Cue! CDs! Microchips on spacecraft!

Cue! Fun as usual, the regulars djkangal and djpaulen layin' down the beats. Hung out with Becky and Nick and Cosmo and a few others again; Becky unfortunately wasn't having the best night--as a friend of hers is going through a seriously rough time and Becky is her only true friend at the moment. :\

However, I did make Becky's night by presenting her with CDs of all of Evanescence's music (Demo CD 2002, EP, Fallen, Mystary (yes, 'a'), and Origin) that I burned from mp3 before I went. :) Last week, we were talking about the band, and she offered to bring in her copy of the latest CD for me to copy. When I learned I could get all of those mp3s on short notice, I did so, and burned the audio CDs. :) (Also got two Joy Electric compilations, and the unreleased Dave Gahan album. :)

A nice surprise was when I greeted Kangal at the booth--he'd made up a mix CD and offered a limited number of free copies to Cue-goers, and I'd mentioned I wanted one, but didn't think he'd remember. However, I showed up, he reaches over and passes me a CD. Rock!

( Mix One track list )

Added bit from djkangal about the night:

( It's a real NightClub Event now! )

Chatted with Becky out in the cold for a while before heading home (to jump back on AIM and chat with other cool people ;), and found a request from Ali to assist her in "being all Nancy Drew." Turns out she came across the page about the STARDUST Microchips, filled with public-submitted names (in 1997-1998) and fired off into space on a spacecraft in Feb 1999, to rendezvous with the comet Wild 2 in January '04. One set of microchips will return with that craft in 2006, the other will remain in space.

In perusing the database of names, she found some she recognized--her own, mine, Shauna's, Jen Durdall's, and was quite curious how they got there. As I recall, I added them all way back when, and had quite forgotten about it. :)

'Rain': See 'pour'

So in addition to the recent interview with RDR and the soon-to-be-scheduled phone interview with Stryker (when I get next week's schedule tomorrow), I got a call from William at Best Software & Technical Support, and called him back for a phone interview! (Best is the company that Matt works for, and he submitted my resume for the Technical Support Specialist position all of a day or two ago.)

Looks like I may get a better job one of these days, after all! :)


Update: Added a citation from Kangal's post to my Cue post, right after the track list.

Update 2: Wow.. check out rahaeli's post about the finer points of LJ Abuse:
What Every Support Volunteer Should Know About Abuse Work.
It's enlightening, especially if you have ambivalent or negative thoughts about the Abuse team.

On self-esteem

The other day, I posted a link about introverts; recently, I came across two very interesting discussions on self-esteem:

evelynne: I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough
kitters: ...and doggone it, people like me!!

As I explained in my comment to Evelynne,

All through elementary and middle school, I had iffy self-esteem. I was dorky, poor social skills, not many people liked me.

Come high school, I was suddenly in the midst of a group of academically-like-minded people, who accepted me for who I was and what I liked, and it allowed me to come out of whatever shell I was in. I realized that it didn't really matter what other people thought, that I liked and was proud of who I was, and it only went uphill from there. I'm still not generally in the "in crowd", but I no longer care--even less than I did before, that is. :)

I'm also an optimist. :)

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And for lighter bits, comic-y humor!

SinFest: Vord association
ExplodingDog: I need some space to think
RealLife: It's the new online game!

Friends

"It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
-- Marlene Dietrich

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Totally unrelated, but cute in an arachnid sort of way:

Tarantula-bunny!

:)