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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The life of Yonatan: Spring Edition (Part 2)
So when I left off the story, I was glad to have a week break and get a chance to get my head in order. I spent most of the time watching Law and Order and relaxing, knowing that I would soon get a phone call about a new assignment.
Unfortunately, the call never came. It has now been over a month since I have had any assignment that lasted more than a few hours, and I had only two of those.
So what have I been doing?
Sitting in Columbia Heights Coffee, my neighborhoods amazing coffee shop, drinking massive amounts of Tea and applying to jobs.
In the last month I have gone to interviews at 3 staffing agencies, none of which have gotten back to me, and had a couple interviews.
In fact one of the companies that I have interviewed with: The Democratic Campaign Management Program, has just offered me a job. I am not sure how I feel about it as it would mean leaving DC and going somewhere else in the country. It would be another leap of faith in my life, but it would probably be great for my career. So we shall see.
If anyone reading this has heard of them, please pass me any inside info that you might have.
So that is what I have been up to recently...
I am heading back home of Pesach which will be really nice, and will soon be making a decision.
I will get back into normal blogging soon...I promise
Unfortunately, the call never came. It has now been over a month since I have had any assignment that lasted more than a few hours, and I had only two of those.
So what have I been doing?
Sitting in Columbia Heights Coffee, my neighborhoods amazing coffee shop, drinking massive amounts of Tea and applying to jobs.
In the last month I have gone to interviews at 3 staffing agencies, none of which have gotten back to me, and had a couple interviews.
In fact one of the companies that I have interviewed with: The Democratic Campaign Management Program, has just offered me a job. I am not sure how I feel about it as it would mean leaving DC and going somewhere else in the country. It would be another leap of faith in my life, but it would probably be great for my career. So we shall see.
If anyone reading this has heard of them, please pass me any inside info that you might have.
So that is what I have been up to recently...
I am heading back home of Pesach which will be really nice, and will soon be making a decision.
I will get back into normal blogging soon...I promise
Monday, April 14, 2008
The life of Yonatan: Spring Edition (Part 1)
Well I haven't made any real updates here in quite and while and so I figured I might as well get around to doing this whole blogging thing again.
What have I been up to?
Well If I had written this back in the fall or even at the beginning of the winter I could have said "Not much." I had been doing what I had been doing ever since I got to do: Coasting. I was getting fairly regular assignments. Money was coming in and life was... acceptable.
But then things changed.
The first major slap across my contentedness came in December.
Through a friend I had gotten an interview with the American wing of the Israeli peace movement: Americans for Peace Now. I had a good first interview and was called back of the second one within an hour of leaving the first one. At the second one I was told that I "practically had the job" and that they were going to conduct a couple more interviews but that I "was in the top tier." I was also told that they would try and make a decision by the end of the week. This was on the Wednesday before Christmas.
When I didn't hear anything back by the end of the week, I wasn't too concerned. After all they were probably on vacation now, like most of the rest of DC. It had seemed like such a surefire thing but. as I sat at home, with nothing to do and no assignments, the "Christmas break" only thing that kept my hopes up. Come the New Year, I eventually got a new assignment with AIPAC and sat back and waited to hear. And waited. And waited.
I tried to call on several occasions, but no one took my call or returned any of my messages. One month after my second interview, I had completely given up and was more than a little annoyed.
Eventually, I just flat out asked the person who answered the phone if she was the person who had been hired for the position. She was, and she had been hired some 2 weeks earlier.
After my assignment with AIPAC ended I got another assignment with a consulting firm which was amazing dull and annoying. When that assignment ended, even though i didn't yet have an assignment for the next week, I thought it wouldn't be too long before my next one and was kind of glad to have a break.
However things were not to be so easy.
This is not to say that some fun stuff didn't happen in this time period, including my teaching on Parsha Mishpatim at the DC Beit Midrash, and helping some friends move and their moving party. Bit I wasn't really happy with my life.
Next....things get worse.
What have I been up to?
Well If I had written this back in the fall or even at the beginning of the winter I could have said "Not much." I had been doing what I had been doing ever since I got to do: Coasting. I was getting fairly regular assignments. Money was coming in and life was... acceptable.
But then things changed.
The first major slap across my contentedness came in December.
Through a friend I had gotten an interview with the American wing of the Israeli peace movement: Americans for Peace Now. I had a good first interview and was called back of the second one within an hour of leaving the first one. At the second one I was told that I "practically had the job" and that they were going to conduct a couple more interviews but that I "was in the top tier." I was also told that they would try and make a decision by the end of the week. This was on the Wednesday before Christmas.
When I didn't hear anything back by the end of the week, I wasn't too concerned. After all they were probably on vacation now, like most of the rest of DC. It had seemed like such a surefire thing but. as I sat at home, with nothing to do and no assignments, the "Christmas break" only thing that kept my hopes up. Come the New Year, I eventually got a new assignment with AIPAC and sat back and waited to hear. And waited. And waited.
I tried to call on several occasions, but no one took my call or returned any of my messages. One month after my second interview, I had completely given up and was more than a little annoyed.
Eventually, I just flat out asked the person who answered the phone if she was the person who had been hired for the position. She was, and she had been hired some 2 weeks earlier.
After my assignment with AIPAC ended I got another assignment with a consulting firm which was amazing dull and annoying. When that assignment ended, even though i didn't yet have an assignment for the next week, I thought it wouldn't be too long before my next one and was kind of glad to have a break.
However things were not to be so easy.
This is not to say that some fun stuff didn't happen in this time period, including my teaching on Parsha Mishpatim at the DC Beit Midrash, and helping some friends move and their moving party. Bit I wasn't really happy with my life.
