The job interview went great. I don't really want this type of job again, but it looks like the company is a little better to work for than the last one and the performance requirements seem a lot less stupidly strict. Besides it's easier to do something if you know it's not forever...

So less than an hour after I got home I already had a phone message waiting. Gotta get my stories checked by a fact checker (just to make sure that I don't tell lies about my education and employment history...) and then expect a call around one tomorrow afternoon with an offer, if everything checks out. Woot!

I made up this banner/avatar combo out of nostalgia. I have the game, but I can't install it on this computer, so I can't actually go back and revisit it just now.

Also, this is the first banner thing I ever made for myself. Give me compliments! I know it doesn't look as good as if someone who does these all the time had made it, but it took me for-freaking-ever to do! And I'm reasonably satisfied.

I'm going off to a job interview in a few minutes, sitting here trying to quench my nerves before I go. Hopefully I'll get the job, with that paying pretty well plus the writing thing that's sure to pick back up eventually I ought to be okay for a while. I hope.

PhoneSaber

I'm putting it in the box labeled: "Things I look for in a man."

What do you do when you forget to bring your coffee maker with you to your new apartment? You improvise, because of course, your caffeine addiction won't wait until the next time you go to the parents' house and you're way too broke to go out and buy your coffee premade...

What you wind up doing is improvising a percolator.

Take a saucepan, fill it with water... the same amount of water you'd usually use for your coffee maker, that is. Take a paper coffee filter, dampen it in water, so it's wet all over. Put it in a wire strainer, the kind you use to strain noodles. Fill it with your normal amount of coffee grounds. Set the wire strainer on top of the saucepan, so the bottom of the coffee gets wet. Boil. You have to keep an eye on it, to make sure the paper filter doesn't get burnt up, but you can't do it without the paper filter, otherwise the grounds just sink right through the wire strainer. And for god's sake, actually bring it to a boil, otherwise you get something very weak and half-cooked tasting.

Once it boils put it in a cup and drink it. It's not too bad.

Helpful hint, don't use flavored coffees. They seem to have sugar in them and they just come out tasting like burnt sugar, not actual coffee.

General life update:

• I need a second job.
• I registered for the LSAT
• I'm still waiting on that new computer
• Today I finished KOTOR II, don't expect a review, I probably couldn't stop ranting long enough to make a coherent sentence about it.
• My favorite author's newest book came out about two weeks ago, and I can't afford to get it. I am sad sad sad sad sad.