Friday June 19, 2009 - Is the whole world raining?

Well it's been a rainy several days here. Which unfortunately means I haven't gotten outside as much as I've wished. It's all these sporadic showers. So it'll look nice and sunny out then I get my shoes and what not on and go outside and after a few minutes it'll start raining so I head home. Then later it'll let up, so I'll get ready to go out again, then the rain will start again. It's frustrating. The only way I get out of this house is going for walks and now I can't even get those done! It's also apparently been raining back home in DC, my mum and dad told me they got 1 inch of rain last night. Plus my plans for the day were ruined today. I had these plans for getting up and tuning into Fox Sports to watch coverage of the first day of the US Open, which was to begin airing here at noon, but due to the massive downpours happening on Long Island, play was called for the day after only 3 and some change hours. So they decided to scrap the airing of any of the tournament today. Boo. Now apparently they plan to start up again bright and early tomorrow morning trying to fit in the rest of the first round (like half of the players never even teed off) as well as the scheduled 2nd round. Apparently though it's supposed to continue the downpour tomorrow so who knows how much golf will be played tomorrow or even this weekend? I wonder how long this thing will drag on? So apparently rain has been a problem all over the world lately.

Tonight Tom and I head to the Regional Poker Tourney. As I mentioned before I have already qualified for states, so there's really no pressure for me, but Tom will try to finish in the top 15 (not including those already qualified for states) in order to qualify as well. I'll try to do as well as possible anyway though because there is always the chance to win money :)

Applied for a couple more temporary microbio technician jobs today. I'm just hoping I at least get some sort of response showing interest or anything. I haven't heard anything about any of the jobs I've applied for. It's a bit frustrating. I mean I am applying for 3-6 month temporary positions in the microbio world, sometimes jobs I am actually (IMHO) over-qualified for and nothing. No interest, or even invitation for an interview. Like I said, I think in some cases even though they are temporary positions and I already have a valid work visa, employers are hesitant to hire foreigners and would rather hire Australians. At least that's what I am telling myself. I just keep hope that one day I'll get lucky and someone will take interest...