Are you out there? Can you hear this?
Jul. 10th, 2003 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI'm overwhelmed by frustration today, and I don't know what to do with it (besides throw things). The problem is that when it gets to the point that I'm just one gigantic ball of frustration, nothing works until I've gotten over it. I have two options: a) whine a lot or b) pretend nothing is wrong. Depending on whom I'm speaking with, I use either option.
There have been three big things that have been big potential positives in my life lately: the new job, the new apartment, and the reunion. Currently, these are three big piles of suck. And I am frustrated. This job is totally ending up being a big screw-up and I can't get anyone to call me back. Today I called the fingerprint lady at the State Office, because she told me to call if I couldn't get in touch with the other lady. Guess what - I got voicemail and she hasn't called me back. And so I emailed the admin. assistant and the assistant director, basically telling them that I turned down job interviews for them (true) and that I was now assuming that they gave the job to someone else. I just want someone to call me back, dammit. Jen says I should keep calling until I reach a person, and not leave any messages, but I don't want them to think I'm psychotic. Sigh. They pretty much led me to believe that I had the job in the bag, but I haven't been able to finish the application process, and that was two weeks ago, so why shouldn't I believe they filled the position? It's not like they're calling me to tell me they still want me.
And then, this whole "no dryer vent in the apartment" thing is really frustrating. The maintenance dude came yesterday and verified that there is no vent (duh), and then basically told me he wouldn't be able to put a vent in. Umm, why not? He was telling me I should get this attachment thing to catch the lint, and I tried to frustratedly tell him that it wasn't the lint I was worried about, it was the hot, wet, steamy air that is all over my apartment when I use the dryer. I feel so stupid because I feel like I should have noticed there was no vent before I dropped all that money on a washer and dryer and stuff, especially when I have no job and it doesn't look like I will. I don't want to live in an apartment where I can't use my brand new dryer. I'm just a fool for taking an apartment without looking for the vent, and then buying the damn things. And I'm frustrated because I started calling the landlord about this /before/ the machines were even delivered, and he's not terribly involved with calling me back. A theme.
And this whole reunion thing. Jennifer's trying to be very helpful by looking for airfare online, but I already did that. So I get frustrated and think she doesn't think I know how to look online, which isn't the case, but I'm already over the top. And later, she'll offer to pay for me to go, or some other totally selfless offer, like offering to drive my sorry ass to Rhode Island, but I don't /want/ heroic efforts, you know? I just want something, just one little thing this week, to work out okay.
And I want people to CALL ME BACK.
There have been three big things that have been big potential positives in my life lately: the new job, the new apartment, and the reunion. Currently, these are three big piles of suck. And I am frustrated. This job is totally ending up being a big screw-up and I can't get anyone to call me back. Today I called the fingerprint lady at the State Office, because she told me to call if I couldn't get in touch with the other lady. Guess what - I got voicemail and she hasn't called me back. And so I emailed the admin. assistant and the assistant director, basically telling them that I turned down job interviews for them (true) and that I was now assuming that they gave the job to someone else. I just want someone to call me back, dammit. Jen says I should keep calling until I reach a person, and not leave any messages, but I don't want them to think I'm psychotic. Sigh. They pretty much led me to believe that I had the job in the bag, but I haven't been able to finish the application process, and that was two weeks ago, so why shouldn't I believe they filled the position? It's not like they're calling me to tell me they still want me.
And then, this whole "no dryer vent in the apartment" thing is really frustrating. The maintenance dude came yesterday and verified that there is no vent (duh), and then basically told me he wouldn't be able to put a vent in. Umm, why not? He was telling me I should get this attachment thing to catch the lint, and I tried to frustratedly tell him that it wasn't the lint I was worried about, it was the hot, wet, steamy air that is all over my apartment when I use the dryer. I feel so stupid because I feel like I should have noticed there was no vent before I dropped all that money on a washer and dryer and stuff, especially when I have no job and it doesn't look like I will. I don't want to live in an apartment where I can't use my brand new dryer. I'm just a fool for taking an apartment without looking for the vent, and then buying the damn things. And I'm frustrated because I started calling the landlord about this /before/ the machines were even delivered, and he's not terribly involved with calling me back. A theme.
And this whole reunion thing. Jennifer's trying to be very helpful by looking for airfare online, but I already did that. So I get frustrated and think she doesn't think I know how to look online, which isn't the case, but I'm already over the top. And later, she'll offer to pay for me to go, or some other totally selfless offer, like offering to drive my sorry ass to Rhode Island, but I don't /want/ heroic efforts, you know? I just want something, just one little thing this week, to work out okay.
And I want people to CALL ME BACK.
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Date: 2003-07-10 09:00 am (UTC)Turns out, after about a week of not hearing a thing from them, they called me back and said "Oh, we're so sorry. We were moving offices and none of the phones or computers worked until today. But you have an office, now. When can you start?"
Maybe it's something like that. Hang in there, okay?
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Date: 2003-07-10 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 09:27 am (UTC)As for the reunion- could you take a bus or a train for a little cheaper? I know buses are not exactly fun, but it will get you there, you know?
MEEP BLEEP!
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Date: 2003-07-10 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 09:47 am (UTC)Push come to shove you can get some flexible tubing they use for dryer lines and hook it up and run it out a window.
A thing of last resort its true. . . but perhaps better than A) Steamhouse or B) no dryer.
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Date: 2003-07-10 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 10:59 am (UTC)I would say that you should keep calling these people. They've dropped the ball, and have no cause to think that you're psycho for wanting to know, after 2 weeks, whether you really do have a job or not.
