I have a job!
I start Monday at ATVS up in Lake Forest. It’s a full time position with a growing company.
I interviewed yesterday and was told I’d have a 2nd interview on Tuesday.
They called/emailed an offer to me today which I accepted.
*bounces happily around da bear cave*
29 April 2005
26 April 2005
Well well well....
Well, I spent an hour and a half with Careerbuilder.com sending off resumes to stuff posted in the last three days. I sent out one resume at 5:20pm. Had a response wanting to set up an interview for Thursday at 9am.
So... I have a job interview at 9am on Thursday. Salary isn’t too hot Base Pay: $18,720.00 - $20,800.00/Year but it’s a full time position with the company. No more temp assignments. *woo*
Here’s hoping it pans out...
Big Bear out...
So... I have a job interview at 9am on Thursday. Salary isn’t too hot Base Pay: $18,720.00 - $20,800.00/Year but it’s a full time position with the company. No more temp assignments. *woo*
Here’s hoping it pans out...
Big Bear out...
Just a heads up...
Well, I still don’t have my lab results from last week’s doctor’s appointment.
She thinks the lab assay will come back as MS.
No matter what it is. It’s still here.
The last couple of days, I’ve been really tired and hurting all over along with some other seemingly minor symptoms tell me that I’m starting to have another low intensity flare of the MS.
I’m heading back to bed.
If I’m not as chatty or online as much as usual...now you know why.
(humour follows)
I’ll have the hemlock tea. If it’s good enough for Socrates ... it’s good enough for me ;)
(/humour)
She thinks the lab assay will come back as MS.
No matter what it is. It’s still here.
The last couple of days, I’ve been really tired and hurting all over along with some other seemingly minor symptoms tell me that I’m starting to have another low intensity flare of the MS.
I’m heading back to bed.
If I’m not as chatty or online as much as usual...now you know why.
(humour follows)
I’ll have the hemlock tea. If it’s good enough for Socrates ... it’s good enough for me ;)
(/humour)
22 April 2005
Curiosities..Queeries...Things yer dying to know...
Here’s the gig...
Ya’ll each get five questions...
I’m going to put a few basic ground rules on this one:
Each question must start with the classic question words:
Who, What, When, Where, Why, or How.
Extra point to those who can ask one question with each of the words.
Have at it...and hopefully ya’ll look forward to the answers...
Ya’ll each get five questions...
I’m going to put a few basic ground rules on this one:
Each question must start with the classic question words:
Who, What, When, Where, Why, or How.
Extra point to those who can ask one question with each of the words.
Have at it...and hopefully ya’ll look forward to the answers...
21 April 2005
From the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Slang..
root ute
noun a panel van, often luxuriously appointed with carpet, curtains, etc., as a suitable place for sexual liaisons; a sin bin; a shaggin’ wagon; a fuck truck.
How many other rhyming euphemisms could be had for that...
noun a panel van, often luxuriously appointed with carpet, curtains, etc., as a suitable place for sexual liaisons; a sin bin; a shaggin’ wagon; a fuck truck.
How many other rhyming euphemisms could be had for that...
Catching up with the BigBear
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the last couple of months of my life...
I have to start this someplace...
I’ll start with
We did stumble into a messed up relationship of sorts.
I do have strong feelings for Brian and I do realize that I did push him into things. Do I want to be friends with him still? Yes. Would I like to actually date him...not in a relationship...but just date him? Yes.
I’m sorry Brian for pushing you into things. Yes I was confused by some mixed signals, but I still should have been more aware of what I was doing and thinking...not pushing you into something.
The teaching circle that I’m involved with.
It’s broken. End of discussion on that.
has cut me off, banished me, and threatened me. Though he was sworn to protect me and my circle, he turned his back on my at my lowest moment and branded me a coward. Not a lot of protection or strength there. I have to say that I’m very much less than impressed with that. It’s funny how since Chicago didn’t work for him, he’s “cutting and running” to Des Moines now, which is exactly what he accused me of doing when I start looking at moving back to Minnesota.
I don’t have a job here, I don’t really have any job leads, and I have to move by the end of May.
Minnesota is where my friends are, I have strong job leads, and I’d have places to stay for a while as I got back on my feet. If that’s cutting and running, then I guess I’m doing it.
As for, his teaching is going very well and it’s the one thing that is somewhat holding me close to Chicago, is my desire to finish his training, though in all honesty, I think I could probably have him through his basic first level in the next month, which is my plan.
and never clicked/got it together to further Brian’s teaching. I’ve managed to deduce that Brian has a Wolf totem (as do I) and that he is quite young spiritually, but that’s about all I’ve really gotten out of him.
I’ve also been thinking about past boyfriends and my feelings towards them.
