Yes, I'm still looking.
I went to visit my mom and grandmother last weekend and went on a long rant in the truck (yes, my mom drives a truck, it's handy actually) about how I was jobless and what was I doing wrong. I asked: should I take my earrings out of my ears?
About the 13 holes in my ears and 12 tattoos (which I cover up for job interviews) mom said:
If an employer has a hard time with tattoos and ear piercings, it's not a place you want to work to begin with.
Honestly, I don't know if that was helpful. It was something I wanted to hear but sometimes I don't know if that attitude is helpful. On the other hand, I think it was in Sunday's NYTimes that 1 in 4 people have a tattoo so if anyone in NY has a problem with tattoos, it's probably better that they move themselves to mormon country.
Another thing: at three of the 4 interviews I've had, the interviewer said that their workplace was "dysfunctional."
Dysfunctional is an overused word and so, I don't know what this means. Does it mean that the boss kicks the shit out of his employees literally? Does s/he shoot up heroin in front of his employees? Or is it just that the office politics are a little wacky? Wacky I can deal with, abusive I can't. But I thought it was an odd comment to make. It's not something I've seen on monster.com's message board.
I suppose it was a warning, the use of the word dysfunctional. Heh. I don't know what functional means, so I obviously don't have much of a problem with dysfunctional environments.
I met a "normal" family once. One year during college winter break I went to Illinois to a friends house. My friend was gay, his sister was a lesbian, and the parents had no problem with it. Not only that, but they seemed to be the kind of parents that actually discussed problems vs being passive agressive or in denial. My friend and I went to Chicago for the day and I said:
Me: Your parents are normal!
Him: Yeah, my parents are great.
Me: Yeah, I think your parents are great also but that's weird.
On other matters: email me your worst or interestingly bad work/job horror story. Leave out the incriminating details like company name. I will be using them for a future Boog City story.
I've got many interesting tales, but I'm sick of writing about myself. My email is at the top left of the page.
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It may be hard for those of you who have endured
the last year to really have that sense of change.
But for a fella who was here, and now a year later comes back,
things are changing, and I congratulate you for your courage.
Answer: the NYTimes chose to do a skimpy magazine but had an
advertisment-filled focus on fashion last sunday. I guess FEMA trailers aren't very attractive.
Answer: re courage: You are on your own.
I doubt that you can get an ounce of caring beyond your own family.
If you can't even get that, stock provisions. I hear duct tape works well.
NEXT TIME????.
Nude people in town center could prompt ban
August 21, 2006
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. --Complaints about young people
who spend time in downtown naked
have prompted the Select Board to explore an anti-nudity ordinance.
I love VT. I miss VT in fact.
It was one of the last places I ever went swimming.
Sans clothing. Best swimming holes.
Tho not as welcoming as a parking lot I can venture to guess
if you keep reading the article...and if one is willing to put up with
the "white boy dreadlock pierced eyebrow look" VT is a great state.
I can think of many states I'm ashamed to have lived in,
VT isn't one of them.
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In no particular order...
1 - Have an old boyfriend/girlfriend buy you lunch (in this case, a slice of pizza, he's broke also).
2 - Ladies! We carry purses for a reason! To dump out change! Spend a good few minutes digging up and turning every pocket inside out.
3 - Freelance (downside is when a client FORGETS TO MAIL YOU YOUR PAYMENT!).
4 - Ride your bike (downside is clueless drivers, bus and car exhaust and the development of new neuroses: Will my bike be there when I get back?).
5 - Rely on the kindness of friends to lend you $20 or buy you cheap eats.
6 - Quit smoking (er, rather tell yourself everytime you light up you should quit).
7 - Quit or cut back drastically on the booze (I know, I know, I hate this one also).
8 - Consider pimping but not prostitution.
9 - Consider shoplifting (You were good at it once, 'bout time to prove to yourself you haven't lost the touch).
10 - Become a recluse. If you don't leave the apt you won't spend $. Besides, you've got a lot on your plate as it is anyway.
11 - Consider panhandling. Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. It's probably nothing people haven't seen already.
12 - Consider selling drugs. Unfortunately most everyone seems to have quit but look on the upside, if you're caught, a jail cell can be a meditative and monastic place to live.
13 - Go crazy! Just think, you'll be an alumni of one of the most famous hospitals in NYC - Bellevue!
14 - Convince yourself that your resume IS impressive, it's just that no one knows it yet.
15 - Write a tell all memoir. No wait, the above list almost is a memoir! I could be lying, I could be telling the truth. No wait, that's fiction...
16 - Move. But where?
I can't help myself: I'm announcing it before I receive the digital pix...
Samuel James Finnegan Cook
born Wed 3:52 pm
Parents:
the ever and always beautiful
Amanda Cook
and
James Cook
of Gloucester MA.
If/when the next time I'm in an Irish pub (hell, any bar)
I'll order a shot of Powers and toast the new babe.
Lamont victory in Connecticut!!
And the whining, sniveling, lying bastard of a sore loser who is too cozy with the GOP, takes money from big, big pharma, voted for CAFTA and NAFTA, who said we should stand by the president no matter what, told rape victims to go take a long walk off a short pier if they wanted an abortion, should give up his so called independent status and accept that Connecticut is not for Lieberman, but for LAMONT.
This letter to the editor sums up why CT voters chose Lamont:
Ok, back to the usual, surfing the net for jobs and riding my bike around town. I'd read more books with all the free time I have but I feel guilty, and not only that but I had mySQL installed on my site so I need to learn that as well...
and then I jotted everyone's # down the old fashioned way: pen and paper. I've had the phone for 4 years. Time to get a new one!
I lost my cell phone, it's either at the Cornelia St Cafe or at another cafe or if it's not in either of those two places, it's: I-Haven't-A-Clue where.
Tho I take this as a cue to get a new cell phone with a NY #
So, after my job interview, I know what I'm doing...backtracking
Damn it! My cell phone is also my alarm clock!
Riding my bike 2 1/2 hours...
to help Tim by picking up a package at the UPS Station, which we thought was one place (past Prospect Park) but when I finally asked someone he said it was in Canarsie, a way ways to go on a bicycle from where I was.
It was of course, quicker to get back home than it was to get there. And three people stopped me and asked me for directions to where ever they were going. As if I knew. But I did, actually. Know where they were going, not where I was going.
I've never been to Canarsie. I don't particulary want to go. I would have gone sooner in the week, but I would have melted like an ice cube on the sidewalk bt here and there.
And now I have a layer of grime on my skin. When I first moved here in 98 I had a friend say: I take at least 3 showers a day here and I know just what he means.
I visited another old friend last Saturday who asked me: why did you move back? NY sucks.
I moved back bc I so enjoy being completly lost and disoriented and dirty and broke and having the internet service fizzle out during heat waves and having it take at least an hour to get anywhere and oh yes, I didn't or couldn't go horseback riding in Boston but I found out where the stables were in Brooklyn.
When I'm working again I am doing two things: getting a massage and taking riding lessons.
Connecticut Primary Draws Fence-Sitters
All that blathering on and on to my mother about politics finally paid off: she's no longer a fence-sitter.