enchilada sauce is my #2 favorite salsa for chips

now before purists jump down my throat i would like to remind you that salsa’s literal translation is ’sauce’.  so there.  now this was an accidental discovery.  my #1 favorite salsa of all time is newman’s own black bean and corn salsa, but recently we were making a recipe for enchiladas and had some left over.  it’s more like we had the equivalent of 2 bottles of sauce left over, but who’s checking account is counting?  certainly not mine.

the recipe called for an equal combination of red and green sauces and since we had a bunch leftover i just tossed it into a bowl and covered it with plastic wrap.  figuring that i would add it to some eggs and other uses, i let it sit in the chill chest.  one day i was craving chips and salsa, but alas we were out of my #1 and i was too lazy to go to the store.  i grabbed the bag of chips and dunked one into the mixed sauce and chowed down.  i was surprised to find that it was smooth, spicy, tomato-ey, a touch smokey with a hint of lime.  i really dug the flavor.  so much so that i killed the bag of chips and nearly all the sauce.  it was a winner.  and chances are if i am in the store and enchilada sauce is on sale i will grab a couple bottles to keep on hand.  it’s a smart move seeing as how 2 bottles of the sauce should cost me about $2.50 for a whole mess of sauce, or in excess of $3 per jar of salsa.

finding a job on a bell curve

finding a job sucks. honestly, root canal without any drugs or an amputation without being knocked out is easier to take. okay, maybe i took that too far. but it still sucks. to make matters worse is not just getting your foot in the door and getting the interview, but now you get to wait…..and wait…..and wait…..and wait for there to be any response. often times there’s no response at all. this can be frustrating to say the least and while i understand that the company often doesn’t make split-second decisions regarding personnel the job seeker is still left in a lurch.

i have, after many nights of not sleeping well, have come up with a theory about the probability of getting a job post-interview. here’s the scenario: let’s say that you interview on a thursday and you interview well, ask and answer questions well, and they tell you that you should hear from them in 3-5 business days. i propose we look at the idea of getting a call back on a bell curve.

we all know and hated the bell curve. it was that one geek that ’screwed the pooch’ for the entire class by getting a good score on the test. what i’m thinking is that on the two ends of the spectrum we can refer to as the length of time in days. the shorter and longer the ‘callback time’ the less likely you are to get one. however, that sweet spot is in the 2-4 day marks where the standard deviation says that the probability is best.  if they call you back in the 2-4 day area they are interested and not desperate (like calling after getting a potential date’s number).  there is a certain amount of restraint in waiting that period of time.  i say this because right now i’m sitting outside of the sweet spot and i want to tear out what little hair i have left.

now before any mathematicians or professors jump all over me for using a bell curve, it’s more of a visual aid, rather than any actual mathematical process. so there.