My main mission this past week was to find a job. Once again, I was either overqualified, under qualified, had too little experience, or could find no open positions. I tried food service, but I lacked the experience necessary. I tried offices, but there are literally no office jobs available at this time. I tried temporary agencies, but they told me they had a lack of positions available. I am a 20 year old undergraduate student with perfect school and work history. I have a 3.9 GPA. After struggling to get air-conditioned office jobs or upscale food service jobs, I decided to apply at local fast food chains. So far, the fast food managers have been the nicest out of all other fields. I applied at a customer service center with an outstanding business reputation, but I could tell from the second I applied that they were not so outstanding to their employees. Everyone in the center looked miserable, the HR staff was outrageously rude to every applicant, and they required a million tests, questions, interviews, checks, references, credit history reports, etc. After I passed all of the tests, made 100 WPM on my typing test, and proved I was not an imbecile, they said, “We’ll call you.” Well… I’m still waiting to hear from them, but until then, I’ll keep trying fast food. I’ll be the best drive-thru operator in town!

First of all I am fried right now from lack of sleep then on Mondays is my big washing day I wash sheets and clothes I have to wake up early like 6 to wake up son for school then I had to strip beds and then do housework like dust and vacuum I had to mop and clean bathrooms and then I had to wash dishes and I had to cook and I am up again with no sleep because I can’t I only had 2 hours sleep last night I have been trying to mow the yard for two weeks but I can’t because the lawn mowers broke I have to deal with my son’s friends today I didn’t say anything because they mostly stayed in his room but they came out wanting something to eat or drink. Oh my! Tomorrow I am going though the same day!

I grew up about an hour from Chinatown in San Francisco. My parents used to take my siblings and me to lunch there on Sundays. Sometimes we’d eat at a dim sum restaurant, and sometimes we’d go to a Chinese bakery. The bakery is where I discovered my favorite food: Steamed pork buns. The outside is slightly gummy and sweet. This inside is delicious barbecued pork. The flavor of the pork is similar to the taste a Chinese barbecue spare rib. They’re served warm, and they’re tasty as all get-out! When I moved away from California, I couldn’t find a taste comparable to that pork bun–until last night. I found a Chinese grocery store in Greenville, SC that sells frozen pork buns. You steam them yourself, and the taste is as sweet and gummy as I remember from my childhood. Mmmmm….

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Though when I wake up tends to change daily as I have insomnia, and sometimes do not get to sleep until after 10 am, my basic, day to day life stays the same. I usually spend the first hour or so playing games on my computer to help me wake up, followed by a half an hour of yoga and a quick shower. If it’s one of the rare days that I wake up in the am, I’ll watch TV or play my computer until my husband wakes up, around 2pm. If it’s one of my normal days, where I wake up around 6pm, the shower is followed by housework. Depending on if it’s still open; I’ll head to the store since we seem to always be out of something. Then depending on what I feel like that day, I either go back to playing games or I write for a bit. At midnight, I turn on the porch light for my husband and start making dinner, which we eat at the dining room table while he tells me how his day at work was. The, depending on when I had gotten up, I either go to bed or watch some of the shows I have on DVD until I crash.

An unsurpassed courtroom drama. It never fails–the strains of the “Park Avenue Beat” stir you to your very soul; the handsome, intense face of Raymond Burr remains the same, even though the brief scene in the courtroom accompanying the credits changes over the years; and then there’s always the mood-setting jazz accompanying the opening drama: conflict among friends, relatives, accomplices in crime, all centered around some vicious person you just know is going to die soon; and, finally, a view of Perry Mason’s building, his door, and then the man himself. Lawyer, detective, sage, friend–Mason will be all these things; but what matters, these days, is a view of the world in which women really look like women, in which America is secure in its fortunes and has no doubt as to right and wrong, decent and indecent, just and unjust, and in which one can enjoy the sometimes brilliant exchanges between Mason and Berger, both eloquent, adversaries, true, but full of respect for one another; and, of course, the eventual restoration of order to the world, as the true culprit, pinched by Mason’s relentless logic, or provoked by some intolerable break in the moral order, confesses–confesses tearfully or defiantly. And best of all? A full 50 minutes of drama without a dizzy camera, incomprehensible dialogue, or anything that is less than fully and soulfully human.

While I admit I go to the 99 cent store for the low price, I am also there for the adventure and the mystery. Why did this bit of USB cabling end up here? Was it an overstock? Did some one lose a big customer? Did they misspell something on the package? Strangest thing I ever found was a Gallon of mustard. I bought two and gave away mustard for a week. Jay Leno on the Tonight Show used to do a recurring feature about the low priced merchandise at these steep discount stores and I think that is what got me started. Last night I was there to get dust masks for a friend, and I zoned out just looking at various bits and pieces. And if the interest in the merchandise falters, the average shopper at these stores isn’t average. Freak show comes to mind. No I guess I won’t tell you my name. It can be a mystery.

This has been a very interesting week here in the Pacific Northwest! We are normally noted for our gentle temperatures and mild weather because of our location near the Pacific Ocean. However, whether it is just a cycle or is, indeed, due to global warming, we are experiencing a heat wave of monumental proportions. Not only have we exceeded the highs for certain days but we are in line to exceed the all-time high for the Seattle area! Here at our house we have kept ourselves relatively cool by refurbishing an old air conditioning window unit and installing it in the upper level of the house and using a portable one in a downstairs window during the day and evening and those, along with a few fans, have kept us fairly cool On a personal note I have been recovering from two leg infections; one that started in March and the other in June. I went out in this monstrous heat to see my doctor and got the fantastic news that my original wound has totally healed over and is now nothing but a small area of new, pink skin. The second wound is getting smaller and he removed the stitches, which really does mean I am on the road to recovery! The week has been filled with wonder at watching the Space Station race through the sky for a brief few minutes and at having a visit from my two year old grandniece. What a wonderful world!

In the morning itself I got a call from my office, team leader was on the line. He said our project design got approved by the higher authorities. It was worth about $25000, not just I, but our whole team was really happy on that occasion. For this project, we worked hard to make initial designs. However, some bugs we met while preparing, but our team leader’s encouragement and our team members enthusiasm makes much effort to achieve a maximal project design. After we submit our work, we need to wait for over 20 days to get the approval. For this moment only we waited for a long time. After getting the approval, we initiated our work by split the job into three categories and share the work load. Even we did the project, also we enjoyed a lot. Finally we submit the project and got praised by the manager. That’s the fantastic moment I would like to recall.

I forget to tell you what happens yesterday. My brother and I planned to go to KFC for night out. So we prepared a menu of item which to purchase. How I forget to add my yummy chicken? Yes, we went to hotel at 8 pm, ordered two chicken burgers and 2 casseroles. We did try a new flavor of chicken in the restaurant menu. It’s full of ingredients like capsicum, onion and green leaves with sweet and soured jam to add more taste. It’s really yummy. We ate a lot, after finishing our dinner; we decide to give a final touch. So we ordered a new introduction of ice drink. That too a chocolate flavor.