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disappointment
Friday 30 April, 2004 at 4:02PM (Nereus) :: permalink :: comments (9) I didn't mention it earlier because I didn't want to jinx it, but one of the jobs I've been interviewing for was with Chubb Institute as an Admissions Rep, based in central Manhattan. The job sounded great with good benefits and a reasonably good salary, and I'm sure I would have loved it and excelled at it - it involved much of the type of work I've been doing for years which I have always performed well above expectation. I felt a really good vibe about the place when I went in for an interview a couple of weeks ago, and the interview itself which lasted about an hour seemed really positive, although the person who was supposed to interview me couldn't make it so I was interviewed by a guy called Shawn instead. As I said, it felt like a really good interview and Shawn (or Sean?) was a good guy, we seemed to 'click' well, so I was pretty confident I'd make it to the final cut, but I found out about 15 minutes ago that I didn't. I should be used to knock backs because it's so hard to find a good job here in NYC, but this job in particular really would've been perfect (in a mutually beneficial way of course), plus I would've been able to study at the same time which is what I want to do (Chubb Institute is basically a university which runs a multitude of recognized courses). Enjoying the work I'm doing is really important to me and makes me perform that much better, so I guess that's why I'm so disappointed about not getting further with this one. Tara (who was originally meant to interview me) gave me the unfortunate news but added they will probably be hiring again in the next month or so, but experience here in NYC had led me to realize I should not hold my breath in expectation. Damn, I was so looking forward to this one. Serves me right for getting my hopes up I guess.
In other news, the other weasel just purchased a shiny new digital camera. It's a Canon PowerShot A-80 and it's pretty damn kewl. It took me a few hours to get the software to install on her PC - after a lot of pissing about it turned out the problem was with admin rights on the install shield. Doh. Even though I was logged in as admin, it turned out that somewhere along the line the admin privileges for the administrator had somehow been turned off when it came to some rarely used processes dealing with install shield. Anyway the other weasel was very happy when I managed to get it all fixed up, but unfortunately I had to uninstall the .NET visual studio in the process which we don't have the original disks for anymore, so that kinda sucked. Anyway the picture of the lamp I took as soon as we opened the box and turned the thing on so it's the very first picture ever taken with the camera. Thought I'd post it for posterity or something. Kewl lamp huh? It's actually a tall standing lamp, not a little bedside or table lamp in case you were wondering. Ok that's all the news for now, I'm off to stick my bottom lip out and mope around for a bit. comments (9)
Nereus Yup it sure does and you can zoom the actual picures in and out while you're looking at them on the little screen, and it also takes videos with sound and you can play them back as well. Canon PowerShot A80. If you're going to get one, then get this one (unless of course you want to spend like $1000 or something) ..if you get it, buy an additional 128MB CF (memory card thing) because the 32MB one it comes with isn't big enough. The cost was about $320 for the camera and another $110 odd for the additional memory, but prices vary widely so shop around. That was about the cheapest we found, it varied by an additional $100+ or more at some places. erin Nereus, Colleen I've been shopping around for that camera and I found it for $269 at one website, compared to $379 at Best Buy. I'm kind of scared to order something like that from a website. I would like to be able to take it back if something goes wrong with it. What do you think? eddiemyboy Yeah, too bad about the job.It seems to be the interviewers job to make everyone that they process believe that they are getting whatever job it is that they want.That has been my personal feeling.Hey,you sound like an intelligent person.You will get your chance:) Nereus Colleen: we got our cam via a website, and they have return policies of course. The site we used was Eddie: Thanks for the encouragement :) Dude I think that was my reason for looking around the internet for details as well; I couldn't quite fathom that act being done, but once I saw it I regretted it. I read on slothmud forum earlier that it is available at ogrish.com if you want to try there. leave a comment
 
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May 1, 2004 6:52 PM [link]
awesome picture, really flattering for the lamp. who would've thought a lamp could look this good in a picture. you should look into lamp modeling!