shout out to mother earth

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I feel amazing! I had been thinking about dropping the farm work because my hands kept cramping after doing weeding; they didn't do this last year. I think it's because I now use my hands so much for massage that the weeding was stressing them out more. Anywho, I was all stressed and bummed about having to tell my cousin that I was dropping the volunteer work. Even this morning I thought about skipping out (I did last week), but then I thought I should just get it over with and stop procrastinating.

Today is harvest day at the farm. I used to not be able to go on Thursdays because of my classes. So instead of the usual weeding, my cousin had me do various things like picking plums & apricots, washing the turnips and carrots, bunching them for people's CSA bags, etc. It was a lot of fun and no hand cramps! As he was giving me a ride home I asked if I could make Thursdays my volunteer day and be exempt from weeding (after explaining the hand cramps). He was more than okay with that :)

I tell you, that funk from yesterday has since dissolved and been replaced with simple happiness. Working with the earth really was the medicine I needed to straighten out my head. Love it.

My cousin's family is going camping in Lake Tahoe a couple weekends from now & invited us. I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to go, even though we had a blast last year, but now I definitely want to go.

chocolate bundt cakes stat!

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NASA job went down like this: The two people who interviewed Aaron loved him. They were really impressed by him and wanted to hire him. However during the interview there was a meeting held that fleshed out the description of the position. It was decided that a critical skill that was needed for the position was one that Aaron did not have. If it was basically any other developer position there, or if he didn't need this one skill, then he'd have a job. I guess that's the best rejection one can get, eh?

See that pic? I'm eating those from TJ's right now. It's my liquor.

alas alas oh alas

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Th exciting NASA interview was yesterday and from what I heard it went very very well. However Aaron learned today that he didn't get it, oh woe! He said he'd tell me more about it since he's at work now, and so is his boss & new co-worker. But man oh man, the suck, it hurts. No short distance train rides to SF; no Aaron working a dream job; no sidewalks; no variety of restaurants. I'll wallow for the day and get back on track tomorrow.

Back to being superstitious

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Only because things are progressing very nicely. I'll have an update after Tuesday ;)

Though my former co-workers and I have been trying to schedule a day to get together for lunch, and we keep having to push it to the next week or something. So today we finally got this coming Tuesday settled as the day-- and then Aaron got the call that requires us to take a trip out of town Tuesday. So now I have to call and reschedule lunch yet again. It's quite hilarious.

it's all I talk about

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Give this another week or so and then I won't be talking about it anymore. So the recruiter guy for that dreamy job called Aaron and told him that he spoke with the hiring manager about Aaron for the position. The hiring manager (who, duh, would be the person making the final hiring decision) is "intrigued" by Aaron. I know, sounds like some corny movie line, but that's what he said. So they're still going to follow through with the recommendations that Aaron submitted.

I know things are going all sugar & cream for me over here, but realistically, if Aaron were to get this job I would be so happy and all over it. He'd be making enough money to continue my education even further and he would get to have a dream job of his. Either way it's win-win for me, so I'm still rooting for this job so it can be a super win for Aaron.