the deep moans round with many voices

I didn't post about this yesterday because I was waiting for a confirmation email, but...

I HAVE A JOB!!!

It is a part-time office thing (~25 hrs/wk) at a local rental company, so it's not absolutely ideal, but the hourly rate is reasonable, the work itself sounds like a good mix of routine and interesting variables, and the location is easy to get to. I start Tuesday morning.

I will still be drawing a smidge of unemployment compensation, since that's based on a four-day week and I'll only be working three days a week. I will also, obviously, continue to look for either a better full-time job or a complementary part-time position.

But oh my god, I HAVE A JOB.

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Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go collapse in relief for a little bit. :)

1. Tested my printer, discovered the ink had gone all weird, and therefore went to the public library to print copies of my resume and reference list. I have a recurring problem with ink, probably because I only use my printer about once every three or four months; this means that when I want to use it, the ink has often dried up and I have to buy replacement cartridges long before I should need to judging by number of pages printed.

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1. Applied to two jobs. One emailed back an interview request, and I have set up an appointment for Monday morning. It's not the most exciting job in the world, and is also sadly part-time rather than full-time, but hey, something is better than nothing! And it's always nice to get any kind of response after what feels like eons of sending applications into the void. I checked bus schedules to make sure I'll get there in plenty of time, and will poke around the company website tomorrow. (...I should also make sure my laptop is talking to my printer, since I'll want to bring some copies of my resume. Right. That goes on tomorrow's list.)

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Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go drink some box wine. :)

Stuff done so far today:

1. Worked two shifts at the recycling sale, both of them in the Holiday/Crafts room. (We jam the two categories together because neither can fill a room alone.) I now have a concrete schedule for what I will be doing Sunday and Monday: namely, Sunday I will staff Housewares from 9am-12pm, and Monday I will be sitting/standing outside to sort of generally keep an eye on things from 10am-2pm.

2. Poked around once I was relieved from duty, and bought a replacement wallet for when my current one falls apart, a box of Christmas cards so I won't have to spend twenty bucks on an identical product come November, and a replacement pajama t-shirt for when my current ones inevitably fall apart. (I am very particular about my pajama t-shirts.) This loot cost me all of $4, and since I found a five-dollar bill somebody forgot to remove from the wallet I just bought... :DDD

3. Hardboiled eight more eggs. I also started a batch of veggie sidedish plus chicken (and slightly tweaked spices) to which I will add rice around, oh, let's say 10pm. I feel very productive on the food front.

4. Applied to Not the IRS for the 2017 tax season.

5. Read and reviewed another Ladystuck Remix fic. I will defeat the archive in the end!

6. Narrowed NFE options down to three. I am leaning toward one of them, but I think I will wait on a final choice until I try some preliminary brainstorming/outlining for each tonight.

And now I am going to take a nap.

Stuff I've done over the past few days:

1. Submitted my unemployment claim. In a week or two, I should know whether or not it was accepted.

2. Packed about 2/3 of what I need to take when I catch a bus to NJ on Wednesday morning. I am going down mostly to pick up Dottie for a stint of dogsitting, but also to watch Richard Strauss's Elektra on one of those Met in HD movie nights with my parents and some of their church friends, because why not.

3. Bought a ticket for the aforementioned bus trip.

4. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish before the pepper and squash rotted in my fridge. \o/

5. Deep-cleaned three of the burners on my stove because I went into the kitchen to do something completely unrelated, casually squished a couple ants, and then kind of... kept going... after I wiped the squished ants off the stove. *headdesk*

6. Wrote two Cotton Candy Bingo fills. (Thanks for the prompts!)

7. Fought extensively with my next Cotton Candy Bingo fill, which took a wild left turn into AU crossover territory and I have no idea how I'm going to shoehorn part of the prompt scenario back into it. *double headdesk*

8. Deposited Upstairs Neighbors E and T's last check for the sublet of my driveway, which they don't need anymore since they finally sold their old pickup truck. This is both sad (loss of income) and convenient, since I am just about to acquire a minivan for two and a half weeks.

9. Said goodbye to Diagonal Neighbor P, who moved out yesterday. I will miss her adorable puppy. :(

10. Signed up to facilitate my church's high school youth group again next year, since I've had a lot of fun with that this year and I think some continuity will be useful as the kids try to get organized enough (and solvent enough) to eventually host a con.

11. Stuck a suction cup and hook on one of my kitchen windows so I can finally hang up the weird stained-glass thing Susan paid for me to make at the glass studio where she worked a few years back.

12. Tried out a recipe for soupless ramen with egg, which came out fairly well. :)

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I am only intermittently and idiosyncratically productive, but I do get more done than my depression would like me to think. *wry*