An Interview the day after Tomorrow and a month done today. #blogjune
My Day.
A pretty uneventful day overall really. I got up and sorted out my brothers breakfast and then wrote the massive entry I did for yesterday, I actually had to leave the house and go and work at the library because my mother came over to my brothers place and I really just wanted to write and she is distracting.
There were a lot of children in the library today because of school holidays so they were loud and playing on everything which was slightly distracting.
Once I finished my writing I packed up my computer and went home, grabbed a clean change of clothes and then went back to my brothers house to make dinner(Chorizos and Onion, Garlic and Tomato with Pasta), Watched the Good Game E3 special(I really do prefer the years that Bajo goes over the years that Hex goes, he's funnier, she's better at getting the mood of the convention but waffles on a bit sometimes, the Spawn Point E3 special is where the real action is, so we'll see how it goes on that show on the weekend).
Final Word Count: 37419, almost half of what I wrote last year. A really sad trend downwards. I blame the fact that I've been actually having to get up early in the morning and going to sleep on time. I can't stay up until 2am writing anymore and need to learn how to manage my time more effectively. Also I'm straining for topics to write on because I've nearly tapped out my library experiences right now.
Overall I'm okay with this month, not happy really because I really really dropped the ball on a lot of days, but I'm okay with having a bad month every now and then. Hopefully I'll be better and rested next year.
Goals for the year.
June, a month in Review.
(*) denotes that I went to a library that day(I'm counting the small Toy library I volunteer at because I can).
(Incomplete) means that because of either illness or sleep deprivation I didn't finish this entry completely and I might come back to the topic next year.
Monday 1. I got tickets for the Story Bridge 75th anniversary party.
Topic: Once again we blogjune. My year in review.
Tuesday 2. Took my bike wheels to the shop and didn't get them fixed.
Topic: Two kinds of nerdy things. My weekend at DragonCon.
Wednesday 3. Bought my brother his Birthday present.
Topic: Cooking on Three Continents.
Thursday 4. Paid my car registration and bought some comic books(*).
Topic: For I am also a librarian. Going to libraries overseas to get away from the tourism.
Friday 5. My brothers birthday and I rode my bike for the first time in ages.
Topic: Five Kilometres and back again. Tourists using my library.
Saturday 6. My brother and his family came over for lunch, all six of us.
Topic: The Very Quiet Young Ladies Guide to Dealing with Multiple Personalities, part 4.
Sunday 7. Played Soccer, finished Grim Fandango and got a good seven hours of sleep.
Topic: Short Story Sunday: Bathmophobia.
Monday 8. Ate a steak and also redid my resume from scratch before applying for a job at UQ(spoiler alert, I didn't get it).
Topic: (Incomplete because I spent the night on my resume and writing selection criteria).
Tuesday 9. Spammed the hell out of my school because I didn't realise an automatic process was sending emails by the dozens every time I pressed a button and I pressed the button a lot to test out stuff. Had my Resume chopped down even more by a mate in England(*).
Topic: The Library in Portland.
Wednesday 10. Got a headache from not drinking enough water or something. Also tested a bunch of old headphones.(*)
Topic: (Incomplete because I was sick).
Thursday 11. I attempted Crochet for the first time ever. It went poorly.(*)
Topic: Managing Volunteers.
Friday 12. Went to Archives after getting a haircut, that counts as a library doesn't it?
Topic: Finding Volunteer Opportunities.
Saturday 13. Played some Quake Live at a mate's house and also some command and conquer red alert 3.
Topic: (Incomplete because I was lazy and tired).
Sunday 14. Won at Soccer. Got a curry. Discovered that Thomas was Alone.
Topic: No Pink about it, bright lights forward. A story missing an individual sigil, 5th sigil it turns out. Much popular that sigil in words and such.
Monday 15. Wrote a short story, fixed a roof, shelved some books.(*)
Topic: The ludicrous amounts of killing required to make a library in Minecraft.
Tuesday 16. Went to my writers club, banned myself from the internet. (*)
Topic: What I did during the G20.
Wednesday 17. I conducted a tour of the Distant lines exhibition with this blind old lady and a few other people. (*)
Topic: The logistics of Iron Shirts: Cycling to work.
Thursday 18. Helped a girl charge her phone, fell asleep on the bus.(*)
Topic: Packing for a trip, how to bring the smallest amount of everything you need.
