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I went to an interview today for a job downtown that involves upholstery. It was nice to have an interview. It wasn't that nice to hear that the upper end of the pay scale was $14.00

OH: so Tuesday was the last day of my research study at the University of Chicago. The first time i went some lady with a tiny waist had me do two computer studies. In one study, I had to watch a screen and as soon as the "snowflake" ( looked like * ) showed up, I had to left click on my mouse. Then the other test- an x or an o wood come on the screen, and if the x popped up, i had to push z, and if o popped, i had to push ?. BUT, and this is the exception, if the symbol showed up and there was a little beep, then i shouldn't push anything. Half the time, the beep would come shortly after the symbol and then i'd push it on accident which TOTALLY SUCKED. I got SOOOO frustrated. Not really. They she had me take saliva out of my mouth and put it on a cotton swab. Then one part I had to give a 5 minute talk about anything I wanted so I talked about my grandma's candy dish and how she thinks it is affecting her tv's reception. See.. LISTEN HERE: we cleaned her house so that it would sell. We had to put away a lot of her junk and i had to stash peach things under the table and knick knacks in closets.. The candy dish ended up under the tv stand and then the tv suddently "bombed out". So, she blamed the candy even though she probably just pushed the wrong button on the remote control. CANDY DISH!! So, that was my speech and small waist said "interesting" at the end, which sort of was annoying. Then Tuesday we did more of the same, except that the speech thing was replaced with a "fake job interview" that I had ten minutes to prepare for. Small waist took me to a room and said there was gonna be a camera and to go in and give the speech and come out when I was done.. I opened the door and there was this big black guy and this annoying looking puffy woman sitting there with clip boards at a table. There was a big tv and a video camera. The tv was like a closed circuit broadcast of my puffy face. So, I had to give my spiel on why i was so appropriate for the "job" and then afterwords, black man told me to count back in intervals of 13 from 1021. Like 1021, 1008, 995, 982, etc. which was hard at first but then i got into the swing. Black man sat there with a pout on his face and then the woman stared at me hard core so I stared back while going down from 1000. It proved men are smarter than women, since I could stare and think at the same time. She stared back until I laughed. Then the timer beeped and the door swung open. Tiny waist took my blood pressure and then I did more of the snowflake test. At one point, I asked little waist if I "got the job" and she said "what job"? and I said in the other room, and then she explained that it wasn't a real job. No dugh. The study had to do with stress and reaction times.

The basement flooded last week so the carpet had to be ripped out. I've been walking around mostly in shoes.