Case of the Mondays?
Mar. 23rd, 2009 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reymonkeyI've got no art to update with, just a backlog of half-done sketches and stuff I should be working on. Last week... ugh... where to begin? With the getting lost looking for the social services office, with LJ inexplicably ceasing to work (I still suspect IP ban and need to contact them), or with the mysterious horrible smell that took days to track down to some dead flowers? I mean I guess there's nothing huge I could complain about, but it's been a week of little annoyances at every turn, and it's kept us busy and distracted. Last night LJ fritzed out again, and this morning I woke up with a nightmare. Tomorrow I have a job interview for something I'm not sure I want and I'm pretty sure I won't get, because it's an inventory thing that looks like it involves doing math in your head which I, because my brain does not like numbers, am not capable of.
And if anyone tries to tell me that's because I'm lazy in math or something, I'll rip their head off. I have a diagnosed math disability, and I spent years with tutors and flash cards and being taught tricks of multiplication and spending evenings in tears because I desperately wanted to get it, and just couldn't.
Obviously I need some damn coffee to get a handle on this week, or even today.
Good things: Looks like Bridgie gets unemployment, and damn she gets about twice per week what I did. I... get food stamps. I guess. They sent me a card, which then says they already sent me a thing to tell me what I actually get monetarily, which they didn't. Not sure if I'm happy about that or not.
Nice weather, been going outside plenty, and really the only thing keeping me from art lately is my own distractedness. I'm happy with the sketches I've got started, it's just I start one and then go on to the next before I've finished the last one. I need to do a Gargoyle portrait for the person who got my 5,000th pageview on DA (Yup, 5,000 people have looked at my art), and I need to sketch some gerbils...
I also have plans to totally redesign my website, which has been languishing for years now. I don't know whay I was avoiding making it a gallery, but I was. Now I want a nice private gallery I can direct people to for freelance illustration work, something that passes for professional.
Anyways, I guess I just wanted to make a Monday update, but I really don't have much else to say. I'm gonna go get some damn coffee.
And if anyone tries to tell me that's because I'm lazy in math or something, I'll rip their head off. I have a diagnosed math disability, and I spent years with tutors and flash cards and being taught tricks of multiplication and spending evenings in tears because I desperately wanted to get it, and just couldn't.
Obviously I need some damn coffee to get a handle on this week, or even today.
Good things: Looks like Bridgie gets unemployment, and damn she gets about twice per week what I did. I... get food stamps. I guess. They sent me a card, which then says they already sent me a thing to tell me what I actually get monetarily, which they didn't. Not sure if I'm happy about that or not.
Nice weather, been going outside plenty, and really the only thing keeping me from art lately is my own distractedness. I'm happy with the sketches I've got started, it's just I start one and then go on to the next before I've finished the last one. I need to do a Gargoyle portrait for the person who got my 5,000th pageview on DA (Yup, 5,000 people have looked at my art), and I need to sketch some gerbils...
I also have plans to totally redesign my website, which has been languishing for years now. I don't know whay I was avoiding making it a gallery, but I was. Now I want a nice private gallery I can direct people to for freelance illustration work, something that passes for professional.
Anyways, I guess I just wanted to make a Monday update, but I really don't have much else to say. I'm gonna go get some damn coffee.
interview
Date: Mar. 24th, 2009 01:52 am (UTC)And do NOT say you got fired for misconduct or whatever. Like I said, that's when people haul off and punch a coworker in the face. At most you had a personality conflict.
Call me for a pep talk if you must. I'm leaving this anon in case anyone reads this.
(your mst3k friend)
Re: interview
Date: Mar. 24th, 2009 02:21 pm (UTC)What I'm stressed about is that it sounds like there's a practical test. Here's the stuff we use to take inventory, here's a room with a bunch of boxes, Go! That's the part I'm spazzing over. I think I can be pretty accurate, I was an old pro at inventory at RShack, but I know that I'm slow, because of the math thing. They had an online version and I was damn slow at that, and I cheated with a calculator. I don't know if they will or won't allow for a calculator, and I don't know how big of a factor speed is. I also don't know how badly my skills will suffer if I'm supposed to do multiplication of large numbers with a stranger breathing over my shoulder.
On the other hand I'm not sure I want the job, even as desperate as I am. It sounds like it's a drive to different locations every day to take inventory, and if this is a use your own vehicle deal and I'm supposed to drive all over VA with the '84 replaced used transmission that's starting to make some suspicious noises I can't afford to look into right now, then... yeah. Dunno.
I'll post an update here when I get back, the interview's not until 2.