Title: No job yet
Music du jour: Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Passionate Kisses" -- in my head.
It's driving me CRAZY.
Random link o' the day: The Ultimate
Poseur Sport Utility Page. This guy must live in Denver.
I am typing this entry using my brand-new, nifty-smifty, almost-as-cool-as-the- iMac SunRay1 -- also known as the Corona by those of us internal to Sun. I haven't decided yet if I like it. On one hand, it's pretty fast, and StarOffice isn't acting like the bloated pig of an application that it is. On the other hand, I only have one monitor now -- Coronas don't do multi-headed support. Damn. On the gripping hand, I have more room on my desk now. Hrm. And the smart card is kinda nifty... I'll have to think about it.
Well. Lockheed-Martin called today and hemmed and hawed at me for a while about my rising salary requirements. Seems they don't want to pay me more than five grand over what I'm making now if I come to work for them. I would be okay with that if the job didn't involve going to south Denver twice a week. Maybe. They've got enough money to offer me what I want, though. Maybe I'll just get REALLY picky and hold off until after Y2K calms down. What's that you say? Did I accept Maxtor's offer? No, I did not. The HR puke called me this morning and tried to guilt-trip me about not taking it, which pissed me off, especially since he effectively woke me up. I told him I wanted to keep my options open, which is true, and that I didn't want to take the first thing that comes along, which is also true. He said, "What, is our position not exciting enough for you?" Yeah, dude, but that wasn't the reason. Ah, well... I feel much better now that I followed my gut instinct on that situation and left it alone.
So I'm back to the hunt. I also went in after the staff meeting yesterday and bitched at Alex and Bruce (my manager and his boss). "I'm dying over here, man! I need a vacation!" Both of them, looking haggard and frazzled, assured me that we'll be hiring a dozen techs Real Soon Now(tm), and to please stick around. We'll see. I better be getting a road trip to Holland out of this deal...
Note to self: must learn Spanish so I can talk to the extremely cute cleaning chick.
What else. Oh, I got me one of them there new-fangled electric razors last night. Yeehaw. I now have smooth, silky (if blindingly white) legs. I don't want to hear it from ANY of y'all next summer when I start wearing shorts again. ;)
Oh, and just for Tish and Saundo :
*tish* you know, of course, that chris and i aren't really in love...we both just have this burning desire to make it onto penguin dust, and we figure getting married is the way to do it *tish* and no, you *don't* wanna know where that came from ;) tish> bwahahahhahahahahahahaha tish> would you like an entry today? ;) *tish* *laugh* its your brain dump, dear...dump what you like. :) tish> *chuckle*
Hi kids. :)
-- marcie.