I never get what I want. However, I always get what I don't want or am indifferent to. Some of you know that I hated my last job, and about a month ago I found a new one where I "smell like a dead cow". The job is a lot of work, and I've been doing a ridiculous amount of overtime, but I don't mind it. The environment is just SOOOOOO much better than the last job.

While I was in the last job, I had been applying left and right for pretty much any position. And the last couple months I finally got some responses from the County job positions I applied for. Because I've been getting so many rejection letters, I've lost track of what positions I've applied. But today I get a phone call saying that the County wants me to go in for a "second/hiring" interview. I'm not sure if this means I'm in or not, but I think it's pretty close. I've already done the examination, done the general interview, and I got on the "list"... This is the furthest I have ever gone for any government job position I've applied. Though a part of me feels guilty if I do get the job in next week's interview. I'd hate to just abandoned the new job, especially when they are short-handed, but on the other hand, this is a government job, and I know so many people who would kill to get in. But I guess it's a moot point until I find out the results of my interview next week, but it's hard not to worry about what I'm going to decide.

Also I guess if I get this job, it's time I faced my irrational fear of driving on the freeway in LA traffic, since I would be positioned in the heart of Downtown LA. *headdesk* I'd have to brave LA traffic eventually, I guess this would be a good reason. Right now I am just so confused and maybe looking for a sign. Though I can be pretty dense...

The funny thing is that for some reason I thought I'd should check my horoscope on Astrology Zone and I saw this "If you are offered a new job, it seems that it will be a very prestigious one - a true step up in the ladder of success." and this "At the full moon, June 18, you'll be nearly ready to announce a huge career breakthrough."

Horoscopes are fun to read and don't really care what they say especially when it pinpoints a specific date. But then I got the phone call from the County and they asked me to come into for the interview either on June 17th or 18th. I wouldn't able to make it on the 17th and 18th is the only date I can make... so that's just weird. Then at the end of the day, my fellow co-worker confessed that he really wanted to leave this job and get a government job or any job, and he made a couple comments saying that maybe I'm in the wrong field. To be honest, I haven't been working here long enough to be jaded yet. Third sign of the day was when my other co-workers were just randomly talking about taking Human Resource classes back in college. And... this position, that the County is calling me for, is in Human Resources. So yeah... my head really hurts.

I guess if the County keeps up its track record of taking a billion years to process things, if they hire me and it starts next year, I wouldn't feel as bad... I did apply for this job way back in February, and I didn't get the first response until April and the next interview wasn't until May, and this follow up until now...

My head really hurts now... I think I need a nap...

Don't know whether to laugh or cry about this news about the lead for the Prince of Persia movie. I loved this game since when it was on DOS. But casting a non-Persian to play a Persian is causing me to twitch uncontrollably.

Don't get me wrong. I love Donnie Darko, but... *sigh* Well, I guess the "Prince" has a name now. Though where the heck is Farah?

Also that reminds me I need to get my hands on that trilogy, since I'm just about done with the Resident Evil series.

I have finally escape the evil job at the Bank, and got a job that pays a lot more. Though my original pay at the bank was so low, that any amount offered would have been a "significant" increase. Though an increase in pay is still more money that I had before, right? So I jumped at this job. It's not an ideal job I would have wanted, but so far the people are nice and every Wednesday the boss takes us out for lunch! Hurrah! Free food!

Another plus side is that the job is a hop, skip and a jump away from home! Without traffic, I can get home in 10 minutes! The usual drive time is about 15-20 minutes depending on traffic. So this will allow be to save a bunch of money when it comes to gas.

Also it's nice to actually be working at work because it makes time go by sooooo much faster.

Also I get to wear jeans and sneakers to work! Yay no more evil heels! Though now I need to buy more jeans because I have to change my clothes everyday or I'll die from the smell of raw hides on me. Blech.

The only negatives for the job is that I always come out smelling like a dead cow. Since our company basically export raw hides and the warehouse is right there. I haven't pissed off any of the managers yet, so they haven't given me a tour of the warehouse, but I can imagine the smell since it smells in the office. Other than the smell and the fact that I am the youngest in the office and sadly lacking in the hot boys department, so far I like the job. Less retardedness then comes with dealing with people who try act like asshats because they have a net worth of $10 million or bosses that don't give a shit about the little guy and constantly worried about saving face.

Here everyone is free game. Everyone gets teased. Today was only my second day and they were telling me stories of our General Manager's temper where he threw an ink pen across the room and the ink splattered everywhere. =P

Though now that I just got this job, I'm not sure how the this would affect my plan of going to Comic Con in July. I still have to do my 90 days probation. So I don't even know can I take 2 or 3 days off to make it down to San Diego. Blah. I want to go... I might have to just make due with heading down for the weekend. Argh.

Hopefully, by July we'll be all caught up with our work and we'll slow down... Right now we're about a week behind in processing orders. It's quite insane, and I don't even have my own computer, so I've been sharing with the guy that's training me. Well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if I can get a day or two off to meet LJ peeps at Comic Con this year. :\

This is an announcement for anyone in the Los Angeles area who is interested in seeing Sweeney Todd the Musical not the movie. On April 5th, 2008, 8PM at the Ahmanson Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.

