Back to the job search...

So, I enjoyed my three weeks at Callahan, McCune, and Willis, but they went and hired a receptionist behind my back, not through a temp agency, and so I'm jobless again. They didn't even have the decency to tell me straight up, they waited until I was gone until Monday and then told my temp agency. That's so chicken-shit...

So I have no job, I want to move out to the OC so I could be closer to friends/boyfriend and have the possibility of trying to work my way to going back to school, but I would need a place to move, and who wants a person who's collecting unemployment as their roommate? I mean, really? And I still have to find a job! :( Life sucks.

I got the job!

I now work at Callahan McCune & Willis... and start this morning. Exciting! :D

Whew, it's been awhile! And, and interview!

So, I am fairly decided on trying to start a legal education. While I will need to actually have studied some to see if it is something I really would like to do, I believe it is a path that I could not only be proud of, but could excel at and could be happy with. Therefore, I have been looking for an entry level position at some kind of law firm. I would most prefer to be a legal secretary, but it is hard to actually find anyone who will train someone to be a legal secretary without any previous work experience in a law firm. Luckily, my mom knows someone in a legal staffing agency, and I have gone for an interview with them. I was extremely happy with the woman who would be representing me to potential workplaces. I now have an interview with a law firm for a temp position with the possibility of being hired in as a receptionist. This would be an excellent way to get my foot in the door, and I can have hope that I would possibly be able to move forward within the company and advance to (maybe wishfully thinking) a legal secretary. :)

Short Stories

So, while I am in the process of writing my book, I feel that it is a good idea to start writing some short stories to be published in various magazines, so that when the time comes for me to submit my book to publishers, I will have previously published works in the market for them to not only read, but so that I will be taken more seriously as an author. I also would like to become part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, which is a group for published writers of the science fiction and fantasy genres. To be eligible for their Associate Membership, you must have at least one published work, novel or short story. To be eligible for their full membership, what they call Active Membership, you must have a published book or three published short stories (equaling a certain amount of money, with a certain amount of words and be paid at a certain amount per word). So, I'm hoping that during my writing process I can become an active member as well, so that I will have as much reference available for when I send my book for publishing.

Watchmen

So I saw Watchmen today, which was interesting... besides some obvious changes from the original graphic novel, it was actually fairly true to the original, which surprised me... including the dialogue. Their rendition of Dr. Manhattan was interesting... along with WELL endowed o.O
It was like a big radioactive blueberry lollipop, hahaha. However, I really enjoyed the movie, and fans of the graphic novel should definitely see the movie, for an alternate ending, but otherwise great alikeness to the graphic novel. :)

Reba!!!

So I went to a Reba McEntire concert. It was part of Cal State Fullerton's yearly Front & Center fund raising event where they have some sort of performance sponsored by The First American Corporation in which all proceeds go towards scholarships for various students. This year's performance was Reba McEntire, and wow she is amazing! Such a powerful voice. :) We went to Vince's Spaghetti for dinner, which is always delicious, and we went to the Allumni dessert reception before the concert, so I had a full tummy for the show.

My Favorite Casino (by name, of course, since I don't go to casinos)

So, who has heard of Morongo Casino? I have seen the many commercials they have, claiming that they have more payouts then others, blah blah blah. But, the commercials are not what get me... it's their name. It has to be the PERFECT casino name to have ever come out! It sums up the experience perfectly! Let's break it down, shall we? "Morongo Casino" -> "Moron go Casino" -> "Morons go to the casino." There we go! They seem to perfectly understand it! Well, for any more proof, just track how much money you spent vs. gained in casinos the next 10-20 times you go and see how much you 'hit the jackpot.'

Birthday Weekend!

So, I started my weekend off with the viewing of Rita Rocks, as talked about on my earlier blog, and spent the night at my dad's Saturday was fun. I woke up early, had an English muffin with butter and peanut butter... mmm *drool* Then I went with my dad to visit his workplace in LA. He works at a place that works on heavy machine repairs (one piece of equipment they have can hold 50 tons max weight!). Afterward I went to my mom's boyfriend's house in southern OC to make a birthday dinner. I love to cook, but the stuff I like to cook would be really expensive because I use a bunch of fresh ingredients, and if I don't have certain spices on hand, I would have to go buy... So they got the groceries for the meal and got to help me with some of the cooking because it would have taken a LONG time for me to do alone, since there was a lot of chopping and preparing and running around to do... haha. So, we made herb grissini (breadsticks with parsley and basil, made from scratch - yeast and water mixed with flour and left to rise) and baba ganouj (an eggplant dip), I attempted a mexican rice, which came out grossly undercooked (sadly), and grilled chicken with a topping that consisted of: grilled red bell pepper, tomatoes, onion, parsley, and some spiced blended so that it's a chunky liquid. It was delicious, of course! And my mom made a salad to go with it. The breadsticks were amazing, because you also sprinkle sea salt chunks on it for the lovely salty crunch to go with the crunchy breadsticks. :)

Sunday consisted of going to church (which was much shorter than what it seemed when I was little, haha) with my dad and step-mom. Then we went to their friend's place to drop some stuff off then go to lunch with her. She is a very sweet lady, and also is starting her own line of dog panties. They are totally cute, and you can check them out here. It's called Surf City BitchWear. :) We ate at Katella Deli, which is DELICIOUS, as many of my family could attest to. (^_^) The rest of the day was just hanging out. All-in-all, a fairly decent weekend.

