Maybe I need to just sparkle harder

• Job hunt progress: rejected for every job I applied for so far!
  
  • Have been asked for questions in advance, and oh my god I am never going back. How did I live without knowing what I'd be walking into with interviews. Why would anyone ever not give the questions in advance so they could decent, well-thought out answers.
  
  
  • Had an interview at the start of the month where I asked what the team culture was like (meaning: how are the vibes), and the interviewer's response was "Well, Sam's Chinese...?"
  
  
  • Had an interview last week and I think it went okay – the interview I had in March I was like "I am 100% not getting this job," the one at the start of the month I was like "I 100% do not want this job," and this one I'm like "If I get it that will be nice, if I don't I will survive." But I asked the interviewer if this was a quiet period for them, because the advert said "Busy, fast-paced environment!" and it looked fairly chill to me.
    
    "Oh, we don't have a quiet period! We see 600 people every week!"
    
    Me, working in a building where I can see that many people in an hour:
  
  
  • Interviewer asked about how I'd handle a colleague who wasn't pulling their weight, and I gave my proper answer, then followed up with "And what I don't do is complain to other coworkers or do passive-aggressive petty things because I'm frustrated!"
    
    Interviewer: There's a story there, isn't there?
  
  
  • (Update: I didn't get the job, but they said I had a lovely personality and it was a really enjoyable interview, so I'll take what I can get?)
  
  
  • Job hunting while I'm in the middle of a slow-motion menty-b is fun! I am a tired, mentally ill slug, except for the half an hour where I have to sparkle my very hardest for complete strangers!


• Work drama is fun! Someone leaked an upcoming Stupid Decision to the press, and the person in charge is furious! (Obviously we are all collectively popcorn gifs.) One of the sites I work at is closed because raw sewage leaked into the building and shorted the fire alarm system. The project I was really excited to work on has been cancelled. Five people have left in the last month and more people are job hunting. It's all going great.


• Joined a D&D game with some of Lex's work friends, and last session everyone got to do cool things like "put the fear of [tiefling character] into a god" and "kill a god"! And my contribution was solo-ing a ginormous undead kraken by casting Turn/Sear Undead and making it leave the combat.


• (We were fighting a god of the ocean and some bright spark decided we should fight them at sea. Why? I still don't know.)


• Low-key obsessing over Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint and I need my library to spit out the next few volumes immediately plskbai.