It's all about having options

OK. I'm enjoying myself today. Just knowing that I won't be stuck here forever, Azure or not, has vastly improved my general mood.

The interview with Azure was a total cakewalk. Dale didn't even attend the interview because his role is to make the reccomendation on the candidates' technical abilities and he is well aware of mine. That in itself sets me apart from all the other applicants. Basically I was just being assessed on my "people skills". Not a problem. They asked the usual questions and I played the interview game. I was frank about my weaknesses and kept them focussed on my advantages, especially the fact that I am very familiar with their current environment. The job is tailor made for me. That makes for a fun interview. I don't need the job, but they need me.

So today it was a matter of telling the recruiter exactly what my minimum offer would be. As I was typing up the e-mail my daily horoscope came in:

You know exactly what you're worth -- no further discussion is necessary on that point. Just for fun, wait to see how much someone needs you.
Choose many colors when arranging your flowers.

How's that for perfect? I have no guarantee that Azure will survive. It is a big fat gamble whereas, boring as this bank job may be, what I have now is eminently stable. If I am going to gamble on a start up I want the change to get a good pay-off for the risk. What is comes down to for Azure is I want stock options.

I feel like such an adult.

Gee, what a coincidence

I bought my ticket to NYC yesterday and today I get called for a travel survey. One of the questions was "If I could travel anywhere in the world, all expenses paid, where would I go?" I said, "Istanbul." The girl doing the survery sounded very confused and asked me to spell it. LOL. I guess Istanbul isn't the most popular of tourist destinations. Good thing I didn't pick either of the other two places I really want to visit: Tuktoyaktuk and Reykjavik.

In regards to Kristi's post

Read it here

Wound and scar inventory from the bottom up:

• Toe beside my little toe on my right foot doesn't bend well from being thoroughly smashed
• Perpetually achey left foot from cracking my heel
• Perpetually achey right foot from cracking my heel
• 5 cm scar on my right thigh
• circumcision
• 1 cm diameter circular scar on my right hip from an infected scrape
• Very faint scar from ~18 inch cut along my left side
• 6 cm scar near the centre of my chest.
• Three ~3 cm scars on my left shoulder
• 3 cm scar on my right shoulder
• Vaccination scar on my left shoulder
• ~2 cm by 5 cm deep abrasion scar on my right elbow.
• Two faint 0.5 cm circular burn scars on my left forearm
• 4 cm scar on my right forearm
• 1cm by 2cm burn scar on my right forearm.
• Occasional muscle spasms and aching from dislocating my right shoulder and tearing a lot of the connective tissue
• Chronic tendonitis in both elbows
• Deep 3 cm scar on right wrist
• Small circular burn scar on back of left hand.
• Small scars on the knuckles of my right hand.
• Small semi-circular puncture scar on the plam of my right hand near the thumb.
• Tip of a pencil embedded in the palm of my right hand near the base of the forefinger
• Semi-circlular scar on first knuckle of right forefinger
• Small puncture scar and 1 cm scar on second segement of the middle finger of my right hand.
• Crooked middle finger on my right hand from five different breaks.
• Actually now that I am really looking my all of my fingers on both hands have lots of little scars.
• Hard to see scar on my lower lip
• 1 cm scar on my upper lip between my mouth and my nose
• No tonsils
• Pretty much impossible to see scar near the bottom of my right eyeball (I'd pretty much have to remove my eye to show that one)
• A small ding on my brow above my right eye.
• 6 cm scar on my forehead just below the hairline
• Calcified lump on the back of my head from a cracked skull.

I'm sure I missed a few, and of course most of them have stories behind them. Some I am really surprised to see how much they have healed. The puncture wound on my right hand has almost completely faded away, which surprises me. It was a very significant scar for a long time. There are other ones that have disappeared entirely, which weirds me out. The burn on my right forearm was down to the muscle, as was the abrasion, yet both are hard to see now. Upon closer inspection I can't even find the scar on my left side, and that was to the bone. I'm actually more than a little weirded out now. The scar on my forehead was also to the bone and is only ten years old and it is becoming hard to see. I know scars fade over time, but this much, this quickly?

This collection of scars is also why I don't go in for body-mods. I've had enough of my body parts bent, broken and punctured unintentionally to want to go and do it on purpose.