the second job interview was kinda strange. Young man wants: accounting / web design / content management / complete knowledge of aromatherapy / phone answering / e-mail processing / graphic design / bottling of product / shipping... part-time, 12 dollars an hour. What this tells me is that he's too cheap to pay an accountant or a web-designer, or to hire someone full time and / or take the time to train anyone. He asked me if I knew anything about aromatherapy, and I said I had sold products at the candle shop but that was as far as my knowledge went. He was pretty serious, and I don't think he appreciated the fact that I was relaxed... When I was leaving he said he thought he would have to do more interviews, which I took to mean that since it was 5pm Friday he had done interviews all day and hadn't found anyone with the skill set required... I can do the web stuff, although not to a professional standard, and I can do the accounting, which is what he advertised for.

But then when I got home there was a message on my machine to call the last set of folks I left a resume with, so either the odds are getting better, or people are getting desperate.

Eventually... something will click. Also I guess I'm not desperate yet myself, as I've been picking up a few days at the candle shop. I thought the interview with the lottery folks went well, but I think I'll just wait and see what happens.

today I went downtown to mail a paper, and stopped in to visit Randall, who told me on Wednesday when I was working at the candle shop that he had a new cash register that his momma-in-law had given him, and that she had programmed it for her winery (wish my mominlaw had a winery!) and so when he tried to ring up hair products (he's a hairdresser) he ended up with Merlots and Chardonnays. so I reprogrammed it for him, so it adds tax and doesn't do anything alcoholic, and he was so grateful he gave me a bag of hair products, including some radical stuff that makes my hair (naturally I washed it when I got home) have these amazing highlights and be all smooth and straight. I always wondered why salons charged so much for their stuff, now I know. cos it actually works. Kirsten when she got home headed straight for the shower too, she's got a mop of frizzy hair and despairs some mornings.

Then I went to the first job interview, with my nice new hair, and it was fun. I guess cos I don't care whether they give it to me at this point... so I was relaxed. They are going to say yes or no by Wednesday. One more interview today, but I don't have to leave for it right yet.

termpaper count this week: three down, two to go. for monday. and it's nasty to be up so late and have to drink decaf. last night my dad was here and I had a cup of tea with him at 9:30, then I couldn't sleep. And now tomorrow I have TWO job interviews (serves me right for complaining that I send out resumes and no-one calls...) the second one is with an aromatherapy company that sells stuff on the net, might be a bit of fun.

I have a job interview on Friday, but not for the sausage-selling job, one with the lottery corporation. In ambivalent news, M has gone back to work for the poster child for financial mis-management.

I'm revising papers today, got one back, a preliminary assignment that doesn't count for anything but I didn't like the mark I would've got if it had counted for something... if you see what I mean. I knew after I sent it off that I'd used a glaringly wrong fact, I misunderstood something I read and then quoted it, duh. When the teacher phoned me to introduce himself I told him that I'd sent the paper off and then wished I hadn't. too late, of course. So I'm vowing to check all my facts scrupulously...