Friday 19. Fixed my wheel alignment, downloaded a game, freed up 120gB of space on my PC.
Topic: Exhibits in Library's.
Saturday 20. Had a really dull Saturday where I had nothing to do and did nothing.
Topic: (Incomplete because I'm lazy)
Sunday 21. Pulled a Hamstring in a game and couldn't get off the field, played on for the last ten minutes limping.
Topic: Short Story Sunday: A Broken Cadillac on a Mountainside.
Monday 22. Was too lazy to go to the kitchen to get Panadol so I took some prescription Painkillers I had from when I last had surgery. Was zonked out for the entire day as a result.
Topic: (Incomplete because I was stoned out of my brain on painkillers)
Tuesday 23. Spent an afternoon untangling a few hundred cables. (*)
Topic: 23 TV Shows you should be watching. Because I wanted to get the date in there and only just now realised I could have said 2-3 TV shows you should be watching.
Wednesday 24. Got a phone call saying I was up for a job interview while ducking calls from Electronic Boutique because of bad reviews of the new Batman game for PC. Also lived through a boring power outage. (*)
Topic: Finding Time to Write.
Thursday 25. Saw Jurassic World, did a phone interview for a job and someone started a fire under the Queen Street Mall. (*)
Topic: How many pages should a resume be?
Friday 26. Found a giant snake on the road just chilling out and not caring about anything, locked myself out of a computer network, finished work on my catalogue and mini-library.(*)
Topic: Managing Volunteers.
Saturday 27. The pain in my knee is officially gone now and I played Far Cry 4,
Topic: (Incomplete because I was actually getting a normal nights sleep for once)
Sunday 28. Played and lost at Soccer, drove through the new tunnel at last,
Topic: Short Story Sunday: Pretend Friends.
Monday 29. My brothers birthday party at the pub and played the first bit of Shadow of Mordor.
Topic: My Long Weekend at PacWar.
Tuesday 30. Went to the library.
Topic: An Interview Tomorrow and a month done today. #blogjune
YouTube Clip of the Day.
Honest Trailers are usually brilliant, but this one is particularly great.
A pretty uneventful day overall really. I got up and sorted out my brothers breakfast and then wrote the massive entry I did for yesterday, I actually had to leave the house and go and work at the library because my mother came over to my brothers place and I really just wanted to write and she is distracting.
There were a lot of children in the library today because of school holidays so they were loud and playing on everything which was slightly distracting.
Once I finished my writing I packed up my computer and went home, grabbed a clean change of clothes and then went back to my brothers house to make dinner(Chorizos and Onion, Garlic and Tomato with Pasta), Watched the Good Game E3 special(I really do prefer the years that Bajo goes over the years that Hex goes, he's funnier, she's better at getting the mood of the convention but waffles on a bit sometimes, the Spawn Point E3 special is where the real action is, so we'll see how it goes on that show on the weekend).
Final Word Count: 37419, almost half of what I wrote last year. A really sad trend downwards. I blame the fact that I've been actually having to get up early in the morning and going to sleep on time. I can't stay up until 2am writing anymore and need to learn how to manage my time more effectively. Also I'm straining for topics to write on because I've nearly tapped out my library experiences right now.
Overall I'm okay with this month, not happy really because I really really dropped the ball on a lot of days, but I'm okay with having a bad month every now and then. Hopefully I'll be better and rested next year.
Goals for the year.
- I say this every year, but Get a Job and keep it for a while.
- Buy a new Laptop.
- Buy a new cassette, chain and rings for my bike.
- Ride my bike more.
- Actually participate in NaNoWriMo this year.
- Move out of my dads house.
- Move out of my brothers house.
- Somehow survive Christmas.
- Enter into a few writing competitions and see how I do.
June, a month in Review.
(*) denotes that I went to a library that day(I'm counting the small Toy library I volunteer at because I can).
(Incomplete) means that because of either illness or sleep deprivation I didn't finish this entry completely and I might come back to the topic next year.
Monday 1. I got tickets for the Story Bridge 75th anniversary party.
Topic: Once again we blogjune. My year in review.
Tuesday 2. Took my bike wheels to the shop and didn't get them fixed.
Topic: Two kinds of nerdy things. My weekend at DragonCon.
Wednesday 3. Bought my brother his Birthday present.
Topic: Cooking on Three Continents.
Thursday 4. Paid my car registration and bought some comic books(*).
