Who's hungry for Mexican?

I went on campus to eat lunch yesterday, and you're never gonna believe what I saw.

Let me just set the stage for you a little bit...the college campus quad, or student union (as some might say) is always busy and bustling. There are sometimes bands playing, booths or tables set up for clubs or vendors, people handing out coupons, and the occasional religious zealot...erm, excuse me, bible enthusiast...being particularly vocal about his/her beliefs. So what I'm trying to get at, is you never know what you might come across. Still, I was not prepared for what I found yesterday.

A group of girls were handing out flyers from their table, and I assumed that they were handing out coupons to a Mexican restaurant, because one of them was dressed like a big taco. Boy was I wrong!

The big taco turned around to reveal that it was actually a.......giant vagina. Ironic?

That's when I noticed all the other girls wearing "Vagina Monologues" t-shirts.

Wow, two references to vaginas in one week. Either I'm on a roll, or I need to seriously cut back.

I just couldn't do it

I tried to force myself to read The Host, otherwise called the body snatchers book by Stephenie Meyer. I read the first chapter, or maybe it was only the first 15 pages of the first chapter, but that is as far as I got...and it was due back to the library yesterday. Oops! I considered renewing it, and even went so far as to log in to the library website to do it, but there are other library patrons that already have holds on it, so renewals are not allowed. Frankly, without a movie coming out about it with lots of sparkling and spider monkey references, I just don't see the point in reading it.

Interviews

A big part of my job is recruiting and interviewing people for various jobs at my company. I really love what I do. I love working in human resources. I love calling people and offering them jobs. The best part is when they get all excited and scream and jump up and down while on the phone...its happened more than once, and it makes my job really fun. The unfortunate thing, is that in order to find that one special employee, I have to interview several other people that may be "special" in other ways. It eats up a lot of my time and can be really boring. This week alone, I have been in interviews for almost two full days, asking the same questions and hearing a lot of the same responses, over and over. It gets hard to focus and pay attention and not yawn while the candidates are talking. Nothing puts an interviewee at ease like the interviewer yawning, right? Sometimes, the candidates are so weird and random that the interviews are downright bizarre. Let's see if I can put together a list of the most memorable interviews.

One guy interviewing for a night-shift custodian position kept making jokes about drinking & sleeping on the job.

One older guy interviewed for a research assistant job because he wanted to go back to school for free and get his Masters. He was very open about it. But when I asked him questions about his work experience, he started talking about his knowledge of helicopters and actually drew diagrams of different types of helicopters on the white board. I wish I was joking.

One guy started name-dropping all the city councilmen that he knew and told me which ones were nice and which ones were jerks.

I get this one a lot...when I ask about their work experience relevant to whatever job they are applying for (accounting, IT, etc), I get detailed definitions of the industry terminology/processes. Like, a general ledger account is blah, blah, blah....and you have to document expenses and income. Really? I had no idea that accounting involved keeping track of the money coming in and going out. Thanks for sharing!

One guy asked about what our company's background checks involved, because he got out of prison on drug charges about a year ago, and he just wanted to be upfront about it, even though his application said he had never been convicted of a felony.

Lots of people ask about how many vacation & sick days they get...and how quickly they can start using them, and how frequently. I even had someone ask me if he could be considered for a leave of absence. Dude, you're not even hired yet! You have to pace yourself. Save this question for your first day of work, sheesh.

One woman sent me a thank you email after her interview and included a link to her personal blog. I went to check it out and it had a warning about explicit adult content and langugage. Mostly it was a bunch of her poetry, but it was definitely adult. Why would you send me a link to you talking about your hoo-ha and about your sexual explorations? #1 - I don't even like poetry. #2 - we don't know each other well enough to discuss that kind of thing. #3 - do you really think I want to read about that, hire you, and then have to work with you every day? I will only be picturing a big vagina where your face should be, every time I look at you.

My First Tag

I've been tagged by Maegan & Nikol! So I'm gonna do one for my personal blog and one on the family blog. Since I am at work, and don't store all my cutesy family photos here, I have to work with what I've got. And what I've got is a bunch of photos of Shia LaBeouf and The Office.

