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I started a new temp job today via Aerotek. I literally just met with a new recruiter yesterday and then started a job today! Those people are great, if you are unemployed, I strongly suggest calling them up (and name drop me, thanks).

It’s only a two week assignment, out in the suburbs of Chicago, and doesn’t pay nearly enough. But it’s better than $0/hr, also better than sitting at home all day, the people are nice, and I will be gaining some accounting experience. So, I’m glad for that.

You know that way you get when you like a person’s company so much, that you can’t even look at them or be around them without grinning ear-to-ear? I mean, that happens right? It does to me. Anyway, I miss having someone look at me that way.

I realize I haven’t uploaded any photo-a-day photos since August 24th. I have no excuse.

I’ll fix it.

But not right now.

Work Aerotek, Gendex

I don’t know what to say on here anymore.

My temp job ended yesterday. They don’t have something else lined up for me at the moment. Which is fine, I welcome the break. Sad part is.. I don’t really care what I do. As long as I can pay the bills, I’ll be content. How do people decide on careers? On doing that one thing, or something related to that one thing, for the rest of your life? Really? That’s beyond me. Or above. Whichever. I’m happy doing tedious stuff like filing, organizing, and cleaning. But where’s the sense of accomplishment in that?

Fourth of July is this weekend. What to do? Still waiting on decisions.

I’m finding it difficult to say what I really mean these days. Hard to get my point across. So I guess I’ll just shut my face and leave it up to happenstance.

Life is short, despite all your plans.

Work Aerotek, Fourth of July, Lucero, Visitors

I have been living in Chicago for five months now. I can still count the number of good friends I have in town, on one hand. And even amongst them, the list is slowly diminishing, because of associations. This bothers me. Apparently, the awesome social skills I thought I had, only come across as me being an excessively friendly, yet.. creepy, brash girl who flew in from the Cornhusker state, in the middle of nowhere/America. They can smell the desperation on me from miles away.

The best weekends I’ve had are the ones when someone is visiting me from Nebraska. This is not enough to make me miss the place, I only miss the people. It doesn’t help to get more attached after leaving.

Don’t get me wrong, I know exactly what I need to do in order to remedy this situation:

1. Stop expecting to meet fantabulous people in bars.
2. Focus on my own interests: Join groups/classes with similar tastes. Get more hobbies.
3. Remind myself how to enjoy being alone.
4. And the ever-so-vague one: Stop getting stuck in the past.

I realize that I’ll eventually meet more people who will widen my eyes and I will love them all dearly. I look forward to it, believe me. It’s just sometimes, you have to complain when you feel like it. And I’ve been so frustrated with this topic lately. Better to get it out of my brain than let it stew and brew.

Funny, the girl who used to want everyone to go away and leave her alone… Now, wishes she had more people around. This lady is never satisfied.

Oh, one more thing… a few people got laid off at work today. There goes my hopes of being hired on (I am currently a temp via Aerotek). It was sad, people were definitely upset.

Work Aerotek, ASPS, Chicago, Nebraska, Olay