Rita Rocks!!! (Really?!)

So, I went to my dad's house today to go to a live audience taping of the Lifetime series Rita Rocks, which is about a woman who gives up her passion for becoming a musician to become a mom of two working part-time while her husband is a more office job worker. However, she starts playing with some friends in a small little band of four (her on guitar, black lady on keyboard, white kid on drums, and an older white man on... cello...) who practice in her garage. I watched what will be the season finale of the show's first season, which will air on Monday, February 9th at 8:00pm PST on Lifetime. While I didn't know the series, the show was fairly easy to watch without having seen any previous episodes, and it had some pretty funny scenes in it. Not as funny as Two and a Half Men, necessarily, but some funny scenes nonetheless. I won't talk about what happens, as I'm sure any possible fans (and the station) would not like that. But, all-in-all, it was a pretty good day. :)

Lost in... Lost

So, I'm totally addicted to the show Lost. I was lucky to be able to watch it all online for free on high-def streaming from ABC's website. While I really thought it would be interesting with the various occurrences that happened and that it would be more realistic, they seemed to turn it into this try to make it as crazy as possible scheme... but I still like it. Admittedly, I would have liked it much more if they had left all the 'Others' and 'Dharma Initiative' and their stations, but had left out all of these odd fantastic occurrences like the black smoke thing, the random hallucinations, magical cures, and moving through space and time... I think it would have been much more interesting if they had kept it mysterious, yet believable... but nonetheless, I'm still hooked. I just got done watching the fourth episode, and all I can respond to the ending is: "WTF?!"
I can't wait until next Wednesday!

It's my birthday!!!

And I'll cry if I want to?

So, special day with no special plans... just lazing about at home seems the day-plan for me... but hey, it's my birthday, and I can do what I want, right? :)

Nothing like true friendship...

I'm so glad to have my group of friends. Just recently one of my friends, JS, made us a forum so we could keep in contact more easily and kind of as a community...
We recently got together just after Christmas and, I must say, it's great seeing them every time. Even if I don't get to talk to them as much as I would generally like, I love them with all my heart, and they are family to me, and I know that I could count on them with anything. I think that friendship like that is very special, and very hard to come by, and we are all so lucky that there is a group (6 including me) of us that could be like that...

The worst case of sore-losing.

If you are an avid news-watcher, you may have seen the coverage of the all-girls school Dallas Academy and their loss to The Covenant School's team, 100-0. If not, you can read about it here.

It seems that Dallas Academy, a school known for its work with disabled students, put together a small basketball team of girls who play for fun - not because of skills, experience, and a drive to play competitively - played against The Covenant School's varsity basketball team in the varsity league. The Dallas Academy girls, having no previous experience or skills, were immediately dominated by the other girls. However, rather than giving scores to Dallas Academy, The Covenant School's team continued to play their best, as did the Dallas Academy girls did, and won 100-0. Around a week later, the Dallas Academy coaches approached the Dallas Morning News and had an article published about the insensitivity of the other team for beating their team by the large number of points. In response to this, The Covenant School posted an official apology to the Dallas Academy team for unsportsmanlike behavior!

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! I could understand if snide and rude, degrading remarks were being said about the other team, or if they were snotty about their win right after the game and treated the Dallas Academy girls with disrespect and needing to apologize for it. But to seriously ask of someone who treated the girls with the same level of respect as other teams by giving their all throughout the game, just like they would with any other team, to apologize because they didn't ease up for the poor girls who couldn't play basketball well and possibly let them score a few points or at least not score as many themselves is simply an insult to sports! If the girls from The Covenant School really did let the Dallas Academy girls make a few shots, or at least make sure that none of theirs made it in, it would be a great insult to the Dallas Academy, as they are being given free points and having points thrown because the winning team already knows that they will beat the girls, even if they throw them some points. To me, that would be something worth apologizing for, since it would be arrogant and preposterous to even think of doing in a varsity basketball league. In addition, The Covenant School also asked the league to change it to a forfeit and remove the score from their records. What a disappointment that a school who knew that they were not skilled enough to play real basketball signed up for a Varsity league and ran to the press crying because the other team didn't go easy on them so they wouldn't lose so badly.

I think that the Dallas Academy should be made to apologize to The Covenant School for running to the press about such a trivial matter and for making them forfeit a game in a serious league between competitive teams when they are barely an amateur team playing for fun. The news of this has spread nationally and has publicly embarrassed this school into posting an unnecessary apology to this fake basketball team. It really disgusts me. I am seriously writing to both schools to tell them my opinion and to request Dallas Academy to apologize to The Covenant School for not handling this privately, or even trying to before going to the press, and for forcing an apology and wasting their time and standing within a real league because they wanted to put a bunch of unskilled girls into a real competitive league.