Popping good form

I spent hours today pulling together my submission for the Big City Vet Hospital position. There was an on-line submission to complete, a resume to attach and a cover letter to write. I think the cover letter was the worst to do. I’ve never been one to “sell myself”; it feels too much like bragging.

I discovered something interesting while pulling together information for the online submission. The company I worked at for ten years before leaving to go back to school apparently no longer exists. Near as I can tell, they were purchased by an oil corporation who was looking to diversify. I could find a years-old press release using Google that refers to the sale, and then nothing. Big City Vet Hospital wants to know the company’s address and contact information for my former boss there, but that isn’t going to happen. There wasn’t any room on the electronic form to explain that I’d give them the information if I could but due to circumstances beyond my control the contact information doesn’t exist. I typed a very short explanation in the field for company address, but you can only do so much with 30 characters.

Meanwhile, as I type this entry the booms and pops of fireworks can be heard from near and far. There are several licensed displays very close to my house that were scheduled for tonight, and many more idiots with illegal fireworks shooting off their own backyard displays. This is doing nothing but ill to the Little Grey Shit’s blood sugar levels, which were higher tonight than they’ve been for a while. Things are starting to quiet down outside, and I can only hope that LGS eventually calms down as well. I swear, if the neighbor across the street starts up, this will be the year I finally call the cops.