I'm Such a Dork...
Jun. 2nd, 2011 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenny_wildcat::My posting on LiveJournal has been slim of late - and I realize that I never posted my review of last week's Doctor Who here. But I posted it at my other blog and I don't feel like reposting it here. So, have a handy link and enjoy (fair warning - SPOILERS for "The Almost People")
::I've moved up to Salt Lake now (we'll... in the Salt Lake area, anyway) and hopefully will be started my practicum tomorrow *fingers crossed* I wish it would have started sooner because I've spent the past few days moping around the house because I don't have anything else to do and I don't have a job.
:::Oh, here's a great story - one of the jobs that I applied for was to be a substitute for the Salt Lake County Library system. On the application, I put my address as where I'm living (which is not quite in Salt Lake, but it's close enough as far as I'm concerned). I got an email from the County yesterday morning saying (quote) "It appears, with your past work experience, that you are qualified for the position, but because of the volume of applications, we are not considering anyone who lives and works in a distant location." (emphasis mine).
Well, I came uncorked at that because 1) I've been driving 70 miles round trip every day for the past ten months ON DIRT ROADS to work at the high school. To me, twenty minutes on the freeway is like running to the corner market for bread and milk. 2) I fully intend to move into Salt Lake City proper when I get an actual job - I just have to live where I do because I don't have the money to get a place in SLC yet. PLUS - I'm doing a practicum in West Jordan, which means I'll be driving into the Salt Lake Valley nearly every day anyway. I called the County up and told them as much (I was a lot nicer than if I'd picked up the phone the minute I got the email) and they said they'd consider my application. Sooo... yeah... *more crossing fingers*
::I finally got out of the house today, though. I went to the Jordan River Temple, which was nice. I hadn't been to the temple for a long time and I hadn't realized how much I missed it (also how much better I feel after being there). It was a good feeling, that's all.
::What else? My cousin is getting baptized on Saturday and my aunts are giving my sister a baby shower afterward, so that's going to be fun (I threw a shower for my sister a few weeks ago). And my other cousin had her baby last night, which is great. Yup... it's great.
That's it for today. I'm working on a baby quilt for my sister, so I want to get that finished before the baby's born. I'm about halfway done.
::I've moved up to Salt Lake now (we'll... in the Salt Lake area, anyway) and hopefully will be started my practicum tomorrow *fingers crossed* I wish it would have started sooner because I've spent the past few days moping around the house because I don't have anything else to do and I don't have a job.
:::Oh, here's a great story - one of the jobs that I applied for was to be a substitute for the Salt Lake County Library system. On the application, I put my address as where I'm living (which is not quite in Salt Lake, but it's close enough as far as I'm concerned). I got an email from the County yesterday morning saying (quote) "It appears, with your past work experience, that you are qualified for the position, but because of the volume of applications, we are not considering anyone who lives and works in a distant location." (emphasis mine).
Well, I came uncorked at that because 1) I've been driving 70 miles round trip every day for the past ten months ON DIRT ROADS to work at the high school. To me, twenty minutes on the freeway is like running to the corner market for bread and milk. 2) I fully intend to move into Salt Lake City proper when I get an actual job - I just have to live where I do because I don't have the money to get a place in SLC yet. PLUS - I'm doing a practicum in West Jordan, which means I'll be driving into the Salt Lake Valley nearly every day anyway. I called the County up and told them as much (I was a lot nicer than if I'd picked up the phone the minute I got the email) and they said they'd consider my application. Sooo... yeah... *more crossing fingers*
::I finally got out of the house today, though. I went to the Jordan River Temple, which was nice. I hadn't been to the temple for a long time and I hadn't realized how much I missed it (also how much better I feel after being there). It was a good feeling, that's all.
::What else? My cousin is getting baptized on Saturday and my aunts are giving my sister a baby shower afterward, so that's going to be fun (I threw a shower for my sister a few weeks ago). And my other cousin had her baby last night, which is great. Yup... it's great.
That's it for today. I'm working on a baby quilt for my sister, so I want to get that finished before the baby's born. I'm about halfway done.
