Right now I am going through a superhero phase.
Maybe because I really didn't do super heroes as a child. I vaguely remember Superman on television and remember him better when he was played by Christopher Reeves. Adam West as Batman I watched in reruns on the not network local television station, back in the day, Channel 2. I have vague recollections of the Green Hornet when Bruce Lee was Kato. Then there was Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter and the Bionic Man with Lee Majors and the Bionic Woman with Lindsey Wagner.
I can honestly say, I don't really remember a single episode. I remember some of the characters and that's about all.
Batman has been "rebooted" several times in film. All the movies had their positives and negatives. Marvel came back to life with Ironman and then brought us a host of superheroes in the Avengers.
Today, superheroes are big, really big business.
I just finished watching a two and a half hour or so invasion of Earth 1 by aliens. Supergirl, The Flash, the Green Arrow and all their associates banded together to fight off a group of aliens who were set to exterminate a special group of humans with special powers because these aliens were convinced they would be the scourge of Earth and of their home world. A preemptive strike as it were.
No, it's not the movie with James Franco and Seth Rogen about the dictator of North Korea.
It was the interview I had today with TMK. I arrived early as is my general habit for appointments, and filled out a general form that had some specific questions on it such as being the subject of insurance fraud or being implicated or sued for insurance malfeasance. While those aren't specific to many careers, they are common questions if you work in the insurance industry.
A few minutes after filling out this form I chatted with one of the recruiter's underlings. Again, some general questions more along the line of tell me about yourself. He explained that the process was a three step interview procedure and if I had the time I could move on to the next interview step.
I can't believe it is after midnight and I am still up, wide awake even.
I meant to go to bed hours ago, but I guess I'm a bit keyed up over the interview I'm having tomorrow. The way I see it, it is really another dry run for the ones I hope will be coming real soon in the education field.
For some reason I can't get the scanner/printer/fax combo machine we have to work so I had to head over to FedEx Office. I had my resume in an email and forwarded it to them and boom, they printed three copies super fast.
I spent a goodly amount of time recently reading the prophet Ezekiel. Man, that guy had to tell the Israelites some pretty bad news; the people were going to be captured, basically become slaves and live away from their homeland for seventy years.
That's almost four generations. Long enough so the young people wouldn't remember what their homeland was like.
At one point in the reading, he was carrying his belongings with him to show that the people would only be able to take what they could carry. Even the ruler was going to have to carry his own belongings into captivity.
This depression thing is quite literally kicking my butt (or other words of choice).
However, I think I made a little forward progress today. For starters
I emailed the recruiter back and told him based on what he told me that I could not accept the position they wanted to interview me for. I didn't apply for it, it was a reach, out of the blue air for them to pull my resume and somehow think I fit. No way, I don't. I laid awake last night, going over everything in my head that he told me and as I was reviewing it I started to get knots in my stomach. The kind that if you carry them for long are the beginnings of ulcers. No thank you. A perforated ulcer is what killed someone near and dear to me.
Shame on me.
I feel like I haven't made any real progress since my last post, so instead of writing, I hid.
I can't do that. I've done such a good job of writing every day about the things I'm finding out about. So shame on me.
This post may be short, but it will be the truth.
Sleep has been claiming a lot of my time. I think it is because depression is rearing its ugly head and trying to devour me. How bad is it? So bad that to avoid going to bed too early last night I watched Tremors 5. Yep, I watched a bad series about the graboid worms and their life cycle. Desperate.
Sigh.
That's a good sigh by the way. I'm in my office, using my computer and my wonderful ergonomic keyboard and I have plenty of light and it just feels good to be working in this space at this time.
Yep, contented...sigh.
I've been doing a fair amount of reading of late. Some "self-help" types of books. Been reading a lot on the internet too. One of the things the authors seem to have in common regards the power of our thoughts.
When our thoughts are negative, we send out negative waves or "vibes" as the hippies of the 60's used to say. The Bible tells us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7).