Here are the rules:1. Go to your sixth picture file.2. Go to the sixth picture in that file.3. Post it and blog about it.4. Tag 6 friends

Okay, so my 6th photo was of an Avon product. Boring! So I was gonna go with the 5th or 7th photo, but I just couldn't decide. So you get both.

A mini, avatar size computer drawing of Dwight Schrute.

An ultra pretty example of photoshop at its finest.

And since I don't want to disappoint you after I've teased you about my Shia photo collection, here's my 6th Shia photo.

Linda Goodman's Love Signs

I'm not one of those hippie/gypsy types that is all into incense, tarot, and crystal balls, but I do find astrology somewhat interesting. I'm not sure exactly how much of it I buy into, but I do buy into it to a certain degree. For example, I think horoscopes (daily, monthly, etc) are total crap. On the flip side, I do find that certain characteristics/personality traits associated with the different astrological signs to be dead on. For example, I am a Taurus, symbolized by the bull, and we are notoriously stubborn and bull-headed. I find this to be absolutely true. We are also, in fact, completely awesome, but I digress.

Anyway, back in the 70's, my mom was apparently way into astrology. Who wasn't back then? I'm told she did detailed charts on our family down to the day of the week and time of day that we were born, though I keep forgetting to ask her about it. I'd love to get my hands on them. Again, I digress...so Linda Goodman was like the absolute guru on all things relating to astrology and she wrote all kinds of books on the topic. My mom had one of these books, Love Signs. I remember it always being on the bookshelf...old, faded, red, hardback, with gold lettering. But I never took a look at it until Eric & I got together and hadn't looked at it since. The book basically evaluates all the possible combinations of astrological signs and further breaks it down to male & female roles, then it talks about how the relationship functions as a couple.

I've found it to be pretty accurate in terms of mine & Eric's relationship! As I was reading, I was nodding my head and identifying with the good and the bad. Incidentally, it says we are actually a pretty good match.

I was itching to check it out again and luckily, my brother gave it to me for Christmas. I've loaned it to a friend to look at to see if she finds it to be accurate as well, and I'd love for all my friends to check it out and give me their opinions. Anyone interested?

It's super fun to read up about exes too!

Body Snatchers Book

I'm apparently a nut case. Truly. I am a glutton for punishment and I just don't know when to quit.

Remember all my ranting and raving about the sucktastic Twilight book series? Sure you do, because I just would not. stop. talking. about it. Well its baa-aack! For I have just picked up another book by the same author, Stephenie Meyer, that I apparently reserved at the library some odd months ago and forgot about. The library was kind enough to inform me that the book was now available and that I would be charged a re-stocking fee if I did not come and pick it up. It just didn't make sense to let myself be charged for not reading a boook, so I decided to pick it up yesterday. It's called The Host. It has nothing to do with vampires/werewolves or any of the Twilight characters. This one is about body snatchers that invade Earth. The main character gets body snatched and mentally fights against the being that inhabits her body. I haven't even read page one yet, but I'll keep you posted. Considering the author, I'm not very optimistic. I'm sort of expecting the two minds to fight over things like what color lip gloss to wear, whether to have tuna or turkey for lunch, and whether or not their butt looks big in that outfit.

Beauty Products I Can't Live Without...

is really what I should have titled my last post. These are things I can't live without, because I have lots of other frilly, frou-frou faves, but there are way too many to mention.

I also thought of some additional "can't live without" items.

Hope In A Jar moisturizer by Philosophy - love the stuff, and would recommend it for all skin types. I have oily skin, so sometimes during the summer, it makes me a little oilier than normal and I need to ease up on the usage. This is always my nighttime moisturizer, but not always my daytime moisturizer. Lately I've had a new favorite daytime moisturizer....

Dr. Denese 30 spf Defense Day Cream - 30 spf and tinted! Also works well as a foundation primer, or for those who don't wear foundation, it makes your skin look all soft focus and even. Great matte finish. I haven't tried a lot of Dr. Denese products yet, but I want to.

Balance-N-Brighten by Laura Geller - I got this as a hand-me-down because my Mom is allergic to Laura Geller products. Luckily, I am not allergic. I've worn this the past couple of days instead of my Bare Escentuals foundation, and I really like it. Since it comes it compact form, it is much less messy, and I actually feel like I use less of the product.