how to get an interview

So you’ve applied for a new position within the company you work for, in another department, and you’re waiting for the call that will let you know when you’ll interview, but it’s been almost a week with no call, and you’re beginning to wonder if they’ll call at all, so what can you do to get that interview right away?

For the first time in several weeks, dress down. Well within the dress code, and certainly reasonable, but instead of the button down shirt and pressed slacks you normally wear, put on a comfortable t-shirt and jeans.

You should get a surprise interview that same day.

Trust me.

24-Hour Comic weekend passed

Hey! It’s after midnight, meaning the weekend is over and I managed to go the entire time without even picking up a pencil to TRY to draw a 24-hour comic once! Yay! Wait, yay?

I dunno.

Maybe yay.

I did other stuff. I wrote a couple thousand words of novel, I saw a few movies, hung out with friends and family, got some shopping done … new jeans, new wallet, new socks and underwear… color ink for my printer, which says it may run out after a time – I never like to be in the middle of printing something and run out of ink, so I buy pre-emptively. I bought a copy of the new DS game, Polarium, which was on sale for $23, and in a few weeks when I buy my DS, I’ll be able to play it – it was a sweet deal, though, and reduces that amount of money I’ll be spending at once when I buy the game system and several games by putting some of the cost on this paycheck.

Money seems like it’ll be okay… I think I’m safe.

I’ll re-balance in a few days to be sure, but I think I’m okay.

The teeth they worked on still hurts – I’ve got that cleaning/checkup still scheduled for Thursday, though, so if I’m still having trouble I’ll let them know. And if they didn’t get it right, I’ll make sure they fix it without charging me more, and I’ll let you know who they are so you can avoid them.

I’m tired. I think I’m going to go start a load of laundry, read a chapter of the book I’m reading, and sleep.

This just doesn’t seem to be my month for comics.

I’m an idiot

I’ve just discovered a problem with buying music from the iTunes Music Store:

If I buy an album and listen to it and listen to it and just don’t like it, if it’s a real CD in a case with those paper inserts, all professionally made, I can take it to my local Zia and get back a few bucks’ value for it, but if it’s a few digital files on my HD, that’s it, all value gone.

So I can get an album from iTMS for $9.99, usually, and if I’m patient and look hard enough, I can get an actual CD of most music used from Zia for $8.99, and I thought that these were both reasonable prices, so much nicer than $15.99 or $17.99 that new CDs seem to go for ($13.99 on sale!)… but now I see that it isn’t just $1 I’m saving by buying the physical (albeit used) CD – I’m also investing a sort of equity in the atoms that I can get back out if I decide this CD has no appeal for me.

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Ah, teeth

So, I went to the dentist this morning to get my last two teeth filled done of the six the dentist had made note of needing fillings… uhhh… like, a year and a half ago. Actually, at least four of them were identified by other dentists in 2000. When he first looked at my teeth, we couldn’t afford the fillings because we had basically no dental coverage and no income. So I got a cleaning and an estimate.

And last summer I got a job here and suddenly had income, and about a month before my insurance would be available, one of these 6 teeth began to hurt, in the back on the left, so I went in and got it filled, paying full price. And then after I had insurance, last fall, I got three more filled, the three on the right side. And then … money and time and reality haven’t put me in the dentist’s chair again until now.

And at the end/beginning of the year, my employer changed their dental provider. And I started paying a little more, and I hear that for the more expensive stuff, this plan may be better. But for my fillings…

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