of all things...
...my bus stop sign got stolen! well, it's technically not mine in the first place, it's the city's, but it's where i get off the bus when i cheat after gym and don't walk home! it's gone. it's been gone for two days. i called the guelph transit folks today and they said that that stop's still on the map and there hasn't been any re-routing, so somebody probably stole it! what's wrong with people...?! now i have to walk an extra five minutes even if i take the long route of the bus home...what's the point? i might as well walk the 20 mins from school. i'm pissed.
i don't know if i talked of this before, but i have an assortment of sizes of clothes in my closet. just in jeans alone, i have pairs that range from a size 6 to a size 11. and in other clothes, i have from size 6 to a size 12. i even have a pair of black dress pants which are a size 3, which i will never be able to wear again, but was able to wear quite comfortably abt 4 years ago. i should really donate that one, if nothing else...
i promise not to break the sacred one-line rule from here on. :D
chores and more chores
i just vacuumed the apartment after something like a month. well, the vacuum was broken for 2 weeks in that month anyway. the house is clean, but the stairs outside still have a whole lot of leaf litter....from fall! i guess i should clean that too, but just haven't gotten around to it. maybe later on today since i have very little to do today.
speaking of leaf litter, it's interesting how bad leaf litter can smell. to start with, the crap that's accumulated outside on my stairs rot and emit a nasty smell when it's wet and rainy for a few days. maple trees shed some form of buds or something in the spring when the leaves are starting to come out, and because there are sooo many lovely maple trees along the route which i use to walk to school, i have to be party to the smell these buds (or whatever they are) give off as they sit for a day or two. it smells like pee. and recently these other trees around the neighbourhood and also allllllll over campus have started shedding something else, and that smells like dog breath right away. a day or two in, they start to smell like cow manure. i don't know what these trees are, but they're everywhere. really, everywhere. very hard to avoid this dog breath/cow manure craziness.
i didn't get a call back after my interview. so i'm supposed to call today to follow up. i'm scared of the phonecall cuz i have a gut feeling that the news isn't gonna be good. all i did was think about this interview for days before it, and for a day after, and then i just totally forgot abt it as if what happened in light of it was inconsequential. i don't really even want to make this phonecall...it's fine if i don't get a second interview, which is what's gonna happen anyway....so why do i have to hear it on the phone?!
watched da vinci code this weekend...thought it was really good. gotta read the book.
after a long hiatus
finally have something to talk about. this morning, i had a job interview with one of the big four audit companies and almost didn't go. i've been preparing for this interview for the last three days (and nights), but since last night i was getting so ansy, headachy, and nauseous that i just didn't want to go this morning. but that would obviously mean my chances of ever getting in with this particular firm would be over even before i gave it a chance. so i got up, showered, and made the rush-hour subway journey to downtown toronto. which stressed me out no end. i'm not used to riding the subway at rush hour...and seeing the hordes of people waiting at the platforms, and inside the trains...it's madness! and if i work in toronto i have to do this every single day. at that point, i was almost ready to get off and go back.
after getting all wound up, i reached the offices in the financial district, and just happened to be about 15 minutes early, which kind of gave me some time to nurse my frayed nerves. when time came for the interview, somehow all the nerves had vanished...i'd even forgotten that i'd had them. from my perspective, the interview went well. the interviewer was young, and since he was an HR guy, there wasn't a lot of technical questions to answer. and he had the bluest eyes i've ever seen. it's a surprise i didn't flirt with him, now that i think about it.
possible deal breakers if i don't get a call back for a second interview: 1) i fidgeted non-stop. i guess this is a sign that all the nervousness didn't go away...even though i was answering the questions confidently (or so i thought), i was fidgeting with my fingers everytime he was going into an explanation of anything. 2) i don't know if i made a good first impression on the receptionist....she thought i was an intern, i.e. she didn't regard me with much confidence/respect. 3) i think i said "stuff" way more than was necessary. 4) i had a hard time explaining to my interviewer that i was interested in working for a big business like theirs because of my choice of graduate studies. why did i want to do this stupid natural resource economics again?! 5) i think i repeated too much of the same stuff over and over (i said stuff again) and pointed out negatives that i didn't have to because he didn't ask about them. too much disclosure. this is what happens when you prepare too well for an interview.
hmm, after saying all those things, i can't help but wonder whether the interview went well. i think i had a similar feeling in my last face-to-face interview, and that one indeed hadn't gone well since i never got the offer. oh man.
well, that's my little story for the day. need to remember to send a thank you note.
