A Great Day

Today was one of the best days of my life.

I'm getting sick though, that's the only 'bad' thing.

I went to the Water Tower to submit my resume. . . Oh!  Let me show you my resume:

Ricardo Rangel Jr.

"Address line here.. (I'm not putting my address on here)"

Objective

To obtain a part-time job to help me pay for college before the debt monsters consume what is left of my innocent, yet career-focused soul.

Education

The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago Fall 2010 - present

Digital Filmmaking & Video Production

• Anticipated graduation: 2013

West Senior High School, Iowa City, IA Fall  2006 - Spring 2010

• Diploma

• Work Experience

Sears Holdings - Kmart, Iowa City, IA

Sales associate

• Helped customers find their way around the store, sometimes from the moment they walked in, to the moment they checked out.
• Was the first associate to receive a five-star ribbon for excellent customer service from the district manager. 
• Straightened merchandise and tidied up the isles.
• Stocked countless shelves and organized the stock room.
• Worked as a cashier and checked customers out, with a smile.
• Trained new employees in the art of retail sales and customer service.

PATV Channel 18, Iowa City, IA

Intern

• Fashioned animated introductions for shows that aired.
• Edited footage into shows.
• Operated a camera for live, and pre-recorded shows.

Technical Skills

• Money register.
• Retail Merchandising Unit. (RMU)
• Final Cut Pro.
• Apple Motion.
• Apple Color.
• Adobe Photoshop.
• Microsoft Word, Publisher, & Powerpoint.

References available upon request.

That is seriously my resume.  I handed it to the manager at this one tea store called Teavana.  I clipped my card to the resume too.  She saw the card and laughed.  She read the first part of my resume and said that it was cute.  She asked me what I was doing tomorrow afternoon.  I said I had class till four.  She told me to come in at 4:30 and ask for Claire or Mark.  I said thank you, and shook her hand.  She said she knew she would hear from me again.  I walked out.  

So I might get a job at a tea store.  I applied at a candle shop/skin care store too.  I don't thing they're gonna hire me.  I applied at the Apple Store.  Who knows.

Then I went back home for fifteen minutes, and on the way there I started coughing and my throat started to feel sore.  I was like "pooop"

Then I went over to the bean (Cloud Gate) to see John Green and Wheezy Waiter.  There were tons of people there.  Craig wasn't there yet, so I just hovered around, and I was sneaky.  Finally I see a group drift away from the John line, and towards a petite bearded man.  I nearly peed.  I got in line right away.  It only took two minutes for me to get to him, and there he was.  I was speechless.  I shook his hand and gave him my card.  I didn't have a sharpie, so he couldn't sign anything :(  Then I said if I could hang around him until he was done so that I could buy him something.  He was obviously creeped out.  I felt bad, but he said "You can do what you want."  So I sat for a while, and then I ran over to Walgreens to buy a sharpie.  I got in line again, and when he saw me he looked away right away.  In a creeped out way :((  Then he signed my glasses and walked to the Jamba Juice with one of his YouTube friends.  I waited for him to come back, like he said he would.  he did, like half an hour later.  Meanwhile I met John Green and I gave him my card too.  He signed my one dollar bill.  Then craig came back.  I stood next to him and just looked at him.  Then I decided that I had been creepy enough.  I went home.  

I'm just speechless.

It was awesome.