They didn't get me, but close enough for hand grenades: England, Scotland, Wales. I am surprised American Standard didn't show up anywhere, though. But I suspect that's more my accent than my grammar. So many of the grammar questions looked right or incontrovertibly who speaks like that and gets understood wrong.

I'm also curious about what the questions with the picture choices reveal beyond comprehension.

And I got my first "nope, not you" email from the Space Telescope people. It's preferable to tossing applications into the void, but still disappointing.

I got American, Ebonics, Singaporean. I was a bit puzzled on a few of the last questions, where it was asking "is this grammatical" or whatever--some of the sentences I thought were proper grammar, but that I probably wouldn't say. Others were probably NOT "proper", but I would totally say. So I ended up marking both of them...

Got my first round 1 interview. For a job that's supposed to be in Phoenix, but they'd let me work out of...just around the corner from former employer. So it'll be a phone screen next Tuesday.

At the Phoenix office, they let you work from home 1 day a week standard. The LA location is short on space, so I'll sacrifice what I need if it works out.

If I get it, it will be interesting--one of my krav friends/students (the first one I kicked in the nuts as a disciplinary action) works in IT there too. He's also the only krav person I purposely saw since I stopped training, although we were combative all the time. He went to school down the street from me in London (at our affiliated boys school, to be accurate) and then we turned out to both start studying krav here around the same time and living within 10 minutes of each other.

But...no expectations, just calm and preparation.

As. Calli, sorry. If it is any consolation, they keep resumes in the pool for while.

Just work up (yup, still napping a bit*) to a storm of the sort that makes roofs and basements leak.

I should go check both.

* it's probably good I started having frustration dreams just before I woke up. That's usually indicative that I've had enough sleep, as opposed to the no dreams I had during all my sleeps yesterday. Though where the keep-losing-the-puppy theme came from, I have no idea.

And now THAT was the largest crack of thunder I've ever heard in this house. I feel like I should go out and check the trees.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect: 1. American (Standard) 2. Canadian 3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 1. English 2. Dutch 3. Swedish

I'm surprised there was no French or Spanish picked up considering the last 34 years I have had so much contact with Creole and Spanish speaking residents. The upstate NY roots run deep.

Knock wood, ita.

This is the second time I took the thing, but the first time, I clicked next too fast and forgot one of the check boxes in the hospital one.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Scottish (UK) 2. South African 3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English 2. Norwegian 3. Swedish

I'm not sure where the South African keeps coming from. It's been there both times. Can't remember the others from the first go, think the native lang one was similar, but one of those was replaced by Dutch.

It was closer this time. Those elderly Anglo-Scottish Canadians (and just plain Scotsmen) influenced my language choices, I tell you what.

And now tornado warning (aka, take cover) for the edge of SE Baltimore City and county. And while my radio went nuts, my phone did not. Whereas it did for all the flash flooding in SD at 1 am. No cookie maryland NWS.

They got my dialect (Standard American) but thought my native language might be Norweigian? No idea.

Good luck on the interveiw, ita.

Okay I'm going to go face the apartment again. Ugh.