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i just finished writing a letter. but it wasn’t a very fun one… i didn’t use any stickers or confetti cuz i wanted it to appear like i wasn’t 5 years old.

maybe i’ll write another letter and then go to sleep.

funny, i’m planning on waking up early tomorrow morning too!

here’s a question, i found a company that i think i’d enjoy working for. they don’t have any job postings on their site, they just say, ’send us a letter’.
so can i seriously just write them and say, ‘give me a job?’

i kinda want to send them a letter doing everything the wrong way and see what happens.
ie, using coloured paper, writing a not-so-formal cover letter…etc.

but on the other hand, i would actually like to have a shot at a job with them, so maybe i should send them a proper ‘application’ and try my test out with a company i’m not so interested in.

u know what i’m not a big fan of?
References.

here’s why:
1. i hate asking people to be my reference.
how many times do you ask the same person? asking everytime i apply for a new job would be really annoying. And only asking once would mean that by the time someone calls them might forget that i had asked them. And asking them every once in a while would give the impression that i’m not applying for as many jobs as i actually are. so they may get like 10 calls, and i had only asked them about 4 or something.
2. Sometimes i don’t work with/around the person who hired me, or the person who is ‘in charge’.
Like the job i have now. I have no idea what the point would be in asking ‘my boss’ to be my reference. i haven’t seen him since the interview. so what would he say? “i’ve heard through the grapevine that she’s alright.”? and i can’t ask anyone i work with, b/c they have no seniority whatsoever.
So the next question is, do i keep using my old references even though i dont really talk to those people anymore either?

i suppose the proper answer would be to call up the old people and maintain a relationship with them.

i think they should just get rid of the whole References system.

i walked past a couple of people having a conversation in french today.
it brightened my day.

i’ve decided that myspace.com is great b/c it gives you a way to ‘connect’ with musicians… even if its a completely trivial way… its still pretty cool.

especially when the musicians do things like write posts and bulletins…
I think i just like reading the way they ‘talk’.

its interesting… to say the least.

something that i’ve been ‘questioning’ all week:
when is it time to let go of a ‘friendship’?
i’m most definitely one of those ppl who hangs on till the very end…. like randomly sends the person an email months after not talking…
and seeing as how it takes a whole lot of effort and is not terribly satisfying (u know, continuously contacting someone without them ever taking the step to contact you first)
i’m thinking about just ‘giving it a break’.

not that i’m trying to ‘keep hold’ of a certain friendship right now… i just mean, giving the whole ‘gotta keep in touch with good friends that i had in the past’ thing a break.

i was talking to someone a while ago and she pointed out the differences between the friendships we have now compared to those we had when we were younger.
in grade school and highschool is was a lot more about age and grade… you didn’t really associate with people who were like 3 years older than you.
and now it’s shifted to circumstance. age doesn’t really matter, all that matters is that the person is a uni student, or a ‘young-single’, or a newlywed, or has young kids, or whatever.

i suppose that all makes sense.
i had never really thought about it until she pointed it out to me…. months and months ago.