I'm going to be tense for a few weeks...

Today waqs my "Group Orientation" thing with Southwest Airlines. It was interesting.

First off, I want this job. Let me repeat that:

I WANT THIS JOB

Good pay, benefits, and when you're on Reserve you get paid to sit home and read LiveJournal! Add in the free travel, and it's a dream come true. I like the entire corporate culture.

The session was conducted by a recruiter and two attendents, who walked us through everything from requirements to training to the logistics of setting up a crash pad. There were about 15 of us there. What amazed me was the complaints people had.. on ewoman left because the uniform requirements for women include makeup. Hell, I'm going to have to shave if when I get the job. All in all, we lost five people after the information session.

We were then given a list of questions, and told to answer one of them to the group. I chose one about the most difficult day at a job and how we handled it. For that, I spoke about the day before Thanksgiving at SuperShuttle, and how it is stressful, harried, and impossible, but the company pulls together and works to get through it. Then we split into to two groups of five, and did an excercise where we had to cohose seven people out of a list of 15 to settle a new planet. Gee, I've never done anything like that before... The group I was in came up with our answers quickly, and i was selected to give our decisions.

They asked a few people to remain behind, and I wasn't one of them. I was assured that this doesn't mean anything, but I'm nervous, of course. I'll hear in the next few weeks if I made it.

Good vibes would be appreciated.

2004 in review

First of many, I suspect. With a few weeks left in the year, it's time to look back in confusion.

( 2004, we hardly knew ye )

Yea verily...

The Gospel of Penguin and Koosh:

In the beginning God created the headache and the mechanical pencil. The mechanical pencil was without boxcars and squishy. Then God said let there be shoe and there was shoe. And God saw the shoe, that it was glowing. On the 6th day God created the first man, The Dude. And God saw The Dude, that he was cold. God then took one of The Dude's toes and made the first woman, Freddie. And God said you shall not eat of the house plant of U-joint for if you do you shall surely scream. But unfortunately a wily wombat tricked Freddie into eating of the house plant of U-joint while God wasn't looking. He eventually found out and kicked them out of the garden. The Dude and Freddie then had two sons, Cane and Able. Cane was a screwer of quarters, while Able was a herder of penguins. Cane then gave God an offering of furious cans and Able gave Him an offering of dice. But God really preferred the dice so Cane sleepily baked Able in the fields. For that God cursed Cane to screw quarters forever.

Go forth, and multiply!