Yay, Friday!
Dec. 9th, 2005 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperI've gotten all the details in on my shiny new contract from my recruiter, yay! I go in for Orientation on Monday to fill out all the paperwork and hopefully get a bus pass; I start work Thursday of next week. The contract is for six months, so assuming no great upheavals in my existence, I'm set for employment until next June. Go me!
And I'll say it again: this Volt recruiter was a joy to work with. She was very aggressive in getting me a contract and bumping up my pay rate, too. Anybody local to the greater Seattle area who might be in a position to hunt for contract work over the next little bit, or who might know someone who will be, if you want this woman's name let me know and I'll refer you.
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solarbird, spazzkat, and I will be going out to dinner with my off-LJ friend Joi, who's in town since she's on a cargo run that brought her up into this neck of the woods. We shall have sushi at a place called Koharu in Federal Way, to which none of us have been before but it's close to the truck stop where Joi has parked her rig. We're going to go there since that'll be easier than coming all the way back up to Seattle to hit the places we know about, then going back all the way down to Federal Way to drop Joi off, then coming all the way back north to Kenmore.
This afternoon, we shall go to Target. Because I need new jeans if I'm going to be walking on the downtown commute during the coldest months of the year, and also because I think Dara and I should get something neat to celebrate my having a new job. Also, we have to Christmas-shop. ;)
In the meantime we saw a neat bird neither of us had ever seen before on the suet feeder this morning. It was mostly a sort of dull charcoal grayish-black with bands of light gray/white here and there along its body, and very roughly shaped like a woodpecker. But we couldn't figure out what it was, and there were no matches for it in the photos in my bird book. Dara got pictures, though they're awfully grainy. Any ideas, folks?
(I did find a whole lot of neat bird names that I hadn't known about before, which I have saved into a file for potential use later as names of characters or towns. I mean, 'Dowitcher' and 'Dunlin' just sound like they ought to be towns. And I also liked 'Whimbrel' and 'Willet' and 'Shearwater'.)
Friday miles: 2.1 (treadmill)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 532.25
Miles out of Rivendell: 74.25
Miles to Lothlórien: 389.75
And I'll say it again: this Volt recruiter was a joy to work with. She was very aggressive in getting me a contract and bumping up my pay rate, too. Anybody local to the greater Seattle area who might be in a position to hunt for contract work over the next little bit, or who might know someone who will be, if you want this woman's name let me know and I'll refer you.
Tonight
solarbird, spazzkat, and I will be going out to dinner with my off-LJ friend Joi, who's in town since she's on a cargo run that brought her up into this neck of the woods. We shall have sushi at a place called Koharu in Federal Way, to which none of us have been before but it's close to the truck stop where Joi has parked her rig. We're going to go there since that'll be easier than coming all the way back up to Seattle to hit the places we know about, then going back all the way down to Federal Way to drop Joi off, then coming all the way back north to Kenmore.This afternoon, we shall go to Target. Because I need new jeans if I'm going to be walking on the downtown commute during the coldest months of the year, and also because I think Dara and I should get something neat to celebrate my having a new job. Also, we have to Christmas-shop. ;)
In the meantime we saw a neat bird neither of us had ever seen before on the suet feeder this morning. It was mostly a sort of dull charcoal grayish-black with bands of light gray/white here and there along its body, and very roughly shaped like a woodpecker. But we couldn't figure out what it was, and there were no matches for it in the photos in my bird book. Dara got pictures, though they're awfully grainy. Any ideas, folks?
(I did find a whole lot of neat bird names that I hadn't known about before, which I have saved into a file for potential use later as names of characters or towns. I mean, 'Dowitcher' and 'Dunlin' just sound like they ought to be towns. And I also liked 'Whimbrel' and 'Willet' and 'Shearwater'.)
Friday miles: 2.1 (treadmill)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 532.25
Miles out of Rivendell: 74.25
Miles to Lothlórien: 389.75
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Date: 2005-12-09 10:14 pm (UTC)Yay for sushi and yay for jobs. Good luck at Real and with your Google interviews. =)
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Date: 2005-12-10 06:31 pm (UTC)Thanks much for the wishes of good luck!
The naming of towns...
Date: 2005-12-09 11:13 pm (UTC)Thanks. ;)
Re: The naming of towns...
Date: 2005-12-10 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-10 01:10 am (UTC)I may have missed this, but have you heard anything from Luna yet? I'm dying to know.
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Date: 2005-12-10 01:42 am (UTC)In the meantime, re: job foo, thanks!
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Date: 2005-12-10 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-10 01:49 am (UTC)The good part of that rejection letter though was that the editor invited me to send him further work--so I still have a foot in that door. I just need to whip up something Luna will take.
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Date: 2005-12-10 01:56 am (UTC)Right now, I'm stuck on a chapter focusing on one of main characters in part three. You'll see more of that when I finally get the brain power to post in my own journal.
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Date: 2005-12-10 06:27 pm (UTC)I hate those parts where you get stuck and have to spend days hammering away at it. They happen to me a lot with Lament!
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Date: 2005-12-10 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-10 06:26 pm (UTC)