back to school....again!

so, today is my second first day of school. second first day? how did i get here? well, i had my first first day of school once straight out of high school and ended up having a little too much of the "college experience" and not so much of the "college".

after losing my full academic scholarship at arkansas state, i decided to take a semester off and get a job in advertising at the arkansas democrat-gazette. turns out i am really good at sales. i started making money, moved to florida, got an advertising sales job at the st. petersburg times, started making even more money, signed a million dollar advertising deal with florida's largest real estate company and made a whole lot of money. i moved on to broadcast sales for cox radio and did well...then somehow ended up bartending and managing a busy bar in the channelside district of downtown tampa until a shitty economy and various comedies of errors resulted in the change of ownership and subsequent closing of said bar.

after two months of searching for a sales job, being told that since i am "overqualified for this position, we feel like you won't be a long-term employee," for every sales job i've interviewed for, and toying with the idea of going back to school, i decided to get another bar job and go for it. so here i am, a bartending 28-year old political science student. and i couldn't be more excited! i haven't posted a blog in a while because i've been really busy getting all this school stuff straight.

and today has finally come...my second first day of school.

killin' time....i have way too much right now anyway!

well...today i spent a majority of my time searching for a job...of course. went to a really cool bar called rick's on the river and had a very promising on-the-spot interview with a manager, and have a 2nd interview with the owner on monday. the manager implied that i'd be considered for a serving position and i should hear something back in the next week or two.

then he looked at my application, saw that i'd been managing and bartending at andreychuk's for three years, and that i'd totally name-dropped on my references (knowing we had the same beer rep, james, and that they love him there), so he interviewed me right then. during the interview, i really sold myself as a bartender and explained how i was going to be going back to school. he gave me the bartender test and apparently i did a bang-up job. he said to come in and meet the owner on monday.

sweet! if i can bartend there i will definitely be able to go to school. i'm pretty pumped...hope it works out. i'm super broke!!!

well, i'd better start getting ready for wazoo. ryan and nashira invited us to go with them to lowry park zoo's biggest annual fundraiser tonight. hopefully my hair doesn't look bad...i cut it myself today!!