I had a pretty good time in Virginia Beach this weekend w/ Marvin, Kenny and Elaine.  It didn’t rain til the very end, so we had a lot of beach time.  I only wished we could have stayed down even longer.  There were a couple iffy memories (i.e. crazy beggar at 7-11), but I definitely got tons more positive experiences from this weekend.

Some pics:

Anyways I can’t really think straight right now, so I’m gonna go back to the massive amount of reading I’ve been doing recently.  If you wanna find me you’ll most likely will see me sitting in the the Books-A-Million cafe area at Arundel Mills for the rest of this week.  

No, not by a girl, but by the place I absolutely thought I was gonna work for by the end of this summer!

I was going through the process with them, i.e. them checking my references and me doing a screening a couple of days ago.  There were at least a few positions that they had offered me within the company and I was planning on going in next Tuesday to talk more about one of the position.

I get a call today from the HR person I’ve been talking with back and forth for the past few months.  She first tell me that they had to cancel the the appointment next Tuesday.  I’m thinking “oh okay, maybe something came up and they have to reschedule.”  The next thing she said completely sucker punched me –

HR person:  “We are going to have to close your application for all the positions you were applying to.”
Me:  “…..”

After my moment of WTF, I asked what was the reason but she said she couldn’t tell me.  I was completely shocked and at first very confused.  What happened?  I’m pretty sure I met all the qualifications, had good references, and passed the intelligence test.  I started thinking about it and the only thing that makes sense was that screening I did a day ago.  However, I’m almost positive i passed it with flying colors.  It took less than 5 minutes, all of which was me saying no to various questions i.e. “have you ever been arrested?”, “have you ever attempted suicide?”, etc.  The only question I didn’t say no to was “Do you ever drink?” which I replied sometimes, but not much because I get red easily and I’m kinda embarrassed by that.  The guy that screened me really gave the impression that I was all good and even started talking about how much I will like the company.

Well I guess that all means nothing now and I’m back to square one.  I need to keep searching for a job, and maybe even consider going to graduate school if this dumb pattern keeps up.  I know I know, my friend keeps reminding me of that stupid batman line “why do we fall?  So we can get back up!”, but this still totally stings me.  First USTA, now this?  My confidence hasn’t really been at the highest level recently and this just depleted it even more.

I feel absolutely pathetic right now .  I hope going to VA Beach this weekend will cheer me up, or at the very least distract me from my current situation.  I could really use something to give me a major confidence boost, just anything really good.  I haven’t had a super great thing happen to me in such a long time. Ugh!

Looks like I will probably be working at Bello Machre.  Question now is what position?  I could either be a family living director, family living assistant, or a administration specialist for the organization.  They all got some strong and weak points that I need to figure out in the next coming weeks.

Saw John Mayer live in concert over at Columbia last Sunday.  It poured the entire time, which sucked but it made the show very memorable.  Funniest part of the show – John Mayer sees a girl holding up a sign saying “I’ll be legal in 2 years.” His response; “Why wait 2 years I’m a pervert now!” .  …That was possibly funnier at the live show.  Anyways it was pretty good show.  Glad he played some of my favorite songs like Why Georgia, Bigger Than My Body, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, and Gravity. 

Fan video of Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

The Dark Knight was incredible!  Go see it if you want to forget about everything else and be captivated for 2 and half hours.  Made a record breaking 155 million dollars this weekend, so I’m gonna assume most of yall have already seen it.  If you haven’t, what the hell are you waiting for?

Great Dark Knight trailer spoof

I’m now excited to see the Watchmen movie coming out next March!  You may have seen the trailer for it before batman.  I’ve heard so many great things about the graphic novel but haven’t gotten enough interest to read it until after seeing that preview.  Can’t wait to read it when i get it in the mail sometime in the next few days.

Watchmen teaser trailer (great choice of music btw)

My little brother’s b-day party was yesterday.  I hate little bratty kids who think they can get away with rude behavior while in a group.  Good thing Kenny and Marvin were there or else I would have gone insane haha.

I need to find a good public place near my area (aka around Arundel Mills) to read my books…any suggestions?

Oh I can’t wait for certain things to happen.  Trying to be patient with it but I’m finding myself becoming more bitter about my situation. 

Now back to daydreaming.

from http://www.paulgoldinresearch.com/cg/ :

That about sums it up.

Note to self (and everyone else):  If you go to Las Vegas, DON’T go with your family if you
wish to have a lot of fun.  All that
stuff you see on tv and movies?  Doesn’t
even have a chance to happen when you’re forced to be with your family during
the entire time you’re in Sin
City.  I want to commit some sins!!! 

The week here hasn’t been all bad, I guess.  I did get to take in the scenery of Las Vegas and all of it’s
crazy looking hotels.  The day trip to Los Angeles was pretty
cool.  I got to see Hollywood Blvd. and a bunch of celebrity
houses while riding in a tour bus w/ a smooth talking Nigerian fella (“Jackie
Chan Jackie Chan Jackie Chan ladies and gentlemen, mmmmmm.”)

Two interesting moments happened during the trip as
well.  The night we came back from LA, we
got back to our hotel rooms and found out we had to move to another room at a
different part of the hotel.  When I
asked why, the manager or whoever told me that “there was a water problem” in
our tower and thus we couldn’t get water, or something like that.  Fine, sounds reasonable enough.  Later that night I was watching the local
news when the top story was our hotel, the Tropicana, having to evacuate the
tower we stayed in because they found traces of E. Coli in the water!  That manager lied to me!  I should have demanded some free amenities to
w/ our new (admittedly upgraded) room!  I
suppose it’s fine…as long as I’m not glued to the toilet seat for the next week
haha.

The other interesting incident happened on the plane ride
back to BWI from LAX.  It’s about 4am, so
the lights are all turned off in the plane. 
I couldn’t go to sleep during the 5 and half ride back home, so I stayed
up reading Sampra’s book (great book). 
All of a sudden, I hear a guy in the back call for an attendant and all
the lights were instantly turned on, waking up most of the passengers.  A guy (looked about 30s/40s) was seizuring a
few rows behind me!  Luckily, there was a
doctor/nurse on board to help out, but the guy went into a second seizure on
our way down which seemed to have freaked some people out.  When we landed he was immediately taken out
and he seemed okay.  Funny; during the
entire time I kept thinking about this little girl sitting a row behind me that
I overheard say this was her first time flying on a plane.  Guess that will be the memory she’ll be
having for that  .

With all that being said, I still can’t help but think:  there are probably people nearby getting
laid, making huge wagers, getting drunk out of their minds, macking on pretty girls in the pool, staying up all night
cruising the town, etc. etc…and here I am, forced to taking care of my little
brother and having to go to bed at 12am. 
It’s really sad.  For most of the
trip I found myself just daydreaming the time away (if you know me well enough
I don’t have to tell you about what).

I really want to come back to Las Vegas, but definitely with friends
instead.  Seriously, anybody up for going
to Las Vegas
any time soon?  If so let me know, because
after seeing all the things here that I wanted to do but couldn’t, I will spend
the money to go back so I can let loose, for real.  Any takers?