I got pics of my front yard!

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I love Friday mornings. Snowy day, the birds are sleeping, people half asleep and not caring about anything. I love it! So I am free in 6 weeks. Anyone want to come up with a fun plan for me to do on my self imposed vacation? I want to go to Baja, Mexico!! Or maybe go on a cruise!

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I am done at the end of December. I will have a formal resignation letter in at the 2nd or 3rd week of December if the outcome of my work is positive, and life moves on from that point. Time for a change. That’s it. Today I become a stubborn goat and I want a change. I am forcing it on my self, and I have to do it now no matter what!

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I had an interview today that wasn’t long in my opinion. It was 30 minutes. It was a web developer position. It was pretty nerve racking up to the interview. So let’s go back to the morning and recount the events of the day.

It’s funny how we get so emotional and nervous prior to an important event!

This morning I woke up very confident. Got all dressed up and wore my business suit. I felt good, confident and I thought to my self, wow. I look like I am dressed up to go to work! As an executive in a company. I felt good!

I go to work, and spent an hour or so going over the job description and notes. I kept reading help tips about interviews, learned more about new software that I might be using and getting familiar with it. I then sat down and kept praying to God that I won’t have a nervous breakdown.

After lunch, around 1:15 pm, I had a nervous breakdown! My head started to hurt, so I went to go buy another cup of coffee, and I pretty much started getting hot and sweaty. I was literally freaking out. Too many thoughts went through my mind. I thought to my self, “Oh my God. What am I doing? Is this for real. I am going to an official job interview at the University. What are they going to ask me? Will I get tongue twisted like I usually get when I am nervous?”

So I kept pacing around and decided to eat more candy and watch funny videos on youtube to take my mind off of it.

No use. No use.

Around 2:30 I left work because my interview was at 3:00 pm. I walked and I was there at 2:40. I sat and waited. I had my notes in my mind. Reading the job description, and just shaking my leg from nervousness. I was freaking out!

Then a young guy, early 30′s, looked like a football player passed by. Walked around me, and left.

Human resource lady came at 2:50 pm. Said, “hello mona!!” I said, “hi!” She then told me to wait because they were getting the room ready.

10 min later, she came to get me.

The guy who was pacing around was the team leader. I was like ahh.. Playing a trick on me! Seeing if I am punctual!

They asked me very very ordinary questions. I was surprised. They asked me how well I work with others, describe a project I have done in detail, how well do I handle meetings, my interpersonal skills, my technical skills, how do I handle difficult situations, am I willing to work overtime to get a project done, and that was it! They will call me late next week or the following one with a response.

After that, I walked to Starbucks and got my nervous calming treat. It was over and I needed to get back to normal. I called my best friend right after and she said, “wow wow wow!”

I got another interview on the 26th! Now I feel a bit more confident selling my self and my technical experience in the next interview! Pheww!

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I have been getting many emails lately of people asking me to change the template or make my blog template a little lighter. Especially the reading part. I am sorry, but I cannot do that. I got many reasons, but if you are having hard time viewing my site, then you are not using Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. So why the darkness?

Firefox and IE 7 representation of my site on a PC. If you can’t see it this way, then tell me please.

It’s not that I am a gloomy person and want to represent my self with darkness. On the contrary, I only prefer dark colours because I have very sensitive eyes. I am supposed to wear my glasses, but I think I have a pair at work which I don’t wear unless my eyes are having a fuzzy blind day, and at home, I have no idea where my other pair is. My glasses could be anywhere on my cluttered desk.

Last night, I changed the text to white so it will completely contrast the dark background instead of the off white/grey colour I had before.

I am sorry for those people whose pupils have dilated interchangeably while blog hopping to my site, it is just I like it this way. I like my eyes not hurting.

Also, for those people who think that my site is too graphical. People, hello, I AM A GRAPHICS person! This is normal for graphics people’s site. This is the way we represent our selves. If you think it is taking too long to load, well, then you are not on high speed internet! I am thinking in the future to have a text based site or a very low graphical representation of my site for those on dialup. I apologize, I didn’t know my fan base was that diverse, and I cannot satisfy everyone.

Also, my site can be seen with a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768. If you don’t know what I am talking about, then hmm, then.. aaah.. don’t ask.. look it up.

In my ideal graphical blog world:

1. I like all websites to be mostly dark, and text area to be readable enough for me. White text, or white text box with black text.
2. Bloggers and other site owners in general should spend time developing their site and have some creativity. You dress your self in the morning with matching colours, so why can’t you make a site with MATCHING colours! Dark navy does not match with phosphoric green! It’s not cool! It’s fucking hideous and looks like vomit. It makes me cringe!
3. If you want to represent your self in the internet world, do your self a favor and do it right! People don’t only judge your site content, but also the way you graphically represent your site.
4. Don’t put too much text on your site! People get confused and don’t like to read everything! Make sure you have a sidebar of other things you want people to see. Also, I suggest that you have a [read more] on your articles. If you are using wordpress, there is a plugin for it. Give people the choice to read the entire article or not. Don’t put it all in their face.

I got more tips and other site suggestions, but I am lazy and hungry now. I want to eat lunch.

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