nausearockpig wrote:mockbee wrote:No doubt!
Best job ever!
....told you it only took five seconds.
nausearockpig wrote:mockbee wrote:No doubt!
Best job ever!
creep wrote:my trick to interviews is that i convince myself i really don't want the job. no pressure. i usually do pretty good if it's one on one but i have had a couple with cities/counties that were panel interviews. those freak me the fuck out and i never do well.
chaos wrote:I'm a loser. I withdrew my application.
Visit or moving back?guysmiley wrote:Total communication break down today at the airport. Lady told me terminal 8, she meant counter 8. I missed my flight. But, they were saints at getting me a flight tomorrow. Seriously good service here. If it was an American international provider, they would have told me to "go fuck myself". Now I have a longer flight to Tokyo to Chicago, then Portland. Hopefully I can sleep on the plane.
How long has it been since you've been back? 4 years?!guysmiley wrote:Just a visit. It'll be 4 years next month since I moved to Japan. Gonna feel like a foreigner the first day maybe. Going to see how things are touch base, re-connect. See if my plans to move back aren't a pipe dream.
It's always been that way. Yupie central. Most the places I hang around are on the East. Cheaper and less Yupies. Hipsters, but oh well. Yeah 4 years. More worried about people changing.mockbee wrote:How long has it been since you've been back? 4 years?!guysmiley wrote:Just a visit. It'll be 4 years next month since I moved to Japan. Gonna feel like a foreigner the first day maybe. Going to see how things are touch base, re-connect. See if my plans to move back aren't a pipe dream.
You will be surprised, things are very different in portland......it's pearl district smeared all over the place.
well yeah, pearl started in late 90s - I remember in the early 90s when the whole area was kind of no go zone with the only reason to go for clubs like The City, but you will be surprised how much it has expanded, pushing past Quimby to Vaughn ("slabtown" now) Also North Portland and NE are completely gentrified. I am pretty familiar with hawthorne/belmont/woodstock/clinton but can't speak to their changes, but in my forays through there is major money being pushed about in unlikely places. Sellwood is apparently super hot.....I went to an open house of a 2BR place that finally sold for close to $400,000, but it was a tear down crack house........ go figure.guysmiley wrote:It's always been that way. Yupie central. Most the places I hang around are on the East. Cheaper and less Yupies. Hipsters, but oh well. Yeah 4 years. More worried about people changing.mockbee wrote:How long has it been since you've been back? 4 years?!guysmiley wrote:Just a visit. It'll be 4 years next month since I moved to Japan. Gonna feel like a foreigner the first day maybe. Going to see how things are touch base, re-connect. See if my plans to move back aren't a pipe dream.
You will be surprised, things are very different in portland......it's pearl district smeared all over the place.
I use to live in Sellwood. I loved it, but I was lucky I had a new cheap redone apartment. So yeah, woodstock and brooklyn were hangouts for me. Hawthorne is hipster central, but some good shops and theaters. Slabtown the venue? That place actually gets some cool groups. Mudhoney played there a few years ago. Real small place.mockbee wrote:well yeah, pearl started in late 90s - I remember in the early 90s when the whole area was kind of no go zone with the only reason to go for clubs like The City, but you will be surprised how much it has expanded, pushing past Quimby to Vaughn ("slabtown" now) Also North Portland and NE are completely gentrified. I am pretty familiar with hawthorne/belmont/woodstock/clinton but can't speak to their changes, but in my forays through there is major money being pushed about in unlikely places. Sellwood is apparently super hot.....I went to an open house of a 2BR place that finally sold for close to $400,000, but it was a tear down crack house........ go figure.guysmiley wrote:It's always been that way. Yupie central. Most the places I hang around are on the East. Cheaper and less Yupies. Hipsters, but oh well. Yeah 4 years. More worried about people changing.mockbee wrote:How long has it been since you've been back? 4 years?!guysmiley wrote:Just a visit. It'll be 4 years next month since I moved to Japan. Gonna feel like a foreigner the first day maybe. Going to see how things are touch base, re-connect. See if my plans to move back aren't a pipe dream.
You will be surprised, things are very different in portland......it's pearl district smeared all over the place.
I would be interested in your impressions of people and/or places.