A stressful weekend

I just moved to a new apartment, on the edge of the campus. I was the first one to get there, so I got to pick my bedroom among three. So I got this big master's bedroom with a queen size bed. Pretty awesome.

This week was quite stressful. I found myself very very busy, maybe until tomorrow. Job applications, teaching a class, leading workshops, doing research with Betalian, learning HTML and Photoshop, going to the company for my marketing intern. Besides, my car needs a smog check, I need a haircut, I need to buy things for the empty apartment, still wait for the university to deliver my desk and chair and bookshelf. If I do not suffer a heart attack this week, I think I am healthy enough to live until 100.

Two events ruined my self-confidence though. One is that I had a very very bad phone interview for a job. I was asked some trick questions, and I stumbled on almost all of them. One answer I provided was "I guess I do not know." Honest but disastrous. It is probably no big deal, but it hurts my feeling of invincibility. Seocnd, only one student signed up for my class so far. I was not the one to be blamed, as they forgot to put time and location on the time schedule until last week and I was recruited as the instructor only 2 days ago. But still, I am taking it upon myself, as if I am a big failure, and this class is only one little manifestation.

On the bright sight, however, I find myself to be a perfect candidate for consulting jobs now. I just filled out an application for a big consulting company. I applied for the same company last year, and I find that I had so much more BS to talk about than last year. Not bad at all.

I am now still the only person in the three bedroom apartment. I hope my roommate will never move in, so I can enjoy it all to myself!! mmmmmmmmhahahaha.