I'm going with a group of friends on that night and one person backed out on us. To keep a good ticket from going to waste, I'm asking if anyone here is interested in going.

Show: Sweeney Todd
Date: April 5, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Ahmanson Theatre
Price: $38.50 per person (includes handling fees)
Seats: Balcony; Row F, Seats 20-19

If anyone is interested, leave a message to me here, or e-mail at me athenaktt@hotmail.com since LJ notifications seem to have been weird lately.

Just when I thought my job couldn’t get more retarded, it managed to prove me wrong yet again.

( Teacher, teacher! Can I go to the bathroom now? )

I hate when my body actually listens to me. For the last couple weeks the flu-not-flu flu virus that seems to be going around the world and namely in my office has finally gotten to me. For the last two weeks I've told my body that I can NOT get sick until after my birthday. So now two days after my birthday, I get a scratchy sensation in my throat. The next day I'm in the early stages of hacking out my lungs, and right now I'm in the "Hack-lungs-and-sniffles" stage. I think before I go to sleep tonight I'll move up to the "Hack-lungs-runny nose-phlegm" stage. I would totally call in sick, but because I'm a responsible person I feel bad for not going into work when my co-worker is out on Medical leave starting tomorrow, and another co-worker is on vacation and I'm the last person on the list of back up assistants who knows what the hell she is doing. Gah! Evil! Maybe I'll call in on Monday... oh no it's the beginning of the month. I can't... maybe I'll just go in for half a day. I have more than enough sick hours to be gone for 3 weeks... I really need to start using them.

The worse part about getting sick right now is my friend decided we should go snowboarding on March 8, but if this is my yearly "get sick for a month" flu, I'll most likely miss out on snow AGAIN! I think I'm destined to never see snow. Damn you, Sunny Southern California! *sobs*

Maybe if I pump myself full of medication this week, I'll be better by the 8th. *sigh cough sigh*

I wanted to thank everyone for the birthday wishes. They always bring a smile to my face. So thanks you guys!:)

Yesterday, I spent all day at the Huntington Library which recently completed their Chinese Gardens, and since my company donated $1 million to them we get to go to the library for free once a year during Chinese New Years. So I took this opportunity for us to have Tea at the Garden Tea Room were there were plenty of cucumber sandwiches for all-you-can-eat. Got to love buffet style for afternoon tea. We stayed there for almost three hours before they finally kicked us out because they had another reservation.

We walked around the the gardens somewhere until it started to rain on us then we decided to head inside to look at their manuscript collection. After we finished there we headed into their conservatory until the rain seemed to let up and tried to catch one of the Chinese New Year performances they had planned, but we got there too late. Since the rain let up, we headed back to the Chinese gardens to get a better look at the newly completed garden.

We were there until they basically started kicking people out for closing. After that we decide to head to the nearby mall since we were going to meet up with other friends at a restaurant there. Parking was a major bitch, and I remember why i don't go there more than once a year. But dinner was good and it was nice just seeing some friends again.

After dinner we came back to my house and my mom made us some rice balls black sesame filling dessert. In addition, mooncancer made me a cake and we had some of that very sweet sponge cake. :p After we were filled with sugar, we played UNO Stack-O (Jenga UNO style).

So overall another great birthday just hanging out with some close friends and some relaxing fun. :)

I have a very bad feeling that Friday Night Lights is not coming back. Though the news of Taylor Kitsch as Gambit makes me all tingly inside. Gambit has always been my favorite X-Man, and Taylor Kitsch... let's just say he on my list of top favorite actors to drool over.

Though I'm still traumatized by X3, but when you've got Hugh Jackman and Taylor Kitsch in the movie, I guess I'll live through it. :p

Okay... the "It's February!" title may have been a little over-enthusiastic, but I didn't know what else to put. I could put "Super Bowl Sunday!" But I still really don't care much about football. I'm more a college football kind of gal, but it doesn't help when my school team sucks, but who knows this year we might have a chance.

Anyways this post is more of an update. I haven't really been posting or commenting much on LJ mainly because I got sucked into playing computer games the last month or so. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has totally consumed my time. Also I started to read more again, since I found that I workout much longer while I read. Also I need to work on my "To Read" lists before it gets even longer. Additionally, I need to workout more since I have a wedding to go to in April. Why is it so hard to lose weight?!!! All the weight I lost last year managed to somehow sneak back. I don't understand. Maybe I just need to not socialize with people again. That's where all the calories come from... socializing.

The Job still sucks. I've been sending applications left and right and getting rejections from the middle (most of those were sent because of family pressure) and no responds from all other direction. Lately I have been considering going to get my teaching credentials, but right now is such bad timing. I am the only income in my family right now, so I cannot afford to go back to school for a whole year to get my credentials. Unless I sell my soul to the LA Unified School District for 3 years, and that just makes me cringe.

