I really want to do a proper post today, but it's difficult. I would ordinarily take the easy way out and do a video post, but I'm packing up my apartment in my underwear (it's too dang hot), and neither my apartment nor I are in any way camera-ready. I did a test post on FB and on LJ today, and I'm able to text posts to both, which will be fun ( Read more... )

1) Three out of five of my applications for grad school have been received in their entirety: SISU, Chicago School of Professional Psych, and St Cloud University. I should be hearing from SISU ANY DAY NOW, which makes every trip to the mailbox an emotional roller-coaster ( Read more... )

Life is more fun when I'm not totally and constantly stressed out. Even though the process of applying to college is scary and labor intensive, It's an investment in my future instead of an exercise in patience. I'm finding time to stop and notice the beautiful, funny, cute, and lovely little things that I might've breezed by in my days as an ( Read more... )

Today I had to wake up at 7am (yeah, my body was plenty confused) so that I could make an appointment at the unemployment office at 8:30. Even Greta was all "this is not the way things should be," and went back to sleep on the couch as soon as I'd roused her from her bed ( Read more... )

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I've firmly settled into my unemployment. I no longer wake up every morning and obsess about the details of my firing or picture what I'd be doing at work that day. This past Friday, I applied for unemployment assistance for the first time in my life. I originally applied on Thursday, but they wanted me to talk to an agent, and none of them had ( Read more... )

I thought that being unemployed would make juggling the holidays so much easier to handle. But when your family knows you don't have a job, they feel totally comfortable making incredible demands on your time. For Thanksgiving, I went to my sister's for dinner, and then drove up to NH with my parents and stayed for almost a week. When I went over ( Read more... )

As I peruse your posts today, Greta ABSOLUTELY HAS TO BE in my lap. She's crazy today. I think having me around all the time has only fed her need for full-contact friendship. She sits in my lap, my legs fall asleep, I move her, she groans and immediately finds a new spot in my lap, lather rinse repeat ( Read more... )

I am not going to stop writing on lj just because I lost my job. I'm just trying to find a new routine and integrate lj into it. It doesn't help that I don't have reliable internet at home. I've been using whatever has been floating through the air for years because I could usually get whatever I needed done during the 9+ hours I spent at work ( Read more... )

For those of you who don’t already know, I’ve been sacked. I can’t discuss the details publically, or I will be in violation of my contract and won’t be able to receive my severance. Suffice to say I was completely shocked, but couldn’t help but feel that life was trying to push me in the direction I was already going: Out ( Read more... )