I LIIIVE.

This is going to be quick, because I don't have the patience to be long-winded right now. Possibly more elaborate detail later.

1. Did not get the e-care job, but it's okay. They're still training me in the position!
2. Leaving for Pigeon Forge, TN tomorrow. Very scared of flying. D:
3. Text message me while I'm gone! I looove text messages. If you don't have my number, you can text me via LJ... hinthint...
4. ...though, maybe you can't, because my LJ is expiring in 2 hours! WOE!
5. I could hardly sleep last night because I was imagining how horrible it must be to die in a plane crash. YES, I AM AWARE THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME.
6. Six is my lucky number!

This time tomorrow, I'll be sitting in a airport, waiting to board the death trap plane. Whee.

My days off are switched this week because of a new product meeting we're having tomorrow, so I'm hooome todaaay.

I've cleaned off my desk and picked up the bathroom. In addition to that, I've successfully altered a t-shirt! I'm all productive.

See, I have a lot of boy-styled shirts, but they all look frumpy on me because they're baggy up top but tight around my monster hips, so Tif bought this nifty do-it-yourself, t-shirt-altering, fun book! I'm now wearing my PREPARE FOR SOME DOOM Invader Zim shirt, newly altered with shorter sleeves, a bigger neck opening, and about an inch off the bottom. I think it looks gooooood. *happy*

Well, now I'm off to Claro's to buy pizza ingredients for my mom's birthday!

Err, because I'm making her pizza... I'm not giving her the ingredients for her birthday.

Yeah.

JUST A FEW MORE WEEKS 'TIL THE GATHERING. [/nerd]

Oh, and I had my second interview yesterday. I don't know how it went... I'm a bad judge of that sort of thing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

So, I'm going to have a second interview on Tuesday! Excitement! Nervousness!

I'm also a "mentor" at work, now. They took the top ten people with the best ACW* and gave them teams of four to work with. I get my team's stats every monday and then... well, they didn't really give us guidelines. Sara said it's up to us, to work out our leadership abilities or something. I'm thinking I'll send out weekly e-mails with tips on how to get ACW down. My first e-mail will be asking for tips my teammates already use so I can get to know their individual working habits a little better.

Also, in fandom-related news, I'm totally freaking obsessed with TMNT 2003, which you may already know from reading Tif's LJ. Only I'm not as insane about it as Tif is. *pokes crimsonobsessor*

I wasn't all that impressed with season three until last night. HOLY FREAKING CRAP. Seriously, I don't usually pimp stuff, but if you've EVER liked TMNT and have yet to watch this series, PLEASE do so! Buy the DVDs! Download the torrents! I can even provide a link to site that has the first 12 episodes or so streaming! WATCH IT IF ONLY FOR THE FIGHT SCENES. They use their weapons and they use them AWESOMELY.

*ahem*

So. Pirates today.

* ACW: After Call Work. After a call, we have a couple minutes to notate the policy before we have to jump back in the queue. The less time you take the better.

Whoo, I'm alive. I'm feeling a little nauseous this morning (I started writing this entry about two hours ago, haaa).

( Cut for (possible) TMI )

I've also joined Weight Watchers again. Go me. I'm gonna stick with it, damnit. I need to be healthier.

Oh, and I think the interview I had last Friday went very well! I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it's difficult when the E-Care team lead was giving me all this praise and crap... They're supposed to make a decision by tomorrow, though I don't know if they'll be pushing it back because I was under the impression that I had to have a second interview. I haven't been scheduled for one.

Maybe that's a bad sign. D:

Ever been a song that just made you all sorts of nostalgic and melancholy and you had no idea why? This song does that to me. It's not a sad song and it's not a song that brings back fond childhood memories, so I have no idea what the deal is. I love it, though. <3

But the chorus makes me want to cry.

Oh well. Anyway.

I have an interview tomorrow! I'm not leaving VPI, but I am trying to transfer within the company. I don't know if I'll get the position, but here's hoping. I've not even been there six months, but my supervisor seems to think I stand a good chance of getting it. She said she was going to write me up just so she had a reason to keep me on her team... jokingly, of course. I have mixed emotions. I really want the job because I know I'd be really good at it and it would mean being off the phones, but at the same time, I love my current job and Sara is, like, the coolest supervisor ever. So I dunno. We'll see what happens. It's a coveted position among the customer care folk, apparently.

Off to shower.

