1 day to go…

so tomorrow is my last day at CDA.  i think i can deal with that.  i’m ready to start something new.  I’m not sure how long it will take to start that something new or even WHERE it will be.  lately, i’ve been obsessed with this though…i’m not sure how long the obsession will last.  i actually found tyler james because i was looking for the song “Your Woman” by White Town, but then i found this guy that so strongly reminds me of none other than Jake Gyllenhaal (drool).  yeah ok i have to go.  tomorrows my last day and i want to leave with a phenomenal impression! actually, i’m working on an SF 330 oodles of fun…so much fun i’ll probably restraining devices just to maintain my composure.  

 

later homebodies!

interviews: check.

ok so my interviews are over and done with.  which is nice, cos i was getting soo HONGRY!!!  I’m glad Kelley was there.  I was comfortable with that.  She’s a great interviewer, which i had expected, but i felt like it was my little sister interviewing and i dunno it was just a such a warm feeling every time she’d give her responses.

 

anyways.  so for about the first interview:

it was at ashby staffing which is a staffing agency.  and it was for a position doing the same stuff i’m doing: so rfq’s and rfp’s hub stuff…and the lady that interviewed me said she really liked me.  Its of obvious benefit for her to get her people hired so I’m hoping that she finds possible leads for it.  Anyway, so that went well and she will also be looking for other stuff for me.  She basically told me she things i’m an overall good package and a marketable candidate for marketing positions.  That was nice to hear.

My second interview was at SpryDev and it was for that entry level assistant position.  so i didn’t get that job.  I didn’t even make it to the second round.  But Ben did invite me too interview for the Jr. Internet Marketing Coordinator position.  I think i could probably bring more to the table with that job. and while it does not come w/ an iphone, it comes with a higher salary so i’d be able to afford an iphone on my own.  I did like meeting him and while i did not learn about what they do exactly, or what their daily processes are like i did enjoy getting a feel for what he has going on.  so yes, it was definitely worth going to.  and as i said: i landed the 2nd interview.  What i wasn’t thrilled about was the work schedule.  Mr. Cox allows me to take a half day once a week so i can do my volunteering.  :(  and, you know I really enjoy it. This job doesn’t seem to offer that, and if anything i’m a bit hesitant as to the hours: 8am-6pm.  currently, i’m at 8:30-5:30.  so i put in 35 hours a week just about.  I don’t mind working through lunch, in fact if i’m avoiding traffic and drive thrus and fast food calories and the love handles to follow….i think i’m better off. 

so far my leads are SpryDev, UT Co-op, that lady from Asby, and i’ve yet to hear back from adLucent.  but i might not ever hear back from them…who knows.  so far, it’s an even tie between SpryDev and the UTCoop.  

pre-interview post

today i have two things to look forward to.

1. i can excuse myself for fast food for lunch. 
2. nylons and pencil skirts! woo-hoo!

Yes. i have an interview at 1:00 with Caren for the Marketing Coordinator/Proposals Manager job so since it’s at 1.00 i need to grab a burger or something else that i might possibly spill on myself right before my interview.  and nylons and pencil skirts cos that’s what i get to wear!!! gosh i’m sooo excited.  so so so excited that i don’t know if i’ll be able to contain myself.  I seriously hope that i actually don’t share that during my interview because i am very likely to disclose my personal perk of the day.

also, i got an email back from Ben.  and YES, i can interview for BOTH. in his email he said to go ahead and go in today for this interview which is the personal assistant job.  The other position is to be the Jr. Internet Marketing Coordinator.  The thing is…he said if i don’t get this one as in the personal assistant job to go ahead and apply for the other one if i end up liking his style and all.  Ok, If i end up not getting this one: am i gonna like his style?  Think about it: i’m notoriously full of myself…so am i gonna like his style if i don’t get it?  oh ben…

there are two outcomes that I’ll be satisfied with:  That I become the personal assistant for the first few weeks or so and then get promoted to Jr. Marketing Coordinator ( i think i’ll like saying i’m Jr. something lol “hello, i’m lorena jr.”). or that at the end of this interview he say: you know, i’m so convinced you will be perfect for the Jr. MIC job.  and then he’ll either just hire me.

yes, i have 2 interviews.  it’s sad that what i look forward to about the other is that i get to eat fast food. oi vey.

