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Jul. 15th, 2006 03:26 pm-The interview went pretty well, I thought. But they wanted references to be able to make the decision by the end of the week, aka Friday, and given that I interviewed Thursday afternoon, I wasn't able to get OKs from two of my references until my Friday lunch break. So they may have already made the decision and decided against me, or they may decide at the beginning of the upcoming week. I don't want to be too hopeful.
-The temp job improves because now there are two more temp workers on the job and they make conversation. Previously, it had just been me and another temp worker in a windowless filing room for 8 hours a day in silence.
-I acquired two chairs from Andy's brother Ben. Suddenly, my living room has furniture to fill it up. One is a pod chair, and when I sit in it I can pretend to be a pod person.
-I've been reading a book about Harold Washington's mayoralty of Chicago in the 1980s, Fire on the Prarie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race by Gary Rivlin. It's very interesting, because (a) he was anti-machine in a city where machine politics were extremely strong and and (b) he was Chicago's first black mayor. His fight against the machine, to ensure that city services were equally distributed among neighborhoods and racial groups, met with opposition both from blacks who thought that a black mayor should serve them, as the constituency that had elected him, and from whites who wanted to preserve their political dominance of the machine and the services they had enjoyed under it. A very simplistic summary, but it's a very interesting book from many fronts for considering race, rascism, and city politics in America.
-The temp job improves because now there are two more temp workers on the job and they make conversation. Previously, it had just been me and another temp worker in a windowless filing room for 8 hours a day in silence.
-I acquired two chairs from Andy's brother Ben. Suddenly, my living room has furniture to fill it up. One is a pod chair, and when I sit in it I can pretend to be a pod person.
-I've been reading a book about Harold Washington's mayoralty of Chicago in the 1980s, Fire on the Prarie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race by Gary Rivlin. It's very interesting, because (a) he was anti-machine in a city where machine politics were extremely strong and and (b) he was Chicago's first black mayor. His fight against the machine, to ensure that city services were equally distributed among neighborhoods and racial groups, met with opposition both from blacks who thought that a black mayor should serve them, as the constituency that had elected him, and from whites who wanted to preserve their political dominance of the machine and the services they had enjoyed under it. A very simplistic summary, but it's a very interesting book from many fronts for considering race, rascism, and city politics in America.
