It’s 7am, I’ve been up for about 15 minutes.  My first interview of the day is at 9am for the full-time IT position.  I’m hoping it goes well and I get a decent hourly wage to be able to make up for the loss with the paid blogging and lack of business-based design work right now.  I’m still working on personal and weblog templates but I heavily depended upon corporate/small-business work to get the bills paid.  Let’s just hope that $2200 a month slack is able to be picked up with this position.  I’m hoping for $12-$15 an hour, based on the companies standing and the items that they sell I hope that happens on the higher end, either way I’ll take what I can get.

I didn’t get much sleep last night, I officially went to bed around midnight  but since I’d woken up so late on Thursday I had a lot of trouble falling asleep.  I also couldn’t shut my mind up for a few hours either.  I alternated between watching TV and tossing and turning.  Counting sheep doesn’t work for me, and no matter what animal I tried to substitute things with I still just couldn’t crash.  I finally fell asleep around 3:30 and hopefully the three hours of sleep I got will be more than enough to keep me awake while driving.  I’m scared about going out on such little sleep but I’ll just make sure to have the window wide open (it’s a chilly morning) and a cup of coffee in the cup holder and a focus to keep my eyes open during the interview as well.  Heavy make-up will have to hide the dark circles, that’s the only option right now.

If all goes well I’ll be home in time to make a phone call before I miss my second interview.  I don’t think I’ll be able to handle 60 hours a week from the get-go, I do still have a business to run.  I think if I get lucky enough to make enough money with the IT position, I won’t have to take the part-time position down on the boardwalk.  I’ll base my afternoon on what happens this morning.

I have to be out of here in an hour and a half so I guess I should get my butt in gear.  Time to cake on the excess layers of make-up and re-iron my hair because it’s doing a weird crinkle thing from the angle I slept last night.

Last night it finally hit me that there’s a stack of unpaid bills and recurring payments coming out of my bank account towards the loan and the credit cards.  I quickly got my butt in gear and sent off so many resumes I don’t even remember half of the companies I’d applied to.  The ones that I did remember, however, have already gotten back to me.  I have an interview at 9am on Friday with a Marina looking for a full time web developer and I also have a 1pm appointment at a build-a-bear kind of factory in town as well.

I’m thinking if I can actually handle it, doing full time with one company and part time with another would give me everything I need in order to get back on track with things.  I hope to not exceed 55 hours a week but we’ll see what happens.  I really wouldn’t mind doing weekdays as a web developer and spending my weekends with all the kids down by the beach, I think it will give me the relaxation that I need – that’s for sure.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed and see what sticks and what doesn’t.

It’s my hope that sometime over the course of the next two months, I’m able to hop in the car and take a trip up to New York to visit family. With cancer spreading like wildfire, and the Christening of my cousin – the trip would definitely be worth it. My issue right now is money, I don’t even think I’d be able to afford the $120 round-trip, let alone just being up there in general. From gas to tolls it’s not a cheap trip to take. I know it’s not like I’m going to be in Key West Snorkeling or anything, but it’s still damn expensive to travel through two and a half states. For those who don’t live in the Tri-state area, you probably wouldn’t understand. Unfortunately anyone coming into or out of New Jersey or New York has to pay some kind of a toll. I think it’s stupid considering I can travel the entire length of Delaware for $3, and that’s only if I stay on Route-1 the entire time. Either way I just know that I have important things to do in New York and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get up there. It’s really depressing. I just need at least ONE damn store to call me back and say “Come in for an Interview!”

I’m still not done with the template I started a few days ago.  It’s not that I’m slacking off or anything , it’s just that I haven’t been able to get some key CSS aspects working.  There’s something with “the loop” in WordPress that’s stopping me from getting everything to properly load on the main page.  The post-image has been easily worked in, I just have everything setup with certain sizes and you really have to play around with it in order to get the spacing just right.  There’s a height issue with the outer divs, an overlapping issue with the inner divs.  It’s all just one big annoying mess that I hope to be able to figure out sometime soon.  It’s my goal to get all of my post-work done within the next half hour and then I can hopefully return to the bedroom so I can sit in silence and get everything else to work properly for me with this template so I can finish it as soon as possible.

: crosses fingers :

As many of you know, I’m still looking into colleges. I’m leaning towards Devry right now but that’s because they have exactly what I’m looking for. A quick two-year degree that I can complete in six months. I’m going to need financial aid and all kinds of things in order to afford it but eventually I’ll be able to figure it out so I can just enroll and get it done with – finally.

During my search for schools I did come across Kettering University, they’ve taken a unique viral approach to getting students to look into their school. They have little webisodes, which I find amusing on top of being informative, I posted one of the first ones. I saw them all and they were equally interesting but this one basically gets to the point the fastest:

So after that I went floating around to see what they had to offer and while there isn’t anything of interest for me personally, they do have more ‘hands on’ kind of methods for those looking into mechanical engineering and other majors like it. Supposedly the US News and World Report has ranked Kettering as the #1 University in the nation for Industrial and Manufacturing engineering in it’s America’s Best Colleges Guide for 2008. That, to me, shows just how highly regarded the school really is. It’s too bad I’m stuck on the computer technology kick. They do have a Computer Science course but there really isn’t a focus on the field that I’d like to go into so I’ll have to overlook that for now. I do think if you’re looking for a good school then they’re worth checking out. If you go to their website you can view all of the Webisodes and laugh along with me. Why wouldn’t you want to look at something that’s considered one of the US News Best Colleges?