pandoria   156 days till my birthday. "The best things in life are free, and $19.95." - Billy Mays Ria, 24. BA in French and Sociology. Businesswoman, but that's not for forever. I live with my cat, Finnegan. Not edge, not scene, not really anything. Just myself, for better or worse. And I have a pretty big thing for this guy. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." -Jack Kerouac "I excel at not giving a shit." - George Lass, Dead Like Me How could I think it's funny how Everything that swore it wouldn't change Is different now Just like you Would always say We'll make it through Then my head fell apart And where were you? - NIN, Somewhat Damaged Coming Up Magnolia branch backpiece - filling in Other random crap that will eventually come to fruition What I Got: Magnolia branch backpiece - outline/some fill completed 2 red leaves on my chest, one on each side 4 pt. suicide suspension, 9/16/07 microdermal implant along left collarbone (other 2 rejected) 10 ga earlobes (2) + 18 ga cartlidge (right ear) + fun with straight pins 14 ga septum (again!) fleur du lys (on back) nautical star (on right hipbone) nautical star (on left hipbone) upper thigh scars (self) What I Had: 18 ga cartlidge (left ear) + 14 ga navel 2x microdermals along collarbones (lost due to rejection) Contact Info Email: alicewisdom@gmail.com AIM: roccianera My blog (the new and improved) is here. My largely-ignored art website is here. 5,365 neurons have misfired in my brain. Important People: Katy, DJ, Amanda, Chad, Dan, Seanny Toast Wiggins, Josh, Leo, Ryan, Candice, Johnny, Kyle, Ryan, Tristan, Phil, Gabey, Seb!. My experiences: number one in the nombril Saucer Eyes Stupid Mirror Picture  Photos of Things Tatouage Magnolia backpiece: right shoulder detail Fun with Straight Pins Snowflake: Ubersnowflake Henna Stuff finished product: left foot - paste still on Art Stuff Magnolia: magnolia flower, an experiment with my new prismacolor markers <3 Coolest internal organ? Heart Liver Lungs Vagina (it's internal!) Stomach View Results

Roll out

2009/11/16 22:48 I got a call at 6:45 tonight from the college I interviewed with offering me the job. It's a small pay decrease, but well within my means, and plenty of room to move up. I will have benefits, 401(k), 2 weeks paid vacation, and 12 paid sick days (more than double what I have now). I will also have my own office instead of a desk with low cubicle walls, and a ton of places and stores to peruse during lunch (including a Sephora and a Barnes and Noble). My boss also lives in the neighborhood Dan (and well, me now) lives in, and she mentioned in the first interview that we could carpool to work. I'll be starting the first week of December with a week of training in Minneapolis at a headquarters type of place, which they are paying to fly me up to (or mileage if I want to drive, but I'd rather fly). I told her tonight on the phone that I was 90% sure but that I'd tell her 100% tomorrow, just to be solid. I am going to call her around 9am tomorrow to accept the position and have her either fax or email me PDFs of an actual contract. At around 11:30 tomorrow morning I will submit my resignation letter to my boss, which will probably come as a shock considering I had my year end review today and it went pretty well. I had to outline my goals for my position for 2010, and if I were not taking this position, I'd follow through with as many of them as I could before eventually leaving at the end of January. I'm just afraid he's going to get mean and basically call me a liar, etc. But the fact of the matter is that the opportunity is here now. I am between major projects at work, at the end of the Cedar Rapids roller derby season, just before derby tryouts in Kansas City. Between major holidays. Confirmed that there would be no growth bonus at my current job. An offer at a place I really enjoyed interviewing at and liked the atmosphere of with all the perks of my current job. A kickass boyfriend I really like being around, in a city where there's a lot going on. I feel like there's a door open to me this time, instead of just trying to squeeze through a window. And I think I need to go through it.

Hopes, dreams.

2009/11/09 22:41 Cross your fingers for me. I am supposed to have a second interview over the phone tomorrow for the job I interviewed for last Friday. Supposed to be at 1:30 as long as the guy's flight doesn't get delayed or something like that. Work went by fast today but I can't handle being there much longer. My boss is being really ridiculously rude and pulled a neat little stunt while I was gone Friday where he put some things he wanted me to move all over my desk. He could have just asked me politely to move them. And then he didn't even have the balls to follow up on his dumb prank, he just sat in his office all day. The box of stuff is now sitting in some back cabinet somewhere. I hate the thought that I've put so much emphasis on this one job, but when I have days like today where I'm just pining to get out of there, it makes it hard to relax about the prospect of having a different job. I'll tough out the one I've got until the end of January if I have to, I'll survive and everything. I just think I'll really like the one I've interviewed for and would rather be in KC sooner rather than later. *sigh* In happy news, I am C'est la Violence, #646. It feels good to exist. Luck, plz. Thx. (0)

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