{"id":46034,"date":"2011-06-22T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46034\/darkest-dawn-great-news\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:22:04","slug":"darkest-dawn-great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46034\/darkest-dawn-great-news\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn! GREAT NEWS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow.\u00a0 It\u2019s 9 PM and it isn\u2019t even really \u201cdusk\u201d yet outside.\u00a0 What a wonderful day.<\/span> If a day is going to be the longest one of the whole year, it should be a good one.\u00a0 Today definitely was a good one.\u00a0 Let me tell you about it…<\/font><\/p>\n

It started out so organized.\u00a0 See, knowing that I am out of school and without a job, I know myself.\u00a0 I know that I might sink into a funk of unstructured days filled with little but bad eating, cable news and masturbation.\u00a0 This slacker lifestytle would not be good for my mental, physical or economic health. I wasn\u2019t going to let that happen. I had a plan. I created my own custom \u201cto do\u201d list form this morning complete with not only tasks, but also time of day for completion and even a \u201cfeelings\u201d category about how what kind of emotions these tasks evoked.\u00a0 Yes, yes, using a mundane to-do list to own my emotions.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s a good thing I had created this list and gotten half of it done before noon because another person who knows me very well called around lunchtime to make sure I wasn\u2019t slacking.\u00a0 I really appreciated it. That is sort of what moms are for.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/em> she asked before even saying hello.<\/p>\n

In my apartment.\u00a0 At my computer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing today?\u201d<\/em> she continued her grilling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, let me read to you from my to-do list!\u201d I responded proudly.\u00a0 I rattled off my plans for updating my resume, re-posting it to the Washington state JobSource website, finding 3 jobs online to which I\u2019ll apply\u00a0 and then a series domestic tasks that even though they weren\u2019t employment related, completing things like laundry and doing the dishes will make anyone feel better when they are on a to-do list.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Like I said, my mom knows me and that I might slip into slackerdom and was prepared to kick my ass if she felt that was occurring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did you do yesterday?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Damn.\u00a0 She got me.\u00a0 Yesterday was my sacrificial slacker day.\u00a0 In my head, I knew that here it was, the first business day of my renewed unemployment.\u00a0 Much better to make one of the end days of that period a blow off, do-nothing day than somewhere in the middle.\u00a0 Right? I didn\u2019t do crap yesterday but watch cable news, waste time on the computer and masturbate (although I did not share that last fact with my mom).<\/p>\n

\"\"You might remember a few weeks ago where I talked about my \u201cdream job\u201d seemingly falling out of the sky.\u00a0 The state license I need to do the work for which I\u2019ve spent the last year in school is unattainable for me until March of 2012.\u00a0 But my education was done.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t keep going to classes and collect unemployment as I\u2019ve done for the last year. I have to get a job, and of course, I want a good job that pays me commensurate with my 20 years of experience.\u00a0 That kind of job seemingly fell out of the sky at an on-campus job fair that I just happened to run across during some downtime between classes about a month ago.\u00a0 I was really very disheartened after not receiving a call from that company two weeks ago after I had applied.\u00a0 This was my dream job.\u00a0\u00a0 I was perfect for it. They could not find a more qualified candidate.\u00a0 This was the job that I had before and excelled at and was fired from unfairly for reasons that were not work related. Oh, this was the fulfillment of my future and in my head, I already had the job.\u00a0 But I never got that call.<\/p>\n

For the last 10 days or so, this has put me in a bit of a funk.\u00a0 Lord knows, I have had to readjust my life plans many a times in the last 14 months, but this one seemed so promising\u2026 all I wanted was a chance to interview and impress them with my in person qualities.\u00a0 The call from the middle management HR guy never came.<\/p>\n

Given that I thought I had nothing to lose, about a week ago, I sent a very candid e-mail telling them why I’m the best appliance salesman ever and they should ignore whatever automated screening tools they might use that might have disqualified me based on something ephemeral like a credit score. Maybe that e-mail got forwarded or something because…
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\nI GOT A CALL TODAY FROM THAT VERY SAME HR GUY WHO SAID THAT THE STORE MANAGER IS VERY INTERESTED IN MEETING ME! I GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR FRIDAY!<\/strong> I know that with my qualifications and “charm”, put me in an interview and I’ll get the job<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also very fun at work parties.\u00a0 This blog started off as a one of my periodic \u201creview\u201d blogs where I present videos of stuff that I had done this week X number of years ago. Four years ago this week, knowing that I was going to a work party, I got \u201cDARED\u201d (something I used to entertain as a videomaker) to get my co-workers to sing Queen\u2019s \u201cWe Will Rock You\u201d on video\u2026<\/p>\n

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I should be so lucky as to be blessed with such an interesting group of co-workers in my next job.<\/p>\n

Now, for the music portion of this blog, I present to you Crank Dat Soulja Cat<\/em>\u2026 I don\u2019t even remember WHY <\/strong>I made this video, suffice to day it was my first and hopefully last foray into the genre of hiphop.\u00a0\u00a0 This is from three years ago yesterday, a time where a young rapper named \u201cSoulja Boy\u201d was big on internet\u2026 Funny, we haven\u2019t heard anything from SouljaBoy since then.\u00a0\u00a0 This is my feline version of his official vid for CRANK DAT.<\/p>\n

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Finally, something political.\u00a0 It was two years ago at this time that we had the big protests in Iran surrounding their elections and I made this video in support of their movement.\u00a0 They were eventually quashed, but at the time, no one was sure what was going to happen.\u00a0 Funny no one connects the 2011\u201cArab spring\u201d that has gotten so much attention from places like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Qatar and Syria with what was happening in Iran in 2009.\u00a0 True, Iranians are not Arabs, but Iran, Iran is not far away\u2026<\/p>\n

This vid has gotten lots of views and I did make the subtitles in Arabic\u2026<\/p>\n

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So, Friday will be interesting. There is a subtle balance one must obtain in when seeking a job. Nobody likes a braggart. In the Bible it talks about how those who boast will eventually be humiliated (somewhere in Corinthians)… but in when you’re looking for a job, you have to talk about how awesome you are! That’s the whole point! <\/font><\/p>\n

I just need to do that tactfully. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow.\u00a0 It\u2019s 9 PM and it isn\u2019t even really \u201cdusk\u201d yet outside.\u00a0 What a wonderful day. If a day is going to be the longest one of the whole year, it should be a good one.\u00a0 Today definitely was a good one.\u00a0 Let me tell you about it… It started out so organized.\u00a0 See, knowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,25],"tags":[2198,81,3679,1206],"class_list":["post-46034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people","category-world","tag-iran","tag-joko","tag-soulja-boy","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}