Being a Real Adult is HARD, you guys. D:
Although, to be fair, my graduate job applications angst has calmed down somewhat after the last post that LJ ate, because there was a law careers fair on Thursday and I feel both more generally employable and much less aimless than I did before it. It always makes me calmer when I have a goal in mind, because I get uneasy without some form of direction. Now I'm still not totally sure what I want to do with my life, but I've at least somewhat figured out the next step of where I do and don't want to apply and how to go about doing that, so I feel far more settled. (Now here's hoping one of them actually wants to employ me! But several places were really excited about Japanese skills, so I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.)
Things are also looking up on the finding a casual job for NOW front, because I have a better idea of which firms are looking for paralegals and so forth. Having sent in my CV to the appropriate places, now to cross my fingers and hope I get a job! I am unemployed for the first time since I was 15,* it is not a pleasant feeling. :/ (Okay, not TOTALLY unemployed, I mean, I just finished one translation job - $600! yay! I'm a real translator now!! - and another one in the works to start next month, but it is not the steady source of income I crave.)
Meanwhile, I went out with my mum to get boots yesterday. In the process, I also acquired pink ugg-boots that tighten with straps that have pompoms and look like they came out of Card Captor Sakura and a purple beret. I am pleased about this.
Regarding uni, my motivation is slowly recuperating and I have started doing my readings again. This is good, because I WANT to enjoy my classes, and also I want to keep my grades up so that I continue to have a reasonable shot at first class honours in law if I do it next semester, which is looking increasingly likely. On another note, last week they had the prizes ceremony. My entire team (who were enrolled in the competition as a course) were there to collect Dean's awards. We got HDs and a small amount of prize money, too. Pay off!
On a more fannish note, lately I finished World Destruction (AKA Sands of Destruction) being egged on by Becky, and also beat the final boss of ToV. However, somehow, despite that I never play new game pluses, I have been pulled into the trap of endless grade-farming and trying to get all the titles I can and synthesising things. I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE OBSESSIVENESS. Or the urge for Flynn/Yuri. I can't write it until I see First Strike, though. I REFUSE TO BE JOSSED. The One Piece lovefest also continues - what are you talking about, reading R18 fanfiction is a TOTALLY appropriate application of my Japanese skills! - and yet somehow, right now, despite all this the fic I am working on is an old Suikoden Tierkreis WiP. Go figure. It's basically all Becky's fault, though.
* In fact, I wasn't very long unemployed between the job I had at 14 and getting the one at 15, either.
Things are also looking up on the finding a casual job for NOW front, because I have a better idea of which firms are looking for paralegals and so forth. Having sent in my CV to the appropriate places, now to cross my fingers and hope I get a job! I am unemployed for the first time since I was 15,* it is not a pleasant feeling. :/ (Okay, not TOTALLY unemployed, I mean, I just finished one translation job - $600! yay! I'm a real translator now!! - and another one in the works to start next month, but it is not the steady source of income I crave.)
Meanwhile, I went out with my mum to get boots yesterday. In the process, I also acquired pink ugg-boots that tighten with straps that have pompoms and look like they came out of Card Captor Sakura and a purple beret. I am pleased about this.
Regarding uni, my motivation is slowly recuperating and I have started doing my readings again. This is good, because I WANT to enjoy my classes, and also I want to keep my grades up so that I continue to have a reasonable shot at first class honours in law if I do it next semester, which is looking increasingly likely. On another note, last week they had the prizes ceremony. My entire team (who were enrolled in the competition as a course) were there to collect Dean's awards. We got HDs and a small amount of prize money, too. Pay off!
On a more fannish note, lately I finished World Destruction (AKA Sands of Destruction) being egged on by Becky, and also beat the final boss of ToV. However, somehow, despite that I never play new game pluses, I have been pulled into the trap of endless grade-farming and trying to get all the titles I can and synthesising things. I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE OBSESSIVENESS. Or the urge for Flynn/Yuri. I can't write it until I see First Strike, though. I REFUSE TO BE JOSSED. The One Piece lovefest also continues - what are you talking about, reading R18 fanfiction is a TOTALLY appropriate application of my Japanese skills! - and yet somehow, right now, despite all this the fic I am working on is an old Suikoden Tierkreis WiP. Go figure. It's basically all Becky's fault, though.
* In fact, I wasn't very long unemployed between the job I had at 14 and getting the one at 15, either.