Attack of the Flakes

[athenaltena]

I actually took a nap today. This is a very rare event for me, since usually naps make me feel worse, but last night and today were rough enough that I just couldn't keep my eyes open and crashed for an hour and a half. I was mildly confused when I woke up again since I thought it might be morning again, and there was a weird whistling sound. The first one was because the light looked like early this morning when I had to wake up, and the second was Jesse snoring at the foot of my bed where I couldn't feel him.

Last night my dad started feeling really sick and had a fever, and sine this is uncharacteristic of him since he never gets sick we actually called the doctor to get a consultation. He appears to be fine, but he wisely took the day off and just got up for a bit. It sounds like he has what I got last November, which is a bug that hits you like a Mac truck with no warning and makes you feel like your blood is freezing. Not fun, but it goes away pretty fast, about 36 hours for me.

As for the temp agency interview, errors were made. Probably not by me, but it worked out in the end. I had to go to this place in Orange, a town North of here, and the first major confusion was that the location was identified as "Main St." Now the problem is that there are no less than four Main Sts. in Orange, North South East and West. All go different directions, and so far as I can tell there is no street just called "Main St." so I guess people there just know which one to use. It turns out I wanted West Main St., but I sure as hell couldn't tell that from the directions I'd been given, and in something that actually was my fault I failed to consult a map to figure out that there were four of them and then which Main St. I needed, given that one usually thinks that when you're told something in on Main St., you look for a sign that says "Main St." and do not expect to see four of them! Also, Orange sucks at labeling streets. However, knowing my past navigational failures I built time in so I could screw up and still show up at a reasonable hour. So I got to the right place at about 8:30, plenty of time for the walk ins they'd scheduled.

Except that they weren't there. I looked around, eventually asking someone where these people would be. Turns out they were on the second floor, room X, so I went up there. Only to find it deserted. Lights not even on. No signs of life. Thinking that they might just be on an extended bathroom break I waited around until 9, the end of this walk in period. I then tried to call their office to find out what was going on, only to find that I couldn't get a cell phone signal and naturally in this day and age there were no phone booths. So, dejected, pissed off hungry and on the verge of crying I carted myself back home, calmed down so I wouldn't rip someone's head off, and then called the office to find out what the hell was going on.

I got the woman who invited me to this thing in the first place, and she told me that I was actually supposed to show up tomorrow, the 11th. But in my initial phone call from her, where I was making notes while on the phone with her, she clearly said the 10th. 10th and 11th do not sound similar enough that I might have misheard. She apologized and sounded pretty sincere for the mistake, and told me to come to the same place tomorrow.

Which just means I have to wake up at the same time tomorrow (6:30 to be precise) and do it again. Ugh. Good thing I'm going on vacation next week.

Comments

[valaria.livejournal.com]

Wow. Annoying. Orange sucks, in so many ways. Good luck though!

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yeah, I can't say I'm too fond of Orange. ^_^; They have a nice horse farm I used to go to camp at in another part of it, but otherwise the only experiences I've had there have been driving through to get to Route 2 and going to court last year as a witness. There's just not much there.