Been a while...
Well, I can see that I should brush the dust off this thing again.
I suppose I should talk about my life in general.
I really meant to make a few posts from way back, but never got around to them, so I'll start at the top and try and work my way down.
School:
Remember how I was freaking out about maybe or maybe not getting into school and getting financial aid? Well I'm on week 5 of school right now on the spring semester at WSU:Tri-Cities branch. Assuming I pass all my classes with a high enough grade then I'll be graduating in the early summer of 2011. The only hurdle right now appears to be making sure I get enough financial aid to pay for fall of 2010 and spring of 2011.
I'll be applying for grad school this fall, and I'm very, very nervous about it. The more I think about it the more I seem to want it. I don't think I've ever wanted school more than this. It's becoming an obsession in my thoughts. I'm trying to formulate plans and think of ideas to get in, and it's all just a jumble at this point. I've got some rough plans and some hope but that's about it. I think it's going to take a miracle for me to actually be able to attend grad-school at this point, but I just want it so much...
Work:
Work has dropped off the radar for stress. I have cut my hours down to just a couple of days a week. They don't really take me seriously anymore because of it, but I don't really care. I've worked there for 3 years now and my boss has passed me up for promotion 4 times, and that was back when I was stressed all the time about it and busting my hump to be the perfect employee. I would still say that I'm an exemplary employee but I've just stopped caring. I do things to cope with my stress and give the customers what they want when they put me at the registers, not run through the grocery list of questions they want me to ask. I just decided that sometimes, no matter how much they threaten you, you just have to do what you think is right, not what you're "supposed to do."
Conventions:
Well FC was a blast, as I'm sure most of you have heard. It was, for me, not the best con experience I've ever had, but it was definitely a lot of fun. For a lot of people this year, it seemed to be the best FC they'd ever had. Having only had two, I think it's difficult for me to tell. I also tend to rule out last year's FC (my first FC) because I spent a lot of it foolishly trying to spend time with my boyfriend (at the time).
As far as Rainfurrest goes, I think I've finally been officially added to their staff. I know I'm a member of the financial team, I'll probably end up as their second or some such. I am also going to be in some capacity helping their art-show, though I don't know how much I'll actually do there. I'm happy to be helping out, and hopefully the situation won't end with me working all weekend. My personal code sometimes diverts me to put more effort into something that I intended to just because I'm trying to please people and make them happy.
I suppose I should talk about my life in general.
I really meant to make a few posts from way back, but never got around to them, so I'll start at the top and try and work my way down.
School:
Remember how I was freaking out about maybe or maybe not getting into school and getting financial aid? Well I'm on week 5 of school right now on the spring semester at WSU:Tri-Cities branch. Assuming I pass all my classes with a high enough grade then I'll be graduating in the early summer of 2011. The only hurdle right now appears to be making sure I get enough financial aid to pay for fall of 2010 and spring of 2011.
I'll be applying for grad school this fall, and I'm very, very nervous about it. The more I think about it the more I seem to want it. I don't think I've ever wanted school more than this. It's becoming an obsession in my thoughts. I'm trying to formulate plans and think of ideas to get in, and it's all just a jumble at this point. I've got some rough plans and some hope but that's about it. I think it's going to take a miracle for me to actually be able to attend grad-school at this point, but I just want it so much...
Work:
Work has dropped off the radar for stress. I have cut my hours down to just a couple of days a week. They don't really take me seriously anymore because of it, but I don't really care. I've worked there for 3 years now and my boss has passed me up for promotion 4 times, and that was back when I was stressed all the time about it and busting my hump to be the perfect employee. I would still say that I'm an exemplary employee but I've just stopped caring. I do things to cope with my stress and give the customers what they want when they put me at the registers, not run through the grocery list of questions they want me to ask. I just decided that sometimes, no matter how much they threaten you, you just have to do what you think is right, not what you're "supposed to do."
Conventions:
Well FC was a blast, as I'm sure most of you have heard. It was, for me, not the best con experience I've ever had, but it was definitely a lot of fun. For a lot of people this year, it seemed to be the best FC they'd ever had. Having only had two, I think it's difficult for me to tell. I also tend to rule out last year's FC (my first FC) because I spent a lot of it foolishly trying to spend time with my boyfriend (at the time).
As far as Rainfurrest goes, I think I've finally been officially added to their staff. I know I'm a member of the financial team, I'll probably end up as their second or some such. I am also going to be in some capacity helping their art-show, though I don't know how much I'll actually do there. I'm happy to be helping out, and hopefully the situation won't end with me working all weekend. My personal code sometimes diverts me to put more effort into something that I intended to just because I'm trying to please people and make them happy.