yet another

I’ve actually been back from LA for a while now. I arrived Friday morning, and I’ve pretty much been hibernating since then. It was a really exhausting trip, and I’m just so glad that I’m back home. Here’s the down-and-dirty:

• On the first day, I went to a group interview. This was basically the first hurdle, and felt a lot like an episode of The Apprentice. If I did well in the group interview, they’d call me back for a personal interview the next day.
• I must have done pretty okay since I got the callback. The second day of my trip was spent at the Aeon office again. The personal interview was considerably shorter and didn’t take up my entire day, so after the interview I caught the train to USC and hung out with my friends. They showed me around the campus and basically made me incredibly jealous that they get to go to such an awesome school. I flew back the following morning.
• Yesterday I just got a call from the Aeon offices, letting me know that they want to hire me! The only problem is that they can’t actually hire me yet since I don’t have my diploma and passport. Once I get those two things, they can begin the process of placing me with a school and setting a departure date.
• I have six months, starting from yesterday, to be placed into a school. If I clear the six months, awesome. If I don’t, I’ll have to apply all over again. Realistically, if I don’t make it this time around I’ll probably have to give up. I don’t have the money to fly out to LA again, and even if I scrape together the amount later on I don’t think I’d go anyway. I’ve had enough of LA for one lifetime.
• I’m still effectively in a job interview, since the job is still tentative and since there is no commitment from either side. I have to be proactive in informing their offices, making sure everything is going smoothly, so on and so forth. I can’t slack! Because if I do, they’ll decide they don’t want to hire me after all, and I will be so sad. So in other words, I can’t be a lazy sack of crap anymore. How tragic.

There are ten million things that can go wrong with this plan… but then again, there were ten million things that could’ve gone wrong on the LA trip, too. And even though some things DID end up going awry, it all worked out in the end. I wish I could tell you that this is some Taoist philosophy I’ve picked up, but in reality I just feel like a defeated, lazy wreck of a person. If things go right, awesome; if things go wrong, well, there’s not much I can do to prevent it, so why bother worrying about “what if”s?

One thing at a time. Passport tomorrow, work on finishing my classes for the next couple of weeks, and pray that both the school registrar and the passport agency don’t take eight billion years to send me my stuff.