It's going to get busy
So in between the normal 8 hours a week or so design maintenence stuff I do for Dan's dad, redesigning a brochure for my former employer, two more brochures they want updated this month, two one-time clients who were very happy with me and have said they will probably want more work in the future and soon, someone Dan's dad recommended me to who wants to talk, the part time CMS content migration job I just landed this week that has me working full time in the office for two weeks for training and then sporadically full time from home or wherever when they have a project for me (I'm not sure how many people they have working for them but they have a lot of sites in development and some are many many many hundreds of pages), and a weekend job with possibility of Friday and sometimes maybe Thursday and definitely holidays throughout the summer conducting surveys at the beach for the Pacific Coast Water Study, it's probable that I'm going to disappear for a while.
I just got an email, reminding me that for the PCWS, I still have to take a brief online training course, take a test online, and then since I was not available to do it today at HQ, I have to request an FBI background check, get fingerprinted and get some stuff notarized. And next Wednesday is a full day of training.
That there above was stuff I am doing trying to replace the income I lost last year. Then there is the 2 week trip to Baja, and my last day at the Aquarium for a while, and whatever else floats my boat.
I feel much happier today. It's been good to get out of the house and be around people. I am delighted by my Bio 123 classmates, who are fun and cheery and ever so nice. I hit it off right off the bat with this rather loud hippieish girl. We're gonna drive down to Mexico together and I have already declared her minivan the party bus. It should be a lot of fun. The woman who started on the CMS job with me yesterday seems pretty cool as well. We discussed the pitfalls of freelancing, rolled our eyes at clients and bad design, and she invited me to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer on our lunch break with her friend who lives a few houses away from work. which is a nice corner in Santa Monica near a dive shop and Whole Foods. And I am wondering if her friend lives in the crazy tiled house, because I remember someone from the Aquarium living in that house.
I'm feeling optimistic at the moment. It's a relief. I may still go back on antidepressants because I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping, and I'm still thinking really bad thoughts way more often than I would like, and trying to come to terms with some of the things in my past overwhelms me to the point where I stop feeling altogether... but right now, not having spent all day cooped up, surfing the net and coding, spent my lunch break reading sci fi in the park, watching people feed ducks, and now I am watching Howl's Moving Castle, drinking tea and eating leftovers from the BBQ that Aaron and Jeff and I had here last night, life seems pretty ok.
I just got an email, reminding me that for the PCWS, I still have to take a brief online training course, take a test online, and then since I was not available to do it today at HQ, I have to request an FBI background check, get fingerprinted and get some stuff notarized. And next Wednesday is a full day of training.
That there above was stuff I am doing trying to replace the income I lost last year. Then there is the 2 week trip to Baja, and my last day at the Aquarium for a while, and whatever else floats my boat.
I feel much happier today. It's been good to get out of the house and be around people. I am delighted by my Bio 123 classmates, who are fun and cheery and ever so nice. I hit it off right off the bat with this rather loud hippieish girl. We're gonna drive down to Mexico together and I have already declared her minivan the party bus. It should be a lot of fun. The woman who started on the CMS job with me yesterday seems pretty cool as well. We discussed the pitfalls of freelancing, rolled our eyes at clients and bad design, and she invited me to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer on our lunch break with her friend who lives a few houses away from work. which is a nice corner in Santa Monica near a dive shop and Whole Foods. And I am wondering if her friend lives in the crazy tiled house, because I remember someone from the Aquarium living in that house.
I'm feeling optimistic at the moment. It's a relief. I may still go back on antidepressants because I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping, and I'm still thinking really bad thoughts way more often than I would like, and trying to come to terms with some of the things in my past overwhelms me to the point where I stop feeling altogether... but right now, not having spent all day cooped up, surfing the net and coding, spent my lunch break reading sci fi in the park, watching people feed ducks, and now I am watching Howl's Moving Castle, drinking tea and eating leftovers from the BBQ that Aaron and Jeff and I had here last night, life seems pretty ok.