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I've had an exciting past few days. In fact, I hope I remember the past couple of days the next time I think life is boring and nothing ever happens. :>
Yesterday morning, I discovered an email that I've been waiting for for a long time. I've been trying to get into the state of Michigan--for pretty much anything, really--since I was about nineteen or twenty. (And I'm twenty-eight, if you'll remember.) When the state is interested in you, they'll contact you for an exam based on what you applied for. That was my email! The Michigan Department of Corrections wants me to take the secretary test! I go next Tuesday.
So I was bouncing off the walls and starting to post about it on Facebook when the phone rings. It's the company who owns the new theater that's due to have a soft opening at the mall on July 7! I'm booked in for that on Saturday.
Then today, there's a storm and shortly afterward, the power goes out. I happened to be playing Angry Birds and I look up a couple of minutes later and the voicemail light is flashing. It's Meijer*...they're finally calling me back for the second phase of the interview process to become a pharmacy technician! I had trouble getting back with them, but I finally got someone and got setup for Wednesday.
WHEW!
*Meijer is like Walmart, only a different color scheme, unionized, different prices and only located in the midwest. They were also a grocery store first and expanded to general merchandise later; unlike Walmart, which was the other way around.
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I haven't remembered the last couple of times to check and see if she's using the same email address (I went without her a few years when I didn't have insurance), so I can't send her a Word doc crammed with my pet info until I see her again on the 26th. xD
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I don't have any! *cries*
My favorite thing to do, though, is replace profanity with Neopian safe terms. I've never once got an ugly red exclamation point from TNT for saying that "no one gives a flying shoyru" about something. ;)
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I collected all of the medical/herb-y/tea things and then decided I'd never win the gallery competition.
I've been collecting stamps/coins (I haven't even finished out the list of the ones I want to go with first), I used to collect TCGs...seems like there was something else I wanted to try collecting and make my own gallery for, but I can't remember what. :P
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Last I knew, not many could find 'em even before the buyout. Go Shelley!
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I could, but then I'd get turned into a toad by the moderation team, more likely than not.
I already have...*giggle*...frog legs (via Ruto) after messing up last week, so I need to behave.
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No, I think they start submitting weeks or even months in advance. Since it's been a standard award since issue 200 or something (I forgot what I read recently), people know in advance when an opportunity is coming, so they pitch and pitch to get in.
There's a comments box on your submission, I gather, so if you were to start, say, at 670, you could probably write in, "I want this to be for 700".
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I'm not at liberty to say. *shifty eyes*
Probably the safest response is "I have friends".
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's probably not issue 650. I come by this theory simply because writers climb all over each other in a giant stack to get into such issues (much like the lemmings in "Pearls Before Swine") and they may not have room for you. *chuckle*
Oh, good...I found a picture! (Not the one I wanted, but that link didn't end in a photo suffix. :P )
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Reminds me of a song I've started writing, Snarlina...that I can't get beyond the chorus for. :P
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I hate it when religion comes between friends. Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the people" (gods, I can't believe I'm quoting Marx!)...I wonder if, at that time, he knew it was also "the major clashing point of the people"! (I think he'd have been further off saying that!) In fact, I don't even think politics is more divisive. Last I checked, no one said you'd go to hell (or whatever punishment you believe in) just for being a Democrat or a Republican. (And if they have said that, I don't want to know 'em!)
I'm glad you worked things out with your friend, Xandria. I'm also glad you're more patient than I am! Sometimes, I've seen it far more fit to take off than to deal with (pardon my phrasing) Christians who love their religion too much. I respect people who are passionate about their beliefs, but I don't respect them for trying to shove those same beliefs down my throat. One Pagan saying I'm fond of (and I'm sure it's not just Wiccans) is that we don't prosthelytize, because if someone is meant to be a part of what we do, they'll be called. I wish all faiths felt that way!
What I'm going to say next may irritate some people, so I just want to throw in that I'm not completely "anti-established-religion". I'll go to something if it doesn't look like it'll be too religious-y (like fundraisers at my mom's church--especially when they concern the kids), but if it even smacks of too much Christianity, I'll be like, "Bye! (zap)"
Okay, this is the part that may bother some people: I honestly read the paper (and other things) and--more and more often these days--think, "Wow, I'm glad I'm not Christian anymore!" All these letters to the editor that say "the bible says this", "the bible says that"; "yes, gay marriage", "no gay marriage" (whatever happened to just believing in love?!) Or one that's been in the news since the weekend: a local church that has been around for eighty years was recently condemned because of warring factions. Literally...by the fire department. One faction was so angry with the other that they put up steel over some of the doors, broke keys off in locks and chained up others. HELLO?! You call yourselves Christians?! That's just freaking shameful. I realize all faiths, of every stripe, have problems with each other (look at people dying in the Middle East because they're one type of Muslim or another!), but following my own belief system has become more and more attractive for me the older I get. I live by love, care and compassion; and if someone doesn't like it, they can bug off!
