Yeah, yeah, so Apple’s iPad is out today. Now if I had a job I would be first in line to get one. But that’s not the case. Maybe someday soon I will have one.

Instead, this is what I did today:

• worked my part-time for today’s three hour shift—
• completed two online tests for the job that is 12 blocks away from my house, who contacted me on Tuesday after sending in my resume the previous week. There were two tests, one that had some basic analytical and grammatical questions that seemed kind of odd and very S.A.T.-ish; the other test was a “personality test” (as was told to me on the phone Tuesday) and was even weirder, a listing of traits that first I had to pick out what I thought people perceived of me and then the same traits where I picked what I felt represented me. Very bizarre and makes me think about what kind of organization it is—
• installing a Mac OS X update and then updates to Adobe’s Creative Suite. This is getting me prepped for a freelance gig through former employer G that will start on Monday. I’ll be working from home so they’re providing me with disks to upgrade my four-year-old iMac to their system. It will be easier to transfer files that way and I’m very thankful they gave those to me. I was running old versions on their software from when I worked there but now I’m at least up to version 3.

Another caveat about the free system upgrade to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8) is that it will get me pretty much up to speed for my “career seminar” with a certain employer which is the DreamJob. My meeting with them is next Sunday and I couldn’t be more psyched. Also in preparation for this meeting I’ve downloaded a 30-day trial of iWork and Monday I will use a gift card to purchase the most recent copy of iLife. I’ll need to bone up on these software packages and so if you can take a hint or click on one of the links then you’ll know who the interview is with and who the DreamJob employer is.