some work, some play

Being unemployed is fun for a change!

The back story...

Several months ago I informed my boss that I had an interview for a job. I explained to him that I probably wouldn't be at work after this August. He knew I was looking, after all I was a student worker. It's kind of understood that you're looking for a job when you are an intern with absolutely no prospects of acquiring a full-time position there. He was happy to hear I was getting interviews.

Then, two weeks before the end of the semester, he comes into my office and asks me how my job search is going. I said, "Ok, I guess." He then blurted out, "Well, what are you going to do in two weeks?" "What?" I responded. Then he said, "Well, what are you going to do in two weeks when you don't have a job anymore?"

He is such a moron. He thinks he's so smart and everyone else is an idiot. He claimed that he couldn't get funding for me for the summer because of new rules, rules stating that after a student graduates he/she cannot work as a student worker that summer. He fully knows that I am technically not graduating. He also knows that I have until the end of the summer to sign up for a class in the fall. He was just using this as a way to fire me without having to justify it to his boss (the network admin) and his second level boss (the director of telecom).

Since I was a student worker, working 35 hour weeks, I can't get unemployment. I've had a couple phone interviews. One seemingly promising in person interview for a sys admin position, that I really want. But they are taking their time concerning a phone interview I'm supposed to have with some head technology guy. I think it's a new position, and they are probably just really busy.

But that's ok. I'm working on our kitchen, replacing cabinets. I spent a week fishing up on Cape Cod. Caught a bunch of stripers on the fly (too many to count) and a couple with a polaris popper but nothing big enough to keep.

I've also been playing a lot of Guild Wars. Great game.