes and other items out on the shelves at a nearby
JCPenny store, as well as returning them thence when they inevitably go astray.
I'm sure you can tell that I am overwhelmingly thrilled by this prospect.
Anyway, it's a job, and it'll provide funds towards repaying my college loans,
as well as hopefully letting me buy a few things here and there.
Getting up for a job that begins at six may prove interesting, tho...

31st October, 2005
So, Barnes and Noble got back to me today...looks like they'll be hiring me.
As numerous friends have pointed out, I will probably wind up spending all my
pay on books. I think this is probably true, so I'll just ask the manager to arrange
for my paycheck to be deposited directly to a store credit account.
I've gotten off on a huge WH40K modeling kick recently, which if I'm not careful
could get completely out of hand. I'll have to rustle up an opponent and get my butt
handed to me in an actual game - that oughta cool my interest down some.

3rd November, 2005
So, I have this desk.
It's gargantuan. It measures no less than six feet by three and half,
and it actually weighs more than I do. ( Surplus office sale near my Dad's
office. I'm in love with this thing...it's big enough for everything. I've started my JCPenny job - not terribly exciting, but not ultra
unpleasant either, so hopefully I'll be able to survive till the end of my
tenure there. B&N work starts on monday - definitely looking forwards to that
a good deal more.

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