What a complete meal....

I have to laugh at this. Try and make a meal with this:

I'm linking to McDonald's gluten free items.

For starters, I think their parfaits have the granola already added. Am I right on this one?

If you go further and read their statement on their fries and hasbrowns, it's quite confusing. Personally I've eaten their fries several times with no problems. But I'm also not a very sensitive celiac. I guess it's good overall to not eat their fries.

Job seeking

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm 30 years old and never had to job search in my life.

I worked my way through the hardware store that my mother managed. BTW: they've already offered me a job.

When I was in college, I interviewed as a student to work in a lab. After I graduated, he hired me on the spot. The promotion interview was a formality.

So I'm looking for a job. One company says they're hiring close to where I'll be living. I sent them my resume, but since I don't know if they're hiring technicians, I don't know if it'll end up in the shredder.

One job sounds really cool. I hope I get it. It's been on the site for a couple months, and the deadline for resumes was long expired. So I'm crossing my fingers on that one.

But you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

The biggest problem in my field is that I technially don't have "clinical laboratory experience". Specifically, I haven't been working in a clinical lab where it's nothing but sample processing. I know how to handle specimens, but not on a high output format. There's another job that sounds interesting, but it says that five years of development assays is a MUST. I meet all the other requirements.

Do I apply for jobs where I have all but one of the requirements? Do I elaborate on my CV all the nuance details that I know how to do? I also have one summer where I did clinical laboratory work as an intern - a long time ago. But do I mention it too?

One big ball of stress

I have a feeling that's what my life is going to be like until the end of October.

If I don't have a job lined up by then, it'll be a different ball of stress.

Boss is screaming at me to give him the data. But he isn't specific on HOW he wants the data. So I'm quietly freaking out on how to give him what he wants when he isn't telling me how to make it look.

Plus the AC died completely on Sunday. Pretty much just blows hot air while running up my electricity bill. Yesterday, the service guys where there. They determined the thing dead, and set out to order a new one. Left my apartment WITH THE DAMN THING RUNNING. I bitched to the office that I can't afford to hemorrage money like that. Plus it isn't good for the kitty cats.

It was so damn hot last night I was forced to leave the back door open all night. I woke up at 2:30 in the morning to the sound of cats fighting. My first panicked thought was "how the heck did Adira get to the ground?" So in a rush I pulled on my bathrobe, grabbed my glasses, and turned a light on (after I hit my toe on something). All cats present and accounted for. Then it took like a half hour to go back to sleep.

All cats present and accounted for in the morning.

I'm so sleepy it isn't funny. I also need to get my exercise in to lose a couple pounds. And pack a carload of stuff. And....