I'm finding it surprising just how fascinating I'm finding socioeconomics. I'm serious. It sorta began in CrashCourse, but now I'm working it into my nanonovel and MAN. I mean, ok, I'm starting with the obvious, characters in the late 1920's suffering the consequences of corruption and excess and everything goes horribly wrong on October 28th ( Read more... )

After a month and a half of unemployment and jobhunting, I have two interviews next week. I got an email from Powell's Home & Garden last night offering me an interview next Wednesday at 1. This excites me because it's freakin POWELL'S and I'd been very much hoping to hear back from them. Then today I dropped off a resume and cover letter at a ( Read more... )

Bugger ( Read more... )

I HAZ AN OUTLINE ( Read more... )

I think I may have mistaken my injuries. I think the hand was actually where the car hit, and the elbow was the pavement. This makes more sense because the hand is not a pavement scrape, and the swelling indicates (to me, the non-doctor) high-velocity impact. While the elbow is just gritty and bloody and scrapity ( Read more... )

Yay! I got accepted to PCC ( Read more... )

Ahh... so dawns the first day of the rest of my life. Or at least, the next stage of it ( Read more... )

I spent the whole day reading science websites and planning for my science-fiction/fantasy fusion novel. I am SO proud of myself. I REALLY REALLY like this idea! And I seem to have managed to, at least in concept, avoid most of the REALLY peevish cliches. Ok, so I'm gonna have faster-than-light travel and I won't explain it very well. So sue ( Read more... )

Well, today just sucks. Let me add to my previous entry that during the ten minutes or so I was wandering around looking for the Broadway housing building, it both started and stopped pouring down rain. I'd thought it would get nicer instead of rainier. So, naturally, I only wore a thin sweater and jeans. No hoodie. I also gave my leftovers to ( Read more... )

This whole only-updating-from-the-coffee-shop thing is highly annoying. It's much closer than the library, but I have to pay to be here. ::sigh:: I'll be getting a new computer as soon as I can. Or... something ( Read more... )