Also this may surprise some people, but every since the new year, I haven't been watching TV. I've a bunch of episodes for shows I still need to watch, just haven't felt like watching them yet. I'll get around to the eventually. Maybe after I finish KotOR.

So sorry if I haven't been replying to comments, I've just been kind of out of it, but I still do read my f-list everyday.

I couldn't post my shock about this until now.

I heard this after lunch and thought my co-worker misread an article. Then I looked at the news for myself. I didn't see this coming at all. Now I'm very sad. I really liked him ever since Roar.

Health Ledger, Dead at 28

Bean from KROQ's "Kevin and Bean" was right. This year seems pretty "bloody" for celebrity deaths (so far, including this one, there have been 9 celebrity deaths) and it's still January! Last week, Brad Renfro at 25 and now this… Though I have to admit, I thought Renfro died a couple years back from overdose, but I guess I was wrong... until last week.

All I can say is...

Rest in peace, Heath.

Working in Pasadena has it's perks, sort of, not really... Every other month there is always a film crew filming something and blocking off the streets for a couple days causing me to be late for work.

But today there was no filming, but there was a photo shoot. My office is on a relatively tall building and our lunch room has large glass windows all around. When you stand at once side, it over looks the pool of the Westin hotel next door. Usually we'll spot sunbathers who really shouldn't be shirtless, but today there was a crew setting up screens and putting make up on some girl's bum and legs. So I'm guessing it was a swimsuit shoot for something. Anyways it was pretty boring for the most part since the photographer couldn't seem to get the right lighting or the right angle. And there were these two guys who were in charge of holding the big silver screen that messes with lighting, and they were standing dangerously close to the edge of the pool. Of course, my co-worker and I decided to place bets on who would fall into the pool first: The guy wearing the light blue shirt or the dark blue shirt. By the way both these guys were really hot too. ;)

Anyways we were standing there staring at them for a while, and at one point the guy in the light blue sure looks up at our direction, and it was obvious he saw us looking at them. We just waved at them and smiled. Unfortunately, no one fell into the pool, but we got their attention, and it made work slightly more bearable almost...

Though it must suck to be the model. It was pretty cold today. Well "cold" in a Californian sense of cold.

I most likely won't be home for New Years for once. :p So...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Everyone!

Also I have found the addiction that is Guitar Hero 3.

Over the last couple of days I have some really bizarre dreams again, and I swear I have been good and not been eating any desserts before bed!

( Dream 1 – Road Trip Part 3? )

( Dream 2: Avert your Eyes! Doom! I tell you! DOOM! )

( Dream 3: Map of the Problematique Brain )

To all on my F-list,

Merry Christmas!

lamichelle - I just opened your gift and OMG! Yay! I can watch Timmy Riggins on my bigger TV now! Squee!

As some people know Karl Urban is in the CBS Miniseries Comanche Moon, I saw the ad for it on TV the other day and it will be airing over two days starting January 13, 2008.

After reading this interview at The Deadbolt, I think I might have a relapse of Karlitis. I love how he reads all the books to the series. It's so adorkable! The article also talks about him in the new Trekkie Film. But Karl as a Cowboy! Giddy-up! XD

Either way… more Eomer! Reaper! Karl!

moominlady - I got your gift and card! Thanks! Yay, for more music! *glomps*

blowersgate - I got your gift and card (it's so shiny!) today! Thanks you!! *hugs*

Since my boss is on vacation for the next two weeks, I've been letting my work pile up so I can freak out about them two days before she gets back. XD While perusing Unitedhollywood.com, I was reading the comments to one of the entries and was really amused when I saw this:

pat said...
THE WGA IS A BUNCH OF NAZIS!
DECEMBER 17, 2007 9:41 PM
pat said...
PATRIC VERRONE=HITLER
DECEMBER 17, 2007 9:45 PM

Of course, immediately I thought Godwin's Law! Then in the very next post:

Dorkman said...
Pat just lost the argument.

Godwin's law. Look it up.
DECEMBER 17, 2007 9:47 PM

It just tickled me. Also "Pat" continues to troll the blog and has s/h/it's posts are repeatedly removed. Reading these comments is like reading fandom wank... only these people don't realize how wanky they sound.

But anyways... Go Writers! The Golden Globes and Academy Awards show are all farces now anyway. I stopped watching those years ago.

All X-Mas Cards and packages have been sent out as of today! You guys know who you are... well most of you. ;)

Also I got mizz_magenta's gift (OMGYAY!) and billy_red_ocean's card. I love them all thanks!

All I have to say for this episode is "HOLY Crap!" That's a revelation!

Blah... now we can wait indefinitely for new episodes. :(

Also "Journeyman" was officially canceled a couple days ago. I'm sad. :(

Just thinking about last night's concert still gets me all tingly and warm inside. I don't go to many concerts because I don't really have time or the money, but this time, even with a tight budget, I made and effort to go to this concert and it was worth every single penny and attempt we went through to get these tickets.

( I want it now! Give me your heart and your soul! )

ETA: I managed to catch The Killer's song that missed when I went to the restroom last night on KROQ's encore replay of the concerts. So right now I'm listening to Muse again. Heee!