Next Steps

Sooo my computer at home sucks and won't let me post anything. To update everyone (which is only Aly), TFA gave me the finger and I am still looking for jobs. I am not disappointed since they are an elitist cult. Don't get me wrong, I really don't have bad feelings that I didn't get in, but I am actually relieved. I was freaked out that I was going to be sent to some hell of a school and have to hang out with recent college grads that cry on a nightly basis.

Speaking of crying a daily basis, I had a garage sale last weekend (hot) and it was the biggest bust on the planet. I sold some items of a friend and some stuff of mine and needless to say she made $15 and I made $7. We only had 6 groups come to our house and two of them bought nothing. However, some good came of it since I loaded all of our crap in the car and took it to Goodwill, they can deal with my great aunt's rustic (read: ugly) paintings and bad fashion. After that disaster I went to Chinatown to meet a few buds :) and we indulged in Asian delicacies and watched a mouse that was apparently living in the restaurant....yummy. We also hung out in the herb store (not a code word) and found out that there is an herb for EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. If you want to know, message me. I am waiting on a few jobs and we shall see the next step for Ashley in my crusade for Justice and the American Way!

Interviews Everywhere

Really?

I got an email tonight from TFA and.....they have invited me to the final interview. Wow. I was more than shocked. There is some poor kid on the east coast sobbing in their dorm room on their Ralph Lauren pillow case and I beat them...weird. This thing is about as hard to crack as a petrified walnut and my crappy interview and candid answers on their stupid internet crap impressed them enough to let me in. Go figure. This is the one thing that I have really put on the back burner and have cared the least about and I really am in awe that I have made it this far. I will say that I am proud of myself for beating out some snotty kids who wanted to put this on their resume to Goldman Sachs, but who knows how it will go. This is pretty much a crap shoot and they may think that I suck in person. I still just want a job and if they can get me there faster then so be it.

Oh yeah...another reject as of recent was from MidSouth Bank...."we had a large applicant pool and we have found others whose resumes more so meet our needs at this time"....blah blah blah. If my resume said GED and manager at Burger King for 2 years I would have been hired. This over/under qualified thing is starting to bug me. Even my father commented on the fact that he never thought it would take this long for me to get a job...me too Dad, me too.

Today I introduced Stacey to Hot Pot and it was OK. Obviously the Hot Pot in Xi'an was amazing and amazingly cheap....Little Sheep here cost us around $50 for 2 people and in China it would have been around $8 bucks with way more veggie and meat options. Alas...we are not in China anymore. I got a $10 off coupon valid through March 31 if anyone wants to go with me...any takers...crickets...crickets.