today

today i brightened my hat, hair, shoulders, and backpack, and added many stars. the monitors at work are a bit darker than I realized, so i just came home and saw how many stars are really there. i'm going to do some touch ups.

sadly today logistics did not go well.

after work i went to walnut creek for a quick interview for an evening part time job. turns out it's a scam. not for me, but for other people. i thought "loan modification" position would mean i'd learn about mortgages and help people out, and there'd be an increased need at this time. but the job is like marketing for a lawyer, who charges people $2500 to do the loan modification, and then i'd get a cut. basically i'm supposed to call and call and call and call and call (repeat 100 times) until i reach the one desperate person who'd be ripped off by their service and if the person paid and they modified the loan, then i'd get $500. i'd be able to do the work from home in the evening hours. although i wasn't looking forward to making hundreds of phone calls, i left with just this bad feeling. something didn't feel right. i talked to my mom and she said it was a scam, that people can get their loans modified themselves without a lawyer, and just go to the bank, and some of these kinds of places didn't even do anything. well, i don't know about that regarding this place, but i don't want to be in a business tinged with that kind of reputation, or feel like i'm lying to people or ripping them off.

i forgot to say why i'm looking for part time work. well, basically because i listen to dave ramsey, and it makes sense for my situation. i'd like to quickly pay off the car and save up. and then i'd have more $ quickly for more education, once i decide what exactly i'd like to pursue. i'd like to do something in the health field, or education. or health education. :)

so anyway, back to our story: after the interview i bart back home and in downtown discover i've lost my ipod plugs. the ones that block out the surrounding noise. they're very useful on buses, bart, city walking, etc. you just hear your ipod and they're very comfy. anyway, i couldn't find them and i always have them, so i went back to work to look there and they weren't there!

then i took the bus home and caught up with my mom a bit. but right when i got to my front door i remembered something. what i remembered was this morning i had had to move my car to avoid a street cleaning ticket, and since it's pretty impossible to find parking at that time of day, i'd driven to work and parked where i used to park on Townsend at our old location, and then walked/ran to work. so my car's now all the way south of market and they have some kind of ridiculous middle of the night street cleaning there, so i have to go all the way back there tonight and get my car or else i risk a ticket. not that i remember exactly when that street cleaning is, but it's not worth the risk. not to mention i'll need my car tomorrow morning for the health group meeting. what this all means is that i'm going to bed late and i won't be able to sleep in.

in the scheme of things, that's not a big deal anyway. luckily when i got in my room i found my ipod plugs. jeeh! (that is mirjam's way of saying yay!) they were on my shelving unit. forgotten this morning with the big plans to move the car. i was thinking i'd have to replace them because i was sure i'd taken them and lost them somewhere.