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I was going to suggest "send a ticket". Actually, I was going to sing "send a ticket", but that's anticlimactic at this point. xD
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Some don't make me cry anymore, some are still tearjerkers. (I'll exclude the ones that don't make me cry anymore.)
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" never used to make me cry until they played the Hawaiian version at my favorite teacher's funeral. Now it's like, "Shutupshutupshutup! I'm going to cry all over again!" if I hear that version.
Pink's "*Bleepin* Perfect" made me cry for a while, and may still, depending on the day. The girl she's singing about sounds like she's struggled with depression and I very much get that.
There's one Country song that involves the voice of another singer (who had just died) on the first guy's answering machine. *looks it up* Oh, it's Toby Keith's "Cryin' for Me". Oh my goodness...anyway, I heard it on what would've been the birthday of a recently deceased actor (died in the last four to six months at that point) and I just sobbed. (I'm lucky no one caught me...I was at work and I wouldn't wanted to have explained!
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No one voted for me (hence "no pretty participation medal", as in TDN's contests). That's okay...I'm starting to find participating in these sorts of contests are just fun, anyway. (If they weren't, would I have prepped another entry before the last one was even finished? HARDLY! :D )
The wig is one I used to have (it was part of a mini/MME) and it's one of those things when you first see it, you think, "Oh, I'm never going to end up using this!" But I put it in my closet anyway and loved it! (I need it again because the account I had it on was frozen, so if you have any friends who have it, give 'em a shout!) (I have it on my DTI list, but it's in the "low tier", so that's probably why I haven't made an effort to trade for it. That and I don't always like wigs.)
True thing: I happened to mention Neopets to my counselor today and told her a little bit about it. She seemed interested and it was like, "Nooo! Don't be interested, or you'll get me all sucked in and unable to shut up!" xD
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Squee! I love that little squirt!
Are you going to continue to call him Ringo? (I don't know why, but that doesn't quite fit. Of course, I don't have any other suggestions, so...*laughs*)
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I thought, "Why do I suddenly have so many NP?" and then, "I also have a TNT message? Did I win something?" Forgot that I'd even entered!
Shiny! :D
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Better pretty purple words than angry red words. ^_^
Instead of an "also ran", this is an "entry to a contest from another site". (One which I'm not even going to get a pretty participation medal for, but oh well.)
"Purple" was the theme and I got in with a few hours to spare:
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I was one of...147 entries? Thing Rolls, over 13k NP and a silver trophy. The silver trophy is the best part, because silver is my favorite color. ^_^
Woohoo!
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Mistress Lyuba, perhaps you should make your own thread to show off your creations?
(Perhaps it should be entitled, "Customization Honorable Mentions" or some such and we can all post. :) )
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You got into 650? Congrats! Yes, that's the NT avvie with the white weewoo. (I think the one with the quill is the one for 10 entries.)
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Your strange rituals intrigue me. *steeples her fingers* Please...tell me more... ;)
I say "by the close of gaming", because I can't remember how it goes in the finals (if the rest of us just sit and wait for the top teams to duke it out or what).
I anticipate being at AS+3 by the thirtieth. You know...unless my computer explodes or something. :laughingsmiley:
(And yes, I think that emoji is my favorite on the entire board. xD )
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How very Capricornian of me. xD
I didn't realize I had a system until I caught myself doing it one day. :>
Yay for Being Flooded with Potential!
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Ah, the worst that can happen...I seem to have used all ten of my reps today. :D (I used several of them on the puns thread...they were so horrible! xD )
Anywho, if I get offered both, it's a tough decision.
On one hand, I went to school to be a pharmacy technician. I like it, except for the math portions and the fact that I have no hands-on experience in compounding. (And the fact that that involves math.) There's only one technician IV per store (I'm sure that's like the chief tech), but I can still work my way up to level III and be more attractive to hospitals. I can probably pull later shifts (which is good, because I'm a night owl), but I'd probably be stuck working Thanksgiving Day and other holidays, because I'd be the low woman on the totem to start. (At least they, like Walmart, close somewhere between six and eight on Christmas Eve and don't open 'til five or six on the 26th.) I don't know how much I could make if I only got to level III, but as a level I, places have been talking about $9-10/hr to start.
On the other hand, working for the State is a career. I'd start off as full time, I'd make $14.72 an hour* (going up to $15.05 after six months and $15.39 after a year...I've looked at the pay schedule already), get benefits and get all the federal holidays off (including some extras, like Christmas Eve and New Years Eve). Trouble is, being a word processing assistant could be very boring. Or I might not get in at all...I noticed something was said in the job listing about knowing about corrections policies and procedures. (But they must have looked at my resume and know that I've only worked in retail and in a funeral home...right?!)
Oh well. I may not like my mother very much, but she's always been right when she says, "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
*Unless they're satisfied that I've worked for at least a year doing that sort of thing at the funeral home, which means I'd start off at G6 instead and move into the scale that starts off at $15.83 and moves to $16.10 after six months. Wouldn't that be crazy?!