i'm a pixel here, myself

So the thing that *really* irks me about the job search is that most companies don't feel they have to call or email you when they decide to hire someone else. I've now had this happen on two separate occasions -- I call back after the appropriate amount of time, and they say "oh, sorry, we filled the position" or "oh, we moved that position up to director-level" or some other variation on that. If you simply submitted a resume, fine. Not a big deal. But if they dragged you in for an in-person interview? I feel like that deserves at least an email. Hell, it could be a mass-email, for all I care. I just want them to TELL me.

Ahem. So it's Monday and I'm grumpy about this job situation. Everyone tells me "it's a good thing that you're getting interviews!" and... it is. But it's hard to get excited about getting interviews when it means being constantly "on" and then getting ignored. Now it's back to the drawing board, with my list of places to look rapidly dwindling.

RIGHT. In "things are happy" news, Roommate E got a VCR for free the other day, and she spent an hour or so yesterday watching Jeeves and Wooster and making her students brightly-colored valentines while I was preparing dinner (mmm, fried rice). It amuses me that as I go technologically forward (with the Wii), she's going backward. Yesterday we had lovely weather -- warm enough to open up the apartment for a while and get some air flowing -- and this morning it's cold and I'm shivering in my sweater on my bike ride to work. Oh, Bay Area weather. ♥ Oh! And it's almost The Day After Mid-February Day! ::rubs hands together, gleefully anticipating cheap Conversation Hearts::