Open Diary

  Idec Sdawkminn  
my diary my favorites my notes index recent random search theme circles mail help 
lock my diary
main page
diary contents
diary calendar
write in my diary
edit this entry
delete this entry
change diary style
jump to a diary
Problemless with problems
by Idec Sdawkminn
Location: Where angels lose their way...
Age: 22    Sex : M

Job-searching blues 5/7/2004
*stamps feet many times and presses on the keys a little harder* Uggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Okay, I'll start with this morning. I had to bring Amy to work again. That's no big deal. I was supposed to clean the kitchen. That's great. No problem. I had to do it before some customers came over. Then I had to continue my job search. At least I had a few places in mind to go. Ugh, where did I go first? I can't remember. Somewhere in Eugene. I guess the first place I went was IP/Koke. That stands for Industrial Publishing/Koke Printing. My dad worked there until he got laid off. I tried my hand at it, since it couldn't hurt to try. I went across the street to Comcast, but they said they don't know if they are hiring; I'd have to look on www.comcast.com. From there, I headed for the Employment Department. I knew I got there from Coburg Road and I was one street away from the street I take, so I just drove down Coburg and would keep driving until I saw Borders Books and I knew it was across the street from it. Well, I drove and drove and drove, past all the familiar-looking things from when I've driven down this road before. It's a long road with a bunch of businesses on it. The only times I've ever gone to Borders was done so from a different direction. Well, it slowly became more countryside and less city. It was raining on and off, pouring down when it rained, then not even a sprinkle 5 minutes later, then coming down hard again, such is the normal weather here. It annoyed me, however, because it was hot in my car with the windows up, but if I rolled them down, rain would get on my resumes and IP/Koke application. I was driving down a narrow country road with this really big truck in front of me with lots of water coming off it making it hard to see. There wasn't really anywhere to turn off and turn around. None of the signs mentioned anything familiar to me so that I'd know to turn there and then I'd know where I was. I looked at a street sign and saw that I was on a road called Main St. Yay. Main Street. That clears everything up. My gas gauge was pointing to 0. I've gotten it that low before and lower, so I knew I had some left. I finally just pulled into some side street, which wasn't a street at all, but some tiny, gravel road that only led to a few houses. I turned around and headed back, thinking that logically I'd end up back on Coburg Road. That didn't happen, but I did see a sign saying:

Springfield11
Eugene14

I got to Eugene fine and then got to the area where I could get to the street that lead to the Employment Department how I did before and from there I'd know where to go to get to Borders.

I got there fine and looked around for the Employment Department was. My mom said it was across the street from Borders. I looked all over for it but couldn't find it. I then asked someone in one of the shops where it was. They didn't know. They said to ask the security guard. He told me how to get there. At the Employment Department, I had to register and it was like a several-page application. I finished it right at 4:21. I signed my name on the sheet to be the next person. 4:30 is when they stop entering them in. When my name was called, it was 4:29 and the lady said that since it was 4:30, she'll just take it and put it on her desk and get to it on Monday. I was wondering why she couldn't get to it tomorrow, which I thought was Friday. This whole day I was thinking it was Thursday. I mean, on Monday I knew it was Monday. I knew that on Friday is when I got my last paycheck, so I was keeping track of the days. On Tuesday I knew it was Tuesday. On Wednesday I knew it was Wednesday and my parents and Andrea went to bible study like they do every Wednesday. And then the next day was today and so all day I was thinking it was Thursday and that tomorrow was going to be Friday and I'd get my check today. Anyway, after finishing up there, I headed for Estella's, since I needed to get over there one of these days and "Oscar" was almost due. She was home. She was watching "Blue Streak", I think it was called. I watched the rest of it with her and then put in the one I brought. She said she was tired but would try to keep awake. Right at the beginning of it, we heard some boys outside and, of course, being the person that she is, who has a lot of friends and takes any chance she can get to see/talk to them, even when I'm over, she turned around and looked to see who it was, and if it was someone she knew, I'd expect her to go outside and start talking to them, just ignoring me and the movie, because that's what she always does. She'll invite me over and then spend most of it talking to other people she knows. It's like when I call Kelli and half of the time she's talking to someone in the background. Naturally, I paused the movie becuase she wasn't watching it and would miss some of the really good parts, since this movie is nothing but really good parts, and she said that I didn't need to pause it for her, that I could keep watching it. I told her that I didn't bring a movie over that I've already seen several times for me to watch. She was just busy watching the boys outside. There's always something going on around her. Either that or she's always paying attention to anything that happens. There were 2 boys sitting at a picnic table outside and she was wondering if they were doing anything bad, like drugs or something. I could see that they weren't and only had a bottle of hair dye. She went out there and asked if they were waiting for someone and one of the boys said he was waiting for his aunt, who lived here, to get home. She came back in and finished watching it without anything else drawing her attention away, so that was nice, except she didn't laugh at any of the funny parts, and halfway through the movie, when it was supposed to be funny because of all the ironic things that happen and how things are in such a way that many of the characters are confused in the movie, instead of thinking it was funny at how ironic it was, she said she didn't understand what was going on. *slaps forehead* I almost paused it and explained to her that Teresa wasn't his daughter and only pretended to be, so Anthony was thinking she really was Snap's daughter, and Snaps was thinking Anthony was talking about Lisa, but then Teresa really was his daughter, but I decided I didn't want to bother and she had the remote, anyway. She did laugh when the bag had underwear in it twice. All she said in comment to it was, "Jason, you always get the craziest movies. But we always knew you were crazy, didn't we?" I said, "Yeah." I had to go home and she said, "I don't get a hug?" I gave her one. She said she'd call me tomorrow and maybe we could do something. Oh man, I can hardly wait. I got home and once I was able to get online, I talked with Kelli a little. I told her the troubles of my day and was a little complain-y to her. I picked at little things she did that were just normal things for her. I feel like a jerk sometimes. I just haven't been having a good time at all since I lost my job. I'll have fun reading my book or watching a show or listening to music, or playing a game, or talking to Kelli sometimes, but when I'm not doing any of those, I'm miserable. I went to bed soon after, since we weren't having a good conversation and I was just griping at her.

Notes from readers :
This entry accepts ALL NOTES.
Leave a Note 



Site software and design © 1998-2000, The Open Diary. All rights reserved.