Chirky

Tonight I tried one of my stealth-like, frisky moves on Roger.

We were laying in bed watching the movie Maverick, and I decided to whip over and surprise(!) Roger with a kiss. :)

What I didn't know was that he changed positions from when I had last looked at him, and we ended up smacking our heads together - HARD.

(It reminded me of the time in college when I flipped my head over the bath and nearly cracked my skull open on the side of the tub.)

Tonight I saw lightning when our heads struck, and I ended up with a quite painful headache and swollen eye (which I imagine will turn black soon). Roger had a little head pain for just a short time. I guess we've proved who has the harder head!

Editor's Note 09/26/2006: I did end up with a black eye. What's more, two years later and my right eye is STILL drooping from this injury.

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Over the past several weeks, I've been interviewing for a new job. I've been to meeting after meeting, and I'm beginning to wonder whether I'll ever receive a job offer. Mix that with my tendency to overanalyze and my flair for drama, and someone better get me a brown paper bag, stat!

Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.

Because of all the spare time I have on my hands, what with the lack of a job and all, I have managed to finish reading two books. In the last four days.

My favorite was Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I'm not much for cheesy romance novels, but this one is low on the cheese and has a healthy amount of reality. It's set in the 1800s, during the California Gold Rush. One of my favorite things about this book is how Rivers took the plot and developed it so well that I could identify with the characters.

I laughed, cried, got angry and then overjoyed, all while reading this book. It's definitely a re-read. I'll just have to wait for a year or so until I've forgotten the majority of the details. Well, that's not true. I actually read it over a year ago, and haven't read it since, and I still remember it. Maybe I should read it again, because how do I know how much I've forgotten? Maybe I don't remember as much as I think I do. I'll have to let you know about that.

With movies, it happens in five minutes. I watch a movie, and I can forget it almost instantaneously - I'll forget not only WHAT I watched, but what it was about. I'm constantly amazed by people (usually guys) who have a talent for seeing a movie once, and twenty minutes afterward they're quoting lines from it. And two weeks afterward, they can STILL remember it well enough to quote it.

How do they do that?

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Have you ever felt like you are in interviewing hell? Like it is going so poorly that perhaps one more step down the ringer could land you in a pit of fire?

I had an interview yesterday morning that was technically my third interview for a position in which I am REALLY interested. I am generally confident in interviews, I can answer questions with ease, I enjoy talking with people and meeting new people. But THIS interview was completely different. Instead of answering a long series of questions, I was put to the test of enduring my interviewER giving an enormously long list of the job responsibilities.

#1, I was amazed that the interviewer actually knew that all these job responsibilities existed. Usually they are clueless as to what the job really entails.

#2, I was thankful that the interviewer was able to give me an accurate description of the job, because it only made it more clear in my mind that I would love to be offered this position.

So after this "interview" (really it seemed like an info session), I just went home and thought about it all day long. Is this normal? Was the purpose of the meeting actually to not be an interview, but really to allow the person managing this position to meet me and inform me of the job details? Why did I not feel a "connection?" Normally when I leave an interview, I feel either really confident that it will be offered to me, or else I feel sure that it won't be.

Instead, I just left confused. And it wasn't only this interview. I felt the same way when I left the 2nd interview with this corporation.

Maybe that's a bad sign, afterall. If I can't make a connection with the people with whom I'll be working, what's to say I'll ever make that connection if I'm eventually offered the position?

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