We both need to cut it out.

K -erika. It's a deal. I will if you do :)

not everybody in the world will love/appreciate you.

So hard to believe sometimes...I mean, what's not to love?

So hard to believe sometimes...I mean, what's not to love?

*hug-bug*

how do you keep finding my fucked-up mental junk mail?

I adore you, erika--just flat out adore you.

vw, my first guess was what Scrappy suggested--that they already had someone in mind. It could also be that someone interviewed who'd done this exact job, or maybe someone who worked for them before took it. Real Estate offices, in my experience (I live next door to the Broker/Owner of the biggest non-Century 21 office in my town) are rife with nepotism.

I am sorry you didn't get the job. Maybe you'll be able to find something that doesn't suck up both days of your weekend.

Maybe they already had somebody in mind and you blew them away, but they have an arrangement already.

Yep. Depending on the organization, they may have been obliged to post the position and interview X number of candidates even if their decision was made. Twice I've been in interviews where they TOLD me I was great, but that the job was going to go to an internal candidate. Another time, I was the internal candidate.

And even if that wasn't what happened, not getting one job doesn't negate your interview skills. No one bats a thousand in job interviews indefinitely--the odds are just too stacked against you. If you suck because you didn't get one job, I might have to decide that I suck for not winning that writing contest or selling my first book, and I refuse to accept that. AFAIC, we're both brilliant.

Thanks, Cindy. OK, vw, we'll both cancel the streaming audio from KFKD. I have been on many an interview where I suspect it didn't matter how I did, that they were holding for a specific candidate.

Huh. In a little win in the world - remember the website that wouldn't remove my poem and called me a crazy, loud-mouth, prochoice bitch? MSN made them take it down! Wheee! I won!

that's great news, vw! Sorry about the job thing... something better will come along, I'm quite sure of it.

Hee, I wish I could hire you as my assistant! It would involve talking me down from the cubicle walls when I'm craxy with stress and having lunch with me. Sadly, I'm in no position to even mention the word "assistant." I half expect the words will be missing from this post when I submit it.

Hidey ho. Tired. Nothing new on that front.

Yay! Kick their anti-woman, poem-stealing asses!

Vietnamese visa (and along with it my passport) showed up today, and so did my corset. Which I had to dig through the trash to retrieve--I left work without it, and turned around to come back, and between those two events, the cleaning people had gone through and emptied the trash, and assumed that the box under my desk was EMPTY, and THROWN IT AWAY. I had to dig through the trashbags.

Meanwhile, I'm all wanting to look good in the corset, but the problem is I can barely get it on by myself--I certainly can't lace it well enough to make it look good! (Thought for right now--it looks OK, and does nice things for my waist, but I swear I didn't tell them I wanted it to come up that high over my boobs, and damn if it doesn't make me look entirely flat. ARGH)

Ah, meara you've been caught skipping Natter

Oh, David, honey, I gave up on keeping up with Natter about a year ago--I don't read b.org at work anymore, since I got the new job last February, so Bitches and Tech and Lit and such are all I can keep up with. So you're friends with She Of The Annoying Voice?? Damn. I want a sex scene with Gina Gershon! Or, with any one of a large number of the drag kings coming for our big show this weekend...

Just realizing that going into teaching probably means I'll never get that job where they demand that I fly all over the world and stay in hotels and order room service

Did I mention that one of the studies starting up after my current one is going to be in South America? I'm really hoping I get to work on that one. Though I admit, I never order room service--I have a certain amount I'm allowed to spend a day, and I'd rather get better food cheaper, and not pay their crazy prices.

Nora, I SO want to be your assistant! That would kick ass!