 

 

to the creepy guy downstairs

please don’t stare anymore.

ok so i’m oblivious to who my neighbors are.  with the exception of the formally dubbed ‘weird guy’ now he’s creepy guy.  but yeah i see him every so often outside in his little porch.  usually he’s just looking at the sky it seems like to me.  but tonight when i came home he was having a smoke…this was news to me.  i didn’t know weird guy smoked.  ok so weird man was totally staring at me today and i dunno if he was just bored but it creeped/crept? me out. ESPECIALLY since he knows exactly where i live and what i drive.  

in other news: i got a suit and monday i’ll stop by joseph’s shop so he can alter my coat.  i’m excited.  Also, I got an AWESOME gray pencil skirt. 

yeah it’s pouring

but i have an umbrella.  i have many. in fact a collection. 

well as all 2 readers know, my contracts up this wednesday.  i usually like humpdays so it’s aight.  BUT yesterday while i was getting some errands done my car breaks down.  yeah i didn’t have my cell on me either.  that morning i had been so preoccupied w/ creating an awesome baked potato for my lunch that day that all else faded in significance and existence in some case.

my brother junior, totally came to my rescue though.  when i got home from work that day (yes i went back of course) i called mom and told her my sob story.  10 minutes later my brother who lives an 1.5 hrs away calls me and asks if i want a ride to work in the morning.  He’s so sweet. so yes, this morning I was chauffered to work and he’s doing his handy man super brother thing on my car.

totally my hero (since 1985).

I LOVE YOU JR!

another 4 resumes a-go-go

boo…this job application stuff sucks.  that i do miss school for.  where i’d drop off my resume to a few companies and get interviews there on campus.  WHY oh WHY did i leave…yeah, i remember why.

ok so applied to

1. eea consulting engineers, doing marketing of course.  if they even try to get a scale close to me i’ll break into hives.
2. TradeOne marketing as a Training Specialist.  it requires 25% travel…check.  i’m in fo’ that! except it definitely doens’t sound like a fun job at all…even for me we’ll see.  i doubt i’ll get called back.
3. Reasoning Mind (this one is in Houston). as a project manager.  it deals w/ software for grades k-12…sounds like it could be cool.  let’s see what happens.
4. and Marketing Account Executive at some anon spot in central austin apparently, but, i may be making up the central part up.

ugh….call be back.  I really REALLY want to hear back from adLucent but i sent them another email today and i don’t think they’ll respond.  the Co-op…what can i say i just can’t get away from Retail ( i think i love it ) OH! and they’re opening 2 more stores…did someone say ‘Rollout’?! cos my ears totally perked.  i love organizing crazy events like that.  and the gig w/ Ben Finklea…i like his last name (it has an ‘f’ AND a ‘k’) plus…rolling w/ the ceo is totally my style.

ok peace out homebodies!!!

this one’s for ben

ok so today i was pretty productive. i applied to a few more gigs:

1. Personal Assistant Needed For Busy CEO (central/north austin)-a total MUST read the guy is looking a personal assistant.  i applied lol. what?! it pays $20/hr jeez
2. Event Coordinator- i don’t think it’ll pay much but nothing about this job sounds out of my reach…seriously it’s just minutes from where i live. and yes, i like this stuff.
3. Business Manager for Creative Group…this link has been removed.  but the post itself sounded like i just HAVE to work w/ these people. Plus at the end of the post it said: “Only the adventurous need apply.”  i just could not hold back.
4. and finally Entry-Level Executive Liaison/Assistant (NW Austin (183 & McNeil))- this gig comes with an iPhone…need i say more. a bit further out from me than the event coordinator position but….it comes with an iPhone.

ok so i’m at work minding my own, surfing the net, and i get an email from Ben (from no.4 entry level exec. liason)  and his email says: What, no mention of me on your blog? Forget about it.

at this point i was giving myself a virtual smack to the forehead and saying WHY DID I SEND OUT MY BLOG LINK?!  there goes the iPhone!! noooooooooooo……….  thinking all is lost i replied with the least professional way i know how…

all and all: i have an interview this coming monday.  which means i get to go shopping!!! sweetness.  

in other news today i turned in my 2 wks at j.crew au revoir jcrew i will miss my discount dearly!!!

peace out homebodies!

 

week no. 17

i am kinda in denial cos of my whole getting laid off thing.  so what do i do this wkend.  i spend money…i try to help the economy that has me down right now. 

I went to ikea and got a shelf.  i imagine i will be posting on craigslist soon being that I have ruined it.  i spraypainted it when i got home cos i just didn’t want it to get washed out, it being a creamy white and my walls being an ugly imitation of white too, not the same but not drastically similar.  anyways, so i spraypainted the side rails and got spray paint on other parts of my apartment but i’m just gonna say “i’m too generous…i like to give of my excess and i wasn’t gonna use that whole bottle of spray paint on just the rails.”  no one will buy that lame excuse but OH I WILL TRY!!!!

