Ten days without posting really crept up on me. I’m making sure to post today so the hiatus doesn’t continue on any longer.
I honestly have no idea what is going on and why all of a sudden I’ve got all these interviews. I’m not complaining or anything but its been months with no interviews and during the holiday season I’m suddenly being contacted so it’s kind of strange. Last Monday, I had my interview at ITT AES. I arrived early and was able to catch up with my old coworker, Martha, before going in. I thought the interview went really well but here its been eight days and I haven’t heard anything. A time table for deciding wasn’t given to me either so either they’ve decided to pursue other applicant’s or they just aren’t moving very quickly. Tuesday I had a phone interview with HDI (a lot of three letter companies) which I thought I had bombed. I was only on the phone for about 10 minutes and I just didn’t feel like I was providing the answers I would have liked to. Did I mention I hate interviewing? HDI ended up calling me back and I had an interview with them yesterday and again I thought things went really well. I was mostly happy with the answers I was providing and the position sounds like it’d be a lot of fun. With this position, they’re supposed to let me know either way by the end of the week and the final contestants will go for a second round of interviews before starting in the new year. Rewind back to Friday and I had an interview with the local Fox and CW affiliate (both stations are in the same building). I’m thinking I was the first of the interviews (mine was at 9:30) and the manager said he had eight to do but that he would be calling for a second interview some time this week from his final candidates. I was pretty happy with my performance and think I might have even gotten some brownie points by knowing how the CW was created. The guy was off yesterday but said would be reviewing things today and scheduling second interviews for this week and extending an offer on Friday. I’m just happy I don’t have to get my hopes up for one job and then not have anything else for months. At least there’s a greater chance I’ll get *something* from all of this stress.
I was waiting for Casey to post his review of ‘I am Legend’ before I said anything as I’m not the greatest at writing film reviews but I’ll give it a shot and take it for what you will. I haven’t read the book or the graphic novel like Casey has so my opinion is based solely on the movie. Casey did say that the only two things that are the same between the book and the movie are the title of the film and the main characters name. The set design was remarkable and Will Smith’s intensity in this performance really impressed me. It was very entertaining and I thoroughly enjoyed the first 2/3 of it. The last third of the movie you just have to go with. It didn’t seem cohesive and felt like everything needed to be wrapped up just so, no matter how plausible it might be.