Next....things get worse.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Green Lantern: Oh good grief
So everyone reading this go and look at our copies of this weeks Green Lantern.
Go to the page where an 18 year old Hal is outside the Military Recruitment Center.
Now look at the street number.
The number is 2814
I want to throw something at Geoff Johns.
Beyond that the issue is awesome, though not as good as Blue Beetle 25. Which was made of win
Go to the page where an 18 year old Hal is outside the Military Recruitment Center.
Now look at the street number.
The number is 2814
I want to throw something at Geoff Johns.
Beyond that the issue is awesome, though not as good as Blue Beetle 25. Which was made of win
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Joker is Dead
Actor Heath Ledger Is Found Dead
The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28. At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let [...]
Guess this means that the Joker wont be showing up in the third Batman movie.
RIP Mr. Ledger.
The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28. At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let [...]
Guess this means that the Joker wont be showing up in the third Batman movie.
RIP Mr. Ledger.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Reason 537.8 why I love DC
U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a man walking a few blocks from the Capitol.
He was wearing a tactical vest and had a a loaded shotgun, a tactical bow and arrow and a samurai sword in a hidden case behind his back.
sigh....
More info here
He was wearing a tactical vest and had a a loaded shotgun, a tactical bow and arrow and a samurai sword in a hidden case behind his back.
sigh....
More info here
Friday, January 4, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Bow down before me...
For I just purchased one of these bad boys
Thats right... and Atari 2600 with around 30 games and 3 controllers...
all for $35.
Parties at my home have now become awesome.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Shabbat Shalom everyone
Hope you all have a fun and relaxing weekend
photo of Washington DC WWI memorial taken by me
photo of Washington DC WWI memorial taken by me
Friday, November 2, 2007
Coming Soon: The complete Post-Zero Hour Legion of Superheroes
I have held forth at length in the past about how much I enjoyed the post-boot/post Zero hour Legion. In fact I have been able to piece together a near complete run of the series from the various back issue collections in the comic shops around my hometown. While the actual floppies remain in a full long-box back at my parents house in California, I have recently re-acquired the digital archive and TPB that I have on the Post-boot Legion.
So, beginning sometime in the next week I will begin a full run though/review of the entire 11 year run of the second Legion of Superheroes. There will be some good moments (the DnA Years, the White Triangle Saga, the take down of the president of the UP) with the bad (Lori and Monstress)
I have yet to decide if I will be going through issue by issue of via story arc. I'll decide in the next few days.
So, beginning sometime in the next week I will begin a full run though/review of the entire 11 year run of the second Legion of Superheroes. There will be some good moments (the DnA Years, the White Triangle Saga, the take down of the president of the UP) with the bad (Lori and Monstress)
I have yet to decide if I will be going through issue by issue of via story arc. I'll decide in the next few days.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Stephanie Brown is alive!?!?
So I was just looking at a full sized scan of the last page of last weeks Teen Titans. The shot which Rokk of Comic Book Revolution has posted here includes adult version of all of every single Teen Titan.
Now while this future is still sort of the future of the DCU circa a year or two before Infinite Crisis, statements are made in the issue that make it seem like Bart and Kon-el (I refuse to call him Conner) did die in past of the Future Titans (ah the wonders of time travel), and were brought back by Tim.
So this a round about way of showing this image from the bottom right of the page
As you can see there is a certain blonde girl dressed in purple. While the costume is obviously supposed to evoke the Huntress, Helena hasn't been part of any young hero teams since pre-crisis. So who must it be...
Now while this future is still sort of the future of the DCU circa a year or two before Infinite Crisis, statements are made in the issue that make it seem like Bart and Kon-el (I refuse to call him Conner) did die in past of the Future Titans (ah the wonders of time travel), and were brought back by Tim.
So this a round about way of showing this image from the bottom right of the page
As you can see there is a certain blonde girl dressed in purple. While the costume is obviously supposed to evoke the Huntress, Helena hasn't been part of any young hero teams since pre-crisis. So who must it be...
What will happen when Tim finds here. We have seen two of women fighting over the affections of Tim Drake.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Something awesome for Sunday
I went to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
near Dulles yesterday. It was pure awesomeness. This is a shot of the S4-71 Blackbird that they have parked there. This bird made it from coast to coast in 60 minutes
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Friday Night Fights
As I begin my return to the Battlefield of blogging, the Legion of Superheroes show you just what will happen if you mess with even one of them
From "The Legion" 16 by DnA, art by Kev Walker
From "The Legion" 16 by DnA, art by Kev Walker
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Quit objectifying Green Lanterns
To Ragnell, SallyP and Kalinara:
Leave my boy Kyle alone. It is not his fault that he has a good ass, and it is extremely sexist to continually post pictures of semi-naked Green Lanterns and to marvel at their asses.
Or at least it is as sexist as anyone else commenting about how good looking any of the female superhero's are.
So leave him, and his ass alone, or he will kick your ass, and look good while doing it.
Leave my boy Kyle alone. It is not his fault that he has a good ass, and it is extremely sexist to continually post pictures of semi-naked Green Lanterns and to marvel at their asses.
Or at least it is as sexist as anyone else commenting about how good looking any of the female superhero's are.
So leave him, and his ass alone, or he will kick your ass, and look good while doing it.
But you can have Hal Jordan, since a) he is an idiot and b) he obviously like to show his stuff off as much as Power Girl (or at least thats what the 500 Million pictures of his ass that you three have posted make it seem like)
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On a completely separate note: Dr. Soranik Natu is, in addition to being smart, and able to stand up to Guy Gardener, really hot (though only really when Gleeson draws her)
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On a completely separate note: Dr. Soranik Natu is, in addition to being smart, and able to stand up to Guy Gardener, really hot (though only really when Gleeson draws her)
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