So Thursday after work was spent riding/driving to O city and back. Why? NE had found a 2000 Chevy Prizm for $1200 which he decided to buy.
There is some work that will need to be done to it - brakes, driver side window, etc., but mechanically it is in good shape.
I am SO glad to have my car back now (he filled up my gas tank and treated me to dinner at Hardee's as a thank you for letting him use my car this week.)
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I convinced my boss to let me have a 3rd school event in August. That'll make 4 different events I'll be doing.
I figure I can do more than my fair share now since I won't be able to help with any of the football games (they all are on Saturdays or Friday nights. Except for the one after Thanksgiving, which I'll be in CA!) (We run a shuttle service from multiple locations in the city to the local public uni's football stadium.)
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The last two weeks have been a bust financially and health wise. The numbers aren't going to be very pretty .. not as bad as May's, but definitely not as nice as June's. You can probably guess where a lot of the budget busting came from.
Ugh.
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I bought two $9 Net 10 phones from Family Dollar today (sale ended today.) I'm going to be using them for the sole purpose of playing paid videos. I think they'll pay off soon enough to be worthwhile.
I also read this article posted on FB:
http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/ways-to-make-money-at-home/
Many of the things I knew about already, but I did see one thing which interested me. Send Dollars - almost exactly like Inbox Dollars. I signed up for it and already have about $6.80 (out of $30 to cash out.)
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I did this horrible survey yesterday morning which turned out to be mainly about coffee. I somehow managed to complete it - mainly because they didn't ask the one question which would have saved both them and me a lot of time .... Do you drink coffee? Nope - they just assumed that everyone drinks coffee. Yuck.
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I managed to complete the Survey Soiree for SBs this week - 150 SB rebate. I only was able to do this due to waking up around 4 a.m. 3 out 5 mornings ... not on purpose. At all.
I don't know if my tiredness affected my viewpoint today at work or not, but MAN were people ever crabby and argumentative. There were a couple of times I wanted to ask - why are you even asking me this question if you won't take my answer?
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The local community college is looking for a Learning Resource Director. Gulp. They aren't requiring a specialized higher education librarian degree (like most universities would ...) It pays $4/hour more than what I'm making now. I'm not sure what the benefits are.
I'm thinking seriously about applying.
My two big qualms .... 1. It would put me WAY out of my comfort zone dealing with CC students; and 2. It doesn't state what the expected hours/days are.
2 is probably the bigger issue. I checked on the website for the LRC and it shows it is open on Saturdays.
I have the feeling that my stating that I can only work M-F probably would get my application thrown in the proverbial trash without further reading. But, still, it probably wouldn't hurt to try. Who knows how many other ALA certified (well, expired certified?) librarians are here AND know about the job offer. I might have a slim chance.
I do want to see what the benefits are though first - because if I got the job, my commute would change from 6 or 7 minutes to more like 20minutes + - and definitely not walkable. (but would be bussable.)
(And yes, the not working on Saturdays is completely, unequivocally, non-negotiable for me. This is partly why I've hesitated to apply for any of the various public librarian jobs - all of which require weekend hours. As a newbie, I probably wouldn't be able to say - I want Sundays only!)
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Ok, I'm now off to catch up on your blogs. (This is actually a second rendition of my post... thanks to accidentally hitting the backspace button instead of the arrow to move over tabs ...)
"New" Car, OverTime, Budget Busted, etc.
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I finished the stupid SB surveys too, but am pretty darn sick of it, even with it running just in the background.
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GoodLiving - I don't know how many people work there - not sure how to find out. I was alerted to the job by a church member who works there, so maybe she can find out a little bit more about it for me. One of the optional documents they ask for is a writing sample - they don't give any guidelines for it. Do you think it might be a research paper sample, or something else? I do wonder if they'll even consider someone who's total education/experience is geared towards elementary.
MEC - Yep, it is definitely worth a shot.
Yes, surveys generally drive me nuts. So many non-sensical questions .. like, who associates confidence with a brand of pizza?? I generally avoid them because I disqualify (usually) for most of them. I do like the ones where you watch advertisements and then use the sliding scale thing to rate them.
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GL - I just got back from church and had a chance to talk with the person who sent me the posting. She told me she'd asked if the job included Saturdays, and was told it doesn't!
Oh I will definitely do some research. I think I surprised the bus company when I told them about how the service had started as a trolley service in the late 1880's.
I don't have any published papers, and I didn't do end of the year reports at the elementary library I was at. I have a paper I wrote for one of my classes (Running Barefoot: Why do It?) linked on the sidebar. I also for awhile was keeping a children's book blog (but that hasn't been updated in several years.)
I think I'm definitely going to work on putting together a package for them - cover letter, resume, unofficial transcripts, writing sample, reference letters, etc. (Most of these things were listed as optional items to include, but they seem to make sense.)
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I've noticed editing comments is a fruitless effort.
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