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Strange, this appears to be my 1000th entry into FYTH in Movable Type. Except that a bunch of them must be “draft” instead of “publish”, because there aren’t 1000 posts actually readable in the blog. According to my calculations (link) this post is actually 993. Anyway.

So, went down to my new place of employment today to fill out some paperwork. Standard stuff, NDA, Drug policy, arbitration policy, yadda yadda, took about 90 minutes to go through it all. Another young woman, Andrea, was hired at the same time I was and was filling the paperwork out simultaneously, and since I didn’t otherwise have direct transportation, she was nice enough to drive me to the drug-screening location. And then home, which was really nice, I thought. She seems friendly and nice, we had a good conversation. I look forward to working with her.

Really I’m mostly glad to be working, and to be employed so quickly after starting to look for work. I did apply electronically before leaving Pine, which may have accelerated things. Having a sister who works in the department (and is a good employee and hard worker) helped, too.

Oh, hey. Going to go see F9/11 tonight. Looks like the 7:15 show at the North Valley 16. You’re welcome to join my sister and I, and if you don’t, I encourage you to watch it at some point. I believe it will prove to be interesting to you regardless of your political or apolitical beliefs.

I’m going to go do that other post I need to do, now.

I was offered the job I interviewed for today.

Yay!

I’m going in tomorrow to do some paperwork (probably clever things like W-4’s and policy stuff, normal starting-a-job paperwork), and I start on Monday. “Training” next week, 8-5, with a permanent schedule to be decided upon later. Really, just about any schedule is fine with me. The bus I want to take doesn’t get me there until around 6:30AM at the earliest and doesn’t leave later than about 9PM, but I could get my bike in working order again (once I have money) and ride. I’ve riden further than that, I believe…. (runs numbers… 9.75 miles one way) …yeah, I could do that. It would take a fucking hour, but I could do it. The bus ride? almost as long, at 45 minutes. Of course, unless something goes dreadfully wrong, I could probably ride one way and bus the other.

Something will work out.

Maybe God will drop a free car down from the Heavens for me to drive there in, and pay my insurance while he’s at it. Well, at least until my first paycheck comes, weeks from now.

Maybe … I don’t know.

But it’s a good thing that I have a job, and that it pays enough. So, here I go, back into the world of the “employed”. Sigh. Here’s hoping I keep up on my art and writing.

Oh yeah, I stopped someplace and splurged and bought a couple of the cheapest cheap-ass canvases they sell today, so I have a little something to paint on. Others should be coming down the hill in a few days (they didn’t fit on the original load, so I ended up with paints and brushes and nothing to paint on) , but maybe I’ll paint two paintings this weekend before they get here. I’ve already got one in mind.

Anyway, I sure hope I go to bed soon.

Tomorrow… Get up early … clean the west room, see if I can’t get the Bowflex into a useable and not in the walkway sort of place… Maybe clean up the east room a little, too… we really need a new vacuum. It’s near the top of my list, really. You know, later, when I have some money? Anyway, yeah. Cleaning. Eating. Maybe applying for more jobs online. Whee!

Then that interview, which I hope goes well.

Then I don’t know what. Watching DVDs, probably.

I’m pretty tired right now. Was tired hours ago, but decided to go out anyway. Would probably have just stayed up watching movies anyway, and … going out and being around people is probably good for me after all that time in my little room in the mountains. I just want to get out of these clothes and go to sleep right now. I know it’s not late, but I’m trying to program my body to get up earlier and earlier.

If I get a job that starts at 6AM, working backwards from 10, 11AM wake-ups would be very very hard, but right now I’m getting up close to 8, so I’m on my way. If I get a job with late shifts, or even middle of the night shifts, it won’t be any trouble to go forward. So. I’m going backward. Backward means going to sleep right now.

Night.

and if everything goes well tomorrow, I’ll be working with my sister soon. At a reasonable pay rate, in a comfortable environment, very nice. I’ve always been good at interviews before. Here’s hoping the mountains haven’t made me so crazy I can’t talk to humans anymore.

Anyhow, I’m tired. I’m gonna post a comic, maybe another short post about … nothing, then go to bed.

Sigh.

I just cancelled my hotel reservations for Comicon. Sadly, I realize there’s no way I will be able to come up with that kind of money before that deadline.

Not really sure how I’ll afford the trip to Florida in September, either.

Oh well. Maybe next year will be my year. You’ll all be wealthy and buy my art and books, right?

Sure.