I’ve managed to put behind me. I still have fond memories of him and my trip to Australia, but it was doomed from the beginning and though I never got an honest reason for the end of it from him...I don’t need that answer to put it into the past. I hold on to the positive memories and banish the bad.
Much the same has happened with. It’s in the past.
There are still a few people that I have lingering questions about...and why they did what they did.
Those are questions that aren’t suited for this enviroment, and as such, I’ll leave them out.
As for Minnesota, it’s home. I spent last Saturday through this Wednesday up there and I quickly found myself back at home, in a familiar environment, among friends, and at ease. I wasn’t stressed out by my current living conditions, job leads were plentiful and seeming to be ready to bear fruit, and I got to see my friends.
It was a very good mental reset for me.
All in all, I hit a big downpatch a few weeks ago, but I’m rebounding nicely from it...and learned some good lessons from it as well.
Big Bear out...
I have to start this someplace...
I’ll start with
We did stumble into a messed up relationship of sorts.
I do have strong feelings for Brian and I do realize that I did push him into things. Do I want to be friends with him still? Yes. Would I like to actually date him...not in a relationship...but just date him? Yes.
I’m sorry Brian for pushing you into things. Yes I was confused by some mixed signals, but I still should have been more aware of what I was doing and thinking...not pushing you into something.
The teaching circle that I’m involved with.
It’s broken. End of discussion on that.
I don’t have a job here, I don’t really have any job leads, and I have to move by the end of May.
Minnesota is where my friends are, I have strong job leads, and I’d have places to stay for a while as I got back on my feet. If that’s cutting and running, then I guess I’m doing it.
As for
I’ve also been thinking about past boyfriends and my feelings towards them.
I’ve managed to put
Much the same has happened with
There are still a few people that I have lingering questions about...and why they did what they did.
Those are questions that aren’t suited for this enviroment, and as such, I’ll leave them out.
As for Minnesota, it’s home. I spent last Saturday through this Wednesday up there and I quickly found myself back at home, in a familiar environment, among friends, and at ease. I wasn’t stressed out by my current living conditions, job leads were plentiful and seeming to be ready to bear fruit, and I got to see my friends.
It was a very good mental reset for me.
All in all, I hit a big downpatch a few weeks ago, but I’m rebounding nicely from it...and learned some good lessons from it as well.
Big Bear out...
20 April 2005
Oh what the hell...
as a reminder...
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions
Wow... 5.5 years later and I'm still and ISTJ
| ISTJ - The Inspector You scored 27% I to E, 78% N to S, 57% F to T, and 15% J to P! |
Your type is known as the inspector, and the single word that describes your is superdependable. You also belong to the larger group of guardians. You look carefully at the people and institutions around you and notice every last detail. You feel it is up to you to make sure those around you uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct. You are down to earth, with a distaste for fanciful things. You prefer things practical to new-fangled. Your word is your bond. You have no problem with detail. You share your type with 10% of the population. As a romantic partner, you are dependable and predictable. You usually like things done in very specific ways. You tend to appreciate tradition, and you work hard to achieve goals. You have trouble sharing your feelings, though. In your eagerness to be organized and productive, you can also be unwilling to examine or embrace alternative points of view. You like to be appreciated for your practical contributions, your common sense, and the efforts you make to keep your life on track. You like to be thanked often, both informally and formally and are most likely to be upset when your partner forgets a tradition you hold dear, such as an anniversary. Your group summary: Guardians (SJ) Your Type Summary: ISTJ |
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The LONG Scientific Personality Test written by unpretentious2 on Ok Cupid |
14 April 2005
Well shit...
Hrmph...
Fedora Core 4’s (lack of) compatibility back to Red Hat 7.2 has officially broken Sim City 3000.
Do I go back to Fedora Core 3... or do I stick with 4 and give up on Sim City 3000.
Fedora Core 4’s (lack of) compatibility back to Red Hat 7.2 has officially broken Sim City 3000.
Do I go back to Fedora Core 3... or do I stick with 4 and give up on Sim City 3000.
Coming Up Close...
Coming Up Close
by ‘Til Tuesday
One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car
went driving in the summer, promises in every star
out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekend’s worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted
we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface
we thought just for an instant we could see the future
we thought for once we knew what really was important
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don’t you know that I could make
a dream that’s barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say -
but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape
we drove around the fields until it started getting late
and I went back to my hotel room on the highway
and he just got back in his car and drove away
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don’t you know that I could make
a dream that’s barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say - but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home Come on home
by ‘Til Tuesday
One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car
went driving in the summer, promises in every star
out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekend’s worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted
we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface
we thought just for an instant we could see the future
we thought for once we knew what really was important
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don’t you know that I could make
a dream that’s barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say -
but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape
we drove around the fields until it started getting late
and I went back to my hotel room on the highway
and he just got back in his car and drove away
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don’t you know that I could make
a dream that’s barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say - but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home Come on home
13 April 2005
Hypothetically...
