Domestic Geek

OK, I've seen a theme around at least a couple of wordpress blogs that looks like a manila file folder. I can't remember whether I saw it on a fellow postie's site or if it was on my Thursday Thirteen rounds this week. I'm kicking myself for not writing down where I saw it or bookmarking it. I'd really like to use it for my weight loss blog. If you know what the heck I'm talking about, could you point me to where it is? Thanks!

Hey, I got a job! I start tomorrow morning. Have you ever had to do a pre-employment drug screening? It's quite the process. The dude who's going to be my boss called it a whiz quiz. Never heard that term before and it made me giggle.

It's as a preflighter for a printing company. I'll start out part time. Hopefully it will become full time very soon. It'll come with full benefits after 90 days of full time employment. They kept stressing that it's not a design job. I'm quite well aware of that. I hating designing for other people. They take all the fun out of it.

The dude I interviewed with a month ago that never bothered to contact me called and left a message while I was in my interview today asking if I was still available. Nice timing, huh? I guess whomever he hired instead of me didn't work out. Oh, well. It was farther away and I think it paid less (I can't really remember).

Man, I'm getting the nervous jitters right now. It's taking everything I have not to chew my fingernails to bloody stumps. My interview is at 1pm. I feel like my whole future balances on the next few hours. I know I can do the job they are hiring for. I just have to convince them to give me a shot. The downer of it is that the initial hire period is part time. It seems that all design and prepress jobs are like that anymore. If I can get to full time, though, FULL BENEFITS after 90 days! Yes! I may have to do a night shift, but hey, I've done that for years. In fact, I do my best work after the sun goes down. I've been a night owl by whole life. WISH ME LUCK!

One a different note, I'm going to start my weight-loss blog this afternoon after I get back. Marcus set me up a subdirectory yesterday and I installed wordpress into it last night. My weight this morning was 294.2 lbs. I'm never going to be this fat ever again. I don't fit into any of my clothes. I hate shopping for clothes when I'm this overweight. A new job means I'll need new clothes, I want to get smaller ones. No time to start like the present, eh?

Hey, today is my dad's 71st birthday.

Happy Birthday, Dad!

It seems that several students attending Longwood University in Farmville, VA are irked at the treatment of current and past students by the school's administration. They've set up a wiki called Longwood University Sucks to try to force the administration to change its policies. While I admire their passion on the subject, I doubt such a move will inspire change. The only thing that talks is money. Only when enough students quit going to such schools and the tuition of remaining students no longer cover expenses will anybody bother to change anything. If these students really feel wronged, however, perhaps they should seek to file some sort of lawsuit or just quit wasting their money on that particular school.