I'm having a STELLAR DAY, and I mean that in the most sarcastic sense possible!

First, a policy holder bitched me out today. It didn't really bother me in the moment or afterward, it's more like the current thought of it is the straw that's breaking the camel's back.

My sister e-mailed me to let me know that SCE had called yesterday to try and schedule an interview for the position I've been waiting for for ALMOST TWO YEARS. Sounds great, right? Only I love where I'm working now, so if they offer me a job, it's going to be a very difficult dicision... Granted, not the hardest I've ever or will ever have to make, but a difficult one, nonetheless. VPI is a fantastic place to work and I love everybody there. NOT TO MENTION the fact that, since I didn't get the message until today, the position might be gone!

Then, when I got home, I found out I'd missed FedEx delivering my phone. That's all fine and dandy, except in order to pick it up, I have to drive faaar away, or else they'll reattempt tomorrow, in which case I'll miss them again. It'll be a most fabulous endless loop.

Then I got my mail. My Aetna card came in. Now, when I filled out the form, there was this nifty little section that let them know if you already had a physician you'd like to use, so long as it's covered by the insurance. Now, I already know that my physician is covered by the insurance because he's listed on their website and Tif has the exact same insurance as I and she has a doctor in the same medical group. And yet... wait for it...

Are you ready?

They assigned me a random doctor! Thanks, Aetna! Now I have to call you and get you to fix your mistake before I can go to the doctor! I'm way overdue for my thyroid check-up, too... I needed it back in December.

So, thinking about that stupid policy holder bitching me out is getting me in a really foul mood. Like I said, it didn't bother me at the time, but now my blood is boiling and I want some pizza, but we don't have any. DAMN YOU, WORLD.

[edit] The HR rep for SCE called me back just now... argh.. my interview is next Thursday at 10:30am. There's no way I could get off work for that... I scheduled it anyway, just in case. The starting wage is less than what I'm making at VPI, by about $0.44, but I'm not sure if it's worth passing up. Oh man, I don't know what to do, guys!

Well, today was my first day on my new schedule. I now work 6:30am-3:30pm.. It's not as bad as it sounds. I actually really like it, though I will admit that I'll miss staying up late at night... D: I'm really, really tired right now. It's not that it was difficult falling asleep last night, but I woke up around 11 and couldn't fall back to sleep for a while, and then I woke up about every five minutes or so once it turned 4am. Sorry if my grammar is all... suck. Not only am I exhausted, but I'm not wearing my glasses, either. I'm made of win!

I really like my job and I hope to be there for a while yet.

I'm all nostalgic now, thanks to Mouse. I started looking up intros to my favorite cartoons (and even some not-so-favorites) when I was a kid. So far, I've found Dennis the Menace, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff (SO MUCH LOVE), Garfield and Friends, Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog (the saturday am show), and James Bond Jr. I'll look for more later.. right now I have to lie down.

So, today was my First Day of Work™. It was all orientation, learning about the workings of the company, etc... All in all, a good day!

Getting to work this morning was slightly traumatic, however. Short story: I left the house, forgetting my driver's license, drove back to get it, ended up NOT BEING IN MY WALLET, so I STILL forgot it, hyperventilated when I found this out at a red light, almost started crying, had no time to go back to the house again and figured I'd be late anyway... And at the interview, they stressed punctuality SO MUCH, so I'm like, "GOD I'M GOING TO GET FIRED MY FIRST DAY."

I got there at 7:59 and it turned out one other person didn't have their ID and we could bring it tomorrow. So it was okay.

*sighs*

Tomorrow, I think we start learning about our job-duties. :o There's supposed to be a test every week, if I'm not mistaken...

Random: my chocolate coins taste funny. D:

I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT THE JOB!!! YEEEEES. AHAHAHA.

I have to go in tomorrow at 11:45 to sign my offer letter and then go get a drug test and then I START TRAINING NEXT MONDAY!! OH MY GOD. I GOT THE JOB. I GOT THE FRICKIN JOB! OH MY GOD.

I'M HAPPY.

Well, I just called VPI and Rita said I'm in the 'yes' pool. :3 She said she didn't want to get my hopes up, but there's a 99.9% chance I'm in... They're going to be hiring nine people and she has nine applications with her, but today is their final day of interviewing and if someone does REALLY SUPER WELL, they're obviously gonna have to kick some people out of the pool. D:

Hopefully, I should know soon. *crosses fingers*

*goes back to playing Animal Crossing*