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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

north_jersey [ mhaille ]

10:27p cracovia mustard Anybody know a good Polish deli in Essex county? I'm looking for this one brand of mustard, Cracovia, it's in a tall cylindrical jar with a white label and blue lettering, haven't been able to find it yet. If you know for sure someplace has it, and it's anywhere within like an hour of Montclair, I'll go get it, because the alternative is this one place in Bumblenowhere, CT.

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Monday, December 7th, 2009

emtb [ kentsplace ]

10:38a It took a lot, and I mean a lot of effort, but it paid off. I’ll be at AMR next Monday morning. The process includes a formal oral board, skills testing, and a written exam. I’ll study for the skills test by reviewing the two sets of skills sheets I have (OFD and CA State Fire Marshall) plus I’ll be skills testing students in the Merritt College program three days this week. I’ve started reviewing my materials for the written exam, and I’ll have my head buried in that material this weekend. To prep for the oral board I’m going to try to get some pointers from Sean and his manager Bill. I’ll see if I can talk Bill into doing a mock board. I have to report to class earlier this week. For the regular classes skills teaching doesn’t begin until 6:30 or later. We’ll start testing at 6 or earlier. I figure it’s a long shot, but I plan to work hard at being prepared. By effort I mean that I missed AMR's call by a minute last Friday, and I called back immediately. I called four times Friday, and I hadn't received a call back. This morning I was at their Alameda County Operations Center and was planning to go in and ask to see the person who called me Friday to make sure I got a slot this time (they lost my paperwork for the October testing). I got the call just before I got out of my car. As for Norcal I fund out Friday I didn't get that job. I emailed the person who sent me the letter to find out what I need to improve to get hired the next time I apply. I know I sucked at the map reading test (I don't like to admit that), but I'd like feedback on the written and skill test. Yeah one skill test, and I thought they were going to give us a skills test.

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