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I just got a call from Karen at the library. It took 'em a month, but they finally finished my background check. They failed to discover my carefully-conceiled criminal record, and they just offered me the job. Coolness.
Now I'm supposed to call up the human resources department, tell them I want the job, and go downtown and sign stuff. Then I set up a time for my first day on the job. Looks like my likely times are eight hour shifts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with a few more hours thrown in somewhere during the week.
I will soon be employed! Yay!
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*tries to think up some pun where CCC is turned into KKK*
*fails*
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
So, I'll wager there's a whole new debrief system for librarians nowadays, to keep those messy incidents from happening again. Those infuriating dogears...
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Just as an aside, a couple of days ago I applied for the job of Library Technician at California State University of Pennsylvania's Washington campus.
(Yes, that's right, California, Washington, Pennsylvania. Both 'California' and 'Washington' are towns in PA.)
IF I get the job, which I am eminently -and possibly over- qualified for, I stand to see a MINIMUM pay increase (over what I'm making right now in the Public Library) of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS a year! AIIGH!
I'm more than qualified. I have experience. I have a Master's. I may have an aneurysm.
Of course, I just today had to fill out and send back one of those 'diversity' forms, which is the new way of saying 'we don't want any non-veteran, non-disabled white males to get this job if we can possibly help it.'
(That's a joke. Since the thing was optional, if I really believed that, I wouldn't have filled it out.)
Oh, if only I could conclusively PROVE that I'm 1/64 Iroquois, as my mother's genealogical research seems to show... I could maybe get tribal affiliation.
If I get this job, I may have to take it as conclusive evidence that there IS a higher power looking out for me...
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Why a higher power? Seems to me, you earned your college degree, and you've sweated away years as Chief Librarian In Charge Of Secret Hidden Army. To be bluntly honest, I don't see a higher power in there anywhere.
Although I do believe in "fate." Or, on the reverse, "dumb luck."
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I'm 1/4 Irish Catholic, and a resident of London, which means I keep having to put car bombs in my own car. It's getting very annoying.
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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And the new Playboy playmate attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania...yes, in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Re: racial make up...I'm part German Jew. You think Brits have a lock on self-loathing? I keep--- :::blinks & thinks for a moment::: Wait. I think for once, I'll refrain from making that joke. I get the feeling that Holocaust humor ins't appreciated by all.
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So for conflicts, you've got Scots vs. English Irish vs. English Welsh vs. English Germans vs. English Germans vs. Polish Irish vs. Each Other Scots vs. Each Other Everybody (white settlers) vs the Iroquois Probably a few I've missed.
My ancestors have been killing each other for centuries. No wonder I've got a temper problem.
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The thing about the British vs English groups is that it's one way. The Scottish hate us, we don't hate them. We don't love them or anything, it's more that we don't really care.
If there's a football match on, and England are playing, a lot of Scottish people will watch it, and cheer on whoever is playing against England. If the Scottish are playing, the English will watch it and support them. Not with much entusiasm, but we won't want them to lose.
The Welsh hate everyone. Apparently, they are the most isolationist and racist country in the UK. At least according to the Welsh people I know.
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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