First: My laptop. It is, as Marcus so lovingly put it, bricked. This is not to say it can't be fixed, but fixing it would require actually opening the thing up and poking at it and I'm not sure who to trust to do it and how much he would charge me (and I don't have that much money to spend right now). It seems that there is a loose connection ( Read more... )

More applications have been sent. My goal for the day was ten and I only made six, but I'm done. When every application makes you fill in the same information over and over again, there is a limit as to how much anyone can be expected to handle. Of course, one of those applications wasn't serious as I doubt NASA would want me for an astronaut. ( Read more... )

How is it Friday already ( Read more... )

I didn't get the job. I know I'm not supposed to get too attached to any particular job during this process, but I'm upset nonetheless. Everything is tied in together and failing at this feels like failing at Austin which means I left Ross for nothing... You can see how this isn't very helpful thinking. I never realized that being rejected for ( Read more... )

I have not been doing particularly well recently in the emotional stability department. Yesterday's fasting (for Yom Kippur) was especially troubling to my emotional well-being. I spent most of the time on unpacking further and now the only boxes have books and music and office supplies in them, things that have no place yet (and probably won't ( Read more... )

I'm in my new apartment. It's mostly functional. I had the maintenance man in today to put up my shower curtain rod and change the hinges on my fridge (I kept trying to open it up the wrong way). I tried to buy out Target and the grocery store so now I just need a couple major purchases (bed and bike)and I'll be set until I get some income and ( Read more... )

Good things ( Read more... )

I took things a lot easier today. I've pretty much decided not to stress so much and it seems to have worked for the most part. No more working after dinner, I say. I applied to a bunch of tech-related temp agencies, wrote a silly, little cover letter for that "real" job I've applied for. Tomorrow I'm going to work on skills, review DSP stuff ( Read more... )

At the moment, I feel I am being pulled in too many directions at once, trying to find housing and a job and worrying about whether I'll need a "fake" job in order to finance my search for a "real" job and basically struggling with my abysmal self confidence. All of these things require me to talk to strangers and the energy that requires is ( Read more... )

Austin is a young city. I'm used to old cities, old neighborhoods, where development has to crawl in one building at a time. I am having trouble finding a place where I'd be willing to live. I want to be able to walk to things. I want to feel part of a community. All I can find are tiny apartments in huge complexes with amenities on amenities ( Read more... )