  So, things are good. Erin and I have been looking around at apartments (ok, one), and it looks like downstairs on Folan Ave. might just be the best way to go. Erin won't have to move her stuff, she already has a great relationship with the landlord, the house would be all ours with her former roommates upstairs, the neighborhood is nice, there's plenty of parking... and most importantly, it's cheaper than anyplace else we've looked at. I'm still keeping an eye out, but I think that price has to be the number one issue. Anyway, nothing's definitely definite, but I'm still getting excited. ^_^ On a related tip: I have issues. It is completely impossible for me to make a decision on my own. Consider the idea of taking a bartending class, and witness my complete inability to decide what is best for me.
Admittedly, $370 is a lot to spend at one shot, but I'm still finding it next to impossible to weigh the pros and cons of taking it, since I can only justify spending the money if I get a job afterwards, and I can't decide whether or not I can handle a second job. Then I have to consider whether or not I'll even be good at actually bartending, because if I can't be making the big bucks, what's the point?
Then I have to worry about the fact that even if I can fit the job in and I turn out to be a great bartender, will I be able to find myself a decent job? I don't know. A woman that I work with works at a catering company and has offered to set me up there (on the waitstaff), so I might be able to bartend there once or twice a week, which might not be to bad--especially if they're paying 16-18 dollars an hour and the bartender at the wedding totally gets tipped. Especially if she is hott like me! -_^ Or Florian Hall might be an option, or really any catering company/function hall that I might be able to find.
Dunno, man. I'll probably take the class though. Honestly? Stop being gay, Amanda. Moving on. Office politics here are totally heating up, which is totally awesome! The people in this department are, by nature, very personable and interact-y, so everyone here is a little on the gossipy side. Which is great, because I am sick of being bored at work. The recruiter that I work with that's the only full employee (not an outside contractor like the rest) is quitting because he got another job.
Oooh, burn. Turns out we don't pay our recruiters very much, boooo. I want his job. I know it won't happen, but I still want it. Oh, to move back one cubicle and have benefits and a page on the online phone book... It sucks because I think that if he had decided to leave at the end of the summer, I might have the slightest chance of being able to get in on that, but not now. I'm too green. I haven't made myself invaluable yet. -_^ Fortunately, in the wake of this news, one of the contract recruiters has confided that she plans on leaving at the end of the summer.
Score! Now all I have to do is fill in for the missing guy until they find someone to replace him but then continue to do his job until the contract recruiter leaves and I slide on in to her shoes. Ah. It feels good to have a follow-up to "make myself invaluable. " Of course, I have no idea how much money the recruiters make... but if the guy who's leaving has been supporting his wife and three kids on his salary for the past five months, I think it might be a number that I could work with.
I'll find out soon enough, anyway, because when the internal posting goes up online they'll post the pay grade. Ah, things are falling into place and my Master Plan may not be bullshit. Though, the whole premise for the Master Plan is relies on the assumption that I could/am qualified to do the work of a recruiter, but I've been hanging out here for a month now, and unless something seriously tricksy is going down behind the scenes, I think that I could manage. Meanwhile, boss-lady wants to "touch base" this afternoon, so we'll see what's up with that. There is the distinct possibility that this plan has absolutely no basis whatsoever in reality.
But one can dream. Maybe I shouldn't be posting all this stuff about work. No one really does, you know? I've tried to stalk some BHS grads with blogs and livejournals and I get frustrated because I can't fully stalk. How annoying. Anyway, since I already got myself in trouble once with this thing, maybe I'll have to do some editing... On a TV related note, Last Comic Standing started last night, and guess who's on?? JIMMY!! I heard a rumor, but I thought, no! urlLink Jimmy urlLink Norton would never sink to a Rich Vos low and aim for a sitcom!?! But I was wrong. Jimmy's way funnier than Vos though, if a little less mainstream, but maybe he'll be on his best behavior and get far on the show. Though I suspect that they cut out a lot of his call backs act already... and what's up with auditioning in Florida? Weird. Also, the guy we saw open for Dane Cook is on LCS as well... Gary something? If you watched it, he was the tall guy that they picked in Boston.
He was pretty funny, he did this bit that we saw him do... something like, "The Pill is the best thing ever, and you know it, because all I have to say is 'The Pill' and you know what I'm talking about. I just give you 'the' and a noun, and you're all on board. The Pill that cures polio? No, not that one. The Pill that you use and you don't have to use a condom. " Heehee. It's my new summer show.
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