As for the dryer vent, man. Teh suck. I agree with what someone else said: if the place advertises washer/dryer hookups, then they gotta have a method for venting the hot air from the dryer. Maybe you could check with some of your neighbours and see what they do/have done about it?
I missed my 10-year reunion, but it was more by choice. It was 3 months after Cady was born, and we'd been to our friends' wedding the weekend before - we'd been /in/ our friends' wedding the weekend before. We decided not to do the travelling thing two weekends in a row with a 3-month-old baby.
I hope you find a way to go to yours, since it's obviously important to you. I will be sending good thoughts your way today. You have my cell number - call if you need to... uh... *ahem* Vent? ;)
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Date: 2003-07-10 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 11:20 am (UTC)"pile of suck??!?" innuendo
me again, baby!
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Date: 2003-07-10 11:36 am (UTC)You really could go down there and not leave until someone talks to you. It's gorilla job hunting, but it works. They can't ignore a human being as well as a voice on the other line.
*hugs* hang in there. It just happens to be a *really*bad*week*.
It will not always be like this.
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Date: 2003-07-10 12:26 pm (UTC)I, too, am having a crap ass of a week. Hang in there chick-a-roo!!!
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Date: 2003-07-10 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 01:38 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2003-07-10 01:39 pm (UTC)Meep bleep!
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Date: 2003-07-10 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 01:42 pm (UTC)Dammit, I want a vent! ;)
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Date: 2003-07-10 01:44 pm (UTC)So I'm pleased on that front. Which meant, of course, that something ELSE had to go wrong. ;)
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Date: 2003-07-10 01:45 pm (UTC)I /know/ they can do it. Poo on them for saying they can't. I'm going to ask my downstairs neighbor if she has a vent, and if she does, why can't they just link into hers?
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Date: 2003-07-10 01:45 pm (UTC)<--worst date ever
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Call me crazy. ;)
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Date: 2003-07-10 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-10 02:23 pm (UTC)You so crazy.
can i return the favor/offer
Date: 2003-07-10 02:58 pm (UTC)can i return the favor/offer
Date: 2003-07-10 03:04 pm (UTC)I'd LOVE for you to beat up my old job and make them give me my vacation pay. They FIRED ME after 10.5 months, and then tell me I can't get any vacation pay because it hasn't been a year??!?
What infuriates me is that after 6 months, you can "borrow" from the vacation... so I was going to take some (and not pay it back, heh), and my supervisor was like, "No, you should wait and take the money!"
can i return the favor/offer
Date: 2003-07-10 09:53 pm (UTC)sorry to hear about that tho... :) good luck with the new job!
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Date: 2003-07-10 11:21 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-07-11 03:52 am (UTC)Good luck reguardless.
Re:
Date: 2003-07-11 03:53 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-07-11 03:53 am (UTC)Thank you :)
Re: can i return the favor/offer
Date: 2003-07-11 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-11 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-11 07:25 am (UTC)do you like it when I talk
all nasty to you?
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Date: 2003-07-11 08:59 am (UTC)arrive in san francisco:
we can freak nasty!
oh. wait a minute.
jen and dina will be there.
well, then we'll just "chat."
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Date: 2003-07-12 02:11 pm (UTC)Don't think I can do it, hon.
You are an "outie."
All that said, I can't
wait to see you and Dina.
Where will we meet up?
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Date: 2003-07-12 02:38 pm (UTC)a restaurant in city
or maybe our place.
San Francisco's nice
but expensive. If you're on
budget, we make meal.
Besides, if Lara
can get here too, it would be
lotsa fun at home.
but not too much fun...
Dina and I are
both really excited 'bout
meeting you and Jen!
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Date: 2003-07-15 07:11 am (UTC)place, but isn't Livermore
quite a ways away?
We aren't renting a
car or anything like that -
public transport - yeah!
Either way, I'm sure
we're up for anything, at
least I know I am!
We'll have to scheme more
as it draws closer. I'm so
excited to meet!!
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Date: 2003-07-15 12:02 pm (UTC)simple: you take BART to us
(or at least real near)
we pick you up there.
the station's five miles from home.
then we go have fun!
or, again, we can
come see you. wherever you
are is cool with us.
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Date: 2003-07-18 08:23 am (UTC)she is a planning goddess
i worship your wife
i think we could take
BART to your house and hang there
it sounds like a plan!
we'll have to look up
BART timetables to see if
we can get back late!
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Date: 2003-07-18 02:12 pm (UTC)to keep you both chained in our
basement overnight.
(muaahahahaha!)
oh, wait--we don't have
a basement. scratch that idea.
let's stick with plan A.
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Date: 2003-07-24 02:57 pm (UTC)We will see you that Friday.
Let revelling start!
This will be so fun!
I'll have to check the BART times
and get back to you.
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Date: 2003-07-24 03:18 pm (UTC)Public transit has no times,
just some suggestions.
...or...
BART is eternal.
it knows no time, nor schedule,
but it gets you there
...or...
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Date: 2003-08-05 04:45 pm (UTC)to ask you what BART station
your house is nearest.
(I left you my cellphone number in your email.)
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Date: 2003-08-05 04:54 pm (UTC)Dublin/Pleasanton station.
you can't get farther.
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Date: 2003-08-05 04:59 pm (UTC)It is good to be informed.
Makes for less hassle.
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Date: 2003-08-05 05:06 pm (UTC)what means it that you go to
the end of the road?
excitement! i can
taste the baklava. and the
falafel's frying!
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Date: 2003-08-05 09:23 pm (UTC)i can honestly say now,
"I will see you soon!"