{"id":65,"date":"2001-02-09T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2001-02-09T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=65"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:47:45","slug":"ups-and-downs-and-some-possible-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/09\/ups-and-downs-and-some-possible-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ups and downs, and some possible changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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First off, my bowling continues to improve, which is cool. After last week&#8217;s run I brought my average up to 113, then surprised myself by managing to pull off my best series yet &#8212; 142\/168\/140! Not just my best series so far, but that 168 is my best score so far&#8230;I&#8217;m hoping to be able to get at least one game where I break 200 before I stop bowling.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I got a chance to swing by Suncoast and picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004Z4WW\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Love's Labours Lost\">Love&#8217;s Labours Lost<\/a>, and watched that after I got home from bowling last night. It turned out to be a really fun film, though it takes a little getting used to at first. Since <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Branagh,+Kenneth\" title=\"IMDB: Kenneth Branagh\">Branagh<\/a> combined Shakespeare with a 40&#8217;s style musical for this production, it opens with a &#8216;newsreel&#8217; to give you some background information, then moves into some expository Shakespearian dialogue&#8230;then breaks into &#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Charleston&#8221;. <em>Really<\/em> caught me off guard at first, but after one or two numbers you just get caught up in the spirit of the experiment, and it just becomes a whole lot of fun. The only real downside I found was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Silverstone,+Alicia\" title=\"IMDB: Alicia Silverstone\">Alicia Silverstone<\/a> trying not just to act, but to sing &#8212; luckily, she only gets a few verses completely on her own. I found her character to be this film&#8217;s eqivalent to <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Reeves,+Keanu\" title=\"IMDB: Keanu Reeves\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767802594\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Much Ado About Nothing\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/a> &#8212; an essential character who is unfortunately really badly miscast. Aside from lil&#8217; miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00001MXXE\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Clueless\">Clueless<\/a>, though, it&#8217;s a wonderful little romp, once you get past the initial shock.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those were the highlights of the day. Not that they were bad highlights&#8230;just that the rest of the day kind of overshadows them.<\/p>\n<p>Did my taxes &#8212; I owe $146. Bleah.<\/p>\n<p>The big thing, however &#8212; if I&#8217;d had any more money in the bank than I do, I would have walked out of my job at TimeFrame yesterday. This is a really major thing for me &#8212; one way or another, I&#8217;ve always had an almost overdevolped sense of responsibility to whatever job I&#8217;m working, and will stick out some really uncomfortable situations when I deem it worth it, and I&#8217;d been doing my best to deal with all the little things at TimeFrame that bug me for a while now, as I didn&#8217;t want to either lose the paycheck or throw away the four and a half years I&#8217;ve got there just a few months before I leave state. However&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It just isn&#8217;t worth the headache anymore. While it&#8217;s not the job itself that bugs me, and I still enjoy the actual work I do, the work environment is so screwball that I&#8217;ve finally reached my breaking point. So, today I&#8217;ve called in to take a personal leave day, and I plan on running around to some of the temp agencies in town to take their placement\/skills tests and see if I can find anything upwards of $10\/hr for the next few months. I figure if I can find some data entry position &#8212; the kind of thing that often pays $12-$15 an hour because nobody wants to deal with it (usually a night position, shoved in a hole somewhere typing numbers in for hours on end), then as soon as I&#8217;m confirmed there, I can turn in my notice at TimeFrame and lose a fair amount of the stress in my life at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really kind of bizarre for me to have gotten to this point &#8212; I&#8217;m still kind of amazed at myself for being willing to do something like take a day off to go job hunting. But, things have been going steadily downhill for me in regards to my job there, and there&#8217;s really only so much that I can take. So, today begins something of a grand adventure, in seeing if I can find something else to do for the next few months until I can afford to bail state. Should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what&#8217;s going to be <em>really<\/em> interesting is if someone from TimeFrame actually ever stops by and checks my site and reads this&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was not exactly the best day I&#8217;ve ever had &#8212; not the worst overall, but certain moments may have some fairly large impact on days to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,13,1855],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-life","tag-loves-labours-lost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}