oyceter | Job nervousness

Well. I sent out two job apps today, both for some tech editing/writing/who knows what positions. It's kind of sad that the boy has to help me on writing my resume and my cover letters, because mine sound really, really stupid. I just never know what to say besides, I'm not really qualified or excited about this job, but I need money. Obviously, this is not an ideal cover letter.

I also went mad grocery shopping today, because my fridge was seriously running out of the food the ahyis have given me. I was lazy and bought lots of Hot Pockets for easy cooking. But I did buy real things, and veggies! Veggies are good. Also went to the Chinese supermarket (yay!) and found they have Chinese tv dinners -- unagi-don and this beef on rice dish. I like cheese a lot, but it's hot and summery right now, and all I really want is light food. I need to buy salad from Safeway to go with my Japanese salad dressing, yum. Sometimes American food upsets my stomach because of all the cream and cheese, which makes me very sad, because I really like cream and cheese. And cream cheese. Anyway, so I got lots of random stuff. Maybe tomorrow I'll go to Whole Foods, because their vegetables and fruits look much yummier. I dunno... there's this article in the NYTimes on "Is organic healthier or not?" And not much science backing it up, but, well, it just sounds healthier. Unfortunately, more expensive too. And they sell Terra chips there, which are the best things ever. And premade soup. Yum. And ciabatta olive bread, which is also the best thing ever. I love the sheer saltiness of olives, and that strong flavor coupled with doughy, chewy bread topped with flour is great. Just random little bursts of pure salt and olive in your mouth.

I also finally found little salt and sugar and oil containers there that I've been looking for all over the place. I think people here don't cook with them. They're just these sets of small, squarish cups with little spoons in them for salt, sugar and my corn starch, and a little container with a small spout for cooking oil. Lot easier than pouring things out of the box. Also, I think it's really funny how salt and sugar here come in boxes! In Taiwan, they come in plastic bags. Even after being here for four years, sometimes I still feel culture shocked.

But I love California, because I can buy organic food and Chinese snacks and pearl milk tea all in the same place. I don't think Taiwan really has organic supermarkets.

Sigh. Must go to bank tomorrow. Argh! Except I can't because it's the weekend! Stupid me...

Maybe I can check out the Mountain View and Palo Alto libraries and see how they compare to the Los Altos one. Is it illegal to have three different public library cards?

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Resumes are tough... crossing the appropriate digits on the jobs! Understand about the bank, thank goodness made a run yesterday, since got tied up at office today until almost 8pm.

Hmm organic, seems like if life were fair it WOULD be cheaper!

Ouch, late day =(.

I know! I heard from the boy that there are people out there trying to lobby for a tax on fatty foods/foods that are bad for us. And at first it reminded me a whole lot of Demolition Man and forcing people to eat right. But then, I can also see it as a kind of subsidy for healthy food, because really, things like fast food and tv dinners seem to be much, much cheaper than healthy food, which doesn't seem.. fair.

I think like a lot of of people, I would simply like to be able to afford the best quality healthy ingredients. It would seem to make sense to support organic farms, from a long term perspective, although you can do this independently through subscription farms, as well. I haven't found a local farm here yet so I try to support where possible by buying organic. The term 'organic' is somewhat loose too; but, smaller farmers can be hampered by many factors. Have to go into the office now... maybe, more later, if you like.

Sorry, but what's a subscription farm? How does one support them?

I've gotten more and more paranoid about what to eat lately, largely influenced by my old roommate, who's a huge environmentalist. She told me about bad fishing (I feel so guilty for eating seafood now) and things like that. Sigh.

I felt similarly about the resume thing. I sat there at the computer feeling fairly helpless and useless, and in the back of my mind, shocked at my own impudence of applying for a job wherein what I wanted to do was write/evaluate other people's writing when I obviously couldn't even write my own frickin' cover letter, for God's sake!

That was all. Drive(surf?)-by commiseration. :)

Also, I'm getting a kick/valuable info from all these apt unpacking and first shopping trip stories, as I'm soon to suffer through my own. My utter unreadiness is making me wonder why I stayed in the dorms all four years of college.

Surf-by commiseration always welcome ^_^. It's nice to know I'm not stupid and useless... ugh. Already, I hate job hunting. It takes so long finding jobs that I feel like I might be able to do, and then even longer finding jobs that I feel like I might want to do.

I love listening to stories of people settling in and home-izing their new places! It's a real pain doing it, but there's this nice feeling of satisfaction once I've got everything set up (which hasn't happened yet). But I love decorating rooms and the like, and being able to buy/choose what I eat.

Hey, speaking of that buying/choosing what you eat thing, and the Whole Foods in general, have you by chance noticed what the price differential is? I'm having an internal struggle, where I'd really like to shop almost exclusively at smaller grocery stores, and places that buy from organic growers (despite that NYTimes article, which I read too :P) but I fear that the likelihood is that I can't afford it. Which makes me upset-- adults keep telling me how not-idealistic I'm going to be one day (just this weekend somebody told me everybody becomes a republican-- which scared me most of all, cause she's usually fairly right about stuff). . . and that once I've capitulated to the "system", THAT'S when I'm going to be able to afford to live the way I want to. Except then I won't want to anymore. Anyway, so yes, how's that going for you? :P

Dealing with the same problem here! And bringing a TV show into it -- I think Greenwalt or someone said that the next Angel season is going to be about going big, and how the team joins the corporate world but tries not to be eaten by it. I also heard of something from the boy about a tax for food that is bad for you, which is almost sort of like a subsidy for good things like fruits and veggies. But, yeah, right now I'm just going to Safeway and Wal-Mart and buying the cheapest things possible. It's very frustrating. Maybe... I can open an indie bookstore and get rich off that. Ha.

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