Your bf goes out with his ex and his ex’s new bf...
Lotsa booze later...
Sex.
---
What would you do?
Lotsa booze later...
Sex.
---
What would you do?
10 April 2005
1st 15 Random Songs Meme...
1st 15 songs randomly pulled out of my music collection...
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 2:02 - Bodies
Third Eye Blind - Jumper
Live - Secret Somadhi 01 - Rattlesnake
Queensryche - Jet City Woman
John Mayer - Heavier Things 09 - Only Heart
Enya - Shepard Moons 02 - Caribbean Blue
Tori Amos - To Venus and Back 1:05 - Lust
Inoj - Love You Down
The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame 10 - Ain’t Found Nobody
Jay Klum - Home Cookin 03 - Lullaby of Birdland
JayZ - Can I Get A Fuck You
Josh Rouse - That’s What I Know
Zoo Rave 1:10 - Beat Pulse Mecca - Murder
Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got 01 - Feel So Different
Ben Folds - Ben Folds Live 08 - Fred Jones Part 2
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 2:02 - Bodies
Third Eye Blind - Jumper
Live - Secret Somadhi 01 - Rattlesnake
Queensryche - Jet City Woman
John Mayer - Heavier Things 09 - Only Heart
Enya - Shepard Moons 02 - Caribbean Blue
Tori Amos - To Venus and Back 1:05 - Lust
Inoj - Love You Down
The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame 10 - Ain’t Found Nobody
Jay Klum - Home Cookin 03 - Lullaby of Birdland
JayZ - Can I Get A Fuck You
Josh Rouse - That’s What I Know
Zoo Rave 1:10 - Beat Pulse Mecca - Murder
Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got 01 - Feel So Different
Ben Folds - Ben Folds Live 08 - Fred Jones Part 2
07 April 2005
It's over and I'm over it.
There are wards to unset and protectorates to break. I’m disconnecting and clearing out..
*laugh* Wheeling is so heavily fortressed and warded. As if.
This place is a seething cesspool of uncontrolled and unmanaged psychic effluent. When I as a novice can clear out an entire region and set it back to how it should be...it’s not being managed/taken care of nearly as well as I’ve been told. My wards right now are starting to rattle alarms in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
It takes a lot for me to really start to resonate ... but I’m connected to a lot of places that I probably shouldn’t be.
*looks at the huge slabs of granite in St Cloud and all the Akashic record information*
*looks around at the bear spirits that are beginning to congregate here*
*looks around at the wolves patrolling the area around him*
*looks at the spiral of energy that’s raditating out from here...and notes that it is dark red*
*reconnects to his sacred space in St. Cloud...and feels the rushing flood waters of the Mississippi River flooding over him...taking away his rage and his growing hatred*
*looks back at the spiral and notices that it’s red, blue, white and black...smearing together*
Things should be calmer around here now...but I can’t say they’ll be any better. I’m still connecting to sacred space over 500 miles away because I have no space of my own here. Red for passion/emotion. Blue for logic and healing. White for purity and insight. Black for evil and negativity.
Maybe I should just shoot past Madison and go back to St. Cloud. The job market wasn’t great...but it was a place where I was actually truly happy and at peace.
Such is life.
I call on the North...Bringer of Air...Messenger of Spirit....
Carry this message to the Elements....
I give myself to them. If I am to better serve Them in another cycle, take me from this one.
I call on the South...Guardian of Earth...Cradle of Life
Carry me home. I feel my time is done.
I call on the East...Bringer of Fire...Sustainer of Life and Destroyer of Life
Carry this message to the Elements...
I give my passion and my strength to them, to use as they need.
I am drained and cannot recover myself, but I know they know how to use my Gifts.
I call on the West...Guardian of Water...
Clear my body and my spirit of my wrongs.
Soothe the hurt I have caused others
Cleanse their wounds and help them to heal.
I call on Spirit...The Bringing and Guardian within...
I ask for forgiveness. I have failed.
*drops to his knees*
I have failed in my mission of this cycle.
I am not an empath.
I am not a healer.
I am a failure.
As I kneel here, I know that I am wrapping up my loose ends. I am done. Too many people have used me and I would rather walk away from it all than to have the Gifts that were given to me by You used like that.
Do with me as You will. If I may serve you in other ways in this cycle, so be it. If not, I ask for a quick return to the cycle and a quicker end to this one.
