Mish-mash update

To start things off, the interview went really well yesterday. I spoke with three different ladies who I would be working under, and the third one told me that they will be calling people back for second interviews with the VP for next week after they discuss things on Thursday. Then she pretty much said that I would be called back for a second interview. I look like a really good match on paper and I always interview well, so I'm confident. It seems like a great place to work, and that I could really grow in that environment. My goal today is to keep up the job search. I find that a job search requires the right combination of patience and diligence. If you are too patient, then you run the risk of not being proactive enough. If you are too diligent, you run the risk of getting way too emotionally involved in each cover letter and resume that don't create an interview.

I finished a really awful book yesterday. It was also a really good lesson that one should not buy a paperback in a grocery store, but I was desperate for something to read. The first review on Amazon sums up exactly what I thought of the book. I kept alternating between complaining to Dan about the book and reading him the really awful love scenes so we could laugh at them. You may ask why I kept reading (which Dan did quite often)? Well, there was a kidnapped kid, and I had to know if he was ok. I know, I'm a sucker. And the best part is that I have to read the sequel to understand the ending of the first book. Well played, Tami Hoag, but this little fish is not biting on that hook again.

I picked up I, Mona Lisa last night at Target. I really enjoyed Girl with a Pearl Earring a few years ago, so it seems like an obvious choice for me. I don't know how they'll compare, but it could be fun for a light read. Alas, the description for I, Mona Lisa still includes the phrase "bodice ripper." Oy-vey, but I have a feeling that after Night Sins, it's going to seem very modest and well written. I know, I know..."Get thee to a library," but Dan got a rather nasty stomach bug after his first day at work, so I spent most of yesterday afternoon taking care of him when he came home from work.

Dan hardly ever gets sick, and when he does, it's usually a bug that will wipe him out. I remembered that rice was good for an upset stomach and he ate some of that when he got home from work, but I called my mom to see what else I could feed him. And she came back with "brats," which really confused me b/c I thought she was telling me to feed him bratwurst. Well, for those of you out there like me who don't have that awesome "mom wisdom" yet, brats stands for Bananas, Rice, Apples, Toast, and Soup. Cool, huh? Well Dan put the big nix on soup. We had soup the night before and he got sick not long after. The same thing happened with me when I ended up in the hospital in college from an awful stomach bug. I had the most delicious soup right before I got sick. Campbell's still makes it, but I can't even think about eating it almost a decade later. So for dinner, Dan had toast and half an apple with the skin peeled off. He slept enough last night to feel up to going to work today. He still not better, but he doesn't want to make a bad impression at his new job. He's a trooper....and I'm betting a rather dehydrated trooper at this point.