Note to self: When part of you has a "weird aversion to landing a full time gig" with [insert company name here], listen to yourself. Please allow me to recount the events of my week...

Monday: Arrive at your temp assignment, the same assignment which you've already had for two weeks. Accept compliments from the agents you work for and think to yourself "working here wouldn't be all that bad." Remember that you were supposed to go down and meet with the head of HR to "discuss [your] future," which really just means "how much money will it take to keep you here?" Pleasantly, yet obviously, stick your nose up at the base assistant salary, then divulge how much it would take to get you to stay. Leave the HR office not really knowing what the fuck just happened, or what the events of the past twenty minutes mean for your future.

Tuesday: Receive an email from the head agent in your department saying "I had a nice discussion with the head of HR regarding you staying with us. She said that if we were to offer $X, you'd stay on with us here. Is this true? I think the company is prepared to make you this offer. Are you interested?" Respond to email with an affirmative response, yet again not knowing what that means for your future. Receive a phone call, seemingly minutes later, from your agent at the temp agency asking what the points of your discussion with HR were. Attempt to talk salary as every single assistant in your department surrounds you. At the end of the day, receive a phone call from HR asking you to come downstairs because there's "paperwork" for you to fill out. Go downstairs and realize that they've given you a job. Think about it for the five seconds it takes you to pick up a pen, and then sign the next year of your life away by way of a W-4.

Wednesday: Receive a phone call from Recruiting/HR managing the job you interviewed for (and really wanted) at a major studio/production company...let's just put it out there...Fox...asking you to come in for a second interview. Keep in mind, the second interview is basically a joke if you've bypassed HR at a large corporation and gone straight for the interview with the VP. The second interview in this situation simply means that the principal loved you, so now you have to go through the bullshit hiring process. Call your friend who's temping in the exact same position, who you thought wanted the job and would automatically get hired, and realize that she's changed her mind for monetary reasons. Leave your desk at the job you just accepted and go outside to smoke a cigarette.

Thursday: Call every important person in your life and bitch about your present situation.

Friday: Go out for drinks with one the agents in your new office. Have a great time, realize that your other friends who worked at agencies weren't in such a close-nit department and would NEVER get to drink with one of their bosses. Get a ride to your car in a C230 and realize that, despite the opportunity that arrived sans expedience, there is something to be said for job comfort and taking the opportunity at hand that will, quite likely, lead to an abundance of opportunity. Get in your car and return a phone call you received while at drinks from a friend who was going through the same interview hell as you. Hear that she just got a job for $X x 2. Arrive home, combine every liquor you have in the apartment in to one glass and repeat until there's no liquor left.