Today Was a Waste of Makeup...

I don't know how much longer I can take being unemployed. Therefore, I've enlisted the help of a temp agency. I never thought it would come to this. But...desperate times call for desperate measures, right? So...today, I "interviewed" with Seek. I put that in quotations because it was so not the kind of interview I was expecting. I showered and got ready and drove down to Milwaukee. Once there, I realized I could have shown up in jeans and a T-shirt and it wouldn't have made one bit of difference. I guess I was expecting that they'd place me in a specific job for 90 days and then it'd be up to the employer if they wanted to hire me on or not. Not so. After filling out some paperwork...checking some boxes...going over some addresses, the woman gave me a booklet and told me to call the number on the front once a week to find out if they had work for me. That's it. Totally not what I had expected...

Anyway...

I've been working on my graduate statement of purpose and I just feel so hopeless! In my head, I know why I want to go to graduate school, so to me, what I have written makes sense. But...when I ask my friend to look it over, it comes back with half the salvageable content. My friend has been amazing throughout this whole process, though. He's in graduate school at Stanford, so he knows what it takes to get in, having written two previously. I will have Ryan look at it as well, but I don't want him to see it until I've gotten it perfect. Pretty sure he's going to be my toughest critic...

When I was wasting time online, I found a fantastic Web site...1000 Awesome Things. I've been tackling it a little at a time. It really is, in fact, full of awesome things! Take a gander...

Anyone who knows me, knows that I absolutely adore penguins! I truly believe that you can't be mad or sad if you're looking at a penguin. Lately, this guy is my favorite:

How can you not love him? He's an adelie...I wish I could keep him...

Always,

Stina