the high life

Today is the best day I've had in a while. It started out with an interview at Cafe Mondo, a small cafe at the Windsor Crossing Outlet Mall. I've been in there twice already this week. Dropped a resume off on Monday, then stopped in for a drink before another interview yesterday and they remembered me and scheduled an interview. They obviously liked me and so I was fully expecting to go in to the interview and leave with a job. Sure enough, they want to hire me. How's that for confidence? It was really the best interview I've ever had too. The owner is the one who interviewed me, and she is so passionate about the business and what they do, that it was inspiring talking to her, and made me really excited about working there. It's a neat little cafe. Similar to the Coffee Exchange, but more classy and it seems like they care more about what they do. Better hours too. The latest they're open is 9pm - so no late shifts. That will be nice. The position is part time, which is cool with me. I'd rather have two part time jobs, have some variety and flexibility. Would be awesome to work there and then in a clothing store or something as well. Get some good discounts and interesting work experience.

I am amazed at how well the day turned out. It started out really positive, I woke up feeling good, went into the interview feeling confident and cheerful - which went a long way in getting the job, I'm sure. After that I felt incredibly inspired and oh so positive. I didn't even mind riding the bus around! I went over to Devonshire Mall after that to drop off some more resumes. Had a transfer, which was right by a park, so took a few minutes to walk through and spend some time relaxing and enjoying the day. It was marvelous! There were flowers, and some of the plots has recently been dug up and the smell of fresh dirt was wonderful. Let me tell you, I'm on a high that I haven't felt for a while. I feel like Jess is really back, after a bit of a slump. Feels great!

Tonight I'm playing CashFlow with Jon and some people he knows. I'm actually getting out and doing something. That feels good too. Never played CashFlow, but it sounds like fun. And it's pretty cool that Jon wants me to hang out with him and his business friends. Sahweet!

worm holes, leviathans and scarrons

Farscape has become one of my favorite tv shows. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it - if you enjoy an imaginative plot set on and around distant planets, with various alien life forms and living ships. The characters are wonderful and feel like friends after watching it fo so long. The story line goes like this. John Crighton takes a space ship for a test flight, gets sucked into a worm hole and ends up in a distant part of the universe, on a living ship - a leviathan - with several different species, including a luxon, a delvian, hynerian and sebatian. They become his friends and the whole show is about their travels, the different planets they see, the friends and enemies they make. It's incredibly creative. The different plots, cultures, characters, worlds are incredible. Makes me wish I could come up with something like that. I would love to have that imagination and creativity to be able to write that kind of story.

I would love to be a writer - like a real writer. One of my other tv show "friends" is Carrie Bradshaw, who writes a column called "Sex and the City". Having a job like that would be pretty sweet. I enjoy writing, and to actually have it in a column or something, where people actually read it, and to really get paid for it - that would rock. Totally and completely. But how does one get there? How do I get from writing personal blogs that friends and family read, to writing articles or columns that are read by readers everywhere? I suppose a blog like this is a start - but how do I get from here to there?? Can I be a "Carrie Bradshaw" - well, preferrably my own person, my own character and my own "column", but you know what I mean.

In other news, I have a job interview this afternoon at Jacob Connexion in the Outlet Mall here. And another one at The Children's Place on Friday. I applied for about 15 jobs yesterday, and had two call backs from them by the end of the day. Kinda cool. Hopefully something will come from it soon. I do need an income pretty quickly here...

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

The day couldn't have started any worse. I rolled over in bed during an intense dream and promptly ended up on the floor. I started the coffee brewing and jumped in the shower, thinking a nice hot steam would wake me up and help start the day well. Wrong again. The water was nice and hot, but I slipped and fell on my ass, bruising my leg and shoulder painfully. Then I dropped the shampoo on the floor, which split and splattered shampoo all over the bathroom. After making it out of the bathroom I discovered that the coffee pot had randomly broken, spilling hot coffee all over the counter, down across the floor, soaking into the rug and ruining my papers on the counter top. So much for a hot cup of coffee. I decided to try for breakfast instead - but the milk had gone bad, I was out of bread for toast, and the eggs burnt when I tried to make an omelette.

And it only got better from there. I went across town for an appointment and missed the bus, ended up running five blocks in the rain, and arrived soaked to the skin. Is it any surprise I didn't get the job? Arrived back home to find a "surprise" the dog had left in the corner and my answering machine full of nasty messages - employers, neighbors, clients, family. Everyone seemed to have something to bitch at me about today. And it wasn't even noon yet!


Okay, so that wasn't really my day. It was a day in the life of the imaginary person who lives in my mind... Okay, that's not quite right either. But I did have a bit of a discouraging day. Compared the one described above though it was pretty damn good. Definitely felt under the weather though - or maybe I was feeling the weather. It was an overcast, almost stormy day. I woke up feeling like I had no reason to get out of bed - not a good start. I didn't do much of anything all day. Dropped off one resume, but wasn't able to do up a cover letter for it. I am experiencing severe boredom. Not good. I need something to keep me occupied. A job, a hobby. Both would be good. I need to take up dancing or climbing or something. And I do need to get another job soon too. I spent the whole week going over to the mall and applying for jobs. Had a couple of interviews. One went really well - I thought - and I wouldn't be surprised if I get another call for that. We'll see. Monday I have some more to go apply for at the mall again. I would like to get a job in retail, customer service. Would be good for me, and I do enjoy interacting with people. Someplace with cool clothes or something would be fun - then I could get a discount. Or a bookstore. I would love to work at Chapters. How much would that rock?

I'm starting to feel a little bit stuck in Windsor. Not cool. I like this city less every day - but I have ties here now. And I can't afford to leave. I'm really stuck! Even if I got a job in another city, I literally don't have the cash to move. I wouldn't mind to go to London or something, even Toronto, just to get out of this hole, get a decent job, all that good jazz - but I'm stuck. Today I've been feeling very trapped, like I have no choices, cannot do anything to get out of where I'm at, etc. Not a nice feeling. I'm sure things will get better - but it's frustrating to be in this situation, to be discouraged and not able to snap out of it, to be forced to work one dead-end job after another, and none of it anything that I really enjoy doing. Yuck.

And that's my bitching for the day. Now I'm going to head home and pop in a movie and relax, go to bed fairly early, and try to find some way to entertain myself tomorrow...

a continuation

Welcome to my new blog, Teh Life and Times of... I moved here from www.blog.myspace.com/koolchiki and you can go there to view my previous blog posts. This blog is a bit of an expose on my life and what I think about things. Feel free to leave comments and start discussions.