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So today I had lunch with my boss's boss, and we discussed BossBoss's impending departure and my prospects for getting his job. I kind of decided, fuck it, this stupid job isn't worth worrying about, and I'm going to go after it because NO JOB can possibly ever be as evil as working in the box office for nine dollars an hour and I did that for TEN MONTHS. Plus it's twice my current salary and that is so many superballs, you guys don't even know.

So Overboss told me to give him my resume and he'd rewrite the job description to fit my qualifications, and then he gave me an impromptu interview which I aced because I am smarter than him, and while that was happening apparently a bridge caught on fire a block away.

My hand to god I am not making this up. I'm trying to find news stories now. Not having any luck yet, but then it only just happened.

We walked out of the restaurant where we were having lunch, turned north towards Wacker, and were immediately confronted with fire engines, huge torrents of water cascading onto the bridge, and the wail of sirens. I'm pretty sure the lift mechanism caught on fire -- it's Wednesday, so the bridges are lifting -- but it's possible it was just a drill.

Either way, though, finishing a job interview with a literal burning bridge, that...has to be a sign of something, right?

OH GOD WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

I NEED AN OMNISCIENT NARRATOR IN MY OWN DAMN LIFE

Comments

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

See, this is how we know you're real. You couldn't make this stuff up.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know how anyone's going to believe this, but I swear it's true.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

I don't think you have to be worried until the four horsemen show up during a conference call.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

IT COULD HAPPEN.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

O_o.

(FWIW, can't see any news about a bridge fire in Chicago, but yikes.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's really frustrating that it's nowhere in the news. Gonna have to watch the TV news tonight and see if it's covered.

[(Anonymous)]

your x-men superpower just manifested...

bridges got burnt, windows and doors open ;)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh man, when do I get my cape?

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining a burning bridge being pelted by a rain of superballs...

Only you, Sam. And this is why we love you.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Admit it, that's an AWESOME mental image.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Being smart is so cool :D YAY for New Job!! Burn, bridges!

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

lol, sam, only you. well, good luck either way.

I have to say that twice the money can make up for a lot of evils in whatever job. certainly I make it through a lot of world-class department meetings by thinking about how I'll be in Japan in the summer, tens of thousands of miles between me and the rest of those people.

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

So, your life is also a play by Tom Stoppard directed by Michael Bay?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

WITH SUPERBALLS.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I concur with the above commenters -- only you, Sam. :)

(I think, btw, that what was unromantically actually going on RE the bridge is that the gears expand in the heat and they need to be cooled off, IE with firehoses, to get the bridge open sometimes in the summer... or anyway I sort of remember my mom saying something like that, I'll ask her when she gets home...)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh that makes sense! I didn't see any smoke...

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Fate is mad at BossBoss for leaving because Fate reads your blog.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Drive-by iconlove! (I don't play Farmville but I know someone who does and the idea of a rainbow cow is aces.)

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

You are just *so* awesome, you need to be narrated by Alan Rickman.

[ncp.livejournal.com]

Hugh Laurie. Or Stephen Fry.

Both, actually.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Harold Crick: I'm sorry, but what do these questions have to do with anything?

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Nothing. The only way to find out what story you're in is to determine what stories you're not in. Odd as it may seem, I've just ruled out half of Greek literature, seven fairy tales, ten Chinese fables, and determined conclusively that you are not King Hamlet, Scout Finch, Miss Marple, Frankenstein's Monster, or a golem. Hmm? Aren't you relieved to know you're not a golem?

Harold Crick: Yes. I am relieved to know that I am not a golem.

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Good. Do you have magical powers?

....Which is to say, sometimes I think you live in this movie.

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yes, this.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

LiveJournal: More on the ball then the news.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

BossBoss's Boss said "he'd rewrite the job description to fit my qualifications." OHMIGOD! That's wonderful! That means he totally gets the awesomeness that is Sam.

I'll be crossing all my fingers and toes for good luck--both that you'll get the job, and that you'll discover you like it more than you think now.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations!

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Good news on the job, bad news on the bridge. When you bring out your autobiography, I will fly across the world to get a signed copy.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Unless all planes on the tarmac everywhere lose wheels.

[taurenova.livejournal.com]

Maybe you got stuck in a metaphor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mMOh1-Ri-w)? (Some NSFW swears in that clip)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA LOL

[karadin.livejournal.com]

You also have to tell us what your theme song is.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

The Pokemon theme song.

[illariy.livejournal.com]

So Overboss told me to give him my resume and he'd rewrite the job description to fit my qualifications, and then he gave me an impromptu interview which I aced because I am smarter than him, and while that was happening apparently a bridge caught on fire a block away.

This paragraph is made of awesome and so are you. :D

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

So Overboss told me to give him my resume and he'd rewrite the job description to fit my qualifications

That's pretty damn awesome right there. Like only in fiction awesome.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I had a company do that for me once. it was awesome. :D

[abby1000.livejournal.com]

Looks like things are looking up, I am sure you will be better at this job than you think (you really are more awesome than you know).

[ladyyueh.livejournal.com]

Wait. So you're going to be BossBoss now? Or will Overboss become BossBoss? Or is the title going to be retired in honor of the first BossBoss?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD

I'LL BE BOSSBOSS

Holy shit this throws my whole naming convention into disarray.

[heygirlie.livejournal.com]

Wait, I thought BossBoss was your boss's boss, thus the doubling of his title. I missed that. I guess he was so named because he was both your boss and did his job like a boss? IDK.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

No, I think BossBoss got his name to distinguish him from Sam's OTHER bosses, who weren't as awesome.

[eccentrikita.livejournal.com]

This post is full of excellent news! Except for the burning bridge, idek what to do with that. These are the sorts of omens whose meaning becomes clear in retrospect...

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Sam, whomever is writing the script for your life is a hack. I mean, talk about heavy-handed use of metaphor and unlikely coincidence!!

Good luck with the job.. although I doubt you'll need luck by the sound of it.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Reality is unrealistic.