Incoming Calls

I’m still not fond of working in a call center, but I will say that dealing with incoming calls as opposed to just dialer calls does make the day go faster. I spent from 8-2 on incoming calls, followed by 45 minutes playing with the payment calculator, and then was on dialer from 3:00-4:25 where I talked to nearly no one and made 100 calls.  So from here on out, we’re starting on incoming calls when 8 am rolls around and then when things slow down, we log into the auto-dialer system until the end of the day or when they need us again.  I’ve discovered that I mostly don’t mind my job.  I’m not a huge fan of it and it’s definitely not the path I want to be on, but it’s not terrible either.  It’s also good experience, since before this I’d had absolutely no phone experience. 

As for the LSAT, I’ve figured out what type of logical reasoning questions are giving me the most trouble and I’m doing my best to get them figured out.  At some point over the next five weeks, I need to decide what score will be good enough not to take it again in February.  The regular registration deadline is January 5th and I receive my score from the December test on January 4th, so it’s really best that I make that decision ahead of time.  I think I need a 160 to get into NIU, but I’d like a higher score than that to ensure I get in somewhere.  If I do decide to take it again, I’m ordering the logical reasoning flashcards I found on the website for Barnes&Noble. 

So while it looks like temperature wise, winter’s going to be here tomorrow, there will be little snow accompanying it.  Right now they’re just thinking flurries around here.  There is another system coming early next week, but that’s too far out for them to do anything but watch it.  Generally in the winter time, they keep a close eye on any potential storm system.  It’s interesting to note (and I learned this during the last two winters when we’ve just had crazy winters) that whether precip falls as snow or rain (or something else altogether) has just as much, if not more, to do with the temperatures above the surface than what’s just going on at the ground. 

My dad gets home on Friday night this week – his last trip for work out to Princeton.  And then on Saturday my parents are headed down to Illinois to visit my grandparents. I’m not going for obvious reasons.  At leaset for the moment, the only one in the extended family that knows I’m taking the LSAT is my Aunt Nancy.  I’m finding it funny that I don’t want the family to know, while everyone in the ward knows I’m taking it and trying to get into law school.  Not even my brothers know I’m taking it.  However, I’m sure my brothers will figure it out.  Either I’ll get the score I want and won’t be able to hide it come January 4th, or come January 4th I’ll find out I didn’t do so well and will once again hole up in my room studying and talking with my dad about it.  So it won’t be too long before my brothers figure it out. 

So at this point, I’m taking Friday night completely off. I’m not opening a single LSAT study book, nor will I read any LSAT study materials online.  Nothing LSAT related for me on Friday night (except perhaps packing my gallon sized bag of things that I am allowed to take with me into the testing room). I may go with my mom to pick up my dad on Friday night – I haven’t decided that one just yet.  I’m getting up around 6am on Saturday, taking a shower and putting up my hair, followed by cereal for breakfast and reading Time Magazine online.  Everything I’ve read suggests reading something like Time or The New York Times before the LSAT.  That way you’re reading something along the same reading level as the LSAT, without having the LSAT be the first thing you read that day.  And then I’ll leave my house no later than  7:10 or 7:15.

The one other thing I wanted to mention was that today was my 1 year anniversary at my company.  I did start out a year ago this last August as a temp, but it wasn’t until December 1st that I was formally hired as a permanent employee.  Several weeks ago I got the paperwork for the 401K.  At my company, you can’t sign up for the 401K until you hit your 1 year anniversary.  I talked to my dad about it, and given that I’m either going to be in law school or at a new job by this time next year, I’m not signing up for it.  I decided that if I don’t get into law school, I’m going job hunting next spring and thus desperately hope I’m not still at my company by this time next year.  However, I know better than to quit my job before I have another lined up.  In either case, even though I don’t hate my job, I’m still in neutral here and that’s not where I want or need to be.  So it’s either law school or job hunting.

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