Yuletide and other stuff
Today is my day for catching up since my drive ended up one day as I spent the 2nd with my parents visiting my sister, and I said I wouldn’t be back at work until tomorrow. I’m so glad that I did that because this entire break has been long and not that much of an actual break.
My sister’s been in the hospital since the Thursday before Christmas and is still there due to various complications stemming from her cancer that they’re trying to fix. Its a good hospital and she feels safe there but it changed the feel of the holidays especially as going forward, we still don’t know exactly what to expect. Keep sending good thoughts our way as we need them.
Job stuff is okay, I'm in the final round of interviews for the job I have now but in the second tier according to my boss. I don't know how bad this actually is because the way she talks about things is always in a fairly neutral to negative way, and I don't think I'd be her first choice. Our working styles don't mesh well together and a lot of my work is spent trying to find ways to make her happy while getting things done and not having students get too much of her negativity. But since the hiring process is going long, my contract has been extended to March and now I know that this is a kind of job that I can do really well. And its one that's needed in the various universities in the area. So tomorrow I'm going to go planning for a good year.
Now for the happy stuff, I didn't end up doing a lot of writing over break due to family stuff but wrote one Yuletide story and got one.
I wrote Sit you down in gentleness, an October Daye slice of life focused on Quentin/Dean and received Over and Over (Everything Comes Back To You) a wonderful The Cutting Edge story.
Then on New Year's Eve, I finally wrote a fic for the Cassian prompt-a-thon, Not Today, a fairly angsty story about Cassian almost dying and Jyn saving him.
This entry is also posted at https://ceitfianna.dreamwidth.org/478679.html. Please comment wherever you'd like.
My sister’s been in the hospital since the Thursday before Christmas and is still there due to various complications stemming from her cancer that they’re trying to fix. Its a good hospital and she feels safe there but it changed the feel of the holidays especially as going forward, we still don’t know exactly what to expect. Keep sending good thoughts our way as we need them.
Job stuff is okay, I'm in the final round of interviews for the job I have now but in the second tier according to my boss. I don't know how bad this actually is because the way she talks about things is always in a fairly neutral to negative way, and I don't think I'd be her first choice. Our working styles don't mesh well together and a lot of my work is spent trying to find ways to make her happy while getting things done and not having students get too much of her negativity. But since the hiring process is going long, my contract has been extended to March and now I know that this is a kind of job that I can do really well. And its one that's needed in the various universities in the area. So tomorrow I'm going to go planning for a good year.
Now for the happy stuff, I didn't end up doing a lot of writing over break due to family stuff but wrote one Yuletide story and got one.
I wrote Sit you down in gentleness, an October Daye slice of life focused on Quentin/Dean and received Over and Over (Everything Comes Back To You) a wonderful The Cutting Edge story.
Then on New Year's Eve, I finally wrote a fic for the Cassian prompt-a-thon, Not Today, a fairly angsty story about Cassian almost dying and Jyn saving him.
This entry is also posted at https://ceitfianna.dreamwidth.org/478679.html. Please comment wherever you'd like.