It sounds like my downstairs neighbors are rockin out to Salt N Pepa’s “Push It”. You go girls.

I got a ticket for Type O Negative concert today. I’m eager to get my high school angst on. And MC Chris announced a new tour with Piebald. Wouldn’t have put the two bands together but I will probably see the show.

I applied for one job so far and got an email back saying “Hey, we will contact you when we start interviewing.” Not getting my hopes up but it’s nice to get a non-automated reply.

I’m putting off installing my new DVD drive because I think I will fuck it up. I have to do it soon because I really want to watch my new Nick Cave Abattoir Blues Tour DVD and it’s in PAL format. (Thank you, Valentine).

It’s cold and there’s some sort of ice rain going on.

I’m going drinking.

I should be applying for jobs, instead I’m reading NIN message boards.

So I often think about what a horrible counselor I’m shaping up to be due to my current job. I can put clients on mute, make faces when they say stupid things and never have to hear the results of my bad advice.

Thankfully there are always reminders that there are worse counselors out there. And they work with my company! Or at least used to. A coworker forwarded me a particularly interesting complaint about a counselor we used to work with. The client told us that the counselor has a bird roaming the office, no door and his office smells. We ask the counselor about these complaints and he admits he has a pigeon loose in the office (a pet, not just a random pigeon), he has a cube rather than an office so everything the client says can be heard in the waiting room and sometimes there is a “moldy smell” coming from his basement.

That’s the problem with working people you never meet. Someone can look good on paper and be completely inappropriate in real life.

I’m having troubles making myself look good on paper. Resume writing and cover letter writing are not my strong skills. Which is why I avoid by writing pointless blog entries.

It’s all about the music, baby.

Mom’s 50th birthday party came together nicely at the very last minute. I found a company willing to put a 8 foot birthday cake sign on our front lawn and my brother found a local Elvis impersonator to come to the party. Elvis was supposed to sing 3 songs but ended up staying for an hour. He sang, drank Jello shots with my mom and made us go on Google to find some song about petunias from the movie Frankie and Johnnie.

Yesterday I saw Chris Connelly at the Hideout. First I have to bitch about the opening band. The band consisted of a big neck beard in jeans and a cute girl in a dress. Is the beard/girl in a dress combo in? My emo coworker is in a band like this too. So beard faces away from the crowd most of the show because they’re all about distortion. And the girl sings very slowly and high pitched and I can’t understand a damn word she says. I hate that type of female vocalist.

Chris Connelly finally found a band so it wasn’t just him and his guitar this time.He did his usual black shirt and pants but was dressed up a bit this time. And he still makes his “glaring at the crowd” face even though he isn’t growly industrial anymore. Can you tell I used to have crush on him? Ya, he played music, too. He played only songs from the new CD and anytime that happens you’re going to have a few boring songs because not all CD worthy songs are also concert worthy.

Chris posted today that Wim Wenders was filming the show. Wim Wenders directed Buena Vista Social Club and Wings of Desire. Nick Cave was in Wings of Desire. I love this 6 degrees stuff.

So that prompted me to check out what Nick Cave was up to and why he didn’t have any US tour dates for the Abattoir Blues tour. No explanation for that other than he gets no love here and sells out stadiums in Europe. Nick Cave has a new band called Grinderman. Grinderman sings “No Pussy Blues”. Love them already.

Oh, and I had to come back and add that I really like the new NIN songs and the “Oops, I dropped my USB drive in the venue bathroom” leak approach.

I can’t say good day because the day is not done..but it has been a good morning.

I passed the LSW exam!

I think the ASWB study guide and the Social Work Guide helped so I’m going to give both of those study tools a thumbs up. However, I would find a used version of the Social Work Guide is possible, it’s expensive for one book.

I have only used the free practice exams on Socialworkexam.com but I would give that site a thumbs down if the free exams are anything like the material they charge for. The practice questions are full of grammatical and spelling mistakes and are not worded at all like the real exam questions.

EDIT: Also I highly recommend having a study buddy to ask you practice questions and encourage you to study. The cuter the study buddy, the better.

Those are the only study tools I used so I cannot comment on the other social work study sites out there.

And when I got home from my exam, I found out Obama officially announced that he is running! Yay!

I know, I’ve been busy.

I’ve been studying for the LSW exam thats in less than 2 weeks. I’m not entirely sure I will pass. The thought of not passing, not being able to move on from BigCo stresses me. On top of that stress, I think I’m getting sick. I’m just not in a good mood lately.

Listening to the new guy next to me spend his first couple days on the phone, I realize how far away from counseling my job has grown. New guy was at his desk late and I asked him why, he said he just got stuck on a call with a talker. I don’t really get that anymore. I mean, unless its a counselor’s office calling to argue with me but that’s not really talking.

I also feel really unproductive lately. I know studying has a point but that doesn’t seem to help.

I went to the doctor last week, my robot heart almost revolted on me in early January. I guess swimming at the gym stresses my heart more than I thought because I almost got a shock that could have possibly drowned me. It’s a nice thing to think about next time I do any exercise alone.

Also, sofuckingcold.