September 22nd, 2026: My interview at the company today, I woke up at 7:00am and got coffee and cereal for breakfast while I waited and refreshed myself on some technical topics, I rehearsed a good amount of stuff and then made myself cup ramen for lunch. I posted more on KiwiFarms and later vacuumed the lint and dust out of the radiator in the living room before watching a YouTube video on what to do, so I took note of what they said and formulated my answers:
1. Tell me about yourself:
Show that they know what their business is and what I need to do for them.
2. Tell me what you know by the role:
Show basic knowledge about the role and that it’s for software testing with the company
3. Why are you interested in this role:
I wanted a good job in my field I had experience in which helps me to increase my skills with someone who can vouch for the role being good, Adam II
4. What is your biggest weakness:
Say: “I’m repetitive too much” and that I try to break my repetitiveness by trying to do different things, including sometimes going on a spontaneous walk.
5. Why are you leaving this role:
Answer simple: “I was laid off from my last job due to budget cuts” as it’s short and true.
6. What are your salary expectations:
Start with an anchor point and then try going above, I started with $83,200 and went above by a slight bit.
7. Do you have any questions about us:
Don’t ask zero questions, counter-interview them to find out more questions they want. She finally called me at 2:01pm and it was hardly a technical interview, mostly asking a few basic questions like the ones in the piece and then we ended it at 2:16pm. I got a message from Catejean in the TradCath Signal chat which read:
<Should out to Gemerson-Lake Palmer for coming out to the Vigil Yesterday. He saw the demonic in person. We should do the [church] 3rd Sunday or Go to Washington for the march for life.
I replied:
>I was trying not to laugh while she was filming us being model citizens.
I got dressed up afterwards to head to a networking event, I got to the campus and into the library to sit down in the place, most of the other people at the event were college students as the woman went to start the presentation. Most of the other people who were there included college students and this one freshman woman with her resume named Addison S looking for alternative career paths that she could take to further her computer science degree while being paid by a company. I watched the slides and saw a link for a website about a lot of job listings. This one Indian woman who said she’s coming back for her masters after 10 years and she genuinely used the term “freshers” and I just wanted her gone. I did talk with the woman leading it a bit more, connecting with her on LinkedIn and she told me I could go to this AI boot camp only for college students because she was in charge of screening people who got in but I refused it on principle. She also pointed out that she knew Maaenboodhoo and I then said goodbye. On the walk to the Catholic center, I spotted Mercurius and tried sneaking up behind him but he noticed my shadow, we talked then sat down on a bench to talk more about him getting a job at a gym, I got a call from a phone number in Toronto, Ontario and it was a woman with a weird accent (not Indian) talking with me about this job opportunity at this foreign train manufacturing company for what I negotiated from $25 an hour up to $28 an hour, Mercurius was reading from a Dostoevsky book at the time and woman said will send the information over to confirm an in-person interview. I said goodbye to Mercurius as I went to the place and got in while Melany and Rita were setting up the pumpkin chili for dinner after mass, and I talked a bit with them, originally some other woman was set to do the readings tonight but because of some inexperience and stuff, I got the role instead. Kalifornia revealed to me she has a new dog at her apartment and his name is Finn, he looked to be a fully grown big dog. I went up and spotted Jacky in the front row as more people came in for mass and I went up to rehearse. As for all the people I spotted at mass, it included: Morgado, Telemachus, Sixes and his friend, Melany, Rita, Nikki, Jacky, Luigi, Lewis and his ex-girlfriend, Amethyst, Oriang, Agaw, Markus and his girlfriend, Markus’ brother, The Honduran and his girlfriend, Sideburns’ cousin, Jade, Elijah and his mom, Seraphim. Frociaggine and Kaufman were acolyting, once we first sat down, I went up to do the reading from Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13:
☛1The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.
☛2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.
☛3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
☛4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
☛5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one who is hasty comes only to want
☛6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
☛10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
☛11 When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.
☛12 The righteous observes the house of the wicked; the wicked are cast down to ruin.
☛13 He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.
And then the repeat-after-me psalm from Psalms 119:1, 27, 30, 34-35, 44:
☛1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!
☛27 Make me understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.
☛30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.
☛34 Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart.
☛35 Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for I delight in it.
☛44 I will keep thy law continually, for ever and ever;
The gospel was quite short and I remember being name-dropped in Father Aquinas’ homily as someone who helped with the readings and he also mentioned recording his homilies with his phone. I was one of the first to go up for communion after the singers and the pianist, I forgot to bow before receiving the eucharist but I went downstairs for dinner. Jacky seemed a bit pissed off at me when I tried talking to her so I left quickly.I talked with The Honduran and Sideburns’ cousin as we worked out where to sit. I got my pumpkin chili first and got stopped by Rita –who was finally wearing something covering her arms and legs– trying to take a 3rd piece of cornbread, I sat alone first and then went over to where Sideburns’ cousin and Jade were talking before Father Aquinas joked:
“Are they bothering you Gemerson?”
I said no and I was perfectly fine with them yet after my first round. I went over to the standing table with Elijah and Seraphim. Markus had a douchier haircut than usual and his girlfriend reminded me of a Jewish woman trying to pass off as a Norse woman. Agaw talked about her fiancé’s brother and that Melchizedek is a weird name, I objected that it would be my second child’s name (after Robin) and it can just be shortened to ‘Mel’, I sadly discovered that Seraphim would be moving to Washington DC for 11 months in mid-November but I volunteered to help pack. I then walked home around 7:15pm and I I started day 49 of my 54 day rosary novena at 8:03pm and completed it at 8:25pm. I wrote more and tried playing Retro Rewind but the servers had too few people on them. I started day 2 of my 40 day pro-life prayers of the luminous mysteries at 10:59pm and completed it at 11:16pm before going off to sleep.
Song of the Day: Flower Moon -Vampire Weekend, Steve Lacey (2019)