I also got some more glass things: 

apparently i want to start selling them myself or i will be planning to return them also? dunno yet…

 

i got a matching set salt and pepper shaker set!!! FINALLY–you have no idea how it weighed on me not to have them.

i got some stickers: and this is where i camoflauge-stuck them.  am i an artistic genius or a sucker of a consumer? you decide…

peace out my homebodies!!!

i’m getting laid-off yai-ee

bleh…i complain about my job enough to deserve not having it.  i do feel for mr. cox though.  i think he’s kept me as long as he could and i totally thank him for it, he’s been a great boss and if he were a movie i’d give him the 2 thumbs up, except, if he really were a movie…i don’t think he’d get 2 thumbs up.

so what am i doing?  well, i have started to back up my continuous job search with serious effort and prayer.  more than anything just praying for peace cos this is something that’s gonna start to bug me pretty soon.  currently,  i think i’m in denial.  once i spend a whole day at home i’ll start to go crazy by the third hour of nothing and beg to flip burgers and complicate my life via, the internet, dieting fads, pilates, driving my cat crazy, but if anything maybe i’ll get to go over all of my garments with those rollers with the sticky tape that are made to take lint and of particular interest to me-cat hair, off of stuff. man, reading over this i’ve noticed i’m pretty lax about punctuation…let’s just extend it to grammar…heck let’s go all  out and extend it to English…better yet, english…not bester yet: ingleesh.  lorena alvarez: butchering one word at a time.

ok ok so back to my job hunt: i’ve applied to a few spots here in austin but i did find one AWESOME SOUNDING opening for a job in houston.  if i do get that job in houston i’m totally treating myself to a sari.  ok so that job is at a spot in Reasoning Mind located 6 minutes in driving distance from my sisters job and my former employer Watts Law Firm.  I miss that job.  and by miss i mean i miss the tension that would creep into your body as dependant on the stress level of the Mister of misters: mr. hunter.  you wanna know why? cos the man was overflowing in energy.  if he were a fruit (haha i totally don’t mean that) but if he were a fruit he’d totally be busting his peel and attracting bees from africa.  so do i miss watts…maybe i miss having a job that gave me access to the houston tunnels and aside from that it paid in money.  ok ok so the job hunt

the job hunt thus far includes:

1. AdLucent–PLEASE CALL ME!!! and no i’m not desperate, not yet at least but i do want to see your award winning office space.  that and they just seem to be straight up cool.  their process is described in such down to earth terms and that’s really appealing to me cos they know their stuff but they’re not super showy-i-will-spk-above-thy-head
2. UT COOP– i can totally do that job cos i’m a retail megastar ( i just got bumped to mega status too, so get me while i’m fresh)
3. BAZAARvoice–i want to be able to say: i work at bazaar.  but honestly…ONLY if they have a casual dress code
4. some anon construction company– i’d be doing rfqs/rfps and hub stuff which is what i dish out here anyways so it’d be a smooth transition but i’m not gonna get excited until i know more about the company but their ad claims that they are ranked as one of the top 10 places to work in austin.

alright manblog: lunchbox out.

oh wait: i mean…let the wkend begin

 

today lorena, tomorrow cow

ASK me how many times i’ve eaten out these past few weeks?  NO DON’T please don’t ask…i’ll be super embarrassed to respond.  that, and, my abacus doesn’t have that many beads. 

today: 2 hot and spicy mcChickens (light on the mayo w/ pickles hold the lettuce) a side salad, and tea. 

this morning: an egg and cheese mcmuffin small coffee 1 cream 2 splendas

yesterday: breakfast at mcD’s, lunch at erika’s (lasagna and CHOCOFLAN!) i had leftovers from a meal that a sister in my hall made for me (delish!!!! to the power of 10)

sunday: breakfast also made by another friend, lunch (leftovers from something someone cooked for me on friday), appetizers and iced coffee at some Vietnamese/Chinese joint, and dinner at jauroys (best fajitas this year)  

saturday: breakfast at the crenshaws, lunch at pfChangs w/ erika and cindy, dinner was pf chang’s leftovers

 

ok you get the picture.  i weighed myself…still the same, but i know it won’t last.  so i have to stop.  and continue going to the gym.  see when i go the gym not only do i organize my time better, i also wear myself out to the point that i don’t misbehave–it’s my antidrug.

thank you 24hr fitness, thank you.  and the people that have to deal with me thank you too.