thank god for kinko's being open til midnight. i have to give a presentation at 9am tomorrow, and i didn't go to kinko's to get my transparencies made until 11pm tonight. then again, i didn't finish preparing them until 10:30. now it's 12:30, and i am just about to START writing the 5 page paper that is also due at 9am. and all i want to do is sleep. 
i have been SO stressed trying to figure out my job situation. i had a mental breakdown on monday because i found out that i didn't get the job i really wanted. well not just because of that, but that was the final straw. so now i have 2 job offers (i just got the second yesterday). which is good obviously. but one is a 6 month temporary assignment doing something i really want to do, and the other is a permanent assignment [which i'd probably stay in for ~2 yrs] doing stuff i don't really want to do. it's such a catch 22 [i used to know a horse named catch 22]. 6 months sucks because it's not stable, but it's good because you're not trapped doing something icky, if it turns out to be icky. permanent sucks because you can get trapped in, but it's stable. i've been having a dilemma over whether to go with the stable sure-thing or go with what i'll be happier with, and pray that the extra experience on my resume helps me get that job i REALLY want after the 6 months is up. the latter is basically what i've decided to do. it may mean that my year-long continual job search has to continue for another 6 months, but i can deal with that, i guess. but i'm gonna really kick my own ass if i can't find a job after the 6 months is up. but the job kicks ass. it's really cool cutting-edge enzymology and biochemistry work, and they have all kinds of nifty new robotics, gadgets, doohickeys, and all that sweet stuff that big $$$ pharmaceutical companies can pay for. yet another reason not to work in an academic research lab [the other offer]. not to mention that temple university is in one of the shittiest parts in all of philly. more fuel for my argument! huzzaah! i got my mind made up, come on... [come on] get in, get in to [get on it], let it ride [get wit it] tonight's tha night...
i have been SO stressed trying to figure out my job situation. i had a mental breakdown on monday because i found out that i didn't get the job i really wanted. well not just because of that, but that was the final straw. so now i have 2 job offers (i just got the second yesterday). which is good obviously. but one is a 6 month temporary assignment doing something i really want to do, and the other is a permanent assignment [which i'd probably stay in for ~2 yrs] doing stuff i don't really want to do. it's such a catch 22 [i used to know a horse named catch 22]. 6 months sucks because it's not stable, but it's good because you're not trapped doing something icky, if it turns out to be icky. permanent sucks because you can get trapped in, but it's stable. i've been having a dilemma over whether to go with the stable sure-thing or go with what i'll be happier with, and pray that the extra experience on my resume helps me get that job i REALLY want after the 6 months is up. the latter is basically what i've decided to do. it may mean that my year-long continual job search has to continue for another 6 months, but i can deal with that, i guess. but i'm gonna really kick my own ass if i can't find a job after the 6 months is up. but the job kicks ass. it's really cool cutting-edge enzymology and biochemistry work, and they have all kinds of nifty new robotics, gadgets, doohickeys, and all that sweet stuff that big $$$ pharmaceutical companies can pay for. yet another reason not to work in an academic research lab [the other offer]. not to mention that temple university is in one of the shittiest parts in all of philly. more fuel for my argument! huzzaah! i got my mind made up, come on... [come on] get in, get in to [get on it], let it ride [get wit it] tonight's tha night...
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temple IS in a shitty area... and people say drexel is in the ghetto. then again i am from whitetrash suburbia.
drexel people really do suck. i was a little bit confused as to why so many people in my building had labeled me, especially people i didn't know/had never met. like you said though, i'd rather have them dislike me then try and hang out with me. what confused me the most about the whole thing is i have a weird sense of humor which is why people think i'm a freak. i don't think i look especially weird or anything though. if you've never talked to me how can you think i'm weird?? oh well. people at drexel are backwards.
it used to crack me up when people i went to high school with were offended by my oddly colored hair. they would get all "what do your PARENTS think?" especially ironic since my mother was the one getting forced to dye my hair purple, blue, etc. also was amazed that people were more offended by me with my colored hair then the girls in 9th grade who very pregnant. people suck.
well, m'dear, thanks again for the moral support. yay for karma! without knowing it existed, i woulnt be comfortable about the situation [my insane sense of justice] but i know itll come back to him. give your magical snakie a hug back for me. his hugs were suprisingly warm, for a cold-blooded creature. i hope all went well with your presetation, and the job decision is made. *hug* yay!