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Nov. 10th, 2023 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedAunt Tracy was the first to arrive here, early yesterday morning. As soon as Dad brought her home, I showed her the apartment where she would be sleeping, but despite having been on a long flight from California, she decided afterwards to go into the house to have some tea with my parents.
I took then to use my desktop, instead of my laptop that I brought down into the house where I am currently sleeping, to continue a list of script corrections for Mr. Tenda, the new person responsible for modding Earthbound. (Normally, I would have gotten back to people on Upwork, regarding a series of thumbnails for when I host my upcoming playthroughs of Getter Love!! on YouTube, but I had a job interview just a few hours away and simply wanted some time to relax beforehand. I did get around to that, though, although I don't remember exactly when.)
Mom called to me from the front door to come down and let Tracy come up and sleep, but Tracy decided instead just to sleep in Marie's room.
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That interview was for a store associate position at Aldi's in Selden at noon. Mom had already agreed to drop me there early, since it was along the way to the airport where she and Tracy had to meet Aunt Marie.
Ate lunch at Panera Bread in the same shopping center. Got myself a Buffalo chicken sandwich, a kitchen sink cookie, and some coffee, all for $21.04, and managed to finish up just eight minutes before I had scheduled to show up.
The interview was specified as a "45-minute group interview", which I assumed would mean I would be interviewed simultaneously with several others for that full duration. Instead, we had to put our names on a sheet, and were interviewed in signature order. It was already around 1:15 when my turn came, although I did pass a few minutes at one point by reading a bit of Magical Girl Raising Project before getting up to pace around.
Having returned home at my advice instead of waiting around for so long in the parking lot, Mom asked me to text her when only two people remained before me. Citing having gotten stuck in traffic, though, she still took a few minutes to arrive back after my turn ended. While I walked around looking for her, some homeless guy asked me if I had any money, and I gave him the 96 cents I had recieved back in change in Panera Bread. (Mom actually asked me upon arriving if he was one of my fellow applicants, but I would've likely recognized him from inside the store.)
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Had a nap when we arrived back home, and then figured I might meet Marie up in the apartment. She wasn't there, and back in the house, Mom told me that she and Tracy were taking Polly for a walk down Masem Court.
Met them down near the end, where they had been reminiscing on who used to live in each house there, back when they lived here with Grandma Barbara, before asking me how my interview went. After I described that, they asked me if I think I'll get the job, and I told them that even if I don't, I might still have a chance to make even more money than a part-time job would provide me, once I monetize my YouTube channel for ad revenue (at someone's advice who overcharged me for a thumbnail and then offered to promote me instead). They expressed interest in that, and even offered to share my content with Uncles Steve and Ray. (For that matter, maybe Cousin David should have in on it as well.)
Asked Marie if she'd be interested to continue Kanon back at the house, and Tracy asked what that's about. Explained the best I could to her.
Continued my stroll from there, for one more lap even after they went back to the house, before meeting them back and seeing Emily having arrived with Maris. We all played with her for a short while, before I invited my aunts to watch an episode.
Having misremembered what episode Shiori's arc ends on, I initially put on episode 16, but fully recognized the episode pretty early on.
We ended up re-watching 18, the actual episode we had left off on.
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Brian came home briefly last night, but I was already in bed, and suggested that we catch up on things sometime today.
I took then to use my desktop, instead of my laptop that I brought down into the house where I am currently sleeping, to continue a list of script corrections for Mr. Tenda, the new person responsible for modding Earthbound. (Normally, I would have gotten back to people on Upwork, regarding a series of thumbnails for when I host my upcoming playthroughs of Getter Love!! on YouTube, but I had a job interview just a few hours away and simply wanted some time to relax beforehand. I did get around to that, though, although I don't remember exactly when.)
Mom called to me from the front door to come down and let Tracy come up and sleep, but Tracy decided instead just to sleep in Marie's room.
-----
That interview was for a store associate position at Aldi's in Selden at noon. Mom had already agreed to drop me there early, since it was along the way to the airport where she and Tracy had to meet Aunt Marie.
Ate lunch at Panera Bread in the same shopping center. Got myself a Buffalo chicken sandwich, a kitchen sink cookie, and some coffee, all for $21.04, and managed to finish up just eight minutes before I had scheduled to show up.
The interview was specified as a "45-minute group interview", which I assumed would mean I would be interviewed simultaneously with several others for that full duration. Instead, we had to put our names on a sheet, and were interviewed in signature order. It was already around 1:15 when my turn came, although I did pass a few minutes at one point by reading a bit of Magical Girl Raising Project before getting up to pace around.
Having returned home at my advice instead of waiting around for so long in the parking lot, Mom asked me to text her when only two people remained before me. Citing having gotten stuck in traffic, though, she still took a few minutes to arrive back after my turn ended. While I walked around looking for her, some homeless guy asked me if I had any money, and I gave him the 96 cents I had recieved back in change in Panera Bread. (Mom actually asked me upon arriving if he was one of my fellow applicants, but I would've likely recognized him from inside the store.)
-----
Had a nap when we arrived back home, and then figured I might meet Marie up in the apartment. She wasn't there, and back in the house, Mom told me that she and Tracy were taking Polly for a walk down Masem Court.
Met them down near the end, where they had been reminiscing on who used to live in each house there, back when they lived here with Grandma Barbara, before asking me how my interview went. After I described that, they asked me if I think I'll get the job, and I told them that even if I don't, I might still have a chance to make even more money than a part-time job would provide me, once I monetize my YouTube channel for ad revenue (at someone's advice who overcharged me for a thumbnail and then offered to promote me instead). They expressed interest in that, and even offered to share my content with Uncles Steve and Ray. (For that matter, maybe Cousin David should have in on it as well.)
Asked Marie if she'd be interested to continue Kanon back at the house, and Tracy asked what that's about. Explained the best I could to her.
Continued my stroll from there, for one more lap even after they went back to the house, before meeting them back and seeing Emily having arrived with Maris. We all played with her for a short while, before I invited my aunts to watch an episode.
Having misremembered what episode Shiori's arc ends on, I initially put on episode 16, but fully recognized the episode pretty early on.
We ended up re-watching 18, the actual episode we had left off on.
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Brian came home briefly last night, but I was already in bed, and suggested that we catch up on things sometime today.