Job-ness
(Tried to post this a few minutes ago. This is going to play merry hell with my friends list.)
I think I'm going to end up apologising to various fandom communities I'm a member of for the next few days, because I might end up fangirling stupidly out of sheer relief/delight/mania. Yesterday I found I'd been accepted for a job at Sainsbury's that I applied for last week. Likely some people will think this is nothing to be especially excited about, but after being in a period where I was convinced that my method of job applications was going nowhere and would continue to do so ad nauseam I am happy. For the first time in months I am genuninely feeling moderately optimistic and happy.
My hours are part-time, meaning that I don't necessarily need to give up either RISC or the police stuff (data-entry, if you're curious). I am glad of this, particularly with RISC because I really enjoy it there. Not that I don't like helping out the HR people in the Reading station, but I've been with RISC longer and am more used to it.
Active fandom stuff has been very on-and-off recently. I've got only the odd bits for rmcwalker's Soul Eater fic. I eventually finished The Grim Era, which is now on FF.net but not LJ'sshibusen due to the Rich Text editor being a pain in the neck, and me being too lazy to add the correct HTML tags. I might try again, just because the rest of it is already on the comm.
I indulged in a new DS game the other week: Etrian Odyssey. By all accounts it is not the easiest of RPGs, and that has certainly held true for me thusfar. Simple, bright graphics and gameplay, and my first real foray into the sort of game that involves character classes, level and skill-building. It's enough for me for the time being that my collection of interpid questors (though I'd liken them more to bounty hunters than anything else) have not died. Or at least not permenantly. My favourite is my Alchemist, Ellis, with his Fire skills and ability to annihilate various enemies with a single spell.
My new profile is telling me I've made over one thousand comments on LiveJournal. Wow. That's far more than I would have expected, though given the number of times I've a) rambled about stuff or b) dropped by to give my regards to someone/thing, it's actually understandable.
I think I'm going to end up apologising to various fandom communities I'm a member of for the next few days, because I might end up fangirling stupidly out of sheer relief/delight/mania. Yesterday I found I'd been accepted for a job at Sainsbury's that I applied for last week. Likely some people will think this is nothing to be especially excited about, but after being in a period where I was convinced that my method of job applications was going nowhere and would continue to do so ad nauseam I am happy. For the first time in months I am genuninely feeling moderately optimistic and happy.
My hours are part-time, meaning that I don't necessarily need to give up either RISC or the police stuff (data-entry, if you're curious). I am glad of this, particularly with RISC because I really enjoy it there. Not that I don't like helping out the HR people in the Reading station, but I've been with RISC longer and am more used to it.
Active fandom stuff has been very on-and-off recently. I've got only the odd bits for rmcwalker's Soul Eater fic. I eventually finished The Grim Era, which is now on FF.net but not LJ'sshibusen due to the Rich Text editor being a pain in the neck, and me being too lazy to add the correct HTML tags. I might try again, just because the rest of it is already on the comm.
I indulged in a new DS game the other week: Etrian Odyssey. By all accounts it is not the easiest of RPGs, and that has certainly held true for me thusfar. Simple, bright graphics and gameplay, and my first real foray into the sort of game that involves character classes, level and skill-building. It's enough for me for the time being that my collection of interpid questors (though I'd liken them more to bounty hunters than anything else) have not died. Or at least not permenantly. My favourite is my Alchemist, Ellis, with his Fire skills and ability to annihilate various enemies with a single spell.
My new profile is telling me I've made over one thousand comments on LiveJournal. Wow. That's far more than I would have expected, though given the number of times I've a) rambled about stuff or b) dropped by to give my regards to someone/thing, it's actually understandable.