Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Updates, homecoming weekend, etc

Week 3 of not working has officially started. I'm interviewing at companies like a fucking mad man. I counted today and I'm at phase 2 or 3 of the hiring process at 4 places and overall I'm interviewing at 7 different companies, which is nice. The only bad things are: 1) not getting paid, 2) it's hard to keep things/people/companies straight and 3) I'm getting really fucking bored. I mean, there's only so much laundry I can do before All of my clothes are so clean that I've shrunk them and they no longer fit.

On a side note I do watch a lot of TV. Thank God for my new Verizon Fios set up. I Even have free Showtime and Starz somehow. Not complaining, Weeds is a good show as is Californication. But seriously, I need to get working soon before I lose the rest of my mind. I did have my California unemployment phone "interview" today, which if you don't know, they just go over what you put on your initial application and tell you "OK, you should have some $$$ in like 10 days". So, who wants to go on a beer and lottery ticket run when I get my first check from the state?!?!? Hopefuly I'll be working before I even get that check, but you never know.

In other news I went back to Columbus this past weekend. We flew out Thursday on a red eye from LAX to CMH and got in at 5:45 AM. I'm used to the red eye thing, but the more I do it, the worse I sleep on the plane. In addition to not sleeping I was on the aisle(better than the middle) and my right shoulder/arm protruded in to it. We were in the last row of the plane, so you can imagine how many people ran in to me on their way to the bathroom. One guy went back there like 4 times on a 5 hour flight. The guy had to have a bladder the size of a pea. I also got run over by the beverage cart. FML

But as "meh" as the weekend started it was a great time. I got to see my family, who I haven't seen in about a year, a ton of my friends, Too's, Eddie George's and had awesome seats to Revengefest 2010, aka the OSU/Purdue game.

I almost didn't make it to the game though, as I got a bit carried away the night before. I blame Jager, as usual. But on a positive I did blow a pickle slice out of my nostril that was there for one reason or another(vom).

That's all I have for now. I feel like Dougie Howser typing this shit out, except he always had some "moral of the story" thing on the end.

WAIT! i've got it! So, as we left the campus area Friday night/Saturday morning I felt compelled to deliver a message to current undergrads while also scaring the shit out of them at the same time. I've been out of school since 2007, just turned 27 and have learned how awesome but also how dream crushing life in the real world can be. Needless to say I felt cthat it was my civic duty to tell everyone who was within earshot to "stay here as long as you can" a la Billy Madison. So I spent my trip home Friday night(riding shotgun mind you, don't drink and drive kids.) yelling "cherish these times, because the go fast" or something like that to everyone/thing I saw. I was greeted by a lot of "shut up" etc but as long as I reached one person I feel like i did something good. Or as long as the people that thought I was full of shit find themselves sitting in a cubicle at age 30 and go "man, that guy was right. I should have listened" I'll feel good about it.