Yuppie Conversion 90% Complete

Well, I did it. I bought a Macbook, and I LOVE it! My old laptop was on its last legs and about to expire. The bottom 4 inches of the screen was blinking out, the case was cracked, and it had at least one virus that I couldn’t remove. It lived a long and prolific life but it was time to say goodbye. Soo… introducing my beautiful new aluminum macbook! My precious… I guess this makes me one reusable hemp shopping bag and a Prius away from full Yuppiedom. Or would I be a Guppie… Gay urban professional? I need to work on the “urban” part.

I spent the entire day Saturday waiting for the damn FedEx guy. I felt like I was being held hostage in my own home. I was afraid to do anything noisy like vacuum or dishes for fear of missing my package since I figured the FedEx guy would go to the front door and nobody was up there. It was “guaranteed” to be delivered by 4:30 so I tracked it all day. First thing in the morning: “Yay, it’s in Denver!” Around 9:00 in the morning: “Yay, it’s on the truck for delivery in Cheyenne!” And I waited and I waited… Finally I gave up and was chatting with my land lady on the phone to see if she needed help giving one of her dogs a bath and I saw the FedEx truck show up! That was around 6:00 at night and I had effectively wasted the entire day obsessively looking out the window.

Sunday I spent doing some cleaning, cooking, shopping, and of course playing with my lovely new computer! My back was all buggered up for some reason so that put a damper on the second half of the day.

Today, back to work. The administration brought in the first of the two candidates for my old supervisor’s position, the job I’ve been doing without thanks for 8 months, and applied for 3 times to no avail. I was invited to interview the applicants and I was determined to be a hard ass about it. I was less than impressed with either of the resumes so I spent some time crafting some questions that I knew would be a little difficult to answer and that I already knew the answers to. I had on my “mean face” and went into the conference room. I took a seat right next to the applicant so I wouldn’t have to look at the hiring committee and I fired away. Sometimes my own powers of manipulation terrify me. On three separate occasions I baited the poor guy into admitting that he didn’t know how to do things, and twice he even recognized that I knew more than him. I felt like a jerk. I basically handed him the knife so he could slit his own throat and worse yet, I made him like doing it. But… I had to make the 800 pound gorilla in the room visible. He was not qualified, he didn’t know what he needed to know and he would have to work for me for at least six months. I had to make him say those words so the hiring committee would have to admit the fact. His presentation was good and he seemed like a super nice guy. I would love to work with him but I don’t think I could work for him. Later I found him resting between interviews and spoke to him privately one on one. He flat out asked why they weren’t hiring me and I had to be honest with him. This is when I made my mistake. I saw him as a person. If they hire him I will help him out and I told him as much. But, I’m still going to tell the administration they will have to threaten to fire me if they want me to train him. It’s a bluff… damn it.

The second interview will be on Wednesday. They will make a decision on Thursday afternoon. It’s going to be an interesting week.