I, John Ray Lamb... Big Bear ... and (Ed: My True Spirit Name removed) command...
So Mote It Be.
*laugh* Wheeling is so heavily fortressed and warded. As if.
This place is a seething cesspool of uncontrolled and unmanaged psychic effluent. When I as a novice can clear out an entire region and set it back to how it should be...it’s not being managed/taken care of nearly as well as I’ve been told. My wards right now are starting to rattle alarms in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
It takes a lot for me to really start to resonate ... but I’m connected to a lot of places that I probably shouldn’t be.
*looks at the huge slabs of granite in St Cloud and all the Akashic record information*
*looks around at the bear spirits that are beginning to congregate here*
*looks around at the wolves patrolling the area around him*
*looks at the spiral of energy that’s raditating out from here...and notes that it is dark red*
*reconnects to his sacred space in St. Cloud...and feels the rushing flood waters of the Mississippi River flooding over him...taking away his rage and his growing hatred*
*looks back at the spiral and notices that it’s red, blue, white and black...smearing together*
Things should be calmer around here now...but I can’t say they’ll be any better. I’m still connecting to sacred space over 500 miles away because I have no space of my own here. Red for passion/emotion. Blue for logic and healing. White for purity and insight. Black for evil and negativity.
Maybe I should just shoot past Madison and go back to St. Cloud. The job market wasn’t great...but it was a place where I was actually truly happy and at peace.
Such is life.
I call on the North...Bringer of Air...Messenger of Spirit....
Carry this message to the Elements....
I give myself to them. If I am to better serve Them in another cycle, take me from this one.
I call on the South...Guardian of Earth...Cradle of Life
Carry me home. I feel my time is done.
I call on the East...Bringer of Fire...Sustainer of Life and Destroyer of Life
Carry this message to the Elements...
I give my passion and my strength to them, to use as they need.
I am drained and cannot recover myself, but I know they know how to use my Gifts.
I call on the West...Guardian of Water...
Clear my body and my spirit of my wrongs.
Soothe the hurt I have caused others
Cleanse their wounds and help them to heal.
I call on Spirit...The Bringing and Guardian within...
I ask for forgiveness. I have failed.
*drops to his knees*
I have failed in my mission of this cycle.
I am not an empath.
I am not a healer.
I am a failure.
As I kneel here, I know that I am wrapping up my loose ends. I am done. Too many people have used me and I would rather walk away from it all than to have the Gifts that were given to me by You used like that.
Do with me as You will. If I may serve you in other ways in this cycle, so be it. If not, I ask for a quick return to the cycle and a quicker end to this one.
I, John Ray Lamb... Big Bear ... and (Ed: My True Spirit Name removed) command...
So Mote It Be.
Hey gang...
Things I have to make happen financially this month:
$90 for two new tires on truck ASAP (left front is showing shredding from the steel belt)
$150 for utilities (payable tomorrow)
$25 oil change (I’m 3k miles over due)
all doable so far
$193 - Truck/Van insurance due 4/28
Would have been quite doable...except last Friday I had my staffing assignment cut short (ended last friday instead of at the end of this month).
I’m hoping that I can either get the money together for the insurance or that I can pay less of my share of the utilities this month since I’d already put the same chunk in last week...and I’d been helping buy groceries for the apartment.
It’ll all work out...I just need to quit stressing about it...and know that it’ll work out. I just have to cut out on my visits to Madison to visit. I was all set to see all three parts of Proper this weekend at Broom Street Theatre (they need a much better website!) and actually get to spend an entire weekend with him...not a cut short and rush up and back weekend like I’ve been doing.
That’s life...that’s love....that’s reality.
Well, two outta three ain’t bad.
$90 for two new tires on truck ASAP (left front is showing shredding from the steel belt)
$150 for utilities (payable tomorrow)
$25 oil change (I’m 3k miles over due)
all doable so far
$193 - Truck/Van insurance due 4/28
Would have been quite doable...except last Friday I had my staffing assignment cut short (ended last friday instead of at the end of this month).
I’m hoping that I can either get the money together for the insurance or that I can pay less of my share of the utilities this month since I’d already put the same chunk in last week...and I’d been helping buy groceries for the apartment.
It’ll all work out...I just need to quit stressing about it...and know that it’ll work out. I just have to cut out on my visits to Madison to visit
That’s life...that’s love....that’s reality.
Well, two outta three ain’t bad.
05 April 2005
Holy woof
*drool* Gawd-damn their drummer is hotter than fuck!
(ed: The drummer for Bowling for Soup...I thought it was obvious from the music line)
That’s all.
(ed: The drummer for Bowling for Soup...I thought it was obvious from the music line)
That’s all.
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