Topic: For I am also a librarian. Going to libraries overseas to get away from the tourism.
Friday 5. My brothers birthday and I rode my bike for the first time in ages.
Topic: Five Kilometres and back again. Tourists using my library.
Saturday 6. My brother and his family came over for lunch, all six of us.
Topic: The Very Quiet Young Ladies Guide to Dealing with Multiple Personalities, part 4.
Sunday 7. Played Soccer, finished Grim Fandango and got a good seven hours of sleep.
Topic: Short Story Sunday: Bathmophobia.
Monday 8. Ate a steak and also redid my resume from scratch before applying for a job at UQ(spoiler alert, I didn't get it).
Topic: (Incomplete because I spent the night on my resume and writing selection criteria).
Tuesday 9. Spammed the hell out of my school because I didn't realise an automatic process was sending emails by the dozens every time I pressed a button and I pressed the button a lot to test out stuff. Had my Resume chopped down even more by a mate in England(*).
Topic: The Library in Portland.
Wednesday 10. Got a headache from not drinking enough water or something. Also tested a bunch of old headphones.(*)
Topic: (Incomplete because I was sick).
Thursday 11. I attempted Crochet for the first time ever. It went poorly.(*)
Topic: Managing Volunteers.
Friday 12. Went to Archives after getting a haircut, that counts as a library doesn't it?
Topic: Finding Volunteer Opportunities.
Saturday 13. Played some Quake Live at a mate's house and also some command and conquer red alert 3.
Topic: (Incomplete because I was lazy and tired).
Sunday 14. Won at Soccer. Got a curry. Discovered that Thomas was Alone.
Topic: No Pink about it, bright lights forward. A story missing an individual sigil, 5th sigil it turns out. Much popular that sigil in words and such.
Monday 15. Wrote a short story, fixed a roof, shelved some books.(*)
Topic: The ludicrous amounts of killing required to make a library in Minecraft.
Tuesday 16. Went to my writers club, banned myself from the internet. (*)
Topic: What I did during the G20.
Wednesday 17. I conducted a tour of the Distant lines exhibition with this blind old lady and a few other people. (*)
Topic: The logistics of Iron Shirts: Cycling to work.
Thursday 18. Helped a girl charge her phone, fell asleep on the bus.(*)
Topic: Packing for a trip, how to bring the smallest amount of everything you need.
Friday 19. Fixed my wheel alignment, downloaded a game, freed up 120gB of space on my PC.
Topic: Exhibits in Library's.
Saturday 20. Had a really dull Saturday where I had nothing to do and did nothing.
Topic: (Incomplete because I'm lazy)
Sunday 21. Pulled a Hamstring in a game and couldn't get off the field, played on for the last ten minutes limping.
Topic: Short Story Sunday: A Broken Cadillac on a Mountainside.
Monday 22. Was too lazy to go to the kitchen to get Panadol so I took some prescription Painkillers I had from when I last had surgery. Was zonked out for the entire day as a result.
Topic: (Incomplete because I was stoned out of my brain on painkillers)
Tuesday 23. Spent an afternoon untangling a few hundred cables. (*)
Topic: 23 TV Shows you should be watching. Because I wanted to get the date in there and only just now realised I could have said 2-3 TV shows you should be watching.
Wednesday 24. Got a phone call saying I was up for a job interview while ducking calls from Electronic Boutique because of bad reviews of the new Batman game for PC. Also lived through a boring power outage. (*)
Topic: Finding Time to Write.
Thursday 25. Saw Jurassic World, did a phone interview for a job and someone started a fire under the Queen Street Mall. (*)
Topic: How many pages should a resume be?
Friday 26. Found a giant snake on the road just chilling out and not caring about anything, locked myself out of a computer network, finished work on my catalogue and mini-library.(*)
Topic: Managing Volunteers.
Saturday 27. The pain in my knee is officially gone now and I played Far Cry 4,
Topic: (Incomplete because I was actually getting a normal nights sleep for once)
Sunday 28. Played and lost at Soccer, drove through the new tunnel at last,
Topic: Short Story Sunday: Pretend Friends.
Monday 29. My brothers birthday party at the pub and played the first bit of Shadow of Mordor.
Topic: My Long Weekend at PacWar.
Tuesday 30. Went to the library.
Topic: An Interview Tomorrow and a month done today. #blogjune
YouTube Clip of the Day.
Honest Trailers are usually brilliant, but this one is particularly great.
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