Holy Crap!

So we met with our realtor today. We took a look at several houses. The first one was pretty nice. The second one was hilarious!

You walk in, and the carpet is putting green green. This carpet extends throughout the house and is complimented by various colors of paint, including purple. Some people. :)

After looking at a few more houses, we went back to the first one (pictured above). It is a pretty great house for an AMAZING price. So we're putting an offer in tomorrow morning. It's pretty freaky. We should find out sometime this week if our offer is accepted.

Hopefully we'll get the house. If so, watch for a major cookout/housewarming party!

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That he is giving me another full year's raise because of a foreign language proficiency. So I walked out of there with a much higher salary than I expected.

So, the important things. I start as a pre-hire on September 2. My academy starts on October 14 with a graduation date in March of '10.

I am writing this from Ruby Tuesday where I just quit. Pictured you will see the beer that I am drinking. I will continue with the dog job for another week or so. I'm going to go call my realtor!!!!

When is an interview not an interview?

When it's a job offer! Apparently today was less of an interview and more of a ''here's how much money we're going to pay you.''

I was there with 5 other people (my new classmates.) We went in and met with the Lt. He gave us some orientation info, then told us that we would be meeting with him individually to discuss salary. This is when it sank in that I had made it!

So later on i'm sitting in the Lt's office. He tells me that I'm getting one pay advance because I have a Bachelor's degree. I knew that that was coming.

Then he opens my file and notes that I rated my Spanish skills at 7 out of 10. Keep in mind that I filled this out a year ago (when I was still using my Spanish) and Joelle was telling me not to undersell my Spanish.

I tell him that I did rate it at 7, but I'm not sure how it is now because I don't use it. He tells me that he is going to call the interpreter line and have me speak with the Spanish interpreter. At this point i'm getting nervous b/c I don't want to look like an idiot. But he hands me the phone and tells me to speak with Carlos.

Carlos and I chat and it doesn't go too badly. I got nervous when he asked what color my car is and I told him Yellow. I figured he would think I just dididn't know my colors, b/c who has a yellow car?

I get off the phone and hand it back to the Lt. He speaks with Carlos for a moment and hangs up. He then told me that Carlos said that I had a very good command of the language. The Lt. Then tells me tha

Ready to Roll

Okay, so I got to my interview really early. Right now I'm hanging out in my car killing time. I will say, though, it looks like this parking garage might fill up, so at least being early got me a spot.

So I'm nervous as Hell, but I don't even know what to be nervous about. I have no idea what kind of interviee I'm walking into. I don't even know thr name of the man I'm meeting.

But, at least I look GOOD!!!! I'll post again afterward to give you the results.

Another DC Day

So today the plan was to go to Chantilly and see Dark Knight in IMAX. Unfortunately, it was sold out. A month after it came out, and it is still selling out!

Luckily it was also showing at the Natural History Museum in DC. So Joelle suggested that we go early and go to the zoo. So we hopped the Metro and went zooing. It was a great day for it!

Now we're at the Museum, waiting in line. The guy who I reserved the tickets from said to get here an hour early to get the best seats. So we got here, but found out that they only open the doors 10 minutes before the show.

So i'm standing in line to get in. But they just did this rediculous thing where the took the tickets of everyone standing in line and pushed us into this corral area. So any semblance of order has been destroyed. In stead it will be a mad rush to get seats when the doors open.

But at least the movie will kick ass!

News

So something good happened while I was mopping up dog pee today. No, I didn't find a gold coin encased in crap. That would have been awesome.

Instead, my cell phone rand and I answered it. It was my Detective from Fairfax!!! He sounded very excited and told me that his supervisor had said that they were ready to ''proceed'' with my group of applicants! I have my final interview on Wednesday.

I'm hoping that this is the interview where they offer me the job, but even if it isn't, it feels great to be making progress!

Anyway, wish me luck and I'll let you know how the interview goes.

Richmond

Hi! So Joelle and I are in Richmond right now. We drove down and are staying with Joelle's old roommate Katie and her husband.

Richmond is gorgeous! I never really spent much time here, so I didn't know much about the city.

Yesterday we went walking along the canal. It was very cool, and there'sa where I found this inspirational graffiti. It's very good advice, provided that your dream isn't getting an education. :)

Anyway, I have to run. We're going to go catch up with Jon and Marisa and head to Cary St.

Nothing New

Howdy! So we.re all moved in to the new place. For those of you that didn't know, our last landlord is selling his house so we moved to a new sublet.

This place is pretty nice. We have the basement of an incredible house. Thanks to Adam and Joelle's friend Sean who helped us to move in.

Nothing new on the job front. I found out that Fairfax's academy is in October, so I should be employed by then at the very latest. At least I hope.

Anyway, the dogs are going nuts so I have to