L.A. called... now to wait

yup, the firm called.... finally. he finally called 2 hours later than when he was suppose to call. i had been chained to my apartment freaking out beyond anything and waiting. waiting, waiting. but he called. i was really nervous. but he appologized about the tardiness of his call. which was nice of him. cause i was seriously getting so pissed off. just thinking, well this is flat out rude! there is no point in making an appointment if you can't freakin' keep it. yup, i was pissed. but whatever.

so we talked for over an hour! such a long phone call. he did most of the talking. ha, yeah i actually had a whole bunch of questions i wanted to ask but didn't feel i could cut him off to ask about there benifits package. so i just let him talk. so anyway yeah, the first half was him just asking me questions trying to gage my experiance and background history. i seriously love the fact that my dad's a builder cause i can connect with so many people in this industry because of that. i meantioned at one point in the conversation saying that, yeah because my dad is a builder growing up my house was a construction site. you get used to waking up to painters being right there or something going on. ha. he told me he was guilty of doing that to his own kids. so that was good. and what i thought was hillarious cause the main reason why i was freaking out was because i could only rely on my words, and perfessionalism that way. yikes, that's scary. cause i talk pretty much like this when interviewing, not good when i don't have have my portfolio to back me up. ha. but at one point in the conversation he said to me, " yeah you sound like a smart person, and talk perfessionally, and you just can't teach that..." hahaha!! i was laughing so hard in my head. just thinking well, i really don't speak professionally, but if i have you fooled, sa-weet!! but also what i found out... so when i emailed the company my resume and portfolio i just sent it to the normal hr people/general info@therecompanyname.com type thing. somehow the princial (boss person) got a hold of it, forwarded it to robert, and told him to give me a call. so he was definitely impressed! so that made my day hearing that. ha. but anyway, yeah i told him that i've only spent about 6 hours in LA so i really don't know the area at all. so he went on to very descriptively tell me in detail all the surrounding areas and saying on average everyone commutes about 45 mins to the office. basically it was sounding very, very positive. he asked me about my salary requirements, i told him... and low balled it. giving him a number less than what i brought home last year and then he gave me that number they only give to people they feel have real potencial... i'll just say it's a lot less, and i'll have to have roomies. which sucks, bad. i'm almost 30 and having to rely on roomies is really not what i want to be doing. i just think this new company is crazy cheap. they don't match the 401k plan (who doesn't match??!!) and from what i was gathering... i don't know. they just seem really cheap. i'll be suprised if they offer dental. but whatever. it's a job right? and there are so many people out of work right now (including me) and they know i'm out of work, and robert said twice the partner is not going to be willing to over-extend himself. which i can understand. if i was in that position i wouldn't want to either. and it seems like it's going to be a crazy stressfull job, and they expect perfection and nothing less. yikes. but i'm totally up for the challange. i'm a perfectionist myself (i made the contractor adjust a medicine cabinet door, and it was off by only 1/16th of an inch.. yes maybe i'm anal i'm so much of a perfectionist). so i don't know. it'll get me out to california. and this firm is the reason i went out to LA over memorial day to begin with. i can't believe they called me! i can't believe it could all be working out. just insanse. he's going to call me on tuesday, because the partner is on vacation. we'll talk hard numbers and hopefully they'll send me an offer. i already told him on the phone that i would be okay with the salary range he had mentioned. i don't think that was a good idea, but i really do want to be out there. i'm kinda sick of being here. i want a new change. and with certain situations i've been dealing with lately i wont miss ny. nope, not really.

but the whole reason why they need people is because they picked up this job over in japan. yeah, at one point he asked if knew japanise. i told him, well... if that's what it takes i can learn! ha. but yeah site visits to japan??? sign me up! so yeah that in a nut shell was the conversation. it was good. making me feel crazy positive about it. i've been spending (pretty much non-stop) a lot of time looking at housing/areas in ca, and cars. but brandon is so nice. man he's such a sweetheart. he gunna let me use his car! so i'll drive that out west. and if i do, i would love, love to swing by az to visit marie. that would be tons of fun.

but this means i probably wont be going out to hawaii. such a bummer. cause at the moment i'm suppose to be leaving this friday til the 27th, but if i move out there soon i need to be here to sell my furniture, do all i need to get done here in the city (do the stuff that is nyc related on my 101 goals) or i wanted to move it to the end of august. but again, if they need me out there mid august i'll be leaving here soon after the 1st or on the 1st. so maybe i'll postpone it to october? marcie, hopefully you'll be around then. and lax to honolulu can't be that long of a flight. i could even do weekend trips. that would be fun. um, yup. that's all.