Thrihyrne

I'm feeling particularly discouraged and displeased with much of the world today. This, despite a fabulous and really upbeat interview on Tuesday, and a reasonable enough interview this morning (though I'm not jazzed about today's and I'd really like to work for the company I spoke with on Tuesday). I think it's because I haven't heard from the Tuesday company and I'd indicated that were I to have a follow-up interview, tomorrow would be the best day. I've heard absolutely nothing, which I find disheartening. This also despite the fact that my other enterprise is going pretty well, though I am learning about how to do the order of things with the yarn, and I'll end up frustrated having done what I did today. I suppose it didn't help that I heard from one of the placement companies where I have my resume and, once again, it was for sales rather than customer service. I'd applied for a screening position, which is how the position would start, but this particular company intends for any incoming hire to get her/his life and health license within three months- and they'll reimburse some of that cost. So, in other words, they want you to be trained in not long to become a qualified life and health insurance salesperson. When asked if I was still interested, I said no, but to please keep me in mind for other things. Being in this state of mind is often a dangerous place for me, but thankfully I haven't been thinking very often about making a poor choice for myself. Instead I 'treated' myself to some Fritos and cheese. Instead of my usual comfort-food bowlful, plus heaps of sour cream, I had exactly 1½ servings and not nearly as much cheese as I usually do. And I have no sour cream, so that was easy. evannichols also isn't having a particularly wonderful day, so I'm not about to call and complain to him. Or I wasn't while he was at work. We'll talk tonight. It's for the best that I just sit with myself and get used to experiencing uncomfortable feelings; that's going to be a part of the rest of my life if I continue down a path without my former 'mood stabilizer.' For now, I get to have a low-grade whine here on DW/LJ. At least there's strawberries. And Diet Coke.

I've filed my federal taxes and those for Virginia. I've spent an inordinate amount trying to make my Oregon taxes make any sense whatsoever— there's simply no way I can taxed on double the amount of income I actually earned in the state. I want the little taxes that I paid returned to me as there's simply no way I can owe them anything.

It is wretched that I can't e-file a partial residency for free. I'll see if another set of eyes on it will make it make sense, otherwise I may pay $20 in order to get $81 back. :P The Oregon state tax form SUCKS.

So I went first thing this morning, and… there was an announcement after about 25 minutes. Their network printers were down. They didn't know how long it would take for them to be fixed, and they couldn't issue any new licenses due to that.

:seethes:

So I'm going back again tomorrow morning, my third attempt to switch out my Oregon driver's license for a Virginia one. Thankfully they wrote "priority" on my form so I'll get to go to the head of the line. Augh.